The Future of Consciousness

About The Author: Clem Stein flunked out of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1959. He got the word that the University didnt want him back while on the tennis court at Camp Strounghart where the University had gotten him a job as a tennis instructor. The fact that Clem was an Eagle Scout helped in getting the job but not with the University who said one year of him for them was enough.Now knowing he would not be returning to the U of W he took the $2000.00 he had saved while working various jobs while in high school he got a on plane in Oshkosh and flew to LA where he had an aunt. She put him up for the weekend drove him to Hollywood on Monday and he enrolled at the Don Martian School of Radio and Television Arts and Sciences and moved into a boarding house behind Gramins Chinese Theater.After the air fare he had just enough money to pay his tuition and cover room and board for one month. Next he found a job bagging groceries at Ralph Super Markets. That would pay the bills and had flexible hours so he could go to school from 6PM to 11PM and work the day shift at Ralphs. He was setting a pattern for his life. Get something done anything was better then nothing and dont give a dam just follow your passions as Clem really wanted to be on the radio and be noticed.With incredible luck (Luck meaning where preparation meets opportunity) and not one moment of prior air time Clem was hired by an LA FM radio station to work from 6PM to Midnight. So he switched his class schedule from nights to 11 AM to 3PM quit bagging groceries and went on the air. Radio was his thing he never once asked what they were going to pay him and then he transitioned into TV. The draft caught up with him in 1962 but with the most incredible tenacity he overcame the US Army and ended up as the Traffic Time DJ in Munich Germany on the American Forces Radio Network. Married a German Lady had two great years in the Army and came back to the USA settled in Oregon