Revelations, Illusions, and True Confessions : The Spiritual Journey Demystified

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Summary: A Practical Guide to Wisdom and Joyous Life
Review: What a treat reading this book has been! It is wise, thoughtful, and sharing of the author's personal experience. I've read many, many books in my own personal journey -- Sarah Eames' book is one that I will treasure, reread, and, most importantly actually use on a continuing basis. One reads, say, a book such as Conversations With God, by Neale Donald Walsch, and one may say "Aha! That is what makes sense to me! I resonate to that!" But, one does not, I suspect, go back and REread Walsch's work -- one moves on. The Eames book, however, is designed to stay with a person, to be a companion, so to speak. That is one of its major values, in my opinion. Eames' "Perceptions" -- each a single page, and defined (as a whole) by the author as "a montage, or kaleidoscope of perspectives that can guide you through the gamut of human concerns" -- take up the majority of its pages. They are, as she has designed them, thoughts that can serve as a daily reminder, and also, if one wishes, as a source book to turn to in times of stress. I read them all the way through at first, noting that each did indeed draw out certain thoughts, recollections, and awarenesses that were personal to me. I want now to go back, as seems warranted, and reapproach each on a more focused basis. Almost all -- perhaps, indeed, ALL, if I really stopped to focus -- restate in some way thoughts that I have had or have had presented to me at one time or another in my personal search. The value is not just in the thoughts themselves, since I do believe that we are born with all the knowledge and wisdom of the creation inherent in our makeup, but need in our individual lives only to "recover" or "remember" it, as part of our journey. Rather, the value, is in her presentation of those thoughts -- the form AND the substance -- in a simple way, not overwhelming but capable of being divided up into as small portions as one can or wants to handle at any given time, usually with both personal example of their place in her own life, and prompting as to what one might, as a practical matter, do with any particular thought. Her book can and, I suspect, will serve as an aid to that process of "recovery and remembrance" for many people. It is inherent in our copyright law that ideas alone cannot be protected -- they are "out there" and, on close examination, rarely if ever "new"; only the particular form of expression of those ideas is protectable, because that form is, given the uniqueness of each of us, always original. The uniqueness of what Sarah Eames offers a reader is the book's real value. It is, indeed, a practical guide to wisdom and joyous life.