Living the Dream : It's Time!: A Chronicle of the Gathering of Equals

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Summary: How Spiritual Awakening Really Happens
Review: Enlightening. True. Heart-warming. Living the Dream-It's Time takes us inside a spiritual workshop where we experience our awareness unfolding alongside the workshop participants. If you've ever searched for answers to life's most poignant questions, like "Who am I?" "What's the purpose of life?" and "How do I find love, money or health?" this book offers valuable insights. Scattered throughout the book are the exercises that the co-author and facilitator, Keith Varnum, uses to assist people to discover their own answers. The book is a play-by-play account of the wisdom that was elicited during the workshops, The Dream-A Gathering of Equals, throughout its yearlong travels.

Unique about this book is that one of the workshop participants, Mark Conrad, is the co-author. Conrad reveals what lead him to the workshops: "I was on the treadmill called a "normal" life with more "success" than many because of my tenacity and ambitious drive. Way deep inside, I knew there was more, but it was way down there." Along with the rest of the workshop folks, Conrad experiences profound transformation.

The book touches readers where they live-right smack in the middle of life-looking for a deeper, more satisfying road to happiness. We experience the joys and the tears, the humor and the fears. The participants eventually discover an inner wisdom about life, love, themselves and spirit that they weren't even aware they knew. In The Gatherings, people feel safe enough to face issues and realizations that previously they hadn't been willing to face. The effect was to provide personal evidence for members of the group that they did have great reservoirs of wisdom, strength, clarity, intuition, love and spiritual depth. Playfully, people were tricked into discovering their own magnificence and equality! Group members came to the common understanding that all participants, including the facilitator, were equal in knowing, personal power, depth of compassion, and spiritual awareness.

Direct quotes from the participants showed many diverse points of view and profound insights. Varnum triggered this gold mine of sharing through presenting own stories of magic, wonder and miracles.

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Summary: This book captures the spirit of the Gatherings impeccably!
Review: I am a dedicated participant in the Gatherings of which this book is about, and I have been truly amazed and pleased at the way the spirit of the Gatherings is captured within these pages.

The Gatherings allow each participant to get in touch with their own heart energy, their own intuition, their own soul truth and to live their lives from that space. People find their lives unfolding to be the manifestation of their dearest and deepest dreams. Every Gathering is new and different from the one before, because each one is made of new participants who share consciousness in new and creative ways. Each Gathering brings about personal transformation for the participants, and brings us another step closer to global transformation.

Just reading the book will begin the process of transformation in the reader's life, and will add to the transformation of the planet, as together, we create heaven on earth.