Nick Mirisola is a lay Zen monk, ordained Dudeist priest, and modern renaissance man. His full name is Nicholas David Mirisola, but he is also a self-dubbed Duddha. He is a singer ...view moreNick Mirisola is a lay Zen monk, ordained Dudeist priest, 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, 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. 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. 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.view less