Edward Winchester founded the The Pentagon Meditation Club - "PMC"   during the 20 years he worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He founded the Club in 1976 for transformation research, peacemaking, creative thinking, problem solving, decision making and spiritual renewal for military and civilian personnel working at the Pentagon.

Edward Winchester served for about twenty years with the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.  During his career he served also as a senior management systems consultant to governments, businesses, and religious leaders, a private adviser for individuals, and a public speaker. In 1978 he began to  incorporate meditation as part of a comprehensive management philosophy.  His passion and interest in using meditation for management purposes stems from a desire to see a better world; a world transformed by more enlightened decision making processes that bring more fulfillment, and the realization of visions and personal and business related goals. 

Ed is a former Catholic teaching brother of the order of Clerics of St. Viator in Illinois.  As a novice he began the practice of daily meditation.  Ed has remained very committed to pursuing a path of spiritual growth and being of service to others in their spiritual quest.

Leaving the religious life he joined the U.S. General Accounting Office to audit government spending and work on management studies.  During that time he directed audits/studies of the Gemini space Program at the space center in Houston, Texas. At the same time he served in the Texas Air National Guard. As a consequence of the U.S.S. Pueblo incident in 1968 Ed was called to active military duty and eventually was assigned to the Office of the Comptroller, and continued work at the Pentagon as a management systems specialist for the Office of the Secretary of Defense for over twenty years. As an Air Force officer with the District of Columbia Air National Guard, Ed Winchester was transferred from the 113^th Fighter Group at Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. to the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon as an operations research analyst. He received several Dept. of Defense awards for his work to establish the Defense Economic analysis Council (DEAC), including a nomination for the ten outstanding young men in America. During the time he was at the Pentagon he served as a program analyst and later as a systems accountant. He was designated by the Defense Comptroller as a Presidential Interchange Executive to the New Zealand Government. During the four years he served in New Zealand he directed a wide range of management study projects for the New Zealand government.

Ed completed post graduate studies at the University of Chicago and Texas Technological University, and Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand. His undergraduate studies  earned him the Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree at Loyola University at Chicago, Ill. Over the years he completed the equivalent of 2 master programs plus working 4 years on a PhD program sponsored by Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand.  His PhD thesis was on techniques for problem solving and consciousness.   

Ed, who founded the Pentagon Meditation Club 1976, introduced the concept of “Spiritual Defense" by introducing several SDI's” (peacemaker projects) to help bring spiritual renewal at the Pentagon and to help reduce stress for hundreds of employees there.  He also taught and directed a number of stress management programs and taught centering meditation for employees of various government agencies, and organizations, the general public, churches and hundreds of incarcerated criminals who were inmates, and to corrections personnel at Lorton Correctional Facilities. This was a transformation project sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Government of the District of Columbia.

After Ed retired from the Federal government, he worked a short time as an adjunct professor at Shenandoah University in VA.  later joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Dept. of Homeland Security on approximately 25 disaster recovery programs declared by the Presidential of the United States.

Ed presently lives with his wife Loretta (and their cat “ET”) in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in VA, near Winchester VA., about two hours north west of Washington DC. and 20 minutes from Berkley Springs WV.