The Power of Insight: Thomas Trowards Discoveries in India

by Ruth L. Miller, Martha Shonkwiler (Illustrator)

The Paths to Power Series is designed to be easy reading biographies of the founders of New Thought. They are easy reading for all ages from juvenile to adult. Imagine growing up in a country where you have lots of servants and a nanny who speaks a strange ancient language and practices an equally ancient religion… Imagine being sent away from your family to another country to go to school and being unhappy for years before finally making life work… Imagine being given a job back in another part of the country you remember from childhood and using that language you learned from the servants to learn about the ancient religion you saw when you were a child—and lots of others, too… Imagine seeing things and hearing things that all your teachers said were impossible… That’s what happened to Thomas Troward, and he figured out how it all worked!

64 pages, Paperback

Published December 5, 2020

About the author

Dr. Miller served as Associate Professor and Director of the Cybernetic Systems Program at San Jose State University and as Director of Curriculum & Evaluation for Rogue Community College. She has led countless workshops on new paradigms, systems thinking and futures research, and has served as adjunct faculty at Antioch University-Seattle, Marylhurst University, Portland State University, as well as the Living Enrichment Institute, and New West Seminary.

After years of research into the nature of consciousness, Dr. Miller found she could no longer ignore the spirit. She became coordinator for Adult Religious Education in a small-town Methodist church while helping to found a Unitarian-Universalist fellowship there. In the process, she began a series of courses that would lead to ordination. She was ordained in the New Thought tradition and became the pastor of the Lifeways Center in Portland, Oregon, then interim Assistant at Unity of Beaverton. She is currently a “circuit riding preacher,” serving New Thought and Unitarian-Universalist churches in Oregon, Washington, and California.