The Shining Path

About the Book

One summer’s afternoon, after reading some old personal notebooks and journals of mine from the 1960s and 70s, I found myself perplexed and astonished at the course my life has in fact taken. So I decided to write some poems. Together they form The Shining Path: a poetic narrative winding its autobiographical way across key locations on my life’s time line. My bafflement dispersed as three guiding voices began to speak for themselves from the depths of the path: —The voice of the poet narrating and reflecting —The voice of the pilgrim trekking towards eternity’s sunrise —The voice of the warrior of light clarifying and guarding the way W. E. Gordon

About the Author

Born in the USA in 1943, Bill has been living in the United Kingdom since 1975. He is married, with four children, and lives in Birmingham. A retired psychiatric nurse, Bill worked for many years within the NHS in acute psychiatry. He is also a founder and for many years was a director of Hebron Trust, a spiritually based twelve-step addiction treatment and recovery community based in Norwich. Bill now works as a qualified life coach specializing in life transitions and spiritual transformation. He can be contacted by e-mail, awarrioroflight@me.com, or through his website, lifevisioncoaching.co.uk.