Böcker av William J. Pardue

This spiritual guide provides insight and direction to all spiritual travelers on the road to a higher consciousness. This higher consciousness is the state of consciousness which mystics, prophets and spiritual leaders call "enlightenment" and which they have spoken of throughout the history of mankind. It is that state which we must all achieve individually and collectively if we are to survive and thrive on this planet. A Mystic Guide to Spiritual Evolution is a pictorial voyage to spiritual illumination. Each photo with accompanying comment provides a piece of the map which leads to an expansion of consciousness. This pictorial guide is meant to illuminate the contours of the emotions, feelings and thoughts that inhabit that heightened state of consciousness. It is the beginning of the journey into the "Light" of an expanded human consciousness and a more joyful and expansive participation in eternality of life in the here and now.There is an entry way into a level of consciousness, within the center of each one of us, where we all simultaneously coexist, where we all can share one common consciousness, which is often referred to as God consciousness, enlightenment or Cosmic Consciousness. This state of consciousness is described as the all-encompassing, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient source of all creation. You will not find access to it anywhere or in anything outside of yourself yet it exists everywhere and in everything. Our individual access to It is at the very center of our beings and each one of us must access it ourselves and only then will we be able to experience the presence of God in our lives, the positive effects of a heightened state of consciousness. After all we are, allegedly, the most intelligent of species and are therefore obligated to use that intelligence to evolve physically, mentally and spiritually. As a species we determine the future of this planet by the thoughts in our minds, the limitations of our consciousness.This is a self- help book to achieve "enlightenment", for this state of consciousness can only be achieved one person at a time. It is a guidebook to the evolution of consciousness.

My story is a true life drama set in the remote east Texas woods in 1971. The main characters are ten emotionally disturbed delinquent teenage boys from the Southside of Chicago. The boys had been rejected from Chicago and Illinois juvenile facilities and from the boys ranch in Austin Texas. As a final effort to save these boys from themselves they became part of an outrageous plan to send them into the woods without running water, electricity, shelter, telephones, television, doctors and police. In that remote location together with two counselors they were to learn to live in society by first learning to live within a tribe. The counselors responsibility was to keep everyone alive first and to bring them together as a tribal unit second. It was 1971 and Richard Nixon was president, the Vietnam War had been dragging on for 10 years and racial tension had been boiling over for that same decade. I had just graduated from college and was off to my first job. It had been described by the social worker who hired me as a "camping experience" with mountain climbing, white water rafting, and wilderness living. It sounded perfect. In reality the job was the doorway to the epic battle between good and evil, trust and love versus hate and violence. Charlie and the other counselors hopefully brought love and trust to the camp and the boys brought a lifetime of hate, violence and distrust to the camp. The story deals with that day to day battle between these human emotions.