Our dear Being, R.K. Janmeja Singh, PhD (aka Meji) has gone home filled with peace and joy.  We are left with great sadness for the empty place his November 14, 2023 passing will leave in our lives, and we will cultivate his vision to move forward our collective Being, Cosmic Self.  Meji was recognized internationally for his work as a groundbreaking Psychologist in the field of Community Mental Health. He was a Mental Health Consultant, an Organizational Consultant, a prolific Author, an Advocate for Peace, a Trainer, a Teacher, a Supervisor, a Mentor, a Partner, a Father, a Brother, a Son and a highly dedicated Friend which all signify the vast amount of contributions he made to his various communities and families. And, to those of us who knew him intimately, and with whom we served in various roles, he was “Meji” who was an evolving humble human being who loved his daughters, his family, his family friends, his colleagues and those he cared for as part of the collective community. Meji was a central force that brought so many different circles together.

QUOTES:

"While I am alive, if I can realize that I am a part of the whole universe that has been there before I was born and after I die, then that identity never dies. Therefore I am free of the birth and rebirth cycle. I am eternal as a part of the eternal cosmos." - Meji

"A tree may appear to be independent, but it is most definitely not. It has so many needs and it interacts with so many other parts of nature. It is the same with humans. If we recognize our interconnectedness, we will find peace. The true identity of trees and humans alike is one of great interconnectedness with the world." - Meji

“What matters is that we are the same. We are dreaming that we are not.” - Meji

“There is major focus on the individual without even creating awareness that the individual is an integral part of the interconnected and interdependent one Universe: our Cosmic Self.” -Meji

“One’s true identity is not only to know yourself, but it’s to know your relationship to others. You don’t exploit other people because they are part of you. This is the major cause of human suffering. No one is an island in themself.” - Meji

“I am not that alone. Truly I am Aad Sach, Jugadd Such Hai Bhai Such Nanak Hosi Bhi Such. In reality I exited before time, I have existed through the Yugas, I exist now and Nanak says I will be there in the Future!" - Meji’s translation

“Everything is in Divine Order, there is nothing outside of it. If one understands this then one does not make Haumain based claims."  - Guru Nanak Dev Ji & Meji’s translation

“Jeon Jai Mein Jal Jai Khatana Teon Joty Sang Jot Samana.”  As water merges into water, so does the soul merge back into where it came from. -Meji’s translation

"Mein hoo param purakh ko daasa, Dekhan aayo jagat tamasha. I am the servant of the Perfect Being, I have come to see the world play." - Guru Gobind Singh from The Granth Sahib

"A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and claim him, worst when they despise him.  But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.”  Lao Tzu

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." ~Heraclitus

"He that would live in peace must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees." ~Benjamin Franklin

BIO:

Meji received a Lifetime Achievement award from California State Psychological Association. The Surgeon General of the United States Army recognized him for his Behavioral Consultation Services to the Letterman Army Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, Presidio San Francisco (1927-91), and Oxford Symposium awarded him an award for Outstanding Contribution to School Based Family Counseling. The United States Congress recognized him for his fifty years Community Service as a Clinical Psychologist. He received his Ph.D. degree in Clinical Psychology from Boston University in 1963. He took a year of seminars with Gerald Caplan, M.D., Professor at Harvard School of Public Health in Community Psychiatry and Mental Health Consultation and Prevention of Mental Disorders (1962-63). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Training in Community Psychiatry and Mental Health Administration, Berkeley, California (1965-66) where he subsequently served as the Assistant Director of the Center (1966-1980). He was an Adjunct Professor of Psychology for the Doctoral Program in School Psychology at U.C. Berkeley (1991-2007). He was the Founding President of Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center (1993-2001). He was the Dean of Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology (1986-1996). He was the Deputy Commissioner for Preventive Services at Genesee County Community Mental Health Services, Flint, Michigan (1966-68). He has developed award winning community mental health programs.

He has worked for State Hospitals for the Mentally Ill for three years and over fifty years in Community Mental Health Programs. He has provided Behavioral Consultation to Mental Health, Academic, Human Service Organizations and Business corporations across the United States. Currently, he is the Chief Training Consultant at the Community Behavioral Health Training Center, Concord, California. He is the Founding President of Inter-faith organization Ik Onkar Peace foundation (2002-2006). It is a Co-operation Circle of the United Religions Initiative (U.R.I.), San Francisco. It has over 900 such Cooperation Circles in 80 different countries. He was a member of the Action coalition for Global Change, San Francisco. He was a member of the Beyond War Higher Education Group of Bay Area. He was one of the foundation members (1964), Secretary (1972-73, 78 &79). Chairman (1974, 75) of the Sikh Center of San Francisco, Bay Area, El Sobrante Gurdwara from 1990 to 2004. He was the founding Trustee and Secretary of the Sikh Foundation of North America, Redwood City, California (1966-74). In 1975 International Institute of the East Bay recognized him “For Unselfish Service to This Community.” Since 1996, he has serviced as a judge for the International Youth Symposium organized every year by Sri Hemkunt Foundation of New York. He was on the Board of Directors of the Inter-faith Center at Presidio in San Francisco (2002-2004).

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