Timothy Wyllie
Born in June 1940 at the start of World War 11 into a family of architects and marine artists. Mother, Diana Wyllie, worked for British Intelligence, both in Germany before the war, and later at Bletchley Park with the Enigma code-breakers. Father, George Haswell, was a successful young architect before the war.
Parents divorced when he was two. Moved to London with his mother after the war. Educated at Charterhouse Public School and qualified as an architect at London's Regent Street Polytechnic Architectural School in 1964. While at college he invented a system for storing color slides, negative and filmstrips that was subsequently marketed by DW Filmstrips, becoming the premier international photographic storage system, until the advent of electronic storage.
After working as an architect in London, he collaborated in starting a spiritual community that came to be known as The Process. For the next 15 years he traveled widely throughout Europe, Canada, and America with the community before settling permanently in the USA in 1969. As Art & Design Director of The Process Magazine, his artwork and graphic design are now being considered seminal in the development of modern magazine design.
A Near Death Experience in 1973 was a turning point in his life, convincing him of the continuity of life and of other levels and dimensions to life and introduced him to the reality of angels.
Leaving the community in 1977, he started and ran a small business in NYC, marketing the slide storage system he had devised 20 years earlier. The business was successful enough to allow him to focus on his interest in non-human intelligences. Selling off the business in 1981, he researched the material for his first book, Dolphins, ETs & Angels which was published in 1984.
Making contact with his Companion (Guardian) Angels led to workshops and lectures throughout the 1980s, helping other people to make contact with their own angels. Out of this emerged Ask Your Angels, written with Alma Daniel and Andrew Ramer, which was published by Ballantine Books in 1992. Currently translated into 11 languages, the book remains in print.
In 1992, Bear & Company republished a new edition of his first book as well as publishing his second book exploring the impact non-human intelligences are having on life on this planet. Originally named, Dolphins, Telepathy & Underwater Birthing, the book went through one printing before being republished as Adventures Among Spiritual Intelligences, by Origin Press in 2001.
He has also co-written with the weaver, Elli Bambridge, A Practical Guide for Contacting your Angels through Movement, Meditation, & Music, which was published in Australia by Gemcraft in 1995.
In 2008, Daynal Press is publishing the handmade Collectors Edition of his illustrated creation myth, The Helianx Proposition, Or, The Return of the Rainbow Serpent, with a Trade Edition to follow later.
Picking up and teaching himself to play the guitar at age 12, he has been in numerous bands from Skiffle in the 1950s, Modern Jazz in 1960s, Rock and Roll in the 1970s, Freeform improvisation in '80s and '90s and, briefly, Progressive Metal in the 2000s.
He has made two tapes of improvised music, The Eldorado Tapes, in 1987 and Dolphin Vision Quest, in 1988, both with the Sirius Coyote Band. Light of the Heart is a guided meditation tape he made with Alma Daniel and the English musician, David Duhig.
In 2007, collaborating with Emmy award winning musician, Jim Wilson, he created two CDs of spoken word material to accompany the Collectors Edition of The Helianx Proposition. Working with the videographer, Flame Schon, he has also produced two DVDs that also accompany The Helianx Proposition book.
Since 1980 he has been creating graphic artwork using pencil, dry pigments and different plant pollens. These are exhibited at Cibola Gallery, in Mountainair, New Mexico, as well as in the iKosmos online gallery. His collaborative graphic work with the Manhattan artist, June Atkin, has been exhibited at New York's Society of Illustrators.
