Stephen Colwell has traveled the spiritual path for over 50 years, meditating and studying the wisdom of world-renowned spiritual teachers.
“I wrote Flying With Dragons to share inspiring personal stories from my own life,” said Colwell. “I had a very successful 25-year corporate career with Fidelity Investments as an architect of global trading systems, but found my soul kept nudging me to spend less time in pursuit of making more money and more time practicing meditation, yoga, and other spiritual techniques to help others.”
“I was encouraged to share my stories about connecting my soul to God and decided to write what became Flying With Dragons. My spiritual journey began in the socially turbulent 1960s as a ‘hippie” experimenting with psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, as a way to expand and open consciousness to connect my soul to the Divine.
Like many soul travellers of that time, we evolved and were drawn to teachers of ancient spiritual practices including Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and alternative methods of healing using meditation, herbs, acupuncture, Reiki and traditional Chinese medicine. The teachers I met and studied with all encourage us to pay attention to our own soul and connect our soul with
God and all the saints in Heaven to heal ourselves whenever we are facing physical, mental, and emotional challenges in our life. In today’s turbulent world, as we collectively deal with the stress caused by social inequality, political unrest, conflicts of war, and climate change, we can find some respite by learning to use ancient spiritual practices to heal ourselves. There are many paths to health and well-being that I share in Flying With Dragons.”
Colwell and his wife, Avi, own a spiritual counselling business in Ontario, teaching meditation and leading self- healing workshops to clients around the world.
Colwell, a local author from New Lowell, has received a grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts and The Writer’s Union of Canada to do a public reading from his book, Flying with Dragons (Waterside Publications). An event will be hosted by the Clearview Public Library in Stayner on Thursday, Sept. 10, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
In addition to Flying With Dragons, Colwell is the published author of a historical thriller trilogy, The Ivory Monkeys, being published by Keetup Publications in the fall of 2026.
