|
Christopher Hills (April 9, 1926 – January 31, 1997) was an English-born author, philosopher, and scientist, popularly described as the "Father of Spirulina"〔''San Jose Mercury News'' obituary, February 2, 1997:- "Spirulina Czar"〕 for popularizing spirulina cyanobacteria as a food supplement. He also wrote 30 books on consciousness, meditation, yoga and spiritual evolution, divining, world government, aquaculture, and personal health. Hills was variously described by the press as a "Western Guru Scientist",〔Western Guru Scientist – ''Holistic Health & Medicine'' magazine, 1988〕 "Natural Foods Pioneer",〔Natural Foods Pioneer – ''Los Angeles Times'', Feb 10, 1997〕 "Evolutionary Revolutionary"〔"Evolutionary Revolutionary" – ''Monterey Peninsula Herald'', Jan 29, 1977〕 and a "Modern Merlin".〔Modern Merlin, Hills Seeks Answers in the Mountains – ''Oakland Tribune'', 1978〕 As a successful commodities trader and art patron in Jamaica, he retired from business at an early age to follow a spiritual quest that took him around the world as a speaker, author, entrepreneur and pioneer of algae as one of the most efficient sources of food and fuel for humanity. ==Early biography== Born in Grimsby, England to a family of fishermen, Hills grew up sailing the bleak and turbulent North Sea. In 1940 he enrolled as a cadet in nautical school and joined the British Merchant Navy during World War II. At sea, Hills had several life and death experiences that formed his views on karma, divinity and destiny. On one occasion a rogue wave swept him off the deck hundreds of yards (metres) away from the vessel, but another wave picked him up and threw him back onto the ship,〔''The Movie of Life'' – Early Morning Meditations series, volume MM3〕 cutting open his forehead but saving him from freezing to death. As German U-boats sank 2,828 merchant ships, he watched tanker crew colleagues incinerated in the flaming oil-slicked Atlantic.〔Thirty thousand men of the British Merchant Navy were killed. ''Battle of Wits'', p. 280, ISBN 0-684-85932-7〕 At the end of the war, as navigating officer for an Esso oil tanker, Hills found himself docked in Curaçao, where he set up shop as a commodities trader with branch offices in Venezuela and Aruba. Encountering problems with South American contract law when a client reneged on a deal, Hills moved to Jamaica, where business was conducted under the British judicial system. There with the help of plantocrat philanthropist Percy Junor〔"Indisputably one of Jamaica's most successful self-made men" - ''Sunday Gleaner'', March 8, 1972〕 he founded commodity companies specializing in sugar, bananas, insurance, telegraph communications and agricultural spices pimento, nutmegs and ginger. Financing for the first export corporation came from British businessman Andrew Hay, then husband of best-selling motivational author Louise Hay who in the 1950s was a high-fashion model and Hills family friend.〔(Louise Hay Interview ) www.telegraph.co.uk, 23 April 2007.〕 In 1950 Christopher Hills married a young English woman, Norah Bremner, deputy headmistress of Wolmer's School in Kingston. Her father, Bernard E. Bremner B.E.M.,〔"32 Years in Civil Defence" Mr. Bremner a leading figure in civil defence since 1930 awarded the British Empire Medal, ''Eastern Daily Press'', pg 5, Oct 11, 1962〕 was the Magistrate, Chief of Customs, and Mayor of King's Lynn, Norfolk who in 1951 co-founded the King's Lynn Festival with concert pianist〔The Times (London), Thursday, 8 July 1993; p. 4 col. D and p. 19 col. A〕 Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy. Lady Fermoy, wife of Baron Fermoy, is Diana, Princess of Wales' maternal grandmother.〔Williamson, D The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer In: Genealogist’s Magazine, 1981; vol. 20 (no. 6) p. 192-199 and vol. 20 (no. 8) p. 281-282〕 The Hillses had two sons, both born in Jamaica. The family frequently sailed to England for events such as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and Mayor Bremner's presenting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother with Freedom of the Borough, which encompassed the royal family's home at nearby Sandringham. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Hills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|