Social Identity
Frank Robert (Bob) Kull.
DOB: July 24, 1946, Ventura, California, USA.
Citizenship: Canada and USA.
Residency: Currently in Vancouver, Canada.
Marital status: Single.
Distinguishing marks: Left arm has hardly any scars.

Education
1950s
Grade school: Country two room school; what luck.
1960s
High school: Ventura, California.
Drop out: University of California at Berkeley.
1970s
Two year photography course: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
1980s
Certified: PADI SCUBA Instructor.
1990s
B.Sc. (Psychology, Biology, Environmental Studies): McGill University.
Present
Completed Ph.D. October 2005 (Interdisciplinary Studies): University of British Columbia.

Outer Work
1960s
Multiple odd jobs (construction work, dishwashing, truck driving, bartending, painting,
     firefighting, etc.): western USA and Canada
Self employed trader: western USA and Canada.
1970s
Free lance photography: Alberta, Canada.
Forest work (road building, felling, and planting trees): Vancouver Island.
Hotel maintenance: Vancouver Island.
Odd jobs: New Hampshire and California.
Rural community volunteer work (vegetable gardening, first aid, reconstruction of
     hurricane destroyed houses, reforestation): Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic.
1980s
Water Sports Director/Instructor (sailing, wind surfing, SCUBA diving): Puerto Plata
     Dominican Republic.
1990s
(Summer) Home renovations: Montreal.
(Summer) Biology Field Research: Barbados and Yukon.
Home renovations: Berkeley.
Tourist Guide for adventure tours: Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize.
Present
Professor: Internet-based course on Systems Theory: Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C.
Recently completed the book, "Solitude: Seeking Wisdom In Extremes." Next project is to create a documentary film from the video footage Patti and I shot on the island in Chile. Exploring employment options.

Travel, Adventure, Etc.
1960s
Hitch hiked and worked around the USA.
Multiple driving trips throughout USA and Mexico.
Immigrated to Canada. (Wanted by the FBI for draft evasion.)
Skied and worked for the winter in Jasper, Alberta, Canada.
Wandered throughout western Canada and the Northwest Territories: motorcycle and
     pickup truck with homemade camper.
1970s
Naturalized as Canadian citizen and automatically lost USA citizenship.
Bused and hitched in Mexico, Central and South America.
Rebuilt and traveled across Canada in antique Morgan sports car.
Three month wilderness retreat into solitude. Canoe travel, camping and trout fishing:
     northern British Columbia, Canada
Warrant for arrest in USA cancelled due to improper conviction on charge of draft
     evasion.
Moved to Dominican Republic. Built shack and lived for 4 years in the mountains
     beyond the reach of running water, electricity, and roads. Wonderful time.
1980s
Moved to the Caribbean coast and became addicted to SCUBA diving, motorcycle riding
     and casual sex.
Wiped out on motorcycle. Spent a year in the hospital; Montreal, Canada. Resulted in
     amputation of lower right leg.
Rode bicycle 300 miles along the coast of California.
Shifted from backpacking to canoeing.
1990s
Began to perform as a storyteller, telling stories from my own life.
Reinstated as US citizen.
Two month retreat into wilderness solitude; northern Quebec, Canada.
Traveled and lived in Mexico, Guatemala, South America: Spent three months kayaking,
     spear fishing, camping in Baja California, Mexico. Lived in San Cristobal, Chiapas,
Mexico for a year. Fell in love and lived in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina for four
     months. Hitched thoughout Chile, Argentina, Amazon Basin, Bolivia. Became
     enchanted with the Pacific coast of southern Chile.
2001-2002
Lived in wilderness solitude on a small island on coast of southern Chile.
Present
Recently spent 7 weeks alone on the coast of British Columbia camping on a remote beach and then wandering in my 13 ft inflatable boat, anchoring in small hidden coves.

Inner Work
1960s
Explorations with LSD. Realization that for me it was a dead end process.
Development of artistic aspects.
Short, unhappy marriage ended in annulment.
1970s
Caught up in machismo, bush work, and drinking.
Felt inner call to solitude. Was psychologically and spiritually unprepared for the
     intense inner struggles that developed, and almost fell into panic and insanity.
Eventually found my way (or was guided) into deep levels of inner transformation and
     the peace of belonging to the unbounded flow of energy in the natural world. Decided
     to dedicate my life to following the inner light.
A Year of deep depression. On returning to the peopled world, became very disoriented
     and lost awareness of inner light and sense of inner direction.
Introduced to formal Buddhist Vipassana Meditation practice. Attended a 10 day and
     then a 3 month silent meditation retreat. Still felt deep inner pain, but the depression
     lifted.
Lived in a hybrid Buddhist community in New Hampshire, USA.
Fulfilled what I accepted as a social obligation to serve other people in third world rural
     community work in the Dominican Republic. Lived on about $30 USD per month.
Practiced living by faith.
Four year relationship and spiritual marriage that ended in painful separation.
1980s
Explored inner relationship with the sea through solitary scuba diving. Explored and
     played with sensuality and sexuality through numerous encounters with tourist
     women.
Motorcycle crash in Dominican Republic.
Tough year in the hospital in Montreal.
Learned to live with amputated lower leg.
Practice in letting go of body image. A time of learning to let go of how things were,
     but no longer are, and accepting things as they actually are.
1990s
Intellectual development through formal academic education. Scientific training
     through theoretical study and field work.
Return to lived experience and growing dissatisfaction with both the abstract approach
     and the career training focus of the current academic system.
Yet another painful love affair; more inner searching for answers to the pain.
Inner journey in Mexico and South America reflecting outer journey.
Recognized growing inner need to integrate spiritual/psychological work with further
     academic studies and desire to live in complete wilderness solitude for a year.
Primarily self-directed academic studies in biology, psychology, philosophy and
     education. Reestablished regular formal meditation practice and started to
     participate in First Nations sweat lodge prayer practice. Physical, intellectual,
     psychological, emotional, and spiritual preparations for year long retreat into
     wilderness solitude.
2001-2002
Year long retreat into wilderness solitude on small island on coast of southern Chile.
     Intensely challenging experience. Very painful and difficult at times, but
     extraordinarily wonder-filled and joyful at times too. Deep transformations of
     consciousness. Painful lessons in recognizing that all is transient, even the most
     wonderful inner experiences. Practice in letting go. Practice in learning to
     experience and accept the world as it is and not as I would like it to be. Practice in
     living immediately in the present moment. Practice in acknowledging my own desires
     and aversions and in surrendering myself to the flow of the world.
Reentry into the human social whirl(d) and all that that implies. Learning to share my
     experience in solitude without becoming lost in the process.
Present
I envision the work ahead as an integration of inner and outer processes. A move
     toward seeing through the illusion of inner and outer. I believe my practice involves
     learning to share some of what I have experienced in solitude without getting totally
     caught in the egoism of it all. In particular, I need to practice living in the social
     whirl(d) without losing the peace and tranquility I sometimes feel during times
     of solitude. Learning to live here and now in the urban setting and still feel the
     immediate presence of spirit in everything. If there is spirit anywhere, it is right here
     right now, and I believe my task is to open myself to experience Everything in the
     human world as Sacred and Alive in the same way that All of non-human nature is
     Sacred and completely Alive. Remembering to remember here in the city that I/we are
     a natural manifestation of Life and are not separate from the evolutionary processes
     that brought us into being.