Nick Mirisola is a lay Zen monk, ordained Dudeist priest, New Age shamanic practitioner, spiritual mystic, and modern renaissance man. His full name is Nicholas David Mirisola, but he is also a self-dubbed Duddha. He is a singer songwriter known as Meditative Animal, in addition to being a professional music producer, visual artist, complementary therapist, and published philosopher. His music contains his insightful, thought-provoking, and poetic lyrics, and features Nick playing various instruments, including guitar, hand percussion, harmonica, Guitarlele, melodica, singing bowls, bass, keyboards, and Native American flute. With a timeless original sound, it is a mix of indie alternative folk rock with influences from jazz, blues, funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, and world music. Nick has a master's degree in Metaphysical Sciences, a PhD in Parapsychology and Paranormal Science, and is also an ordained minister of The Wisdom of the Heart Church. The facility that tested his IQ called him a genius, and his philosophy of science paper Points About Points With a Point: Nature of Smallest Scale Universals is a revolutionary insight into the philosophical underpinnings of some of nature's riddles and mysteries. Nick also has independent training in various complementary therapies with over 50 certificates and diplomas in a range of modalities. In addition to that, Nick is also a bit of a comedian who authors insightful and funny memes in which he quotes himself as Duddha.