Harold W. Percival & The Word Foundation
Harold W Percival and The Word Foundation
Regarding this unusual gentleman, Harold Waldwin Percival, we are not so concerned with his personality. Our interest lies in what he did and how he accomplished it. Percival himself preferred to remain inconspicuous, as he pointed out in the Author’s Foreword to Thinking and Destiny. It was because of this that he did not wish to write an autobiography or have a biography written. He wanted his writings to stand on their own merit. His intention was that the validity of his statements be tested according to the degree of Self-knowledge within the reader and not be influenced by Percival’s own personality.
Nevertheless, people do want to know something about an author of note, especially if they are greatly affected by his ideas. As Percival passed away in 1953, at the age of eighty-four, there is no one now living who knew him in his early life and only a few who know details of his later life. We have assembled those few facts that are known; however, this must not be considered a complete biography, but rather a brief sketch.
Harold Waldwin Percival was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, British West Indies, on April 15, 1868, on a plantation owned by his parents. He was the third of four children, none of whom survived him. His English parents, Elizabeth Ann Taylor and James Percival, were devout Christians. Yet much of what he heard as a very young child did not seem reasonable, and there were no satisfactory answers to his many questions. He felt that there must be those who knew, and at a very early age determined that he would find the “Wise Ones” and learn from them. As years passed, his concept of the “Wise Ones” changed, but his purpose to gain Self-knowledge remained.
When Harold Percival was ten years old, his father died and his mother moved to the United States, settling in Boston, and later in New York City. He looked after his mother for about thirteen years until her death in 1905. An avid reader, he was largely self-educated.
In New York City Percival became interested in Theosophy and joined the Theosophical Society in 1892. That society split into factions after the death of William Q. Judge in 1896. Percival later organized the Theosophical Society Independent, which met to study the writings of Madame Blavatsky and Eastern “scriptures.”
In 1893, and twice during the next fourteen years, Percival had the unique experience of being “conscious of Consciousness,” a potent spiritual and noetic enlightenment. He stated, “Being conscious of Consciousness reveals the ‘unknown’ to the one who has been so conscious. Then it will be the duty of that one to make known what he can of being conscious of Consciousness.” He stated that the value of that experience was that it enabled him to know about any subject by a mental process he called “real thinking.” Because these experiences revealed more than was contained in Theosophy, he wanted to write about them and share this knowledge with humanity.
From 1904 to 1917, Percival published a monthly magazine, The Word, which was dedicated to the brotherhood of humanity and had a worldwide circulation. Many eminent writers of the day contributed to the magazine and all of the issues contained an article by Percival as well. These early writings earned him a place in Who’s Who in America.
In 1908, and for a number of years, Percival and several friends owned and operated about five hundred acres of orchards, farmland, and a cannery in upstate New York. When the property was sold Percival kept about eighty acres on which there was a small house. This is where he resided during the summer months and devoted his time to the continual work on his manuscripts.
In 1912 he began to outline material for a book which would contain his complete system of thinking. Because his body had to be still while he thought, he dictated whenever assistance was available. In 1932 the first draft was completed; it was called The Law of Thought. He continued to work the manuscript over and over to clarify and edit it. He did not wish this to be a mystery book and was determined to clothe his work in accurately fitting words however long or great the effort. Its title was changed to Thinking and Destiny and finally printed in 1946.
This one-thousand-page masterpiece was produced over a period of thirty-four years. This system of thinking, which covers in exhaustive detail the subject of Man and his world, is not found in any other literature. Subsequently, in 1951, he published Man and Woman and Child and in 1952, Masonry and Its Symbols and Democracy Is Self-Government. The three smaller books are based on Thinking and Destiny and deal with selected subjects of importance in greater detail.
In 1946, Percival, with two friends, formed The Word Publishing Co., which first published and distributed his books. During this period, Percival worked to prepare manuscripts for additional books, but he always made himself available to answer the many questions from correspondents.
The Word Foundation, Inc. was formed in 1950 to make known to the people of the world all books written by Harold W. Percival and to insure that his legacy to humanity would be perpetuated. Percival assigned the copyrights for all of his books to The Word Foundation, Inc.
On March 6, 1953, Percival passed away of natural causes in New York City a few weeks before his eighty-fifth birthday. His body was cremated, according to his wishes.
It has been stated that no one could meet Percival without feeling that they had met a truly remarkable human being of immense power and greatness. His works represent a towering accomplishment in addressing the true state, and potential, of the human. His contribution to humankind can have a far-reaching effect on our civilization and civilizations to come.
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HAROLD W. PERCIVAL and THE WORD FOUNDATION
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A Spiritual Social Networking Organisation
Lightworkers.org
Lightworker’s – A Spiritual Social Networking Organisation dedicated to – World Ascension – World Peace – Heaven on Earth – Meditations – Healing – Connecting – Sharing – Caring
Welcome Lightworker! Lightworker’s is a spiritual social networking community for all people seeking to connect with other lightworker’s, spiritual seekers, star seeds, wanderers, indigo children, and multi-dimensional beings. The World is entering a new dimension of love, truth and light. Provided are all the spiritual social networking tools to help you share, connect, teach and learn. Share our dream of a peaceful and united planet, a new earth, built upon the foundations of love, compassion and wisdom. May you find inspiration and strength in your spiritual path. Discuss, chat, blog and communicate with other spiritual people worldwide! Listen to music, create you own profile page, send private letters and lots more.. You need to be a member to be able to engage with others and access some content.
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When we unite our focused intent and higher emotions we can together become a powerful catalyst for elevating the collective consciousness of our world. We unite Lightworkers from all around the world and become one in mind, heart and spirit. Lightworkers.org is a platform where Lightworkers can connect in an environment that is tolerant and loving. When we connect together in a unified thought we express our collective co-creative essence and allow the process of ascension to unfold for all life. As a Lightworker we simply mean a person who is co-creating a peaceful and loving world, and there are a many of us!. We know you will feel at home here and understand that you are a part of a world wide movement that is co-creating an alternative way of life for humanity and our loving world that we share. Lightworkers, we honor you. For we are ONE!
What Is A Lightworker?
There are great changes at hand, great waves of energy are sweeping the globe, calling our spirits, like a piper playing a sacred tune on the steel breeze of creation. Calling us to connect one again, to come together and celebrate. Exciting times are at hand.
Building new communities, and creating a new way of life is something many ligthworkers are drawn to. And its a wonderful thing, to come together and share in this co-creative experience.
My dream and vision of the future is very much about creating a new way, as opposed to trying to fight the old way. The old way is already done.. Its on its way out, its own energies will consume it, as this is the way the river flows. Nature breaks what does not bend, their is the natural cycles that are timeless, and now is the time for these transitions to be made. From the old ways, to the new ways.
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Laboratory Cracks the DNA Code of Happiness
Scientific Laboratory Researches and Discovers the Behavioral Predictors of Happiness
Happiness can be both learned and improved.
- Laboratory Cracks the DNA Code of Happiness
The Human Thriving Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose Mission Statement is: To scientifically increase the level of happiness of a minimum of 10 Million Americans by 2013. The Behavioral Laboratory announces today that it appears that they have Cracked the DNA Code of happiness.
Dr. Walt, Founder and Executive Director of The Human Thriving Foundation
Happiness360, the foundation’s parent company, was launched in 2005 as a behavioral, quantitative, research laboratory to seek the scientific predictors of happiness. This was a ground-breaking concept versus the conventional Subjective Well-Being and Positive Psychology efforts. The main short-coming of the previous research has been that it is subjective versus objective. As a result, this has caused a major quagmire in terms of confusing the issue of, what truly is happiness?
The time was well past-due to discover how to scientifically increase the level of the happiness of humankind. From an interdisciplinary perch; behavioral scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and behavioral economists will now hopefully switch their efforts to basic research using this grounded theory in pursuing the Holy Grail of life; happiness. To quote the Dalai Lama (2008), “May you find happiness.”
The Human Thriving Foundation‘s seismic changing empirical research theorizes that the DNA of an individual’s happiness is attributed to a combination and permutation of thirteen human behaviors. These 13 specific behaviors include: work-life balance, social support group, leisure time, hobbies, music, spirituality, giving, preventative health, intimacy, exercise, volunteerism, touching and random acts of kindness.
Why is happiness important to humankind? According to many of the World’s greatest historical; scholars, philosophers, socialologists and psychologists generally agree that ‘seeking happiness is the most common desire amongst humankind‘. In the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson wrote “it is a self-evident truth that the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right”. The United States is the only nation in the World whose citizens have the legal right to pursue happiness.
Anthropologically speaking, Buddha and Confucius were the earliest to seriously speak of the importance of happiness. Later, some of the most important contributors have included: Aristotle, Socrates, Layard, Gilbert, and Ben-Shahar.
Seligman (2000) coined the term ‘Positive Psychology’. The primary emphasis of Positive Psychology is to discover a person’s strengths and then build upon them. To quote the well-respected, international, motivational guru Tony Robbins, “The ultimate goal of life is happiness.”
A spokesperson for The Human Thriving Foundation has said, ”For the very first time we now know, for a fact, that happiness can be both learned and improved.”