About Vernon Howard

  • Vernon Linwood Howard  1918 – 1992
         Vernon Howard was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on March 16, 1918. When he was a boy his family moved to California where he lived for many years. He began writing and lecturing there on spiritual and psychological topics. He eventually moved from Los Angeles to Boulder City, Nevada where he lived and taught for many years. In 1979 he founded New Life Church and Literary Foundation.
         From 1965 until his death in 1992 he wrote books and conducted classes which reflect a degree of skill and understanding that may be unsurpassed in modern history. Human Behavior Magazine once said of him, “Vernon Howard is probably the clearest writer on these subjects in the English language.”
         His warmth and refreshing sense of humor made him a delightful subject for interviews, talk shows and articles. In 1983 Michael Benner of station KLOS in Los Angeles, California said, “Vernon Howard is one of the most powerful speakers I have ever interviewed. He has an uncanny ability to cut through the fluff and puff and jolt people into seeing who they really are. At times humorous and gentle, at other times demanding and forceful, Vernon Howard holds the record for generating responses to our KLOS talk shows. Not everyone likes his message, but I can’t imagine anyone turning him off.”
         Vernon Howard broke through to another world. He saw through the illusion of suffering and fear and loneliness. In The Esoteric Path to a New Life MP3 CD there is a marvelous interview with Vernon Howard. Also included in this album is the booklet of the same name which will give any new student a great introduction to Vernon Howard’s works.
         Today more than 8 million readers worldwide enjoy his exceptionally clear and inspiring presentations of the great truths of the ages. Libraries, bookstores, health food stores and church bookshops all over the country sell Vernon Howard books, booklets, CDs, DVDs, MP3 CDs and much more. His material is widely used by doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, clergymen, counselors, educators and people from all walks of life.
         All his teachings center around one grand theme: “There is a way out of the human problem and anyone can find it.”

  • There is a Way Out
         The life-healing principles taught in Vernon Howard’s books, CDs, DVDs, MP3 CDs and more contain a variety of guides and inspirations by which you can change your life. They answer questions and banish problems which may have been burdens for years. They will supply the answers you’ve been looking for all your life. From now on you can make life work for you, not against you. These exciting methods can help you start life all over. Your own mind is the key which unlocks the secrets of life. Delightful feelings will arise as these powerful truths are absorbed. Let them succeed into turning every day into a new and refreshing day.  True relief and happiness await you.
        In the next section is an excerpt from The Esoteric Path to a New Life Guidebook which gives a clear and concise explanation of the human condition here on this earth. These practical spiritual guides are authentic solutions for your home life, love life, everywhere. They will save you years of search and struggle. Find out for yourself.

  • Q: As the author of self-help books, with some 7 million readers, you must enjoy riding the high wave of success.
    A: Success in terms of inner-development is measured by whether people change the way they think, and therefore the way they live. I would  consider it a success if one reader in a hundred took the first step  toward a higher level of  being.

    Q: What do you mean by a higher level of being?
    A: To understand the higher, you must first understand the lower. You must see that life as you presently live it is a thinly disguised chamber of horrors. Anger, envy, loneliness, fear, guilt and the other demons that inhabit our minds must be exposed for what they really are … phony phantoms! Having emptied ourselves of wrong ideas about ourselves, there is room for Something Higher to enter.

    Q: How does one attain this higher state?
    A: Begin with self-honesty. Face your life as it actually is. See yourself as you really are. Without ruthless self-honesty, nothing can be done. With it, everything is possible.

    Q: Isn't this ruthless self-honesty a harsh remedy for a person who is suffering?
    A: Not if it is used impersonally. We must study ourselves as a scientist studies a problem, objectively. Honest self-inquiry should not include self-blame or any kind of self-reference. This is what is known as non-identification. We are on the way to solving our problems when we learn to see them without calling them ‘I’.

    Q: How about such commonplace human problems as anxiety, stress, depression, loneliness, sex, marital strife or addiction to drugs?
    A: If we are the victims of bad experience, bad habits or bad treatment by others, it is not because something is wrong out there, but because something is out of order within us. I’m not condemning anyone. I am stating a fact. You can change jobs, or change mates, or change locations, but nothing will change, really, until you change yourself. I am talking about changing your actual nature. You can, through correct inner work, rise above all such problems, and they will trouble you no more. I promise you that.

    Q: Can anyone learn to do this?
    A: Each of us has the capacity to gain this new Understanding. But most of us are too comfortable in our suffering. We don't know anything else. Even when someone tells us we can rise above our problems, we don't believe it. Nevertheless, there is a way out, and anyone who honestly wants to can find it.

WAKE UP!

A Very Special Lesson by Vernon Howard

Make a decision to wake up
Straighten yourself up.
Look around you — see what’s there.
See those people or that person.
Walk alertly and awakedly.
DON’T DREAM.
DON’T DOZE.
DON’T WANDER AROUND.
DON’T RUSH.
This will make you rise above your fears.
It is your duty as a spiritual student
to stop taking orders from low places.

      Make it a point to read this once a day. It will act as a reminder of something higher you should be doing. And as you begin to apply it to your daily life notice the difference it makes. Watch how it lifts you above any troubles you may have. See the inspiration that comes with it.

Three Keys to Understanding

 1. The world has nothing of real value to give you because it does not exist. Because it does not exist as a reality, because it is illusory, it has only illusory and worthless rewards for you. While employment and geography and people exist for your physical self and your social self, and are good for them, they cannot give benefits to your real spiritual nature which is complete in itself. It always has been complete and always will be, for it lives not in time but in eternity. In reality there is no individual who can win a thrill or a sense of worthiness from the everyday world. In a lost person, rewards or punishments from the world fall on the self-glorified self and cause it to vibrate. This vibration serves as a shaky idol which we eagerly worship for as long as the thrill lasts. But since the worshipper and his idol are the same thing — the same set of vibrations — the ending of the thrill of  worshipping the idol causes self-panic; we feel as if we are fading  away, that we will not be ourselves any more. The fear of the extinction of the invented self prevents us from seeing that the false self must fade away in order to experience true spiritual birth. Your work in all this is to notice the deceptive nature of your fear of not existing. And one way to do this is to notice how friends, news stories, rumors of doom, how they all try to plant fearful thoughts and feelings into your system. Here is what these people are doing: In order to give themselves a false sense of aliveness by making gloomy remarks, they  have no conscience in making others feel the same false sense of doom. They are like mad musicians who demand that you dance to their insane music. Everything in this paragraph connects with the opening sentence, which is: The world has nothing of real value to give you because it does not exist.

2. You need not idolize or yearn for anyone. But you must see very deeply into this in order to discover your basic error. You really do not admire that man or love that woman. Unknowingly you admire and love your own thoughts and feelings about them. Having imitation strength and beauty inside yourself you project them outwardly and then deceive yourself into thinking that they reside inside that man or woman. You will get an endless series of pains and disappointment as long as you unconsciously approve of this kind of self-trickery. You feel the need for something — which in itself is right — but then wreck the solution by trying to get an answer from the same unintelligent mind that asked the original question. You can not and must not answer your own questions. You fail to see that you are doing this when you look outside yourself for wisdom or strength or guidance. You are like the king of a castle who falls off his horse while riding in the woods. In his dazed state he wanders into a cave, thinking it is his home, even while suffering from the cave's discomfort. As his head gradually clears, he remembers where he truly belongs. Then his action-in-understanding  guides him back to the castle with its true security and comfort. You have forgotten who you really are. Truth itself will help you to remember.

3. Regarding acceptance and rejection, the day will come when neither word has any meaning to you. Such opposite states have meaning, false meaning, only to a divided mind, a mind looking to itself for a  wholeness it will never be able to locate. Wholeness does not reside in thinking about wholeness, but in the lack of a need to think about  wholeness. The king who has returned to his castle thinks neither about the castle nor the woods. To go a bit deeper into this, the spiritual castle has no geographical location on this earth. It does not exist in the woods or outside the woods — it exists above both, in a new and lofty world. This becomes clear when you see that a word  is a word and nothing more. You need have no concern about being in a good light in the eyes of others. Only the thought — created self  has such ambitions and the resulting anxieties. You cannot have either good light or bad light, for there is no individual self to receive it. Try handing either a bouquet of roses or of weeds to an imaginary person. It cannot be done. Only your unself can be truly Good, and that Goodness comes from God, Truth, Reality.

“To say that Vernon Howard has helped me is a drastic understatement.
I compare it to living in a world of drabby black and white images and then
being introduced to crisp, clear colors for the first time. He has helped me
find a new universe — the universe within me.”

— Dennis D.

  “I am very very grateful to have come across Vernon Howard’s teachings! It’s such great relief. Truly the world doesn’t need James Bond, it needs Vernon Howard.”

Respectfully,
Man in Australia

“I must tell you that I am not a newcomer to spiritual studies.
But Vernon Howard has presented a set of ideas that is without parallel in my experience. He has a wealth of new ideas and insights and the singular way he slays the psycho-babble dragon makes him a knight of the first order.”

— Russell P.

“I have gone through hundreds of hours of counseling and self-help books and tapes. Your material ‘cuts to the core’ and makes it so easy for me to see the light. Thank you, Vernon.”

— Shirley M.

“Over the years I have found Vernon Howard to be the only writer who has made sense of this old world and helped me in so many ways. Bless him!.”

— My best wishes to you all
Sincerely,
Man in England

Praise for Vernon Howard