Don Pendleton - The Cosmic Breath: Metaphysical Essays of Don Pendleton, Introduction by Linda Pendleton

The Cosmic Breath

Metaphysical Essays of DonPendleton

Introduction by LindaPendleton

Other Books by Don Pendleton

Nonfiction Books by Don Pendleton

A Search for Meaning From the Surface of aSmall Planet

Nonfiction Books by Don and LindaPendleton

To Dance With Angels

Whispers From the Soul

The Metaphysics of the Novel

Fiction

The Executioner, Mack Bolan Series

Joe Copp, Private Eye Mystery Series

Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective MysterySeries

Fiction with Linda Pendleton

Roulette

Comics by Don and Linda Pendleton

The Executioner, War Against the Mafia

The Cosmic Breath:Metaphysical Essays of Don Pendleton, Introduction by LindaPendleton

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Dedicated to all who wonder, while not onlylooking outward, but looking inward to discover our authentic selfand the wisdom that belongs to each of us as spirits.

~Linda Pendleton

There is another reality enfoldingours

as close as our breath!

~Don Pendleton, May, 1995

The only thing that stands between aman

and what he wants from life is oftenmerely

the will to try it and the faith to believethat

it is possible.

~David Viscott, M.D. (1938-1996)

Contents

Introduction

D onPendleton was special. I may be partial in my feelings of who hewas because he was my husband, but I had come to that decision fromthe first moment I met him in January of 1983. The moment our eyesmet across a room I knew all there was to know about this man. Andhe knew me. It was as if I were standing naked to my very soul.Every wall I had built around myself came tumbling down as if theynever existed. Scary? You bet, but also invigorating as if I justwoke up to life.

Everything I thought I knew about past livesincreased ten fold...one hundred fold. Some of you may have beenlucky enough to experience that recognition of soulmates reunited,I hope you have.

The best explanation of thistype of experience is by Dr. Brian Weiss, M.D. in his beautifulbook, Only Love is Real: A Story ofSoulmates Reunited. Dr. Weiss, apsychiatrist, began using past life hypnotic regression in histreatment of patients a number of years ago and in 1988 publishedhis first best-selling book, Many Lives,Many Masters .

Dr. Weiss published the Soulmate story in1996, the year after my husbands death. I would have loved to havebeen able to share with Don what Dr. Weiss wrote. Don and I knewhow lucky we were to have found that bond and recognized itimmediately.

Dr. Weiss explains our type of experience sowell. He writes soul recognition may be immediate, and when bothrecognize the past life connection right away no volcano coulderupt with more passion. The energy released is tremendous.

For some, Dr. Weiss states, it may be onlyone of the two people who realizes the past life connection. If theother person does not have the veil lifted, or circumstances makeit impossible for the relationship to be renewed, it can be painfulfor the person who knows. The grief can be as real as any losscould possibly be.

For Don and I, we both recognized each otherimmediately, although we really had no explanation for it then. Butwe knew. The doctor is correct about that erupting volcano ofpassion. It was that way for us. Don and I had a lot in common,both having life-long interests in metaphysics, spirituality, andthe paranormal. I loved Dons knowledge, and loved the times wewould sit together and talk about life into the wee hours of thenight. He was the most compassionate person Ive ever met, and hehad such an understanding of life and loved sharing his ideas withothers.

Don considered himself to be a metaphysicalscholar and although most of his writing career was devoted tofictional works he often wrote essays of his metaphysical ideas andbeliefs.

Don had enlisted into the Navy in World WarII just days before his 15th birthday. I have often wondered, as amother and grandmother myself, how his mother was able to kiss,hug, and wave goodbye to her young son as he went off to war.

It was during the days ofthe war and on board ships that Don devoured every book he couldget his hands on. As he often said, I even read medical journalswhen there was nothing left unread in the ships library. It wasalso during his time at war that he began writing letters forothers, often love letters that other sailors felt they were unableto write themselves. Don did what Alex Haley, the famous authorof Roots , didduring his Coast Guard service: Haley also wrote love letters forothers. Some years ago I attended a writers conference in SantaBarbara, California and had the honor of hearing a very nice andinspirational talk by Haley, a modest man who told us of his loveletter writing.

Don served in all the war theaters, receivingvarious medals including the Naval Commendation Medal, Iwo Jima1945. In a joint civil/military project, Don helped set up postwarair traffic control networks in the Pacific. He received his GEDcertificate of high school equivalency while in the Navy in 1947.In 1952, in the midst of the Korean Conflict, Don returned toactive Navy duty for two years.

His skill as a radioman during World War IIled him to the railroad after the war where he was employed as atelegrapher for Southern Pacific Railroad until 1957. For

the next four years, he worked for theCAA/FAA as an air traffic control specialist. In 1961, his careerturned toward aerospace engineering where he served in managementpositions during Martin-Marietta's Titan ICBM programs, as anengineering administrator in NASA's Apollo Moonshot program, andwith the United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy program.

His interests were metaphysics, science, andphilosophy, among many other things. He began writing in 1957 andhis first short story was published that year, followed by hisfirst novel in 1961. It was not until 1967, at the age of fortythat Dons attention turned to full-time writing.

After producing a number ofshort stories, science fiction and mystery novels, he launched, in1969, the phenomenal ExecutionerSeries of original novels, which quicklyemerged as the definitive Action/Adventure series. The first Executioner novel, War Against the Mafia ,was followed by an additional thirty-seven sequels during theensuing twelve years. The Executioner:Mack Bolan series was published around theworld in nearly thirty languages with close to two hundred millioncopies in print. In 1980, Don franchised his Mack Bolan characters to HarlequinsGold Eagle books and more than six hundred books have since beenpublished.

Dons life-long passion inmetaphysics inspired him to write poetry and essays on hisphilosophical ideas. His fiction often had subtle metaphysicalelements and he considered his Executioner novels a study in themetaphysics of violence. But it was not until 1985 that he was ableto explore more of his metaphysical and paranormal beliefs andideas in his fiction works with the publication of his Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective series ofnovels.