M. E. Weber
I have led a life of sixty plus years concerned with spiritual meaning. This has influenced my writing as well as my choices and actions in life. I have read and studied many of the Holy books in an attempt to understand how various religions look at the world. I have read some of these Holy books, the Upanishads is a good example, only once cover to cover. Others such as the Kitab-i-Iqán, the Hidden Words and the Holy Bible I have read frequently. I have studied and practiced Yoga, T’ai Ci and various forms of Meditation throughout my life.
As a result many divine lessons have been given to me and many divine secrets have been revealed or clarified. Yet many other lessons have been presented and I have failed to adequately understand their meaning, and so I look forward to having them presented again someday.
My journey, as best I understand it, began when I was ten. That year I had, what I later believed (and still do) was, an opportunity to covenant with the Almighty Creator of the Universe. It was an encounter in which I called on Him to reveal Himself to me and pledged to be His forever more if He did. His response was both subtle and overpowering, clear yet abstract. It was an event that I only understood after some time had passed.
At the age of ten I entered what the Seven Valleys call the Valley of Search. It was as stated, “The steed of this Valley is patience; without patience the wayfarer on this journey will reach nowhere and attain no goal. Nor should he ever be downhearted; if he strive for a hundred thousand years and yet fail to behold the beauty of the Friend, he should not falter.”
My journey in this Valley only lasted eleven years for at the age of nineteen, I discovered the beauty of the Friend in the writings of Bahá’u’lláh, the Glory of God, and as stated, I “straightway step(ed) into the Valley of Love.” This journey has carried me to live many years in Houston, Texas, Evanston & Chicago Illinois and Taipei & Tainan, Taiwan. It has now brought me home to Corpus Christi, Texas. However, it wouldn’t surprise me if it took me to other sites in my future.
As previously stated, my life has influenced my writing. Many authors have repeated the unofficial writers mantra “write what you know,” and what I know, at least a little about is spirituality. I began my first book in the mid-seventies. It had no working title and had moral and spiritual values and lessons similar, yet different from Dune Frank Herbert. I set it down after the first draft was finished and didn’t pick it up and until 2018. I’m now finishing a re-write of the manuscript and hope to have it in editing before the end of this year, 2021.
My career has been in business management for the retail, publishing and petro-chemical industries. I have a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in business administration and have owned three home businesses – Beneficial Communications, Orchid Tea Garden and now Ponder Publishing. I am currently retired from Chevron USA in Houston, and living with his wife Nancy, daughter T’ai Li, and grand-daughter Laney in our hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas.
My first published book, Ponder: Musings on the Art of Bahá’í Meditation is on the subject of Meditation from a Bahá’í perspective and is available on my website Ponderpublishing.net, Amazon.com, Direct Books.com, and the Bahá’í Bookstore.com. Say: O People… is currently only available on my website Ponderpublishing.net and Amazon.com
I’m currently working on two other books – the Science Fiction novel from the Seventies now titled Gliese-581c: The Invasion of Caligar, and a Supernatural Adult Fiction dealing with tapping into the power of the Celestial Concourse entitled Entangled. I’m also playing with the thought of creating a children’s graphic storybook (Blackbird Migration) from a three page story.
