The Human Being Foundation was registered as a Charitable Organization by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501c(3) Corporation on August 30, 2002. Its Founder is Nathan M. Shippee, Author and Entrepreneur, whose writings on Human Destiny cover the period from 1968 to the present. His current book, THE HUMAN BEING, begins with Chapter One – “My Personal Journey” which may be obtained by clicking on to the HUMAN BEING page herein.

It was at the urging of SterlingHouse Publishers Inc. following 9/11 that The Human Being Foundation was created to represent the Author in the publication of his philosophical writings on Human Destiny.

In addition to philosophical essays dedicated to the logical clarification of thought, a trilogy of books: BECOMING, THE HUMAN BEING, and BEING are sponsored by The Foundation. FREE COPIES of representative excerpts are available by clicking on your selection from the Publications Page.

NATHAN M. SHIPPEE, the founder and president of The Human Being Foundation, has had an entrepreneurial career, having formed and operated companies in natural resources, telecommunications, packaging and international commerce. Mr. Shippee is also an inventor, archeologist and author of philosophical essays.

He graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1941 with a degree in Business Science and a Commission of Second Lieutenant, Infantry. After three years of overseas combat in Africa, Italy and France, he returned to the US as a Major, United States Army, with decorations from both the American and French Governments for distinguished service in combat operations.

Following World War II, Nathan Shippee joined Chase National Bank and participated in the opening of their branch bank in Shanghai, China in 1946 until the collapse of the Nationalist government in 1948. In 1963, as a passenger on a Mohawk Airlines flight from Rochester, New York, he survived a multi-fatality crash during which he experienced a vivid and especially graphic out-of-body sensation. The one-year recovery period after the crash served to turn his attention to life-forming issues, and he began a series of annual philosophical essays which later became his first book on Human Destiny, titled BECOMING, Coming into Being. The book was published in 1979.

Nathan Shippee is married. He is the father of four children and five grandchildren. He was born on May 1st, 1919 and lives in Old Lyme, Connecticut.