Authors Spotlight @ PCSolve eBooks

PCSolve would also like to welcome John Bradshaw , whose Spiritual Healing Book The Twelve Thoughts Series has recently been published on our site.

John's account of The background to The Twelve Thoughts

To explain the background to my books, I would like to tell you a little about my own background, both professional and personal.
My professional background is in Management and Human Resource Management. I hold qualifications in both these fields and am a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. I have worked quite a lot in these areas and I have a particular interest in industrial psychology and especially in areas such as self-development, motivation, leadership and emotional intelligence therefore my books are to some degree an expression of my professional interest in these fields, however I also have a very strong personal interest in the area of self-development and to explain, it is necessary to say that some time ago, I was given the gift of a severe personal crisis.
The crisis that I experienced happened about twelve years ago, in 1991. In fact it began in 1989 and reached its climax in 1991. It tore me apart and stripped away every assumption that I ever had. I was left broken, confused, dejected, angry, alone and very frightened and it is very important to say that it marked the true beginning of my spiritual journey, although I had always been somewhat inclined in that direction.At times of great difficulty, one seeks help and I did so, on many levels. I explored quite a number of areas and disciplines including therapy, yoga, meditation, prayer, complementary healing, self-help groups and a number of other philosophies and ideas. I met many wonderful people and two men especially were of great help and inspiration to me. They are Martin MacDonagh and Paddy McMahon (Patrick Francis). Martin especially was there for me day and night for weeks, months and years and I could never thank him enough for his good counsel. Paddy inspired me tremendously with his psychic readings and his books ‘The Grand Design 1 to V’.
I realise now that I was blessed in many ways. I feel that I was being looked after by a power far greater than myself. I had surrendered the ego or more accurately, it had been taken from me and my heart became open to God, a God that I experienced as loving and compassionate.
In 1993 I met my wife, Keeva. We settled down and had three children Bob, Amy and Harry in addition to Keeva’s daughter, Laura who also became part of the family. Family life with all its joys and challenges helped me on many levels and Keeva with her own powerful spirituality and knowledge has also been a great inspiration to me. I can add that the children have taught me a lot in their own unique way.
Time moved on. My difficult time faded into the past. I progressed in my career and settled into normal family life, but I suppose I had changed on a very fundamental level. I had been deeply touched by God’s love in my time of difficulty. I had seen spirit and my journey had taken me to the heart of the soul and the heart of the Divine. I had become sensitised on the level of the spirit and had begun to have mystical experiences and altered states of consciousness. A deep longing grew in my heart to express and share what I had seen and felt and what I knew to be spiritual truth. I often reflected on the matter and felt that perhaps one day, I would write. I felt perhaps that this would happen in my sixties, on my retirement from the workplace .
Then, matters accelerated dramatically in August 2002, a short while after my fortieth birthday. I was having a minor health problem and went to see a wonderful lady named Noreen Callinan. She did some hands on healing for me over a number of weeks and almost immediately after this process finished, I began to have visions of four small books and I began to write prolifically. The books emerged as ‘The Twelve Thoughts Series’.These small books contain many of the insights that the last twelve years have brought to me. Importantly, they are an expression of the spirituality and the recovery that I have experienced in my own life and I would very much like them to be of benefit to others in this regard. The books contain forty-eight passages on self-development, development of consciousness and union with the Divine. Some of the passages in my books are mystical and esoteric in nature and I want to say without reservation that they contain what I believe to be channelled information i.e. information directed through me from the realms of spirit. I write these passages in an altered state of consciousness and am very conscious of a loving energy, far greater than myself, operating through me.These small books are my gift to you; the reader and also they are my prayer for the world. They are my prayer for a greater consciousness and a more compassionate world.
Love and best wishes
John
June 2003