Philip Goddard

Philip Goddard, born 1942 in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, UK, has always had a great, wide and penetrating natural history interest and affinity with wild places, frequently getting out hiking, photographing nature and wild scenery and nowadays making sound recordings of a wide range of natural soundscapes, many of which he has put up on commercial CDs. He is also a symphonic composer, with ten symphonies and various orchestral, choral and instrumental works to his name. However, a particular...See more

Philip Goddard, born 1942 in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, UK, has always had a great, wide and penetrating natural history interest and affinity with wild places, frequently getting out hiking, photographing nature and wild scenery and nowadays making sound recordings of a wide range of natural soundscapes, many of which he has put up on commercial CDs. He is also a symphonic composer, with ten symphonies and various orchestral, choral and instrumental works to his name. However, a particular priority of his for some years now has been developing and maintaining a particularly challenging website entitled 'Self Realization & Clear-Mindedness', which cuts through all the world's spiritual, mystical, metaphysical and self realization traditions and disciplines - yes, it is indeed challenging! He must be doing something right in his life, because, in his seventies now, he still hikes up to some 23 miles and 1200 metres of ascent in a day, and, with the Alexander Technique, he walks in a brisk, loose, flowing and light-footed manner that would put even most teenagers to shame! See less