Clash of Souls

W. Lawton Brown has been called an eclectic and a renaissance man... experiencing much that life has to offer in his quest for a deeper meaning to human existence. His life began in abject poverty during the infamous midwest dust bowl years. Along his life path he has held many varied jobs including: dishwasher, janitor, gardener, Boeing factory worker, professional cartoonist, professional astrologer, metaphysical teacher, Merrill Lynch stockbroker, and an international award-winning direct marketing/advertising creative director and writer.

As a brash 14 year old teenager he challenged his Baptist minister's fire and brimstone sermons, saying that many of them made no sense. That led to a 40 year study of other religions and metaphysics in his tireless quest to discover the truth. Lawton's research took him into a myriad of metaphysical fields - astrology, automatic writing, the Edgar Cayce readings, channeling, hypno-regression, the I Ching, mental telepathy, numerology, past-life regression therapy, psychic recall, pyramid healing, the tarot and even UFO's.

As the years passed Lawton realized that a great deal of the information being spewed out by our most cherished institutions, like churches, schools, governments, and the medical field, whether by design or ignorance, was far from correct. But how does one find the truth?

Describing himself as an open-minded skeptic, he urges readers to be open-minded rather than close-minded and skeptical rather than gullible. The close-minded person who denies the existence of anything that's not in a government endorsed school text, or fits under the scientist's microscope, or a part of one's religious belief system, will only be limiting his or her intellectual and spiritual growth. The open-minded skeptic is not afraid to look, searching for ultimate truths rather than erecting a truth-obscuring brick wall around metaphysics.