Tom Lodge

Tom Lodge (born 1936) is an English author and radio broadcaster.

Lodge was a key figure in the British radio revolution of the 1960's. He was a disc jockey on the first offshore pirate radio station Radio Caroline. Radio Caroline and the other pirates forced the UK government to deregulate radio broadcasting in the UK, which hitherto was a monopoly of the BBC. Lodge was one of the first of a generation of American style pop DJs which the British public had not previously heard, his voice reached 23 million listeners.

Tom Lodge, a son of the writer Oliver W F Lodge and his artist wife Diana, and a grandson of the physicist Sir Oliver Lodge [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Oliver_Lodge] , was born, Thomas Odoard Marshall Lodge, on April 16th 1936, in Tanleather Cottage, Forest Green, Surrey, England [http://www.forestgreen.com/history1.html] . When World War II broke out his family left England and he was brought up in Maryland and Virginia, USA. At the end of the war he returned with his family to England and was educated at Bedales School, [http://www.bedales.org.uk/] England. On his 18th birthday he left England and went to Canada and became a cowboy in Alberta.

While commercial ice fishing on the Great Slave Lake, Canada, he nearly lost his life. He described his adventures in Canada in his first book, "Beyond the Great Slave Lake" (published by Cassells and E.P. Dutton). He was a broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In England, in the 1960's, he was program director and one of the first deejays on the pirate radio station Radio Caroline [http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/story.htm] , England, when it first went on the air. His book "The Ship that Rocked the World" describes these adventures with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who and more. He founded and managed Music Industry Arts at Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada, a training for Recording Engineers and Record Producers. He married Jeanine Arpourettes in 1957 and had three sons, Tom, Brodie and Lionel.

In the early 21st century, Radio Caroline began to broadcast via legal methods. Lodge returned to Radio Caroline in September 2005 along with his son Tom junior. Lodge has now retired from broadcasting; his last Caroline show was aired on 8th April (Easter Sunday) 2007.

Radio Caroline plans to continue the "Tom Lodge Show" with Tom Lodge junior at the helm [ [http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/news.asp#tomlodge Tom Lodge Retires] - Radio Caroline News Report] .

In 1975 he became a disciple of the Zen Master Roshi Joshu Sasaki, Mount Baldy, California. In 1979 he became a disciple of Zen Master Osho, Poona, India. In 1997 he became a disciple of Zen Master Mikaire and Realized Enlightenment January 10th 1998. With his Enlightenment, his name was changed to Umi, which is Japanese for the Sea. His disciples have created a Zen ashram around him called Stillpoint [ [http://www.umisatsang.org] Stillpoint] , which is near Santa Cruz, California. At Stillpoint he gives Satsang, and is also available to those seeking inner peace. Stillpoint is in the mountains and is a retreat oasis of gardens and meditative enclaves.

Bibliography

*Beyond the Great Slave Lake, (Cassells, 1958) [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006AVE4K]

*Beyond the Great Slave Lake, (E.P. Dutton, 1959) [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006AVE4K]

*Success Without Goals, (Lloyds Mayfair Group, 1992) [http://www.umisatsang.org/order/index.php]
*Circles, (Lloyds Mayfair Group, 1993)
*Footprints in the Snow, (Umi Foundation, 2000) [http://www.umisatsang.org/order/index.php]
*The River and the Raven, (Umi Foundation, 2002) [http://www.umisatsang.org/order/index.php]
*Enlightenment Guaranteed, (Umi Foundation, 2002) [http://www.umisatsang.org/order/index.php]
*The Radio Caroline Story, (Umi Foundation, 2002) [http://www.umisatsang.org/things/index.php]
*The Ship That Rocked The World, (Umi Foundation 2003) [http://www.umisatsang.org/things/index.php]
*God is a Dancer, (Umi Foundation, 2007) [http://www.umisatsang.org/order/index.php]
*The Diamond Sutra with Umi, (Church of Consciousness, 2008) [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0969593872]

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