Mr. Slager has a S.B. in Mechanical Engineering, from MIT, 1959, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering, from UCSB, 1975. He was a research engineer, futurologist, and scientist at several southern California and Santa Barbara, California research firms for 35 years including Convair Astronautics, General Motors Defense Research Laboratories, General Electric TEMPO, General Research Corp, and Frontier Technology.
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In these firms he was the author of numerous studies, reports, and books concerning classified US Defense matters. While he worked at these firms he learned how to craft written publications and began to write stories for his own amusement on various topics with an eye to future publication.
He has previously published the book "Texas City Tales", a collection of short stories about his youthful adventures in the 40's and 50's in Texas City, Texas.
In this book, "How We Saved Everyone's Ass", Mr. Slager recounts his experiences in the US defense business during the Cold War. He also describes his experiences as a retired horseplayer, and how he became interested in Taoism/Buddhism. He then presents a logical new version of Christianity/ Taoism/ Buddhism for Westerners, and uses numerous examples from modern science and technology to prove ancient principles, which are intended to be either intuitively obvious, or easy for modern Western readers to understand.
The book "How We Saved Everyone's Ass", is based on the example of Han Shan, the mystical Buddhist/Taoist hermit poet and philosopher who lived on Cold Mountain near Mt. Tientai in today's Chekiang province sometime about 730 AD.
Mr. Slager is married and lives with his wife Judy
