Best Stories of Shirley Willett, Illuminating Personal Evolution
Awareness is the Key to Living Well; Loving All You See Sustains It Shirley Willett
Each story is chosen to show the important steps in my life’s learning, and to inspire my readers to open up to their personal evolution. Hopefully, I would love to read others’ stories, suspecting that each of us has unique paths to evolution. Excerpts are taken from each story and a key summary included to illustrate my stories.
STORY ONE: A PHILOSOPHY of EMOTIONS
Studying my mind and life experiences (Full story)
The important first steps in my evolution were in my 20s and 30s, and learning to master intense emotions. The first painful experience was being thrown in a mental hospital and given ECT shock treatments after my mother’s death.
Excerpts:
“After 20 years studying my anger at psychiatry and the mental health system, and practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM), I became aware of an inner reality and studied the play of emotions within the unconscious.”
“As a teacher I became an empath, studying emotional reactions in my students, and then studying my own emotional reactions within, to their reactions. I learned as much from students as they learned from me.”
“Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, ‘Emotionally self-aware is recognizing and naming own emotions; understanding the cause of feelings; and recognizing the difference between feelings and actions.’
Summary: Mastering intense emotions
STORY TWO: NEUROTECH’S MIND CONTROL IS SCARIER THAN BIOTECH’S DRUG ADDICTION
We must each learn to be our own authority on matters of the mind (Full story)
Excerpts:
“Taking power over our own minds is a critical goal of the 21st century, especially since authorities in government, technology, health-care, education, etc. are taking power over us, because we allow them to without questioning.”
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself”, Leonardo da Vinci
“There is no right or wrong in emotions, only balance and imbalance. There are too few people who understand their emotions and their power. Let’s not give power over to authorities as many people have done with biotech’s drugs.”
“On Our Own, Judi Chamberlain 1988. “The story explores her experiences while being a patient as well as the lessons she learned while using services controlled by the patients themselves”
“There are a lot of prevention ideas in physical health — but no prevention ideas in mental health.”
Summary: Taking power over own minds — Develop prevention in mental illness
STORY THREE: PONDER THE FUTURE WITH NATURE, BALANCE AND SOUL
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates (Full story)
Excerpts:
“Would that we humans could learn that better way to be by following Nature’s balancing act.”
“ Evolution is continually happening in our souls since the beginning of all life”
“Nature knows no right or wrong, only Balance and Imbalance.” Gregge Tiffen
“Technology builds unique gadgets, but most of them are not excellent or even useful. They are just to make money through marketing. … Mother Nature designs everything with a purpose that is connected and useful to some forms of life.
“Oneness is the foundation for each one’s unique Soul.”
Summary: Divinity of Soul — Oneness the Foundation of Soul
STORY FOUR: EVOLUTION OF CLOTHING’S FUTURE
Illuminating Consumers, Design Engineers and Technology (Full story)
On every step in personal evolution I was involved intimately in the fashion industry — 70 years in Design, Business, Engineering, Manufacturing, Education & Technology. See my book, Past, Present Future: A Fashion Memoir. (Amazon.com)
Excerpts:
Consumers: “In the future creative ideas will come from consumers as to what they want to wear. Every human being has the ability to create”
“Consumers must learn through history the true purpose of clothing, to express their own inner feelings, not those of celebrity or any other designers.”
“James Laver, famous costume historian at the Victoria and Albert Museum is known for: “Fashion is the mirror of the soul”,
Technology: “MIT Technology Review: Murphy firmly believes that 3D clothing will soon become a mainstream consumer pastime, … and to digitally style their own outfits.”
Design Engineers: Clothing designers will go back to being engineers, as I remember in the 1940s and 50s in Boston, when stitching in garment factories. It is design engineers who must restart this new fashion industry and artfully bring quality clothing back into existence, especially for the middle class. Also, beautiful, quality fashion clothing must be artfully engineered to enable many transformations and wearings.
Summary: Consumers create clothing, with technology assisting
STORY FIVE: EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Illuminating and Understanding Higher States (Full Story)
Excerpts:
“One point that I find in common in everything I read is that meditation is very important for evolution of consciousness.
“Maybe it’s just the different words used to describe this rather invisible, difficult-to-explain world?
“Rudolph Steiner, ‘There slumber in every human being faculties by which he can acquire for himself a knowledge of higher worlds.’
“I believe that as we gradually raise our awareness to be more open we will be trusted with new faculties by our inner self.”
“Rudolph Steiner, ‘“Every human being bears a higher man within…. This higher man remains hidden until he is awakened. … He cultivates an intercourse with the spiritual world. …The silent inward thought-work is much higher, much more real, than things in space.
“Deepak Chopra: ‘When you are awake, you can fully participate in this play, the cosmic dance of creation”
“Albert Einstein: ‘Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind.”
“Questioning one’s Self is a beautiful way to evolve consciousness.
Summary: Meditation — Higher Worlds — New Faculties
Thank you for reading, and, again, I would love to read about your path to evolution of soul.
