Jordan, Frank L., III

Frank L. Jordan III is a philosopher and songwriter who studied at Old Dominion University. He had the good fortune of being instructed by Dr. Andrew Tunyogi, the university's first Chair of the Philosophy Department.

Jordan counts as his main influences Joseph Campbell, Louis Evely, William James, Thomas Merton, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. However, the philosophical discoveries that he records in SOUNDINGS were arrived at primarily through observation, prayer and reflection.

Jordan's philosophy of derivism was also impacted by a profound conversion experience he underwent in the