Professional Background
Wesselman is a native New Yorker who received his undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. During the 1960s he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria, among the Yoruba. He has participated in paleoanthropology research in east Africa's Great Rift Valley. His research specialty is involved with the reconstruction of the pale-environments of early man sites (See Science magazine, Oct 2, 2009) and the cover story of National Geographic, July 2010.
He was an instructor at American River College and Sierra College, both in California, and has also taught classes for the University of California at San Diego; the University of Hawaii at Hilo; the Kiriji Memorial College in Igbajo, Nigeria; and Adeola Odutola College in Ijebu-ode, Nigeria. The Esalen Institute Faculty.
He is the author of The Spiritwalker Trilogy—Spiritwalker 1995, Medicinemaker 1998, and Visionseeker 2001—as well as The Journey to the Sacred Garden 2003; Spirit Medicine (with Jill Kuykendall) 2004; Awakening to the Spirit World (with Sandra Ingerman) and The Bowl of Light 2011.
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