Don Cruse (1933- )
Born in 1933 in London, England, Don Cruse grew up there during the war years. After a spell in Egypt with the British army, he went looking for somewhere cold, and so emigrated to western Canada in 1955, where he has lived ever since, working in the field of electronics, and with machinery of one kind or another, which may account for the particular slant his thought has taken. He earned a B.A. in philosophy at the University of Alberta. He knew Owen Barfield and enjoyed a number of stimulating talks with him over the years, beginning with a meeting in his London office in 1962 and ending with a discussion in Forest Row in 1994.

He has written essays/talks on such topics as "Evolution as a Property of Mind" and "Post-Cartesian Dualism" --to be presented at the upcoming conference of the Michael Polanyi Society, to be held in Chicago, June 2001. He and his wife Eve and have four children (3 girls and a boy). He now lives in an old farmhouse located on a bank of the Battle River near Ponoka, Alberta.

His essay "Evolution as a Property of Mind" can be found here.