April 12, 1952 — August 23, 2024
Born Phillip Richard Weir in Mt. Kisco, New York, he took the name Phillip de Barone that honored his aristocratic Italian heritage. He toured the world concertizing upon the organ, specializing in Romantic period music with improvisations. He left that career, moved to Arizona, and studied with the Navajo and Hopi.
His 20s found him based in San Francisco in between concertizing and studies in New York (doctorate of divinity). While on a visit to India, he had a chance meeting with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama that led to studying to be a lama and a seventh degree doctor of Eastern medicine.
All of this training was used in his helping many people living with HIV in the arts and gay communities survive through the 1980s AIDS crisis through alternative medicine and holistic arts and sciences. His many students perform humanitarian and ecological work around the planet.
He left his body on August 23. Interment of his ashes took place in the sacred grove at Fernwood Cemetery in view of his beloved Mt. Tamalpais. Many blessings to all who had the opportunity to meet him during his amazing lifetime.
Donations to any cause that benefits humanity and the planet may be made in his name.
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