About Us: Advisors

GARY PEATTIE–Media Advisor

- President, DEVORSS & COMPANY
Over 75 years ago, a Midwesterner by the name of Douglas Kimball DeVorss set up in Los Angeles as a publisher of what today we would call Body/Mind/Spirit books. At that time, the term was New Thought, and Los Angeles was already home to many centers, institutes, and churches that taught a new,  “metaphysical,” brand of philosophy and spirituality.  

It all had very much to do with health (maintenance and healing) in terms of the mind/body relationship; human empowerment from inner resources; prosperity (emphasis on hard cash); and the emergence of a new era fashioned by a new consciousness. To this end, the millennia-old Eastern teaching of Karma was dusted off, rehabbed, and Westernized: a “universal law” that fashions our experiences of every kind out of our habitual thoughts and feelings. Change these thoughts and feelings, and life changes with them: it’s the Law; and we can use it now.  

Today, 130 years after Evans’ The Mental Cure and 75 years from the founding of DeVorss & Company in rented rooms at the Embassy Hotel in Los Angeles, to its present-day offices and warehouse in Camarillo California, the company continues to thrive. From a 23-page pamphlet, DeVorss has seen its listings grow into three different catalogs and a monthly newsletter issued throughout the year that include DeVorss’
own publications as well as those of hundreds of other publishers for distribution serving thousands of booksellers worldwide.