Charles Lartigue was raised in Arizona, New Mexico, and Haiti. From a young age he experienced many different views on spirituality and religion having had the good fortune of witnessing both Native American and vodou ceremonies. He attended college in California until everything in his life imploded and he dropped out of school.

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A relentless search for a complex understanding of himself and for deeper meaning ultimately led him to study eastern philosophy and archetypal psychology. The quest continues to this day and informs much of his writing and view of the world. He lives in the woods in Maine on land he shares with a family of beavers, a porcupine, and a passel of feisty chipmunks.