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Vernon Howard eTalks
     There are 17 new eTalks available. All the new digital downloads have a flashing new next to them. There are now a total of 79 Vernon Howard titled talks available for digital download at a fantastic price. These talks were specifically chosen by Vernon Howard from his lectures. They are the best of the best, containing beautiful higher truths and covering a wide variety of inner life topics. Order today!

Truth Principles at Work

     Here is a series of articles which will be ongoing for some time by New Life Students who have been attending classes for a number of years. They have experienced the benefits of coming to class on a regular basis for themselves. Read and enjoy these helpful and inspiring essays.

     Jeff Fisher grew up in a small town in Indiana and is currently working as a Sales Tax Analyst.

     When I was a teenager I was a missionary. I traveled to Brazil and Egypt working at Christian orphanages. I remember back then I always felt there was something more to life than being a so called “good Christian.” I had always been searching for something to explain this world to me; however, all the so-called spiritual books I read never gave me any satisfying answers. Years ago I was looking at an order form in the back of one of my books, and that’s when I saw the title The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard. The name of the book really intrigued me so I went to my local bookstore and ordered it. I remember reading the book and realizing it was something totally new to me. I sensed the truth in what I was reading, but I also noticed something in me that did not want to hear what the book was saying, which was that we are the cause of our own pain and suffering. I could not believe that I alone was responsible for my pain, but I could not get this out of my mind after reading the book. I called New Life, which was then in Boulder City, Nevada and talked to one of Vernon Howard’s students. I had an order form sent to me with all of Vernon’s books and tapes and I ordered several of the small booklets, which I literally could not put down. There was something very powerful in these booklets. One of my favorites was Your Power to Say NO, which said we should not try to please other people in order to get them to like us, to approve of us. I used to say yes to people all the time, doing things for them while secretly resenting it. Vernon said we have the right to live our own life and the first way to do that is to stop trying to please others and not feeling guilty over it.
     One of my favorite books is Inspire Yourself. It has a story titled “Paper Chains” explaining how our problems are nothing more than paper chains. Wow, I thought, what an inspiring message to hear! We no longer have to be victims of our past. For years I believed we had to live with the pain, and that we would always have to live with our past faults and failures in life. Vernon said we are not our past, in fact we are not even the same person we were five seconds ago.  Whenever I get carried away by some negative event or circumstance, I always try to use the instant recovery exercise, which means to immediately come back to the present moment. Vernon said that in the present moment we don’t have a problem in the world because “I” am not there to cause a problem.
     For some reason after a few years, I drifted away and stopped reading the books and listening to the tapes. It wasn’t until I was going through a very painful time in my life about five years ago that I picked up one of Vernon’s books I had stored away in a box. I said to myself, “There is something to these teachings and I am going to find out what it is.” I called New Life in Arizona, and ordered several of Vernon’s taped talks, and began listening to them every day. There were no classes in Indiana, but I wanted to go to one of the banquets where these principles were taught. There was a job opening in my company in Phoenix, Arizona, so I applied for the job to give me the opportunity to go the classes and banquets in Strawberry, AZ. The first banquet I went to, I volunteered to get up and to speak in front of the class. I was so nervous, my knees were literally shaking. I did not like speaking in front of everyone, but Vernon said it is imperative that we to go against ourselves, even if we are afraid to. Now, I attend all of the banquets and as many classes as I can and find they inspire me to change my life, showing me there is a way out. The banquets especially provide a spiritual experience like no other.