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Brian Sanchez is a professional graphic designer, illustrator and writer from the San Fernando Valley. Born in Manila, Philippines in 1977, Brian and his mother flew across the Pacific Ocean to Los Angeles when he was only three. Raised as a Roman Catholic since birth, Brian enjoyed 11 years at St. Genevieve Elementary and High School in Panorama City. Ironically, it was during these vital years in Catholic school where he was introduced to various world religions and spiritual philosophies. It was also the beginning of what would become a great spiritual journey, when he first listened to the inspiring sermons of Fr. Paul Wolkovitz, who was associate pastor at St. Genevieve Church during Brian's high school years. It was through Fr. Paul's encouragement to challenge one's faith that gave Brian the courage to seek spiritual truth outside the confines of religion.

In 1995, Brian was accepted to Loyola Marymount University, where he majored in Commercial Arts and Graphic Design. Having dreams of one day making it big as a comic book artist, Brian befriended fellow artist and classmate Emiliano "Emi" Morales, and the two of them would eventually be hired as artists for an up-and-coming independent comic book publisher, Kult Komics, Inc. It was a dream that would never be fulfilled, when Emi Morales was tragically killed in a rock slide accident at Yosemite National Park on July 11, 1996. Emotionally crushed and feeling spiritually abandoned, this tragedy would lead to Brian dropping out of college in search of himself.

From 1996 on, Brian's whirlwind journey of Self included: the founding a local graphic design company with his friends called DemiGraphics; creating the online web magazine ULO Online; and becoming a founding member of Ill Crew Universal, one of the first worldwide Hip Hop organizations that utilized the internet as a networking and mobilization tool. All these personal ventures would continue to leave Brian spiritually empty, and failed to answer the burning questions that haunted Brian since the passing of his friend, Emi: "Why? Why do we exist, and why do we even matter?"

These questions culminated on September 11, 2001, when the sight of the World Trade Center collapse reignited the sense of urgency to find spiritual truth. Brian began to obsessively seek Truth through various spiritual perspectives and philosophies. Brian began to learn about Buddhism and Taoism. He would read about New Age Spiritualities as well as Eastern and Western Mysticism. Brian would also have a stint as a member of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC in the hopes of gaining further spiritual understanding. Yet despite all his research and self-education, it was through his own personal and private meditation that lead him to his most profound and life-changing spiritual revelation: "All Is One."

Since then, Brian put his spiritual revelations and observations in writing, publishing some of them on the All Is One Society website, a site he founded in 2003 as an online nexus for individuals following spiritual paths similar to his own. He currently is a writer for Examiner.com's Los Angeles Spiritual Living column. Ten years after Emi Morales' death, Brian found his own personal Truth when he met and married his wife, Aimee. Today, Brian Sanchez lives happily with his wife and two beautiful kids in the San Fernando Valley, and continues striving to live and exemplify a life enriched by his own personal spiritual revelations and truths. In these most troubling times, he wishes to continue to inspire common everyday people locally and all across the world to challenge their own tightly-held beliefs and invite us all to realize the truth that we are all One.