"The Testament Series" reveals the appearance and
unfoldment of The Work in Ms. Meiklejohn-Wilson's
life, from the beginning until the present. These individual
memoirs offer tangible evidence of the Work's
influence and evidence in Ms. Meiklejohn-Wilson's life
and family. One's being is irrevocably altered when
the Work permeates their perceptions, behaviors and
attitudes. This documentation illustrates one
woman's journey from the profane level of life into
the Kingdom of Heaven within.
Meet Shirra Meiklejohn-Wilson, MAR
Ms. Meiklejohn-
Wilson has traveled her own inner, psychological
territory, beginning with a classic, expansive,
numinous Vision in 1976. That moment was the start
of a lifelong journey toward spiritual development as well as
her immersion into a 4,000 year-old discipline called
The Fourth Way; sometimes known simply as "The
Work."
Earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity
College in Hartford, Connecticut, she continued her
ecumenical studies at Yale Divinity School, graduating
with a Masters of Arts in Religion in 1987.
Volunteering at Brandford Hospice, while acquiring a
clinical pastoral education at the University of
Connecticut, Ms. Meiklejohn-Wilson entered into a
career of private practice, counseling individuals, both
in the fields of crisis and spiritual awakening. In 1985
Ms. Meiklejohn-Wilson founded the Spiritual
Development Guild in Connecticut and became it's
director for the next ten years, transferring the school
to North Carolina in 1990. Spiritual Development
Guild was created as a Fourth Way School of personal
development, utilizing the teachings of esoteric
Christianity, sacred psychology and Fourth Way
principles and precepts. Not long after arriving in
North Carolina, Ms. Meiklejohn-Wilson became the
court-appointed offender counselor for Polk County.
While living in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains and raising her four children, Ms.
Meiklejohn-Wilson organized the Sojourner Institute,
incorporating the Sojourner Pass Community, a ten acre
estate where students attend classes,
participate in sacred dance, collective activities and
intensives, conducted in the Fourth Way tradition. Ms.
Meiklejohn-Wilson also established the Sojourner Pass
Press, publishing Fourth Way textbooks, pamphlets,
newsletters and articles based on Work knowledge.
Ms. Meiklejohn-Wilson is a modern-day mystic who
has been teaching The Fourth Way discipline since the
1980's, documenting her experiences, revelations and
lectures, every step of the way, via a series of
illuminating discourses on CDs.
Titles |
Introduction*
My First 55 Years In The Work
Initiation: 1992-1995
Work Lessons Learned
Turning Points - MJM and DSM
The Men In My Life
Guilford, MD, JFW, LFW, Tryon
Yale and Trinity Stories |
Tryon Lessons Learned: Animal Stories
Holidays/Vacations
DMW's Outward Bound Journal - 1999
AFW's Outward Bound Journal - 1999
DMW and AFW's Childhood Stories, Education, Efforts
Miscellaneous Lessons
Me and The Law
D and A: Raised In The Work 2002
D and A: Birth Narratives and Beyond |