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“Now is All that Exists. Only Love is Real!”
Bill Pettit, MD
Never Broken, Nothing Lacking
One Cause: One Cure
A Revolutionary Paradigm
New Possibilities; Incremental Increases in:
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Peace and Joy
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Living in the now
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Happiness and Contentment
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Mental and Physical Well-being
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Love and Forgiveness
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“Love is not just an idea. Love is a living, breathing essence that the wise can pluck from the air at will and then like a master artist mold it into something beautiful… Love makes the impossible, possible.”
Sydney Banks, Second Chance
Hi, I am Dr. Bill Pettit
For forty-plus years, I have been a global influencer in bringing a new level of understanding and thinking to medicine, neuroscience, psychiatry, and the healing professions. This understanding has ignited a healthy, healing fire bringing incremental relief of mental and physical distress throughout the world.
Over my eighty-two-year journey through the spiritual theatre called “life,” gradual insights have shown me that NOW is the only thing that exists, that only Love is real, and everyone has spiritual wisdom within their consciousness.
I have been a student of medicine and neuroscience since 1965. I have been a student of psychiatry since 1973. Since 1983 I have been a student of the Three Universal Principles and my incremental experience of spiritual consciousness has permeated my understanding of these fields and their shared borders with spirituality.
The Three Universal Principles explain the connection between our spiritual nature, which is formless, and what we experience in form – our psychological and physical natures, our state of being/experience and our behavior.
SINCE MEETING SYDNEY BANKS IN 1983, I HAVE SHARED MY UNDERSTANDING OF SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS AROUND THE WORLD.
Spiritual Consciousness results from an incremental realization of the Truth pointed to by the metaphor of three Universal Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought.
These Three Principles were gifted in 1973 to Sydney Banks, philosopher, and author. This metaphor assisted his sharing of his direct experience of the nature and attributes of the formless Energy at the source of creation and all human experience.
“It is through Universal Mind, Universal Thought and Universal Consciousness that we transform…invisible spiritual energy into our own personal reality.
Universal Mind is the intelligent energy of all things whether in form or formless.
Purity of Mind is LOVE.
Universal Consciousness is the gift of awareness.
Purity of Consciousness is LOVE.
Universal Thought is gifted to us at birth as the creative agent we use to direct us through life.
Purity of Thought is LOVE.”
Sydney Banks
©The Enlightened Gardener Revisited, 2005
From 1983 until his death in 2009, Sydney Banks mentored me.
Syd predicted that understanding the Three Principles would revolutionize psychiatry and psychology indicating “it will help individuals realize the mental health they already have within them.”
He stated that “such a psychology will be spiritually based, and its healing powers will be beyond anything known to date.”
© The Enlightened Gardener, 2001
This statement is true.
Since 1983 I have witnessed remarkable healings and a realization of wholeness in people labeled by helping professionals across diagnostic categories, who had come to believe they were permanently broken and lacking.
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of LOVE, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, [1936] French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, palaeontologist, theologian, philosopher, teacher.
MY MISSION
A Revolutionary Understanding that Awakens Incremental Increases in Well-Being
You may be a health professional, a psychiatrist, psychologist, physician or thought leader in mental health with a sincere desire to help others but painfully aware that present assumptions and methods are insufficient. Research by sociologist Corey Keyes (2002) suggests that nearly one-third of U.S. citizens are languishing and overwhelmed.
In 2012, Thomas Insel, MD, psychiatrist and then director of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health observed, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working. And when I look at the numbers – numbers of suicides, the number of disabilities, the mortality data – it’s abysmal and it’s not getting any better. All the ways in which we have approached these illnesses, and with a lot of people working hard, the outcomes…to this point are…bleak.”
In 2024, the U.S. Surgeon General declared a “state of crisis” in the mental health of both young women and men, ages 15-24 and in parents. The situation is not improving!
You may be a business owner or CEO who realizes that chronic mental stress is affecting the productivity, creativity, mental and physical health of your workforce.
You may be a human being diagnosed with a chronic stress-related, inflammation-based condition, among them: skin disorders, autoimmune disorders, migraine headaches, IBS, hypertension and more.
You, a loved one, or a family member are labeled with a mental illness or struggled with alcohol or drug abuse to cope with what you perceived as inevitable and overwhelming stress.
On this website, you will find scores of resources, programs and stories that will point you toward well-being. You will find testimonials from people like you who have awakened to it.
You will find fresh hope!
Ways To Work With Me
1:1 CONSULTATION PACKAGES
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6-MONTH APPRENTICESHIP
Twelve one-hour sessions; two/month Free access to my recorded courses Free access to my 2025 nine-month online Legacy course.
IMMERSIONS
Work with me individually or in groups of 4 [family members or colleagues] TU-FRI, in person in Phoenix, Arizona 2-week, 8-day intensive or 1-week 4-day intensive.
ONE MENTAL ILLNESS
One Cause-One Cure; Never Broken, Nothing Lacking Spiritual Consciousness, Fresh Hope
Available as self-study course
A 9-month, 3-module course that explores a radical new view of diagnostic labels as seen through a Principles-based paradigm of hope and health.
Dates
Module 1: July - September, 2025
Module 2: October - December, 2025
Module 3: January - March, 2026
WITNESSING MIRACLES
4+ Decades of Learning to Listen, Love, and Share
32-hour program was offered live
in Phoenix, June 3-6 and 10-13, 2025.
COMING SOON IN SELF-STUDY FORMAT
Join Dr. Bill for a compact immersion that explores his 42-year journey of personal insights, evolution of the Three Principles understanding, and the witnessing of miracles he had never imagined were possible. You can experience the same kind of miracle personally and/or as a helping professional.
Price: TBD
*10% profits of the legacy programs will be donated to charitable organization of your choice
5% locally to the Phoenix St. Vincent de Paul Free Medical Clinic
Featured Free Resources
A curated selection of Dr. Bills videos and articles
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How to Deal with Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Stories of Hope
PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES: WHERE YOU ARE, NOT WHO YOU ARE
NEURODIVERSITY: SPIRITUAL CONCIOUSNESS THROUGH UNIQUE PROCESSORS
My dear friend, colleague, and co-author of several academic and professional papers, Dr. Bill Pettit is, first and foremost, a beautiful person whose passion and unwavering commitment is mental health and wellbeing for everyone.
For over 40 years, Bill has assisted thousands of people, worldwide, to understand how psychological experience is created as realized by Mr. Sydney Banks. Also, Bill continues to work diligently to encourage the fields of psychiatry and psychology to consider the possibility that there is only one generic mental illness—an insufficient understanding of how the human psychospiritual system works and the innocent unhealthy use of the power of Thought.
I am certain that Bill’s efforts will eventually lead to a paradigm shift for psychology and psychiatry from pathology to innate mental health.
Emeritus Professor, The Emeritus Academy, Wayne State University; Licensed Psychologist Author, “Upside-Down and Backwards: The INNOCENT Failure of Mainstream Psychology”
Professor Shadrick
Mazaza
Specialist Family Physician, Philosopher, Business Academic, Transformative Coach and High Impact Trusted Advisor [HITA] to top business executives Founder and Director, African Consciousness Institute
Cape Town, South Africa
Dr. Bill Pettit is one of the most spiritually gifted human beings that I have ever met. And, in my job as a rabbi, I have been blessed to meet quite a few!
His love of humanity is deep and pure. He sees beyond the superficial into every person's soul, the moment that he meets them. He is a man of God and a lover of humanity. He travels through his life with a spirit of kindness in his heart and dedication to service as his great passion.
Bill sees mental health where others might only see mental illness. He believes in those who do not believe in themselves. And then shows them how to do so. He is an expert at digging deeply with any and every human being he works with and helping them to excavate their true spiritual self. Someone cannot work with Bill and not be moved, uplifted, and changed, as a result. Someone cannot learn from Bill and not be wiser and more enlightened, as a result.
Give me ten Bill Pettits and we would change the field of psychiatry forever. Give me only one, which is sadly all that the world has, and he will change the life of anyone fortunate enough to learn from him and be loved by him.
Rabbi Shaul
Rosenblatt
Director Better World Charity
and the Rabbinic Training Academy
man of God
