G. Carolyn Mitchell

Spirituality is all about being better — better than you were, better than you are — it's being the best you can be.

The most basic reason for being spiritual is that it leads to feeling better.

Most mature individuals would agree that each of us is responsible for our own life and happiness. Any path you choose to achieve happiness requires right-thinking. This entails learning how to focus, be mindful, and pay attention to your thoughts and feelings.

For over 50 years, I have been both a student and teacher of a school of spiritual wisdom known as the Walter Method of Eschatology.

At least, that's what I did during off-hours.

For 20 of those years, during business hours and beyond, I was the owner and president of Magnet Portfolio Services, Inc. — an expertly staffed company that provided mortgage services to banks and other industry lenders. In 2011, I retired and Magnet was merged with another company.

I'm still an entrepreneur, but now, I have time for other pursuits such as painting, creating jewelry, dancing, and of course, teaching.

Currently I live in southern Florida with my wonderful, supportive husband.

From an early age, I had an insatiable thirst to understand life. I was self-aware enough to recognize that I lacked self-love. It was a starting point in my quest for life's answers. After several years of exploring various philosophies, I was no closer to solving life's mysteries and enigmas. That is until I was introduced to the Walter Method of Eschatology by a friend.

Perhaps it was all about timing. Maybe, I was just ready to try something new. Perhaps it was the subject matter itself.

I could immediately see that this is a common sense, practical mode of spiritual study that could improve my life and help me to feel better.

I transformed from a shy introvert with low self-esteem into someone who could create and run a fully staffed company that made a mark on the mortgage industry.

And of course, I eventually became a teacher of the Walter Method.

Eschatology: the Walter Method

The main website for the Walter Method is https://eschatology-wwwalter.org. Please visit there for detailed information about William Walter, downloads, the bookstore, and more.

A brief Google search reveals there are different notions of Eschatology, some of which involve topics like fire, brimstone, great apocalyptic battles, messianic figures, and other beliefs related to religious end-times.

The Walter Method is none of that! It is a path to achieve security and happiness in the here and now. It is built around the idea that Life is to enjoy, and that we are here to see the beauty, pleasure, and goodness in everyday living.

William Walter's contemporaries included Einstein, Edison, Freud, and other scientists and great thinkers from the late 1800s and early 1900s.

A product of his day, he was a student of the sciences, in particular human anatomy. When he created Eschatology, he modeled it as a science – a system of observations, premises, and logical inferences.

He was also a student of the world's great religions, which imbued Eschatology with the wisdom of the ages.

His Wikipedia page contains good information about his life and times, and the derivation of Eschatology from Christian Science. The wiki page overemphasizes its religious roots. Indeed, the modern-day Walter Method is a non-mystical, non-sectarian science of spirituality as applied to your everyday life. It's wisdom for your life and nutrition for the soul.

The motto of the Walter Method is to "Heal by teaching and teach by healing."

Of this, Mr. Walter wrote "there are no diseases – either so-called organic or inorganic, but what can be healed through the correct application of right thinking and doing ... [ Eschatology ] excludes all mysticism from its teaching, depending entirely upon common sense reasoning and right thinking and doing."

Classes

The Walter Method of Eschatology is taught as an individual nonsectarian study. Class sizes are intentionally small.

For over a century, students and teachers met in person; the small size of the groups fostering intimate learning environments. With the advent of Zoom, like so many other aspects of 21st-century living, these classes can now be done over the internet.

There are no organizational dues to pay and no fee for admittance. There's only a small fee to be paid to the teacher for his or her time.

Class is a weekly reminder of how to think rightly and gives a boost for the week. It is a "safe space" self-discovery.