The Foolish Brother: A Journey to Higher Consciousness

This fictional short story is intended to incite all who read it to consider expanding their intellect to manifest their calling and become the unlimited spiritual beings we are meant to be. The author uses Johnny, later Brother John, as the main character to illustrate the basic spiritual virtues that we must embrace to develop our God-given talents and propensity to achieve greatness in our calling. In his own development, teaching and counselling of others, Brother John consistently provides encouraging exemplars and assertions for the reader to take up and begin their journey to higher consciousness. The journey is a life-long process of doing our best in our tasks and being disciplined in our efforts to expand our intellect by transcending our ego's fallacies and delusions. Throughout the story, Brother John provides abundant lines of reasoning, guidelines, and authentications of the advanced intellectual outcomes that all who adhere to the recommended practices achieve. Brother John professed that "wisdom grows from the conscious awareness of our deficiencies while being mindful to learn the valuable lessons from our errors and challenging our mind to expand our intellect beyond presumptions". Jaime Fernandez is a graduate of the University of Memphis residing in Cordova, TN. He is an Independent IT Consultant and a devoted advocate of spiritual consciousness seeking to grasp the Unbiased Truth. His characters express his evolving understanding of the Universal Consciousness and Unconditional Love of God that permeates everything in the whole universe. He is also the author The Call to Greatness and Love, Abundance, And Greatness.