DAVID W. LETTS

David W. Letts was born in 1947 in New York City. He grew up in a Lutheran minister’s family with his older sister and brother. David entered college to study classical music but, amid the Vietnam War, switched to history and sociology and filled his extracurricular hours with peace education/activism. After being rejected for conscientious objector status, he became a war resister by publicly returning his draft card to the government in 1968.

In 1971 David graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon, majoring in psychology and minoring in philosophy. He earned his M.A. at the University of Saskatchewan (Regina), Canada, with a holistic-existential critique of the typical textbook introducing psychology to university students (“Objective” Psychology – the Holistic Alternative, 1974). He has taught a variety of college psychology courses over the years 1973-1994.

David’s graduate research on lucid dreams led to “midwifing” two women’s openings to psychic-spiritual communication (channeling). He was a regular participant and transcriber for over 300 of these individual and group sessions, shared with hundreds of participants from 1976 to 1985. He also edited the journal Rays devoted to selected transcripts and related experience. He has led dream workshop groups and guided past-life regressions across western Canada.

From 1979 to 1984, David carried on a rustic life in northern British Columbia, serving the 1982 summer as a fire lookout. Since the mid-1980s, David has worked (in Regina and Victoria) as a writer and editor for two Canadian provincial governments, including several years each with Hansard and the B.C. New Democratic Party Caucus and Premier, and 16 years with the B.C. Office of Legislative Counsel. David notes this proves that exploring non-ordinary realities need not impair one’s social, rational (even pedantic) side. “Editing government legal publications is as far from the intuitive psyche as one human mind would ever want to stretch. Yet it has balanced me in useful ways.” This computer work also prepared him to self-publish the Mind Leap Series.

In 1986 a new, fulfilling phase of life began as David met his soon-to-be and ever-after wife (on whom Vera was imaginatively based). Since 2011, their retirement years together, with furry friends, have been divided between Mexico, Saskatchewan and Vancouver Island.

The three books in the Mind Leap Series (Trafford Publishing) can be ordered online:

 Mind Leap: Intimate Changes and Communication Between Worlds (2010)

 The World Conspires: Weaving Our Energies to Renew the Earth (2011)

 Earth Dream Awakening: “To Help Found a New World” (2012).