For John Roger
For over 50 years, John-Roger devoted his life to being a Wayshower for others to find Spirit within themselves and demonstrate how to live life in greater loving, happiness, and peace. J-R’s humor, joy, and unconditional loving embraced and touched people around the planet. His good works continue on, guiding those studying the path of Soul Transcendence, which is becoming aware of oneself as a Soul and as one with God, not as a theory but as a living reality.
John-Roger was born in a small town in Utah during the Depression. He was a spiritual seeker from a young age–yearning to know the meaning and experience of “to thine own self be true.” After a life-changing event in 1963, John-Roger was given the spiritual keys to anchor what he termed the Mystical Traveler Consciousness and five years later began openly sharing the teachings of the spiritual heart in informal settings such as people’s homes. As the popularity of these talks increased, in 1971, the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awereness (MSIA) was set up as a vehicle to formalize his work.
For Peter McWilliams
McWilliams was born to a Roman Catholic family in Detroit, one of two sons of Henry G. and Mary (née Toarmina; later Fadden) McWilliams. His father worked as a supervisor at a drugstore and his mother was a part-time salesperson.
He attended Allen Park High School and Eastern Michigan University and later enrolled at Maharishi International University. At the age of 17 he wrote a collection of poems called Come Love with Me and Be My Life, which he self-published under the name Versemonger Press.