Bill Missett
Advance praise for ‘Awakening the Soul’:
“I am absolutely in awe of your book. It is an extraordinarily important work. It will, I humbly suggest, change many lives.” -- Joseph W. Dunn, Jr., Editor, A.R.E. Press
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“I believe Awakening the Soul (Book 3) is the key to the 12th Step (of Alcoholics Anonymous) - Susana K., Oregon
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“We all agree on the brilliance of this work.” -- Lisa Hagan, literary agent, Paraview, Inc.
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“What a contribution ‘Awakening the Soul’ is going to make! Your technique for communicating with higher consciousness is a ‘must read’ for every professional in the field and every person interested in spiritual advancement. Your technique is clear, simple and can be used by a broad spectrum of people. As a psychologist, I can see it filling the needs of sophisticated clients in my Wall Street practice as well as the common man. Get this to a publisher ASAP!” -- Dr. Garnet Beach, Ph.D., Psychotherapist
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“… an extraordinary spiritual gift, which I wish to pass on to those who are awakening.”
Bill Missett, a retired California daily newspaper editor, lives in a small fishing/surfing village in Southern Mexico. Some 30 years ago, Bill experienced a life-saving incident of spontaneous mental telepathy while bodysurfing. That prompted more than two decades of study and investigation into metaphysics and psychic phenomena, which led to the spiritual experiences that created this book.
He is married to Patrice Perillie, a prominent human rights/political asylum attorney with offices in New York City and Oaxaca, Mexico. He is the father of two adult sons, Bill III and Jeffrey, who live in California. His personal interests include archaeology, artifact hunting, raising trees from seed, preparing homegrown chili spices, bodysurfing, bird watching, music and reading. He can be reached at missett@prodigy.net.mx or patrice-p@msn.com .
Humanity’s eternal search for its true spiritual roots – the cause and basis for all the world’s religions – remains our most compelling universal quest. However, despite three millennia of intense religious indoctrination, humanity remains unfulfilled in the search for spiritual understanding. This is most evident in Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, which are dominated by Christianity, Judaism and Islam. This basic failure of religion, despite the broad proliferation of varied spiritual beliefs, is evident in the thousands of alternative spiritual paths that have spawned inside and outside the major formal religions on Earth, including some 11,000 variations of Christianity alone.
We remain unsatisfied in our perpetual quest to fill the spiritual vacuum within our Souls. Much of this dissatisfaction with religious doctrine stems from the sad fact that most Western religions do not provide the spiritual needs we seek because they deny us free expression of our spiritual nature. Religion has not provided the answers to the spiritual questions that arise from our hearts and Souls. Millions, however, accept and believe mystical religious dogma that is quite distant from the truth they feel in their hearts and minds. This occurs despite the depth of the spiritual void and the longing in their Souls. Before we can fill that void with spiritual truth, we must understand how we lost our spiritual awareness. We must understand our true spiritual nature before we can restore it. We need to know how we lost our way before we can return to the path. We need to receive spiritual truth before we can reject false dogma.
The deep sense of spiritual loss and the dissatisfaction with most Western religions is evident in the millions who hold no religious beliefs, and in the low church attendance rates of those who do. Even in staunchly religious Ireland, regular church attendance has fallen to 50 percent. Some 60 million Americans do not claim any religious affiliation, and traditional religious attendance worldwide is falling each year. Yet the majority of those disenfranchised millions still feel connected to their personal spiritual nature, whether they are aware of it or not. Many of these millions believe themselves to be “spiritual” while not being “religious.” There are several valid reasons for this contradiction, which go to the very heart of our perpetual spiritual search. The reasons reveal why we are so spiritually deprived in spite of the intense religious competition for our allegiance.
Our spiritual loss goes back many millennia, to ancient humanity’s early era on Earth. Simply put, we forgot our spiritual nature eons ago as we concentrated on becoming newly-created physical beings in a material world. We forgot the source of our creation and the presence of our Creator within our Souls. We gradually forgot the wide variety of spiritual abilities and talents granted us by our Creator. This loss became more entrenched as we lost touch with our personal spiritual nature and abilities, generation by generation. We inadvertently allowed our Egos to take control of our destiny, pushing our Souls into the background of our lives. In the process, we all but forgot the awesome spiritual powers of our Souls.
With the rise of modern religions during the last 3,500 years – all of which sought to remind us of our spiritual destiny through a wide variety of invented mystical beliefs – our true spiritual nature was pushed aside, distorted, misinterpreted and suppressed. Those who remembered their spiritual nature and tried to tell others about it were persecuted and killed by the same Church that supposedly was “saving” us. Rather than regaining a true understanding of our personal spiritual nature, we were taught beliefs that were quite distant from the natural aspects of our true being. Rather than restoring our understanding of the god-like qualities of our spiritual nature, we were informed we were lowly, unworthy sinners headed for hell if we didn’t submit to the Church’s dogma. We were told that exercise of our natural spiritual nature was evil. Our natural spirituality was replaced by a variety of invented mystical beliefs. These were supposed to elevate us to our former spiritual glory, but have failed to do so in two desperate millennia.
