Background
Henry Wesselman was born on August 20, 1941 in New York, United States, in the family of Henry B. Wesselman and Alice Wade Sholes.
Henry Wesselman was born on August 20, 1941 in New York, United States, in the family of Henry B. Wesselman and Alice Wade Sholes.
Hank 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 Henry 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 speciality is involved with the reconstruction of the paleo-environments of early man sites and the cover story of National Geographic, July 2010.
Henry 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.
Henry 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 2004; Awakening to the Spirit World, The Bowl of Light 2011, and The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder.
According to his views, Hank describes himself as "Humanist, Pacifis, Animist and Panpsychist."
On September 9, 1979, Henry married a physical therapist Jill Kuykendall, with whom he has two daughters, Erica and Anna.