Joel Weddington is a physician, amateur guitarist, inquisitive spirit, and author of the self-published novel A Very Human Mission. A lifetime of experiencing and questioning the nature of being human inspired him to write a novel that would share educational insights while providing page-turning entertainment.  As a child Joel was fascinated by outer space and UFOs, began a spiritual journey as a teenager, and decades later spent time with spiritual masters in the San Francisco Bay Area, India, and Japan. Along the way he went to medical school and became an orthopedic surgeon, studied religions and mysticism, and presented a paper on a new theory of consciousness in Rome, Italy.  After many years of dedication to his profession, including personal setbacks that he transformed into achievements, his ideas and experiences have come together in an outline for a series of ten novels which will follow A Very Human Mission, all to be completed by 2025.