From the Collected Works of the WingMakers Vol. 1
In September 2009, I unexpectedly received a telephone call from Mark Hempel, the webmaster for the WingMakers, Event Temples, Lyricus, and SpiritState websites. He was calling on behalf of James, the anonymous source of the websites linked to WingMakers.
James wanted to know if I would be interested in being the editor and introductory commentator for all his written works. James had been writing prolifically since 1998, so his writings comprised many pages, as you can see from the size of these volumes.
Call me crazy, but I readily accepted his offer within minutes of the phone call. Now, this wasn’t the first time I had accepted a project from James, but it was certainly, the most ambitious one, for in 2007, he approached me with the idea of writing a guide to practicing the six virtues of the heart.
Earlier that year James wrote an e-book called Living from the Heart that explained the basic essentials for living a heart-centered life. As an extension of the e-book, the proposed guide would be a handbook of sorts for applying the techniques of the heart that were laid down in Living from the Heart.
Well, at the time, I was quite surprised by the mere fact that James thought enough of my understanding of his work to offer me this responsibility. (I should mention here, that I had been in email correspondence with him from early 2001 when I first discovered the WingMakers website.)
So, I slept on his proposal and the next day I emailed him my acceptance of the project. Thus, after several months of concentrated writing, I produced what is now titled When-Which-How Practice: A Guide for Everyday Use.
Another, smaller project followed in 2008 when James asked me if I would be interested in writing an interpretive guide to the second Event Temple meditation located at the EventTemples website.
So, despite challenges of these earlier projects, the offer in 2009 struck me as an even greater one because of the sheer magnitude of the materials that would be contained in a collection of James’ written works. Nonetheless, as Mark explained, some of the details of the project to me that day, I felt that this was something I wanted to do.
Now, more than a year later, as I write this preface, I realize how much I have learned from this experience, and I also realize how much more I don’t know about the expansive vision of the multiverse that James is steadily unfolding before our eyes. It is a humbling experience, but one filled with tremendous hope and confidence in the future of humanity.
With all this in mind, I want to thank James from the deepest feelings of my heart for his trust in me and for the great opportunity he has given me to serve others in some small way at this critical juncture of history. It has truly been an honor and a privilege to edit and comment on this Collected Works of the WingMakers.
In September 2009, I unexpectedly received a telephone call from Mark Hempel, the webmaster for the WingMakers, Event Temples, Lyricus, and SpiritState websites. He was calling on behalf of James, the anonymous source of the websites linked to WingMakers.
James wanted to know if I would be interested in being the editor and introductory commentator for all his written works. James had been writing prolifically since 1998, so his writings comprised many pages, as you can see from the size of these volumes.
Call me crazy, but I readily accepted his offer within minutes of the phone call. Now, this wasn’t the first time I had accepted a project from James, but it was certainly, the most ambitious one, for in 2007, he approached me with the idea of writing a guide to practicing the six virtues of the heart.
Earlier that year James wrote an e-book called Living from the Heart that explained the basic essentials for living a heart-centered life. As an extension of the e-book, the proposed guide would be a handbook of sorts for applying the techniques of the heart that were laid down in Living from the Heart.
Well, at the time, I was quite surprised by the mere fact that James thought enough of my understanding of his work to offer me this responsibility. (I should mention here, that I had been in email correspondence with him from early 2001 when I first discovered the WingMakers website.)
So, I slept on his proposal and the next day I emailed him my acceptance of the project. Thus, after several months of concentrated writing, I produced what is now titled When-Which-How Practice: A Guide for Everyday Use.
Another, smaller project followed in 2008 when James asked me if I would be interested in writing an interpretive guide to the second Event Temple meditation located at the EventTemples website.
So, despite challenges of these earlier projects, the offer in 2009 struck me as an even greater one because of the sheer magnitude of the materials that would be contained in a collection of James’ written works. Nonetheless, as Mark explained, some of the details of the project to me that day, I felt that this was something I wanted to do.
Now, more than a year later, as I write this preface, I realize how much I have learned from this experience, and I also realize how much more I don’t know about the expansive vision of the multiverse that James is steadily unfolding before our eyes. It is a humbling experience, but one filled with tremendous hope and confidence in the future of humanity.
With all this in mind, I want to thank James from the deepest feelings of my heart for his trust in me and for the great opportunity he has given me to serve others in some small way at this critical juncture of history. It has truly been an honor and a privilege to edit and comment on this Collected Works of the WingMakers.
John Berges, Editor
