Reading the Signs: A Paranormal Love Story

One of Thomas Ramey Watson’s prominent forebears on his mother’s side was Jacques LaRamee. A number of places in the upper Rocky Mountain West bear his name to this day. Laramie, Wyoming is best known. Jacques was a renowned and influential explorer and fur trapper. Because he was just, honest, and treated others, including the often-despised native Americans, well, he was held in high esteem. One winter, the story goes, the native Americans were starving, so they killed one of Ramee’s cattle. He told his workers not to say anything-they were hungry. Jacques shared with fellow free trappers his theory that the world was wide and there was room enough for all. He had the courage to live his convictions and followed the beat of his own heart, not what was imposed on him from outside. One of Ramee’s progeny, psychotherapist, life coach, writer, and professor, Thomas Ramey Watson believes that journeying in various realms-of the mind, the physical world, and the soul-is central to enjoying a good life. The insights gleaned from becoming aware of the intersecting planes of existence lead us to fuller and more deeply lived lives. Thomas Ramey Watson, Ph.D., is an affiliate faculty member of Regis University’s College of Professional Studies in Denver, Colorado. He has served as the Episcopal chaplain (lay) for the Auraria Campus in Denver and taught English for the University of Colorado at Denver. He has trained as a psychotherapist and was named a Research Fellow at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, a position he did not take, choosing to do postdoctoral work at Cambridge University instead. He is the author of many scholarly writings, including an acclaimed book on Milton, Perversions, Originals, and Redemptions in Paradise Lost. His popular works include his popular memoir, Baltho, the Dog Who Owned a Man and two books of poetry, The Necessity of Symbols and Love Threads, poems that echo more autobiographically the mystical experiences recounted in his novel Reading the Signs. Dr. Watson is available for speaking engagements, teaching assignments, counseling, and coaching. His web address is www.thomasrameywatson.com. He can be reached at trw@thomasrameywatson.com.