About

“Paul Lungust” is a professional persona of Michael Countryman and is the author of four published books. As me, Paul has a BA in Experimental Psychology and is retired from thirty years of statistical programming in research related industries.

During high school, Paul studied Auto Body Repair with no thoughts of entering college. In the Army, as an enlisted soldier, he learned to diagnose faulty electronics equipment on helicopters and got into a lot of trouble with women and their husbands. He probably should have gotten the Purple Heart, for all the times he was beat up.

After leaving the Army with an honorable discharge, he went to work for an oil exploration company as an “Open Hole Engineer.” And yes, he did get showered with oil, in a hot and sticky oilfield in Beaumont, Texas.

But eventually, mostly out of boredom, Paul enrolled in college. It was the first time he really felt like he belonged. During Paul’s senior year of undergraduate studies, at the University of Texas at Arlington, he was nominated for Senior of the Year and was allowed to conduct his own study and submit a senior thesis.

In the early 1990’s Paul began to study the Tarot cards and became involved in energy healing, attending classes in Reiki and Shiatsu massage.

He later met a psychic healer from Russia and traveled with her for more than a year, giving him access to the inside secrets of a life-long practitioner. He had his own clients for a short time, but after his mother died from a long-term illness without him being able to save her, he became skeptical of the effectiveness of his work as a healer. He had lost his faith. Then, in 2000, Paul studied meditation at Buddha Gate monastery, near San Francisco.

Between programming gigs, mostly at pharmaceutical companies, Paul would isolate himself and go deep into meditation. In Oregon, he spent six months in a small, empty apartment, meditating eight to ten hours a day. After the 9/11 tragedy, Paul moved to China and taught English. He lived and taught there for over nine years, working in several different private schools and living on the Chinese economy. Eventually, he opened his own small school, where he taught just on the weekends and with no more than three students in a class. The other five days of the week Paul was able to concentrate on perfecting the message in his writings.