Locke Rush has over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist and marriage counselor. A graduate of Princeton University and former officer in the United States Marine Corps, he also was co-author and co-producer of Rooftops of New York, an Academy Award nominated short subject spent a year as a lay monk in the Ryutaku-ji Zen Monastery. He received a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 1974 and went on to found the first intensive outpatient addiction treatment program in Maryland. From 1975 through 1986 he studied under the great Sufi Master M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. He lives happily in the Pennsylvania countryside with his wife and spends as much time as possible with his daughter and grandson.