Dr. Tom Shepherd - educator - philosopher - publisher - social critic
Chancellor: The Shepherd-Montessori Institute
Native of Joplin, Missouri
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The Shepherd-Montessori Institute
Shepherd Family Homes: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
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Tom's Boyhood Room Tom, Brother John, Friends B'day Tom, Mom, Gram
Tom's Grandfather John Benham-Snyder Tom's Godfather J. Stuart Blakeney
Tom At Work Tom & Brother John Shepherd Family Tom & Wife - Del Mar
Guanajuato 1938 Tom & Classmates ~ Joplin 1950s Tom 1996 & 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 Tommy & 50s Pals Tom & Lynn Newcomb
Tommy Separdi Ranch Shepherd Bunkhouse Plans John Shepherd Mission
Thomas Mitchell Shepherd a/k/a Shepherd Widmark Center for Sane Living Shepherd & Widmark
I'm an Englishman in New York ~ a Hungarian in America ~ an American in Paris
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universidad nacional autonoma de mexico ~ mexico, d. f.
THE SEAMAN'S AND COWBOY'S CHAPEL OF THE SKY AND SEA
Tom was educated in the Jewish-Christian-Humanist tradition at Columbia Elementary School, at the St. John-Guengerich School of Music, at Joplin High School and at the United Hebrew Temple and the Episcopal School of St. Philip-the-Apostle in Joplin, where he served as president of the Young Peoples Service League. He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps Reserve and of the United States Coast Guard. He is an alumnus of Crowder College in Missouri, University of Mexico in Mexico City, Missouri Southern College, and University of Oklahoma in Norman. His studies were concentrated in business, philosophy, journalism, anthropology, sociology, political science, police administration, psychology, construction technology, architecture and urban planning. He also studied drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Berghoff Studio in New York City and he studied landscape architecture at UCLA.
An urban planning consultant, a criminal justice adviser 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 Building, Boating and Garden Journal and he is the author of The Forbidden Truth 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 Blaise Shepherd Existential Society of America and the American Gentile Anti-Defamation League, both organizations founded for the purpose of promoting the understanding of democratic principles.
Tom is opposed to the manufacturing, advertising and distribution of alcoholic beverages, which are dangerous psychoactive drugs that destabilize the nervous system.. He 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.
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, steamed fish and light meat poultry, and non-fat cow's 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.
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.
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 -- the ability to exercise sound judgment.
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 Blaise - 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