Chilean, born in Spain, raised in Chile. As a child and teenager I had trouble to fit in. I was frightened by the negative judgements around me. I took refuge in my intellect. I became an intellectual refugee. And by effort to fit in, rather than innate ability, I became very good at it. I graduated in Agricultural Economics and Forestry Engineering at the Catholic University of Chile, motivated mostly by a deep concern in my soul about the environmental situation in the planet. In the meantime, I traveled, did some sports and adventure but mostly i was super nerd, painfully alcoholized, and always single.
Could never fit in in the religious catholic life that was offered/pushed on me in highschool and college. While at first i felt wrong for not “having the faith” that I was supposed to have, I’m happy I was loyal to myself. All the more I was an intellectual refugee.

Worked in an NGO for a couple of years, then headed up to the University of Minnesota to follow a graduate program in applied economics. I was little interested in applying anything without first deeply understanding. So i dived into the depths of math, economic theory and statistical theory.  Extremely passionate about understanding economics, the social science that deals with the wellbeing of society. The promise that reasoning could bring the truth about our conflicting wellbeing: poverty, inequality, destruction of nature. How could you fix all three of them together when they strongly go in different directions. Little did I know back then that in order to rigorously address these profound questions about society, reasoning alone was not enough. Later I would say proudly “the intelectual avenue is exhausted”, when I understood it with my soul. What a beautiful avenue it is anyways.

Then came the PhD at the University of Chicago: The most intense personal crisis led me to realize something I was completely blind to: I had always been unhappy. Extreme suffering led to spiritual awakening. Somehow, for some reason, I completed the PhD. I must say this was a traumatic experience, that has led me to investigate the arche-typical wound of science in humanity (invited recently to give it that name by Pat McCabe). I can advance now that it is very difficult to talk about it without the painful wounds showing up. It was a blessing too, it led me to understand the use of the human logical mind in a very deep way. It led me to understand selfishness was not the problem in economics but a natural symptom. It led me to understand the source of all crises in our society is not the lack of ethics in human behavior (just another symptom). It led me to the conclusion that I had something not yet known, and very valuable, to share. 

The clarity to do so came after a 7 years journey of searching, trying and trying, and failing and failing. Unique encounter in the process: Charles Eissenstein, he was saying eloquently what I have been seeing.
Spiritual journey? Suffices to say i was so wrong about so many things until I finally realized there has never been anything wrong with me.

For the last several years I live with my wife and two children in Los Altos de Chiapas, Southern Mexico