The little booklets published by William Cook Edwards
These concise works served as an entry point into understanding many aspects of esoteric and metaphysical realities.
In the early 1980s, William Cook-Edwards authored a series of concise booklets designed to make esoteric and metaphysical concepts more accessible. His works cover a wide range of subjects: self-knowledge, developing healing abilities, understanding clairvoyance, harnessing universal energies, exploring the soul’s journey, and the mastery of thoughts and emotions. Throughout, he emphasised personal experience as the only reliable path to truth, challenging conventional beliefs and encouraging readers to explore their own inner potential. These compact works served as entry points to a comprehensive philosophy, written for those willing to look beyond received wisdom.
The following publications were made available through Tomorrows World Sales and Marketing of Kippa-ring, Queensland.
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Title |
National Library of Australia |
ISBN |
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Achieving True Reality |
No. 21424-11 |
0 949401 18 8 |
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Become a Healer |
No. 21424-15 |
0 949401 19 6 |
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Mysteries of Clairvoyance Revealed |
No. 21424-19 |
0 949401 21 8 |
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Clairvoyance the Gift of Counselling |
No. 21424-08 |
0 949401 16 1 |
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Energies Available to You |
No. 21424-20 |
0 949401 24 2 |
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Healing Energies |
No. 21424-13 |
0 949401 00 5 |
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Human/Soul Sensing Through Objects |
No. 21424-18 |
0 949401 17 X |
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Journey of the Soul Female Book #1 The Third Eye |
No. 21424-06 |
0 949401 11 0 0 949401 12 9 |
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Journey of the Soul Female Book #2 Seat of Wisdom |
No. 21424-12 |
0 949401 11 0 0 949401 13 7 |
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Journey of the Soul Male Book #1 Seat of Wisdom |
No. 21424-05 |
0 949401 11 0 0 949401 14 5 |
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Journey of the Soul Male Book #2 The Third Eye |
No. 21424-03 |
0 949401 11 0 0 949401 15 3 |
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Mastering Thoughts and Emotions |
No. 21424-04 |
0 949401 06 4 |
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Meditation Questions Answered |
Never published |
– |
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Soul Meditation Book #1 Removing the Barriers |
Never published |
– |
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One-Pointedness of Concentration |
No. 21424-09 |
0 949401 08 0 |
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Exorcism Fear of the Unknown Possession Book #1 |
No. 21424-21 |
0 949401 01 3 0 949401 02 1 |
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Exorcism Fear of the Unknown Book #2 |
Never published |
– |
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Psychic Attack #1 Minor But Destructive |
No. 21424-17 |
0 949356 01 8 |
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Psychic Self-Defence and Protection |
No. 21424-14 |
0 949401 20 X |
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Relationship Between Brain and Soul |
No. 21424-07 |
0 949401 07 2 |
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Universal Return First Steps |
No. 21424-01 |
0 949401 05 6 |
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Visualisation – Instrument to Create |
No. 21424-10 |
0 949401 09 9 |
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Reincarnation Fear Has No Boundaries |
No. 21424-23 |
0 949401 04 8 |
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Children of the Universe |
No. 21424-16 |
0 949356 00 X |
Synopses of Key Publications
Achieving True Reality challenges readers to make self-knowledge their first priority, arguing that misunderstanding oneself carries a heavy price later in life. Bill encourages independent thinking and direct evaluation rather than the acceptance of half-truths, positioning untruth within the self and in society as a source of chaos. The work is an invitation to genuine understanding through direct experience.
Become a Healer presents healing as a path to meaningful service in a world marked by worry, fear, and emotional distress. Bill makes clear that healing practice does not require public engagement, and that it can take place within your own home or among friends and neighbours. He frames healing as the channelling of Divine Essence or Universal Force, and positions it as a journey whose effects on spiritual progress extend across multiple lifetimes.
Mysteries of Clairvoyance Revealed sets out to demystify clairvoyance, directly challenging the notion that it represents dark or demonic influences. Bill Edwards presents this ability as a natural aspect of human potential: the communication channel between material existence and higher realms of creation. He asserts that all humans possess latent clairvoyant ability and suggests that this capacity, though historically suppressed, may become a means of accessing Universal knowledge and truth.
Clairvoyance: The Gift of Counselling challenges the belief that clairvoyance is a rare gift belonging to only a few. Drawing on his experience teaching classes, Bill found that this ability, coordinated through the Life Force, can be developed by anyone through proper instruction and consistent practice. The book offers practical techniques for developing clairvoyant abilities without reliance on self-proclaimed experts.
Energies Available to You addresses the Western world’s narrow conception of the energies available through and around all sentient beings: energies that can be drawn into the physical body, shared with others, or generated through thought. Bill Edwards observes that as humanity advances mentally and scientifically, its connection to energetic reality tends to diminish, even though Universal energies extend beyond all known scientific advances combined.
Healing Energies examines the healing resources available to humanity if people would only seek them out. Bill challenges the institutional barriers that discourage self-reliance in health matters, asserting that Creation endowed humanity with the capacity to adjust and heal the physical mechanism. The book presents alternatives to conventional medicine and offers practical methods for replenishing and recharging the body’s energetic systems.
Human and Soul Sensing Through Objects introduces the understanding that everything in the universe, including the human being, consists of energy. This energy can be experienced through objects and sensed through your inner being, demonstrated through tools such as pendulums and needles. The book explores how males and females operate on different energetic polarities, how energies record information about people and objects, and provides comprehensive instruction in psychometry: the sensing and evaluation of human magnetic and soul vibrations.
The Journey of the Soul, published in separate volumes for males and females, explains the changes, energies, and emotional challenges encountered during spiritual development. Bill details how many meditation groups fail to understand that meditation can awaken Life Force energies and utilise solar energies, which in turn feed emotional energies and create difficulties for spiritually advanced students. Both books present knowledge drawn from personal experience and encourage readers to verify truth through their own direct engagement rather than external authority.
Mastering Thoughts and Emotions addresses the challenge many students face in achieving inner silence during meditation or training for clairvoyance and healing. Drawing on his own childhood experiences of nervousness and sensitivity, Bill Edwards describes how he declared war on himself to achieve inner balance. The book explains how the brain generates tension and worry, and teaches readers to remove destructive energies from their bodies before they cause lasting damage.
One-Pointedness of Concentration provides clear, step-by-step instructions for developing focused thought, a capacity Bill considered essential in a world of constant distraction. He positions concentration as fundamental to effectiveness in both professional and personal life, offering practical techniques for replacing scattered thinking with focused awareness.
The Exorcism and Psychic Attack series addresses phenomena that conventional society tends to dismiss, yet which many people genuinely experience. Bill Edwards frames these topics as frontiers of knowledge, replacing fear with reasoned evaluation. The books explain the human vulnerabilities that create susceptibility to negative influences and give practical protection strategies grounded in energetic principles.
Relationship Between Brain and Soul explores the coordination between physical brain function and soul awareness, or Life Force, drawing a clear distinction between emotional thought and pure thought, the latter being of the soul or true self. Bill observes that most human decisions arise from emotion rather than pure thought, and encourages readers to understand this connection for the sake of their own well-being.
Universal Return: First Steps serves as a foundational text for Bill Edwards’ teachings on the soul’s relationship to the material mind and body. It positions personal experience as the only reliable path to truth, challenging religious institutions that focus on concepts and texts while neglecting practical tools for navigating life. Using the metaphor of a machine requiring proper maintenance, it suggests that spiritual progress requires attending to material causes first.
Visualisation: Instrument to Create presents visualisation as both the creative catalyst behind human achievement and the creative force of the universe itself. Bill expands the concept well beyond its conventional understanding, exploring how visualisation enables idea creation, conceptual planning, and energy direction, and encouraging readers toward practical application of these principles.
Reincarnation: Fear Has No Boundaries draws on Bill Edwards’ childhood belief and adult experience to present reincarnation as what he calls the crowning glory of continual existence after death. The book aims to ease the fears surrounding mortality by framing present existence as purposeful and part of a longer journey toward freedom from material rebirth. He positions understanding as truth, and truth as freedom from material misconception.
Children of the Universe takes a more exploratory approach, exploring ancient texts that describe advanced civilisations with flying machines and other technologies usually assigned to science fiction. Bill invites you to contemplate whether these accounts might be factual, connecting this historical perspective with the concept of the soul as a Sun being progressing within the universe.
These booklets offer a rare window into alternative healing methods, spiritual development, and the nature of reality as understood through direct inner experience. A small number of these publications remain available to those who are interested and can be acquired by contacting little_booklets@thelifeforceinstitute.com.
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