Larry has been on the board of directors of the Pacific Traditions Society for 9 years. He has been their President for the last 5 years. The organization is a group of anthropologists who are working with native peoples around the Pacific. They are dedicated to preserving the wisdom of the Polynesians before the "old ways" are lost forever. One of their projects is The Hawaiian Cleanse Project, in association with Auntie Margaret Machado, who for over 60 years, taught lomi-lomi massage to many lomi teachers. Their major focus is the Vaka Taumako Project: working with the chiefs of a group of islands in the Solomons. They are the only people left in the world that can build, sail and navigate voyaging canoes in the way Polynesians have done for thousands of years. Larry and his wife, Helen, have been officially declared citizens by the Paramount Chief of the Duff Islands, Koloso Kaveia, and have been adopted by the ariki (royal) family of Wia of Taumako.

Larry also has experience in the medical field. After college at the University of Kansas, he worked for 4 years at the School of Aerospace Medicine in Texas, doing research on the biological effects of radiation. Part of his time in his last year at the School, he taught a lecture and lab class on radioisotopes to technicians, MDs and PhDs.

Larry's main occupation was as a systems analyst. For 13 years, he designed and programmed financial computer systems for the Pennsylvania Life Insurance Company as part of the actuarial department. Then he joined Northrop Aircraft as part of their corporate department. There he designed retirement, payroll and personnel systems for 14 years. During that time he was responsible for the data integrity of a 12 billion dollar retirement fund belonging to over 60,000 employees.

Larry retired in 1994 and moved with his wife Helen to the island of Kauai. They have one son and four grandchildren.

Larry had many spiritual experiences starting when he was 13, sometimes several a week. Although these travels into other "realities" stopped by the time he was 15, it left a profound imprint on his beliefs. Starting over 30 years ago, fortune blessed him with shaman friends who introduced him to Polynesian shamanism and joined him in many journeys.

Larry feels the core belief of all shamanism is almost completely untold, and needs to be brought to the awareness of the world: to change one's "cherished" core beliefs to fit current circumstances, in order to become more effective. Polynesian shamanism doesn't follow "the way of the warrior": we don't need the power to conquer what we judge as disharmony; we only need to cooperate and understand. He calls this the shamanic "way of harmony" and believes this is the primal part of the nature of dolphins.