An Anthropological Library
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Warriors and Monks have more in common than realized. Learn how service goes beyond any one identity.
How did our ancestors define love and what does our modern science say about the emotion?
The Human Record traces how we governed, spoke, ate, built, celebrated, exchanged, and made music across every epoch
The Human Lifecycle traces how civilizations across every continent and epoch understood what it means to be born, grow, age, and die.
Behind the HLP
What began as a search for meaning following military service became a library preserving the knowledge, history, and science that has sustained humanity across every civilization.
After a 2020 honorable discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps, Zach was met with the COVID-19 pandemic, adding complexity to the transition process back into society. During that time Zach focused on his mental heath in unconventional ways for a Westerner. However, being stationed in South East Asia for 4 years made the notion of mindfulness, yoga, and Vedic thought familiar and comfortable.
Following the path of yoga lead to living in the jungle with the Shipibo people outside of Iquitos, Peru. For months Zach studied under a Shipibo Maestro to continue to address his metal health and learn the wisdom of plant medicine.
To continue to integrate his military experience with the healing wisdom of plant medicine, Zach enrolled into Naropa University. Studying Psychology with a focus on Health and Healing as well as a double minor in Yoga and Psychedelic Studies, creating Holistic Life Paths as a graduation project. Holistic Life Paths has since evolved into a humanitarian-anthropological library focused on making online education affordable, globally accessible, self paced, and community centered.
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