Brock Elk Horn has been a counselor, writer, minister and teacher for over 40 years. He is retired in his Corning, New York hometown, editing books whose chapters were published in a Chicago magazine. They include God’s Dirty Hands, Whole Earth Hoboes, Chikagou, Gaia, Cain’s Bum Trip and The Medicine Bow. Brock remains a self-employed counselor, teacher and writer.

Education Florida Southern College, BA; Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, MA; Basic and Advanced Pastoral Clinical Education, Western State Hospital; Clairvoyant Training Program, Washington Psychic Institute and workshops in pastoral psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Encounter Group Facilitating, Transactional Analysis, Core Therapy, Zen Buddhism, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychomotor and Aikido. At Florida Southern he was awarded an Omicron Delta Kappa key.

Clergy. Brock was a United Methodist minister in Chicago Area African-American, working-class, rural and urban single churches. In those churches, he coordinated seminars in Gestalt Therapy, Eastern religions, Bioenergetics, Holistic Counseling and Parapsychology. While a hospital chaplain in the Pacific Northwest, he was ordained in the Church of Divine Man (Washington Psychic Institute).

In the United Methodist Church, he was a social worker for Cuban refugees at a Tampa, FLA settlement house; student assistant at African-American churches in Bedford-Stuyvanest, NY and Chicago where he developed a store-front extension of the U.M.C.; Vice President of a Chicago Community Association; board member of the ecumenical Martin Luther King, Jr. Center. He wrote articles for a Seattle interfaith magazine, developed an innovative ecumenical newsletter and created a mini-university in holistic counseling and world religions. Brock led conflict resolution between Korean and Caucasian United Methodist congregations; organized a ministry for gays and runaway teenagers; worked with I-Search (missing children). He was an Assistant Pastor in a church with English, Spanish and Japanese speaking congregations. He also led groups at Western State Hospital using a training tool he developed.

Chicago After leaving the U.M.C. in the 1990s, his “congregation” included Metropolitan Chicago and over 60,000 people nationwide who read his monthly columns in a holistic health and world religions magazine. .

Brock lived in one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the world. The streets along Devon Avenue are surnamed Muhammed Ali Jinnah Way, Gandhi Marg, King Sargon Boulevard and Golda Meir Boulevard. One of the themes in Brock’s life has been our Unity and diversity; our Oneness in a spiritual Earth and Universe. His high school plans to attend the Georgetown School of Foreign Diplomacy were changed in the 1960s when his Spirit led him toward Eastern religions and holistic counseling; toward understanding the Wholeness of the Earth and Universe

We choose a growth path and hire Spirit Guides between lifetimes (reflected in our natal astrology choices) to learn karmic lessons. We also make learning agreements with parents, friends and male/female relationships - who were with us in past lifetimes. In God’s Dirty Hands, Brock uses his Corning N.Y. hometown resources to describe our Earth school.

Corning, NY. Brock’s journey has included the Appalachian hills, glass artisans, bluecollar factories, auto mechanics, aviation pioneers and Iroquois Nation of his hometown. But, also rural, Civil Rights, African-American, Zen Buddhists, California hot tubs, Pakistani taxi drivers and loading redwoods on a Russian trawler. We’re all “Whole Earth Hoboes” or “Huckleberry Finns” discovering who we are via our Inner resources.