David R. Griffiths

My father was a Methodist Minister. I'm afraid Christianity wasn't for me, and I was reading eastern philosophy in my teens. I majored in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy at Melbourne University. Middle Eastern Studies was basically Biblical archaeology and religious analysis, and was affiliated with religious colleges. So I ended studying quite a bit about Christianity. I studied one unit of Physics at University, and became a keen amateur astronomer.

I combined my interests of Archaeology and Astronomy by looking into Archaeo-Astronomy, which is about the Astronomy of primitive peoples and different cultures. What I was looking for was ideas about the basic concepts of time. Before clocks it was the night sky. I met an academic who referred me to a paper by an early settler, William Edward Stanbridge. The paper was on Aboriginal beliefs on Astronomy. -Amazon profile