Visionary fiction based on psycho-spiritual self help concepts and techniques applicable to young and older adults. A confused young man named Dillon meets an elder he calls Gramps. During their summer together at Gramp's mountain place called Stillpoint, the wisdom of nature becomes Dillon's teacher as he learns to recognize the trances of everyday life. He awakens to an awareness of the present and experiences what it means to live in harmony and with integrity. Dillon discovers the natural connection to his innermost self and the sacred fabric of life.
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Delightful! New analogies with insightful presentation of ancient and basic spiritual knowledge in an amusing and realistic story. The Five Principles presented and demonstrated through events at Stillpoint one summer will be noted just as the nine insights from The Celestine Prophecy gained a mass following. This book is not above anyone's head that can read, and it can reopen the window into many souls.
Author Ed Rubenstein allows Dillon, a seventeen year old young man, to tell his story of confusion, anger and searching to stumble through life after losing his abusive father suddenly only to find a new mentor in Grandfather. The experiences are really believable from Dillon's almost being arrested for robbery to his grand escape to the mountains for the summer. There he is exposed to Sage, the husband of a friend of his mother's who is called Grandfather, due to his age. His wisdom shows along the way during summer experiences related to the reader by Dillon.
Never preachy, the story flows from Dillon learning there are some principles about life that might help him. Like most people of any age, he is not sure that he wants to learn how to make life a better trip or learn insights that might cause him to become more responsible. The reality of the relationship between Grandfather Sage and Dillon is fun to observe, while lessons about life's solutions are taught so evenly that one finds Stillpoint a place we have wanted for ourselves.
Descriptions of the mountain cabin and the surrounding area paint a comfortable place for Dillon's explanations about what he is experiencing. You are along for the summer, or at least parts of it. It is a nice vacation for anyone wanting to spend a little time reflecting on the lessons learned so far spiritually in their own lives and hearing or feeling Gramps guidance.
An excellent book for self-reading, and then as a gift to teenagers and adults. What wonderful discussions will spring from An Awakening From the Trances of Everyday Life.
Robert C. H. Parker
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Following the death of his father, Dillon is involved in a drunken auto accident that proves fatal to a close friend, and is sent by his mother to the country to recover. There he works to help Grandfather Sage, a man possessed of the kind of basic wisdom that would do us all a world of good in our moments of greatest pain and opening. An Awakening from the Trances of Everyday Life : A Journey to Empowerment reveals, through their dialogue, how to recognize and wake up from the emotional patterns or "trances" that keep us from "finding a deeper level of harmony" within ourselves. The story reaches out to touch our hearts, while stimulating our minds to do the work that allows us to "become conscious of the connection between our individual existence and the sacred fabric of life". Within the context of a young man's coming to spiritual consciousness, readers are gently presented with an understanding of how to connect with our true self, maintain flexible boundaries, choose! to create without attachment, and awaken into the awareness of the present moment. In An Awakening, Ed Rubenstein has given us a gently enlightening and reassuring tale of recovery and the discovery of one's true self. The conversations between Grandfather Sage and his student, Dillon, pave the way to this young man's awakening to a deepened understanding of his own best path to wholeness.
Heidi Rain, a writer and book reviewer for Spirit of Change magazine, lives in Brooklyn with her son and their two cats. -- Summary
About the Author
In high school Ed Rubenstein was told by his guidance counselor, "You're not college material. Don't bother applying."
Ed chose not to take ownership of that label and today Dr. Ed Rubenstein is a practicing psychologist with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Florida State University. He also holds Masters degrees in Spiritual Studies and Rehabilitation Counseling.
Ed lived in the remote Himalayan regions of Nepal and Northern India for nearly three years. He has taught personal and spiritual growth strategies for 22 years. He has worked with people from all walks of life in university, hospital, and community settings, who have been profoundly affected by the teaching he represents. Ed lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains with his wife and two sons.
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Remember 17? Remember the confusion, the insecurity? We could only pick at our wounds--we had no idea how to heal them. This story of a young man's awakening in his 17th summer would make a beautiful gift for any rite of passage in a young person's life. And at 50, I find it equally valuable for my own rites of passage. Even those of us who might claim a certain amount of spiritual sophistication find much to feed our souls in this book. I have given copies to all of my most cherished friends, and to anyone I know who works with young people. This book has the potential to radically alter the lives of those who not only have not yet found their center, but do not even know they have one. How wonderful if it were part of every curriculum!
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Your soul orgasms as it connects to infinite. Your consciousness expands in an explosion of wonder and complete amazement. You then find yourself wanting to share this book with everybody. Welcome to awakening.
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