About Dr. Terrell Neuage
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Terrell Neuage, (dual citizen USA/Australia) is a South Australian/New York poet, writer, and digital artist known for his evocative poetry and extensive research on conversational analysis in on-line communciations (including communication in the AI era; from sharing information to making sense of it). His best-selling autobiographies;Leaving America (Before the After) & Leaving Australia (after) – exploring life as a hippie, brother in a California Cult (Holy Order of MANS) as Brother Terrell Adsit, Astrolger (40-years) to non-believer, and adventures in Australia, single parent, tofu manufacturer/street artist, China, the USA & fifty+ other ountries. From high school drop out, Shenendehowa Central School, Clifton Park, New York at age 16, back to school at age 44 (BA & Masters from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia) to PhD from the University of South Australia at age 58 to knocking on your door at age 77.
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Dr. Terrell Neuage’s life is a tapestry of art, travel, education, and introspection, with a legacy preserved through his prolific creative output and global adventures. For more details, visit his Amazon author page (amazon.com.au) or his primary websites (neuage.org, neuage.us).
Dr. Terrell Neuage, born Terrell Adsit in Battle Creek, Michigan, is an Australian-American writer, poet, photographer, educator, and world traveler. His diverse life experiences span decades and continents, reflecting a journey marked by creativity, exploration, and resilience. Below is a detailed biography based on available information:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Deakin University, Geelong
- Master’s Degree in Children’s Literature from Deakin University, Geelong, with a thesis on "The Influence of the World Wide Web on Literature" (1995).
- PhD in Information Technology from the University of South Australia, with a thesis titled Conversational Analysis of Chatroom Talk: Online Discourse Analysis (available at the National Library of Australia).
1960s Hippie Movement: In the 1960s, he immersed himself in the counterculture, living as a street artist selling picture poems in cities like New Orleans, New York City, Baltimore, San Francisco, Eugene (Oregon), Honolulu, and later Adelaide, South Australia. He also resided in communes in San Francisco and Hawaii.
Cult Involvement: During the 1970s, Neuage was a member of the cult organization The Holy Order of MANS, an experience that influenced his worldview and later writings.
Astrology: For 40 years, Neuage practiced as an astrologer, a pursuit that added a metaphysical dimension to his creative and personal life.
Teaching Career:
- Taught at public and private schools in New York City, including The Dwight School and Albany Academy for Girls.
- Served as a lecturer at three universities in New York and the University of South Australia
- Spent three years teaching film at Dalian American International School in Dalian, China
- Developed innovative programs, such as collaborating with Ross Global Academy and JWT advertising agency to provide students with real-world advertising experience
Educational Philosophy: Neuage emphasizes adaptive teaching, integrating technology and real-world applications to make learning relevant. He developed programs like DAISlive (China, Dalian International School) , a broadcast journalism initiative, and DAIS-in-Focus, a school magazine
Creative Works and Publications
- Writing and Poetry:
- Neuage is best known for his autobiography Leaving Australia (published in two parts: Before the After and Book 2 After), which chronicles his life as a hippie in the 1960s, a cult member in the 1970s, a single parent in the 1980s–1990s, and a global traveler.
- His Thoughts in Travel series (2016–2020) compiles travel blogs, essays, and picture poems
- Created picture poems, blending poetry with photography, shared on platforms like Pinterest and Behance
- Authored children’s stories, including The Magic Mansion, a video series about Maggie and Mabel’s adventures, inspired by a model house built by his father-in-law.
Tofu Business: For seven years, Neuage ran a tofu manufacturing business in Australia, documented in his e-book at tofu.neuage.us
Personal Life
- Family:
- Neuage was a single parent, raising two sons from six months to 18 years old in Australia.
- His son, Leigh Neuage, was a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers until his tragic suicide at age 20 in 2003. Neuage maintains a webpage in his memory
Residences: Neuage has lived in multiple places, including Adelaide, Christies Beach, Hackham, Port Elliot, Middleton, and Victor Harbor in South Australia; Round Lake, Mechanicville, Malta, Halfmoon, Albany, Brooklyn, and Jersey City in the U.S.; and Dalian, China. He currently resides in South Australia but is a self-described “grey nomad” with no fixed address.
Travel and Lifestyle
- World Traveler: Neuage has traveled extensively, documenting his journeys in blogs and e-books. Notable trips include:
- India (2018), visiting Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Shimla, and Kerala.
- Pakistan, the UK, Netherlands, SpainWales, and Phuket (2023) and fifty plus countries.
- Future Plans: At age 77 (as of 2025), Neuage plans to caravan around Australia for the next couple of decades, continuing his travels when not in Asia or the U.S.
His autobiography encourages others to document their own life stories, emphasizing the importance of preserving personal narratives
Despite personal tragedies, including the loss of his son and health challenges, Neuage remains forward-looking, as expressed in his blog: “Interested in what comes next and not what was.”
Leaving Australia 'Again': Before the After Read the first 45 pages for free
available on these devices (Amazon author page)
video - (ties in isolation)
previous youtube channel (stories prior to 2013)
#TerrellNeuage PhD 
Textualities (DAILY thought splats) 
updated 15/September/2019 Vista, South Australia
Latest story >>>The Magic Mansion (http://neuage.org/MM/ Maggie and Mabel's Magic Mansion will take them wherever they wish to go. The house used for this story is a model made by my father-in-law after visiting our house in Round Lake, New York and upon return to Australia he built this model based on his memory of our house. The page for this house is at http://neuage.org/house/ As of October 2015 there are three chapters and an introduction to these adventures.
Began somewhere to the left of Motown - Battlecreek,
Michigan
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August
10th, 1947
. Like my mate Bill Clinton - I am a Leo with
Moon in Taurus. Same year as Letterman, O.J. Simpson, Arlo Gunthrie, Schwarzenegger, Gregg Allman, David Bowie,
and Elton John. Same day and year (me astro twins) as Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and Anwar Ibrahim deputy prime minister of Malaysia until recently fired by Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad. Oh - and of course Libra rising. With
Venus, Pluto, Saturn, Sun conjunct in Leo.
Hung out with my mates in Clifton Park from 1950 until 1965 when I realized there was a
bigger world out there. All of which I wanted inside of
me.
I am you |
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You are me |
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We are her |
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And she split |
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So we are |
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No more |
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Did what I could to make Shenendehowa the great school that it is
Did the 1960s in Greenwich Village, San
Francisco, Los Angles, Eugene - Oregon and Honolulu...use your imagination...I
did.
Oh dear! Mistake Mistake - What would 1969 to
1972 be without trying to find the Self - going through Illumination,
Self-realization ??? - so being one of the masses I did too...In The Holy Order of Mans in
Honolulu
. Escaped in 1972 - and landed in
New Orleans
(Acutally I woke up one morning on
the lawn of
Tulane
University
, with lots of people walking past
on their way to class - 24 years later I am still not quite sure how I got
there.
Street Artist in New Orleans 1972-1974 -
selling and creating picture- poems alongside
Jackson
Square
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Well what is one mistake without another one?
After taking life- vows in the Holy Order of Mans then escaping I felt something
- don't know what - but I ended up back in their *** - 1974 to 1978.
Sent all over the States as Brother Arthur to
heal, save, initiate. learn that I wasn't me... Cheyenne, Wichita, Syracuse,
Towson Maryland,
Detroit
and some other places I no longer
care to remember.
1976-1978: Attended Towson State
University in
Maryland
USA
for nursing Worked at Sheppard Pratt Hospital in
Towson
as a psychiatric aide or something
like that.
1978 Left the Holy Order of Mans for good (or
worse) -
Between God |
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And man |
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the choice |
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is easy |
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Between God |
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And woman |
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The choice |
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is woman |
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