The seven Passage Levels include: The Journal; The Wayƒarers; The Self; The Journey; The Burden; The Mountain; and The Appendix.

Maybe the reason for taking what seems to be this extreme course is because of these life changing events. Maybe the reason is because he has not found any answer to the perplexing questions that for years, he has pondered. Maybe it is a combination of both reasons, but by his taking steps upon this new life path, he feels sure that the answers to his questions are never too far away.

Along this way, he writes upon the pages of a journal, recording his passage along with his observations and feelings about his every day joys and struggles. These words are the inspiration and source material for The Wayfarers Journal.

After many moons of foot travel, while deep within the Maine Wilderness along the banks of Sabbath Day Pond, the seven wayfarers gather around a campfire and have been discussing both the joys and the struggles each has experience as thru hikers on the Appalachian Trail when all agree that being with the other thru hikers on this journey has been the most wonderful sharing of fellowship and camaraderie that any has ever experienced before.

Then one of the seven thru hikers proposes a question to the others there: "When we leave off this trail, yes, we will all leave off from here and no longer walk upon this foot path, where can we go to experience this same kind of fellowship and camaraderie we have been sharing here?" Not one of the seven is able to respond with an answer to that question.

The seven each go on that year to complete their own thru hike of the Appalachian Trail, after which each then return to their own place, but unbeknownst to the others, all continue searching for the answer to the question posed at the campfire that evening.

After a lifetime has passed by, these seven wayfarers return to Sabbath Day Pond to camp together again and this time, take turns to tell the others the story of how each one came to find the truth.

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Previously, all of these wayfarers have had a religious upbringing but have for one reason or another have been disillusioned by the church, it′s teachings and the lack of any real love.

Also, they all experience feelings of disgust from the avarice within the religion, finding the church more interested in money than being concerned with the individual.

Too, each one, at one point of their life have found the need to pick up the Bible and begin reading from it′s pages.

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Too, it was only his sketches that brought the best grades in his art classes as well as commendation from his teachers, peers and parents.

So, the sketching is what he endured with. Then, during middle school he took classes in not only art but also industrial arts, enjoying most of all, the drafting classes, and receiving top grades in these.

The Self Passage is a collection of art work created by Thom since beginning his wayƒaring. More will be available as they becomes digitized.

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In fact, the seven are each a mask that the founder of TWJ dons in order to satisfy the situation and environment that evolves within the entirety of the seven episodes. Thus the narration of an episode, as if written by one of the main character is actually from Thom′s persona as he endeavors to represent the inner person of each of the seven.

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He recalls that he began to ponder about his heavy load and said to himself, "methinks that this is too much of a burden to carry."

Thereafter, due to that oppressive weight, he devised ways to reduce the weight of his burden. However, that expression stuck and from that point forward, his backpack and ever thing in it came to be known as the burden.

Later, the founder of TWJ came to encompass all that he owns as his burden. Even now, he still carries his burden, or does his burden carry him? Included in the Burden are the: Journal, Raiment, Scrip, Shelter, Store, Sustenance, and Work.

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However, on this visit he carries what he has never carried in his burden before while wayƒaring, a camera. By doing this, he veers from his previous determination that to carry a camera while wayƒaring is absolutely too expensive and burdensome.

However, now he has found that with the new digital cameras both of those concerns have been eliminated. The photos do not need expensive film processing and the cameras are extremely lightweight.

So, he changes his previous maxim to allow for the purchase of a digital camera. Too, he especially desires to capture on photographs the wonders that are Yellowstone. Thus, this passage is a gallery of his photography.

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Consequently, the Seventh of Seven has been added to include the following Appendixes: Campsites, Customers, Glossary, Liƒe Lessons, Quill Strokes, Abbreviations and Site Index; seven appendixes covering a variety of subjects.

One section in particular contained within the Quill Strokes, the fifth appendix, is called The Real Way wherein, the founder of TWJ, after much research and study over many long years, has recorded his findings and thoughts on matters concerning diet, living well, and maintaining good health; particularly in the realms of the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing.

Also found under the Quill Strokes is the section at the journal level called The Methinks. On these pages will be discussed topics such as: The Statin Fraud!; The Cholesterol Scam!; The Diabetes Plague?; The Whole Grains Hoax!; and others.

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