Look and Listen

Biography

Ernie Vecchio is also the author of The Soul’s Intent and Big Tail – Small Kite, as well as the founder of The Institute for Compassionate Living. In his extensive career as a trauma psychologist, he discovered that when the ego was stripped away, his patients had a unique opportunity to recover a truer and authentic self. In most cases, he observed them establish a relationship with soul, spirit, and ego that aligned them with their heart’s desire. He calls this process mediating within or finding one’s place of compromise. In the end, his patients had more meaningful lives and made choices that were purposeful and goal-oriented. In his twenty-five+ years of working with severe trauma patients, he developed a psychospiritual understanding of that which divides us all: self-judgment. He found that those willing to explore and heal this division internally discover a broader and more compassionate view of the self. The result is forgiveness and a personal freedom to simply BE. He practices in West Virginia and consults nationally and internationally.

Inspiration

I have always known at some level that there was a larger truth than the one I was born into. A child of abusive and abandoning parents, I am given to the State by age five. Cycling through seven foster homes, the abuses and adaptations continue until I land in an orphanage by age nine. Troubled, angry, and disillusioned by my beginnings, I struggled to find myself during adolescence. By sixteen, a semblance of identity emerges as I learn that I have been given above average athletic abilities. These gifts afford me a scholarship for college. But, unbeknownst to me, life is presenting me with two choices: one I grow and evolve into my purpose as a helper or, I die with my athletic peers in a fatal plane crash. By fate or design, I wouldn’t be writing today had I chosen the latter. The entire college football team, friends, and coaches all die (Marshall University) the following year. Still, I am unaware of the synchronicity of these events.

It is not until my mid-thirties that I come to realize—I am being guided. By what, I am still not sure. Though my career began with street kids and troubled teens, I ended up working with individuals facing unimaginable disabilities (paralysis, amputation, head injury, etc.). The shared journey of their unconscious and inner battles to heal was life-altering. I have found my soul’s intent.

Traveling through inner space and the human condition since 1975, I only emerge in 2006. In total, I calculate intimate involvement with the recovery of six thousand severely disabled patients. Now that I have returned to the surface, my desire is to share with the world the depth of my findings.

We call people who travel in outer space astronauts. It seems we have no name for those who have traveled through inner space. Philosophy and spiritual teachers call inner space ‘…the road less traveled.’ Ironically, this is the only road I know. For the past six years, I have been attempting to share with others what I have learned.

If I were returning from outer space, I could show my readers pictures of the rings of Saturn. Or, a picture of the blue marble we call earth standing on the moon. Most will never know that inner space is equally as beautiful, compelling, and mysterious. The answers it provides about love, suffering, happiness, purpose, joy, why, are all profound! It is my passion to share the clarity of these experiences through my writings and teachings. Understood fully, they complement the current shift in consciousness and change people’s lives to be the best version of themselves possible.