Awakening the Soul: Book 4: Dawning of the Ages

By Bill Missett and Nichola Corner

This, the fourth in the Awakening the Soul series, reveals five new steps for advanced spiritual awakening designed for committed ATS followers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524625047

Bill Missett

Bill Missett, a retired California daily newspaper editor, lives in a small fishing/surfing village in Southern Mexico. Some 40 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. 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 [e-mail]

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/23/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-2505-4 (sc)

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Preface

CHAPTER ONE: Thomas and Nichola

CHAPTER TWO: ATS Enlightens Souls

CHAPTER THREE: The World’s First ATS Class

CHAPTER FOUR: The New Experiences

CHAPTER FIVE: Creating Your Spiritual Future

CHAPTER SIX: Adventures in Consciousness

Appendix A: ATS Study Group Workbook

About The Author

This book is lovingly

dedicated to:

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Whose writings became the basis for

Western Christianity’s concept of the Soul,

and whose wisdom directly inspired this book

Meister Johannes Eckhart (1260-1327)

Whose writings first gave us the concept

of the Cosmic Christ

and

Matthew Fox (1940-)

Whose writings on Aquinas, Eckhart,

and the Cosmic Christ helped inspire this book:

"For me, some of the questions of soul for humans

would be these: How do we awaken the soul? How

do we heal the soul? How do we guide, that is,

educate the soul?"

Acknowledgments

This new volume of Awakening The Soul is primarily dedicated to two individuals – the 13th Century Italian philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas in spirit, and the vibrantly alive but very spiritual Nichola Corner of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

This book wouldn’t have been written without them, and in fact, Nichola wrote about half of this book. It features her discovery of ATS and how it is affecting her and her students – in addition to five new spiritual steps in Awakening The Soul. This book will also be very personal, for to reveal how it’s most important aspects occurred, I must share some details of my life.

I also express deep appreciation to my Soul Mate and life partner Patrice, for being there for me throughout the years, and being my publishing angel for the Awakening The Soul series.

This book reveals several advanced spiritual steps which spontaneously occurred to me in recent years that build upon the steps unveiled in Awakening The Soul: Book 3: Restoring Your Spiritual Nature. That remarkable volume reveals the spiritual experiences I had in meditation beginning in June 1993, which provide specific and highly dramatic personal spiritual instructions for reprogramming the Ego and empowering the Soul – advanced spiritual steps that have been acclaimed as truly groundbreaking.

I believe the process that produced Awakening The Soul is divinely inspired, the result of a prayer I said each day for 15 years before going to work as a daily newspaper editor. That prayer, generally said while watching the sunrise surf in Oceanside, California, was: I hold the presence of Christ within me, and I ask to do His work on earth.

The original ATS experience, like most of the new steps revealed here, was unexpected, unbidden, and came from a source outside my mind. It was precisely the same spiritual channeling that I had read so much about in dozens of channeled books early in my preparation for writing – except this was happening to me. It was just as natural as day-dreaming, however, so close and real it seemed as normal as thinking. This book is arriving in the same manner – just out of the blue, with one major exception: while the original ATS books were spontaneous and unplanned, this one was prompted in meditation by my Spiritual Guide, Thomas Aquinas.

To validate and establish the credentials necessary to present these new spiritual awakening steps as worthwhile, we must examine what impact the original Awakening The Soul steps of spiritual guidance have had in the 20-plus years they have been in existence. We must answer the question, Do the original ATS instructions merit these new additional steps?

We do that by evaluating the feedback Awakening The Soul has received in those 20 years, from practitioners and reviewers alike, and let you decide if these new spiritual steps may have merit worth investigating. The abundant material presented here about reaction to ATS could be construed as self-serving promotion, but is necessary testimony to authenticate the validity of the ATS meditational process and to confirm the revelations the extensive supportive research provide.

In short, they answer the question: "Does Awakening The Soul really work? with a definitive, resounding Yes!"

It is clear from the enthusiastic testimony that Awakening The Soul is of great importance for those ready to receive its message. Those spiritual seekers understand its message, and easily join its path of spiritual reconditioning, which leads to a greater spiritual awareness. In fact, the Awakening The Soul program, if followed faithfully, leads directly to the new steps being revealed here.

It is vital to note that before one can understand, appreciate or implement this fourth volume of Awakening The Soul, one must thoroughly acquaint themselves with the ATS Trilogy, primarily the spiritual guidance offered in ATS Book 3: Restoring Your Spiritual Nature. Otherwise, the important aspects of this volume cannot be understood, appreciated or integrated.

Also, throughout this volume, we use the abbreviation ATS for Awakening The Soul, as a matter of reading expediency. I’ve also kept most of Nichola’s Irish vocabulary (i.e., different than American English in spelling) intact.

Introduction

This book about new advanced Awakening The Soul spiritual steps is not happening with the same ease and grace as its predecessors, for it began in entirely different circumstances, and is very different in style than its predecessors.

Many of the differences can be traced to the change of scenery in the intervening years. When the original ATS material was being received in 1993, I was living in a quiet, isolated area, with few daily interruptions. Then, there was no television, no telephone, no computer, no internet, and few visitors to distract me. Now, 23 years later, my life is much busier, and the distractions have grown exponentially.

So the writing of this book has come in fits and starts – but always on course. Since I wasn’t envisioning or planning another book after my 10th was published, I was surprised one day in meditation when I was advised that I should write a new ATS book about my recent spiritual experiences. However, after a quick flurry of introductory planning and writing, the process stalled. I wasn’t getting the same inspiration I had during the writing of the original ATS material, which came in a feverish, non-stop torrent of words.

But I kept getting this message– over and over again – in my mind: "To begin at the beginning," the eloquent opening line of Welsh playwright and poet Dylan Thomas’ wonderful spoken word masterpiece, Under Milk Wood. I knew what that repetitive message meant – it was a message from another Thomas – Thomas Aquinas: Just start at the beginning and I will be there with you. And he is. The writing began in October, 2015, but quickly stopped. Writing didn’t resume until February, 2016, but is non-stop now.

In the intervening months, I thought about what shape the book would take, and what it’s most important message would be. It quickly became apparent that the primary importance of this book is that these new spiritual experiences bring you into much closer contact with your Soul, help you visualize, understand and embrace it.

In fact, they teach you how to utilize your Soul.

Each Awakened Soul who takes these new steps will truly help create their own Dawning of the Ages, for these new instructions are profound in their potential importance. These new spiritual experiences were so profound that I immediately wrote down the exact details for posterity, so there is an accurate record of what occurred. Several occurred during health crises I was experiencing.

For the first time in my life, I was suffering a series of serious health problems. One of those was almost daily bouts of light-headedness, which lead to numerous near-fainting spells and one blackout, which I luckily survived without serious injury. I could handle most of these fainting spells, but some incidents were severe and didn’t respond to the normal treatment to stop them.

When these frightening moments occurred, I would immediately spiritually protect myself by doing the ATS Trinity of Being exercise, when I felt as if I was floating on the verge of death. This exercise was especially powerful in dealing with these attacks, because it focused my Spirit and protected my consciousness. Then, one day during an especially serious event, something remarkable happened, quite spontaneously.

It was a profound new spiritual connection going far beyond those given in ATS3. It was intensely personal and powerful, not something you can easily teach. It apparently occurs when an experienced ATS follower is fully prepared for it. However, most advanced Awakened Souls should be able to manifest these steps on their own if they are properly spiritually prepared. (I wouldn’t be prompted to write that if it wasn’t possible.)

Three more spiritual experiences followed, which were more guided than spontaneous, as the first episode had been. These events occurred over the last five years, each vitally important on its own, which led me to a better understanding and closeness with my Soul.

Then, while writing this book, a fifth step was revealed to me, perhaps the most important of all.

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I thought a lot about what to entitle this new book I was envisioning, but nothing suitable