Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul

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Summary: Interesting chronicle of author's experiences
Review: "Divinely Inspired" takes the reader on a walk through the life of author Jerry Pollock. He grew up in a family environment that can best be described as unloving and apathetic. However, he keeps his feelings about this repressed and continues on to eventually receive a PhD in Biophysics, a professorship at Stony Brook University and a respected researcher. Finally, things catch up with him and he starts regular visits with psychiatrists that medicate him more than help him. He perseveres through manic-depression, electric shock therapy, clinical depression, and more prescription medication. Eventually, he loses his research grants and the rest of his life finally collapses. With a severe case of clinical depression he is placed on suicide watch at the local mental hospital. The depression medicated and feeling better he is released and has an experience with a cult. Finally he has a spiritual awakening and through a slow steady series of several small miracles he comes to have a relationship with God. This relationship is the basis on which he finally resolves his past hurts and begins growing as a spiritual being.

This is an interesting chronicle of one man's experiences and growth. However, the writing was so descriptive of his mental state that I came away from it unsure if the "miracles" were miracles indeed or just part of a mental condition. Then again people who believe in miracles tend to see them, people who do not don't. Either way, they were at least real to him and the source of his growth and spiritual relationship with God.

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Summary: a long road out of hell
Review: DIVINELY INSPIRED is a well-written, richly imaged, & exhaustingly detailed memoir of an intelligent man beset with a debilitating, inexplicable & resistant mental disability

Given the times in which Jerry Pollock matured & his quick & questing mind, he explored a number of systems in the burgeoning healing techniques of the New Age, sometimes adding to his already full plate.

Childhood, parents, brother, work, marriages, children--every stone in Jerry Pollock's life is turned over for clues as to how he got to his 50s & into deep clinical depression. The roster of symptoms, doctors, techniques & setbacks is exhaustive until at long last, he is set free & transformed by the grace & power God.

Rating:
Summary: a long road out of hell
Review: DIVINELY INSPIRED is a well-written, richly imaged, & exhaustingly detailed memoir of an intelligent man beset with a debilitating, inexplicable & resistant mental disability

Given the times in which Jerry Pollock matured & his quick & questing mind, he explored a number of systems in the burgeoning healing techniques of the New Age, sometimes adding to his already full plate.

Childhood, parents, brother, work, marriages, children--every stone in Jerry Pollock's life is turned over for clues as to how he got to his 50s & into deep clinical depression. The roster of symptoms, doctors, techniques & setbacks is exhaustive until at long last, he is set free & transformed by the grace & power God.

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Summary: An intensely candid and moving spiritual guide
Review: Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul by microbiologist and Biophysics expert Jerry Pollock (Stony Brook University) is the story of his personal journey beyond bipolar disorder and into the embrace of God's love. Professor Pollock has written an intensely candid and moving spiritual guide to accepting the wisdom of God. The pages of this published testimony are aptly written to accurately reflect Pollock's Christian faith, and offering unforgettable guidance and encouragement to fellow seekers shed emotional negativity and devastation to search out and embrace God's blessing within the context of a mature and maturing spirituality.

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Summary: Direct Contact=Success and Inner Peace,
Review: Review by Bernie Nelson: Many authors define and illustrate God, however, Dr. Pollock's 'Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul' provides totally new spiritual concepts originating out of a personal, direct encounter with God. Childhood abuse lead to depressive, neurotic years, but Dr. Pollock's life altering experience changed and guided him to success and inner peace. He holds a M.Sc. in Pharmacy; Ph.D. in Biophysics with Microbiology expertise.
The work is also noteworthy in that readers will be enthralled sharing the author's path to recovery-from an emotionally damaged, depressive life to a powerful demonstration of Divine Presence. The book is an excellent "how to" attain fresh, enhanced spirituality. Anyone can learn from the author's experience, and receive the blessings of success, and inner peace with increased spiritual awareness.

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Summary: A roller coaster ride
Review: When was the last time you were on a really scary roller coaster? The cars slowly creep up a steep incline, and your heart starts to palpitate. As gravity draws the car down, your body slightly lifts out of the seat, and the real fear begins. If it wasn't for the harness, which you think might release at any moment, you feel like you might fall out, as the car rattles along the twists and turns. Now you've had your excitement, and you want to get off. The finale - a huge unexpected dip, which causes you to scream, "I wanna get outta here!" Then the cars slowly ease back onto the platform, as if nothing happened.

"Divinely Inspired"rides the reader on the author's roller coaster of life. The first nine chapters are twists and turns of mostly bad memories, manic depression, and then a scientific collapse. Instead of traveling up and down the usual curves of life, he spirals into the depths of suicide, and the harness literally holds on by a thread. Even his second wife, a true angel, gets frustrated with him, but she never screams that she wants to get off the ride. Then, the last four chapters slowly ease us back onto a stable platform of life, as the author becomes "Divinely Inspired."

Jerry J. Pollock states, "...I am not afraid to admit my mistakes, even in front of a large audience. I don't worry about other people's approval, nor do I envy them, and I especially don't feel alone." That's the beauty of print-on-demand. Authors do not have to wait for someone else to approve of their story, in order to reach at least one person. I appreciate Jerry's openness, and I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks their life is the scariest roller coaster.

Rating:
Summary: A roller coaster ride
Review: When was the last time you were on a really scary roller coaster? The cars slowly creep up a steep incline, and your heart starts to palpitate. As gravity draws the car down, your body slightly lifts out of the seat, and the real fear begins. If it wasn't for the harness, which you think might release at any moment, you feel like you might fall out, as the car rattles along the twists and turns. Now you've had your excitement, and you want to get off. The finale - a huge unexpected dip, which causes you to scream, "I wanna get outta here!" Then the cars slowly ease back onto the platform, as if nothing happened.

"Divinely Inspired"rides the reader on the author's roller coaster of life. The first nine chapters are twists and turns of mostly bad memories, manic depression, and then a scientific collapse. Instead of traveling up and down the usual curves of life, he spirals into the depths of suicide, and the harness literally holds on by a thread. Even his second wife, a true angel, gets frustrated with him, but she never screams that she wants to get off the ride. Then, the last four chapters slowly ease us back onto a stable platform of life, as the author becomes "Divinely Inspired."

Jerry J. Pollock states, "...I am not afraid to admit my mistakes, even in front of a large audience. I don't worry about other people's approval, nor do I envy them, and I especially don't feel alone." That's the beauty of print-on-demand. Authors do not have to wait for someone else to approve of their story, in order to reach at least one person. I appreciate Jerry's openness, and I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks their life is the scariest roller coaster.