Lt Colonel Albert E. Hughes (USAF retired), holds an MS in Systems Management (with distinction) from the Air Force Institute of Technology, an MM in Pastoral Ministry from Seattle University (Jesuit), is certificated in Spiritual Direction by the Monastery of the Risen Christ at San Luis Obispo, CA; and is an accomplished retreat master and Catholic evangelist. A convert at mid-life from agnostic rationalism, for twenty five years he taught Scripture and conducted periodic retreats in parishes at Seattle WA, Santa Maria, CA and Corpus Christi, TX. He stood down from teaching to document the mystical causes of his most abrupt, miraculous conversion - and that which followed. His conversion, while in command at Antigua Air Station, West Indies, is related in Paradise Commander in specific detail. I In short, he went from agnosticism to Faith, to Baptism to a Pentecostal (Charismatic) encounter of the Holy Spirit in ten weeks. For months and periodically thereafter, he and his wife were witness to miracles, leading the two to commit in unconditional obedience to God. His wife Jeannie's life testimony is published as Saint Jeannie's Shiny Black Shoes. Except for his writing, Col. Hughes is fully retired now, living in the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi.