Peter Bauer is a writer and musician, having been a founding member of seminal new york city art-rock bands the walkmen and the recoys at the turn of the century. he now writes and records under his own name and holds a private practice in the mt airy section of philadelphia where he consults with clients on indian astrology and other mystic ephemera. as a child, peter was raised in swami baba muktananda’s ashrams in ganeshpuri, india and upstate new york, interacting with many other gurus, teachers and healers through the meditation center in his boyhood home and while traveling. peter studied comparative religion and writing at boston university and at the new school for social research, vedic astrology with chakrapani ullal in los angeles, and gestalt psychotherapy and meditation with his own father dr. rudolph bauer phd at the washington center for consciousness studies.