The 7 Steps to Personal Power: Creating Opportunities Within

Jim Thomas brings you a way to master seven powers of mind and practical guidance for putting them to work to make your dreams come true. You can learn how to use the seven great gifts you were given at birth. Ancient healers and teachers from all over the world used these seven subtle energy centers in such powerful healing systems as acupuncture and Ayurvedic medicine. The seven steps often appear in magical philosophy. In the mid-sixteenth century, alchemist Raymond Lully's book, On the Ascent, shows the seven steps to eternal wisdom as stones, fire, plants, animals, man, the starry heavens and the angels. He wrote, "The man of wisdom will attain higher and higher degrees of knowledge until he will be able to apprehend the sublime and the eternal." In the seventeenth century, Heinrich Khunraths Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom depicted wise men ascending the seven steps before they reach the hidden light of wisdom. "All of the ancient systems I have studied have one thing in common," says Dr. James M. Thomas, Jr. "They lead to the Divine. The highest expression of humanness is connection with our Divine source." In this book, Dr. Thomas, a clinical psychologist and Episcopalian priest, has turned to the chakra system for practical guidance in finding a path to personal empowerment. "The path is intrinsically there in each of us," Dr. Thomas says. "We're on it whether we choose it or not. We have been given seven great abilities to help us live consciously and meaningfully. We can ignore them or we can develop them." In working with private patients and corporate clients who want to make changes, Dr. Thomas reports a high rate of success when people become aware of their intrinsic powers and learn how to use them. We hope this interesting system will help you understand your great inner gifts and use them in an inspired way.