The 7 Steps to Personal Power: Creating Opportunities Within - Paperback

by Cynthia S. Young (Editor), James M. Thomas Jr (Author)

Jim Thomas brings you a way to master seven powers of mind and practical guidance for putting them to work to make your dreams come true. You can learn how to use the seven great gifts you were given at birth. Ancient healers and teachers from all over the world used these seven subtle energy centers in such powerful healing systems as acupuncture and Ayurvedic medicine. The seven steps often appear in magical philosophy. In the mid-sixteenth century, alchemist Raymond Lully's book, On the Ascent, shows the seven steps to eternal wisdom as stones, fire, plants, animals, man, the starry heavens and the angels. He wrote, "The man of wisdom will attain higher and higher degrees of knowledge until he will be able to apprehend the sublime and the eternal." In the seventeenth century, Heinrich Khunraths Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom depicted wise men ascending the seven steps before they reach the hidden light of wisdom. "All of the ancient systems I have studied have one thing in common," says Dr. James M. Thomas, Jr. "They lead to the Divine. The highest expression of humanness is connection with our Divine source." In this book, Dr. Thomas, a clinical psychologist and Episcopalian priest, has turned to the chakra system for practical guidance in finding a path to personal empowerment. "The path is intrinsically there in each of us," Dr. Thomas says. "We're on it whether we choose it or not. We have been given seven great abilities to help us live consciously and meaningfully. We can ignore them or we can develop them." In working with private patients and corporate clients who want to make changes, Dr. Thomas reports a high rate of success when people become aware of their intrinsic powers and learn how to use them. We hope this interesting system will help you understand your great inner gifts and use them in an inspired way.

Author Biography

James M. Thomas, Jr, Ph.d, M.Div. is a life-long scholar of comparative religion and was a licensed clinical psychologist for over 40 years. He experienced his first miracle of personal healing as a captain in the Vietnam War, and has been a spiritual seeker ever since. He received his B.S. (biology and chemistry) from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri in 1963 and his master's degree in general psychology from Eastern Washington State University. His experience also includes six years in the Air Force. During the Pueblo Crisis in 1967, he was stationed in Korea and worked off duty at a local orphanage. These experiences were the beginning of a spiritual journey that led him to seek a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. While earning his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Oklahoma State University he also worked, under a NIMH grant, as psychiatric department manager at Bi-State Community Mental Health Center in Ponca City, Oklahoma. His internship and residency were in the psychiatry department of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, after which he worked in Oklahoma for 31 years as a clinical psychologist specializing in pain management, DID and family therapy. He also worked with the Oklahoma District Attorney's Association for over 20 years teaching interrogation tactics by using his interviewing skills. He was an early consultant with prosecutors' offices profiling jury candidates for criminal trials. In the infancy of victim witness research, he worked with a group from Stanford and UC Berkeley (e.g. Grinder, Bandler, Cameron & Satir, some of which were pioneers of Neuro-linguistic programming), to help develop that field. In 2001 he received his divinity credentials from the Virginia Theological Seminary, becoming an Episcopal priest and Assistant to the Bishop. Jim was on the board of St. Georges College in Jerusalem for 18 years and served the North American Regional Committee. Reverend Jim has been Trinity's Priest-in-Charge since 2011. His past associations include those with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and early bin-naural beat research and methodoly with the late Robert A. Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute https: //www.monroeinstitute.org/