George Schloss, a native of New York City, passed away at the age of 86, on December 1, 2008, at his home in Monmouth Beach, NJ.

At 16 he graduated from Columbia Grammar School in NYC and began his college education at the University of Chicago. Before he enlisted in the US Army, he hitch-hiked around the United States, reading all of Shakespeare's works, in the event he was killed in WWII. Surviving the war he traveled the world in search of meaning.

Back in the USA, he married, settled in Connecticut and was a family man, working in NYC as an editor for Colliers magazine. Later in mid-life and living in NJ, Mr. Schloss, a long time resident of Princeton, was one of the founders and active supporters of the area's Waldorf School. In 2006 he and his wife moved to Monmouth Beach, NJ.

Mr. Schloss was a loving family man and a gentleman scholar. His lifelong search for meaning was rewarded when he discovered Douglas Harding's written works, his experiments and the movement that was founded to explore both. During the last decades of his life Mr. Schloss expanded on Harding's thinking. His letters and essays took Harding's work to a new level which was discovered two years ago by Mr. Alan Mann of Australia. Mr. Mann, one of the founders of the Thomas Traherne Society, wrote to Mr. Schloss to urge and then actively help him to publish his essays and letters in two volumes entitled The Language of Silence.

Mr. Schloss leaves behind his beloved wife, of eleven years, Antoinette Goodwin Schloss. As a father, he was proud of his four children; Adam Kernan-Schloss of Alexandria, VA, Ellen Blakeley Smith of Santa Rosa, CA, Thea Schloss Kokoshi of Jersey City, NJ, Lucian Schloss, of Portland, Oregon and his step-daughter, Erin Magnuson Buhler of Little Silver, NJ. He also leaves five grandchildren for whom his appreciation and affection was boundless: Alexandra Kernan-Schloss, Abigail and Julia Kernan-Schloss, Samuel Kernan-Schloss of Alexandria, VA and Veronica Erickson of California. He also left two step-grandchildren, Regina Marie and James Robert Wagar of Little Silver, NJ.

A Celebration of Mr. Schloss's Life was held at the Nassau Inn in Princeton, NJ on Thursday, December 4, 2008. His cremated remains were buried in the Princeton Cemetery on the morning of Friday, December 5, 2008.