Bill Missett
www.awakeningthesoul.info
Born: Oswego, N.Y., April 16, 1939
www.mabusincarnate.com
An award-winning retired newspaper editor* with more than 40 years of writing experience, Bill Missett brings his professional skepticism and his ability to communicate with the general public to the timely subject of personal spirituality.
The son of two English teachers, he is largely self-educated and home-schooled. Equipped with insatiable curiosity, and a voracious reading ability, he began his newspaper career at age 10. His first professional newspaper writing was published during his early teenage years. By age 29, he was managing editor of a daily newspaper in the highly competitive Southern California market.
His experience as an investigative reporter and an award-winning editorial writer gives him the ability to synthesize the complex and controversial subject of personal spirituality into clear, simple language easily understood by the average reader.
Raised in the Catholic faith, Bill became an agnostic during his teenage years. But in 1977, he experienced spontaneous two-way mental telepathy during a near-drowning while bodysurfing in big surf on an isolated beach in Baja California. The incident not only saved his life, but initiated a 25-year study of metaphysics, which brought him from agnostic to believer.
After retiring to a remote fishing village in Southern Mexico in 1992, Bill’s daily meditations led him to write the ground-breaking trilogy, “Awakening The Soul.”
He is in a unique position to demystify the mystical, and to challenge his readers to join the growing spiritual awakening now occurring throughout the world, which may be planet Earth’s and humanity’s best hope for the future.
* Bill Missett was Managing Editor of the Blade-Citizen (now the North County Times) a daily newspaper with 55,000+ circulation in Oceanside, California, from 1968-1992. During his tenure, he received 1st and 2nd place awards for editorial writing from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, which also honored his newspaper with numerous journalism awards.
EDUCATION
1957: Graduate, Suffolk, Va., High School
1957-9: Attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va.
1960: Honor Graduate, U.S. Navy School of Journalism, Great Lakes, Ill.
PROFESSIONAL
1949-57: Circulation clerk, printer’s devil, classified and display advertising assistant, proofreader
1963: Reporter/feature writer, Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo.
1964-5: Investigative reporter/rewrite, The Times, Hammond, Ind.
1965-8: State Editor, Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo.
1968-92: Managing Editor, Editor, Blade-Tribune/Citizen, Oceanside, Calif.
EXPERIENCE/ACTIVITIES
1961-63: Television newscaster/announcer, Armed Forces Radio and Television Service; editor, base newspaper, U.S. Navy, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico
1966: Campaign press aide to U.S. Sen. Clifford P. Hansen, R-Wyo.
1970-1987: Nationally syndicated record/music reviewer
1972-4: Assisted in creation of the world’s first small newspaper computer system
1976: Featured speaker, IFRA International Symposium on Electronic Journalism, London, England
About the author
Bill Missett, a retired California daily newspaper editor, lives in a small fishing/surfing village in Southern Mexico.
Some 25 years ago, Bill experienced a life-saving incident of spontaneous mental telepathy while bodysurfing. That prompted more than two decades of study and investigation into metaphysics and psychic phenomena, which led to the spiritual experiences that created this book.
He is married to Patrice Perillie, a prominent human rights/political asylum attorney with offices in New York City and Oaxaca, Mexico. He is the father of two adult sons, Bill III and Jeffrey, who live in California.
His personal interests include archaeology, artifact hunting, raising baby trees from seed, preparing homegrown chili spices, bodysurfing, bird watching, music and reading.
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