Gary Fuhrman lives with wife Pam Jackson in a secluded spot on Manitoulin Island, the world's largest freshwater island (in the Canadian half of Lake Huron). They moved here in 2000 from Sudbury, Ontario when Gary retired from 25 years of teaching (high school English). While Pam maintains a bookkeeping business, Gary is recovering his "beginner's mind" by sauntering through the woods and through books and web sources on cognitive science, epistemology, language and hermeneutics. He is also a member of the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science, which publishes the journal Zygon. Some clues about his work in progress and sources thereof can be found on the gnusystems website dedicated to Gary and Pam's business and life partnership. Gary's published writings so far consist of book and resource reviews in the Journal of Consciousness Studies and Green Teacher magazine.

Gary's interest in electronic networking and information systems began during his teaching career. Since the early 1980s he has been involved with education for a global perspective, for instance serving for a year as moderator of the "global" conference (electronic discussion group) on the Education Network of Ontario. He founded, edited and desktop-published 72 issues of the Global Village Sudbury newsletter, and volunteered with Canadian NGOs such as Project Ploughshares, Oxfam-Canada and Amnesty International. In 1990 he helped to found Village International Sudbury, a global education centre which continues to serve the Sudbury area as a fair trade outlet. In 1997 he married Pam, a Bahá'í since 1992, and joined the Faith a year later. He has an adult son and daughter from a previous marriage (as does Pam).

Maybe one day Gary will put together a list of favorite music, films, books and other vital diversions, but this will have to do for now ...