Dr. Tom Shepherd - educator - philosopher - publisher - social critic
Chancellor: The Shepherd-Montessori Institute
Native of Joplin, Missouri
The Shepherd-Montessori Institute
Shepherd Family Homes: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
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Tom's Boyhood Room Tom, Brother John, Friends Tom, Mom, Gram
Tom's Grandfather John Abbott Snyder Tom's Grandfather E. F. "Gene" Blaise
Tom At Work Tom & Brother John Shepherd Family Tom & Wife - Del Mar
Guanajuato 1938 Columbia Classmates ~ 1950 'Scout' 1951 Tom 2008
My Three Moms: Clara Olive Shepherd Mabel Mitchell Veroa Goodwin
My Journey into Buddhism by Tom Shepherd Conscience of an Existentialist
Tom Shepherd Architecture Models * Roanoke-Joplin-Carthage Times
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Tom & World Leaders Tom & 50s Pals Tom & Lynn Newcomb
Eco Friendly Cabin Plans Shepherd Publications John Shepherd Memorial
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Thomas Mitchell Shepherd a/k/a Shepherd Widmark Center for Sane Living Shepherd & Widmark
Tom Shepherd (full name Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd) was born and reared in Joplin, Missouri. His father, D. E. Blaise Canterbury, was a Guanajuato, Mexico mining engineer and president of the family-owned El Cedro Mining Company. His paternal grandfather was Tulsa banker and oil baron E. F. Gene Blaise, a former partner of Charles J. Wrightsman and Harry Ford Sinclair.
Tom's parents separated prior to his birth, at the beginning of the 1938 Cardenas Oil & Mining Revolution, and he and his older brother John, who was born in Mexico City, were reared by their mom, Clara Olive, and grandmother, Mabel Darlington Mitchell, at their grandmother's home in Joplin. During their early years, their mother directed musical variety shows for women's clubs and men's civic organizations throughout the USA, while their father continued working as a mining enginner in Mexico and Bolivia.
When Tom was eleven, his mom filed for divorce on grounds of desertion and married Englishman-New Yorker Charles Shepherd, treasurer of a Missouri-based regional electric power company, who committed suicide when Tom was sixteen.
Tom did not meet his biological father, Dudley, until he was 17 years old, following the death of his stepfather, when he enrolled as a freshman at the University of Mexico in Mexico City, then went to his father's Mexico City home two months after enrolling.
Tom found his father to be "polite, yet reserved and extremely evasive" -- in fact so evasive that he refused to provide Tom with the name and location of the company (Hoyland Fagersta, S. A.) of which he was then part owner and general manager. Tom also met a half-brother (two years younger than he) and the American woman his father was then married to, whom Tom found to be scathingly cruel.
Tom's Godfathers: Jesus, Buddha, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mark Twain, Leonardo da Vinci, Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Widmark. Tom's Godmother: Lady Veroi Goodwin.
Tom was a scout leader. He was educated at Columbia Elementary School, at the St. John-Guengerich School of Music, at the Eton-Montessori Academy, at Joplin High School, at the United Hebrew Temple and at the Episcopal School of St. Philip-the-Apostle in Joplin, where he served as president of the Young Peoples Service League. He passed the Missouri Boys State bar exam at the age of 16, scoring 98% correct answers.
Tom is a veteran of the United States Coast Guard. He is an alumnus of Crowder College in Missouri, the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Mexico in Mexico City, the University of Oklahoma College of Fine Arts and the University of Oklahoma Graduate College in Norman. He studied advertising copy journalism at New York University and landscape architecture ar UCLA.
Tom's studies were concentrated in philosophy, law, literature, business, journalism, anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, alcohol and drug studies, political science, police administration, architecture and urban planning.
Tom studied acting with Ruth Gould Foreman in Coral Gables, Florida. He also studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Berghoff Studio in New York City and at the University of Oklahoma School of Fine Arts in Norman.
Tom studied fiction writing with William Foster-Harris at University of Oklahoma..
An urban planning consultant, a criminal justice adviser, an alcohol and drug counselor and a mental health rehabilitation counselor, Tom has served on the advisory board of mental health agencies in Los Angeles County. He founded The Shepherd Center for Sane Living.
He is the author of numerous publications dealing with issues in psychiatry and criminal justice, including The Schizohregenic Society. He is the publisher of The Egalitarian Times, The Evergreen Post and The Good Earth News. He is also the publisher of The Coconut Grove Garden Journal and he is the author of The Forbidden Truth and The Missouri Boys and several other pieces of fiction.
Tom is the founder of the Shepherd-Montessori Institute, established for the promotion of home schooling, based on the premise that all people have the capacity to create and that by encouraging the creative process at any age, individuals are less likely to engage in destructive or self-destructive patterns of behavior.
He is the founder of the Tom Shepherd World Educational Foundation and the American Gentile Anti-Defamation League, both organizations founded for the purpose of promoting the understanding of democratic principles.
Tom Shepherd is also a founder of the School of American Humanist Buddhism.
Tom Shepherd is opposed to the manufacturing, advertising and distribution of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages, all of which are potentially dangerous carcinogens and narcotics that destabilize the nervous system and increase the incidence of various forms of cancer and heart disease.
Tom is also opposed to the use of psychotropic drugs (neuroleptics, anti-depressants and other so-called "mood stabilizers) in the treatment of diagnosed psychiatric conditions, in view of evidence that such drugs are more of a nemesis than an aid. Neuroleptic drugs, although characterized as tranquilizers, actually cause restlessness and brain atrophy. Antidepressants provoke manic behavior. They also increase one's risk for developing various forms of cancer, cardiovascular disease and liver damage.
The psychiatric labeling process, according to Tom, is a form of governmentally sanctioned character assassination.
Most behavior characterized as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder is behavior created by prescription psychiatric durgs -- drugs that permanently damage the neuro networking of the brain, as well as other vital organs, according to Tom Shepherd.
The fact is, says Tom Shepherd, that the psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychiatric nurses that promote the use of such drugs are well apprised that such drugs do NOT benefit the patient in any way, yet they continue to prescribe the drugs for the purpose of exploiting their patients. The psychiatric patient thus becomes a victim of a slow, slow agonizing death. It is the psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse that are a danger to society, not the psychiatric patient.
Psychiatry is what I call state-supported genocide, says Shepherd.
Prescribed psychiatric drugs are no less lethal than are contraband street drugs, says Shepherd. They're just legal.
Experts and psychiatric patients seem to agree that the only truly safe prescription for sane living is to avoid alcohol, tobacco and other mind-altering drugs altogether, to establish habits of sound nutrition - consume fresh fruit and vegetables, including fresh green leaf salads and soybeans, steamed fish, light meat poultry, oatmeal and soy milk (building blocks of brain neurotransmitters), to get regular outdoor exercise and avoid socializing with people who drink, smoke and use recreational drugs. Even blood-pressure medications can destabilize the brain.
Proposed Legislation
Tom Shepherd is supportive of legislaton to prohibit the public disclosure of criminal records and to prohibit social and economic discrimination against anyone having a criminal record for the following reasons: (1) laws discriminate against the poor, the naive and the mentally incapacitated, including victims of those that make their living in the alcoholic beverage and pharmaceutical industry; (2) most detentions or arrests are forms of assault by 'peace officers' and a violation of human rights; (3) many, many arrests and convictions are based on false testimony by a civilian or a peace officer; (4) most defendants are represented by incompetent and corrupt lawyers and they are prosecuted by corrupt/incompetent prosecutors and judges
Continued discrimination against any individual as a result of a prior conviction is a violation of the double jeopardy clause of the U. S. Constitution; and continued discrimination encourages dysfunctional behavior and recidivism.
Such proposed legislation is also based on the viewpoint that no one English, Hispanic, French, Portuguese, Jewish or Asian colonist ever had any more legal claim than anyone else to the geographical area now known as the Americas. The only valid social contract in a true democracy is one of absolute social and economic egalitarianism.
The fact is, says Shepherd, that the U. S. Constitution needs to be rewritten so that it provides for a truly democratic way of life. True democracy cannot exist without guaranteed economic equality, according to Shepherd. Responsible education must replace incarceration and capital punishment.
Tom Shepherd Architecure Display
universidad nacional autonoma de mexico ~ mexico, d. f.
crowder technology college - neosho, missouri
landscape design ~ extension college, ucla
Let's put the alcoholic beverage distributors out of circulation,
not the victims of alcoholic beverage distributors!
Say NO to alcoholic beverages, which deplete testosterone levels,
reduce critical thinking ability, and damage the neural networking
of the brain.'Alcoholic beverages also increase one's risk for
developing cancer and heart disease.
Say YES to sound nutrition, regular exercise and celibacy.
How the U.S. Government Trains American Teenagers to Kill
And to Engage in Other Forms of Violent Behavior
The Killology Research Group
The Psychological Effects of Combat Training:
A Study of Aberrant Psychological Conditioning Methods
Employed to by the U.S. Government to Desensitize Adolescents.
~ Authored by Lt. Col Dave Grossman, West Point Professor ~
Blaise Pascal - St. Blaise - Helen Mitchell - Ada Hainer Blaise - Jean Chretien - Blaise Delacroix
Veroa Goodwin - Charles Shepherd - John Shepherd - Mabel Snyder - Clara Olive Shepherd
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Joplin-Carthage Times ~ Roanoke Edition
Joplin Chamber of Commerce - Joplin Public Library - Joplin Police Department - Joplin Rotary Club - Joplin-Carthage Times
Joplin Public Schools - Missouri Southern State University - Twin Hills Golf & Country Club - The Joplin Club
Tulsa Chamber of Commerce - Tulsa Public Library - Tulsa Historical Society - Tulsa-Gilcrease Museum
John Abbott Snyder John Shepherd Hon. Bayard Taylor Hainer Eugene Frank Blaise