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A Biography of Sandy Jones
in relation to William Samuel

      
 

The Very Short Story of how I came to be the Literary Executor of William Samuel's work.

      
Around 1975, while enjoying a weekend in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with my beloved husband Earl and our precious young children, we all wandered into a book store.

Out jumps this book, A Guide to Awareness and Tranquility.....I had known of William Samuel several years prior, as his books had been among my mother's library of Metaphysical and Spiritual books.

Noticing a familiar name on an unfamiliar book cover, I opened it, read some pages and I knew immediately that I had found someone very special and important to me. The author's words resonated as honest and undeniably true. I knew I had been lead to a real treasure.

I bought the book, took it home, read it thoroughly. This book, word after word, was filled with wisdom and brilliance.

The words were liberating and profound, yet simple, tender and unpretentious. Something there was just simply true to my Heart. His tone, his humor, his wisdom, his intelligence, clarity and honesty were truly enlightening.

There was no doubt that what this man wrote was genuine, honest and real. I was so thrilled and overjoyed with his work that I immediately wrote to the author, Mr. Samuel.

To my everlasting joy, he wrote back promptly and thus we started a long and joyful 20 year correspondence of written letters, phone calls, visits and a mutually appreciative friendship. He was such a delightful man to be around and yet so very wise.

William and his wife Rachel came to stay with us in our Colorado mountain home often.....they both loved nature and the glorious beauty of those high Rocky Mountains.


Rachel and William Samuel--- Independence Pass, Colorado

Reciprocally, my husband and I went to visit with William and Rachel on several different occasions. They lived in Mountain Brook, Alabama, which was a charming and lovely little town. On these visits William would most graciously give me much of his day. We would take walks or we might sit in his little Woodsong Cabin and talk philosophy, God, metaphysics and Truth. He often gave this generous kind of attention to those who visited him.

I was very blessed to have been led to a most marvelous teacher, and I knew it. I was quite aware that I had the privilege of knowing a genuine American sage, mystic, wise man and teacher. I had never been a follower of any guru, I had always been intuitively distrusting of that sort of 'cult' like idol worshiping. But Bill was different, he snuffed out any sense of a 'teacher /student' relationships. I really appreciated that.

So, friend to friend I listened to every word and now I realize that I absorbed much more than I was fully aware of at that time.

The Guiding Angels have been good to me. I knew something special had taken place in my life on a May weekend in 1992, when I attended his last talk. A large group had come to White, Georgia to hear William speak. This exceptionally beautiful talk was recorded and we now have this weekend session available on DVD.

To my surprise, at the end of the talks, William asked me to come up and sit with him and 'help answer questions'. We sat there together and the audience would ask questions, and William would turn to me and say "Sandy, you can answer that." I did my best at the time.















Sandy Jones and William Samuel--- White, Georgia---1992

That moment in my life was among the genuine turning points, where I knew that if William trusted me enough to answer questions, then I could trust myself, my Heart, my own intuitive Inner Light.

Whatever it was that took place that weekend, it was slowly but surely transformational.

William amd Rachel had both agreed that I should be the guardian of his work, Bill knew I understood him and his message. He trusted what he saw in me--He saw long before I did that I had found my own Inner Light, The Child within--and so when William passed on in 1996, I was given the literary rights to carrying on with his truly enlightening message.

My work for William includes the publishing and distribution of all his material and books. I call this little book business Butterfly Publishing House.

He told me in many ways, in many personal letters, and through our friendship, that he trusted me and trusted that I was finding It.

He would reassure me, saying that I was "among those who are capable of hearing the final statements of truth"-- and that what I was finding "would serve me well in the years ahead when it comes my time to help some of the weary travelers down the Way".

Now, these years later, I know he was quite right about it all.

It is true, I have learned my lessons well, I have been tried and tested; I have proven myself worthy of The Light of Truth, I know this because this Grace, Peace, Joy, and Living Truth is Here with me always now.

William's message is about finding our own authentic Self and then doing for our world what comes from this Original Spirit.

So, I share my own discoveries in my own way.

As William put it so well; "We are a gathering of folks from all walks of life, people of all religious and philosophical outlooks, Eastern and Western. We are neither a group nor an organization. We are unbeholden and unattached to leaders or an intermediary. The Seminal Idea of Truth is capable of standing on its own. We spend no time worshiping the fountain, rather, we drink the water."

This Grace that found me, takes my hand, brings me peace and tranquility and leads me aright and unafraid through this world---For This I am most grateful.

In gratitude, Sandy Jones -- 2007