James Killingsworth

James was born to Dr. and Mrs. W.P. Killingsworth in Port Arthur, Texas. With his dad being a pediatrician, James saw him very little during the week. His father loved to hunt and fish, however, and always had a camp to go to on the weekends and holidays. It was there that the family spent their time together in the outdoors. It was during these trips that James experienced Mother Nature and came under he spell. The episodes in his book were lessons impressed upon the life of a young boy, imparting a spiritual foundation that gave direction and purpose to his life. Some episodes were very profound, which caused him to seek out the sense and significance of his life and people that could help him understand the states that affected him in the outdoors.

He and his wife Sherry, who shared in his search, discovered the Institute For Religious Development in New York. There they spent many years absorbing and practicing an ancient teaching that had been lost to mankind. As indicated by the teaching, they decided to return to the conventional world and practice what they learned in the midst of their lives. They came back to Texas and started a family. James' profession is a pharmacist, but he also was a flight instructor, a plumber, an appliance repairman, and he became skilled in all the building trades.

Realizing that there were similarities in the teaching and some aspects of martial arts, James and Sherry add the practice of taekwondo to their lives. James and Sherry both achieved status of world champions, with James claiming eleven world titles and a fifth degree Black Belt.

As James approached the autumn of his life, he had the impulse to share the experiences of his childhood in the outdoors and commenced his profession as a writer.

He felt a need to reconcile his relationship with his father, who passed away when James was twenty. He also wanted to awaken people to the great value of their experiences in the outdoors. And finally he wished that his work would penetrate the reader's heart and share with them a deeper level of being.

He and Sherry still share Mother Nature together.