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Consider the Butterfly - Transforming Your Life Through Meaningful Coincidence

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Consider The Butterfly is a wonderful, inspirational work of art. Beautifully written by Carol Lynn Pearson and illustrated with Sandy Wells' lovely photographs, this is a must-have book!! I highly recommend it!

Carol Lynn Pearson has a magnificent way of touching the heart with simple stories that have profound meaning. I cried and laughed my way through this book. With stories from her own life, Pearson gives me a new perspective on my own. Wally's Tie, or The Tie That Binds, prompted a similar episode with her book. What goes around...

Reading Carol Lynn Pearson is never a mistake. I highly recommend this book.

"On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche." ~Carol Lynn Pearson

Consider the Butterfly is a collection of stories exploring Carol Lynn Pearson's experiences with synchronicity.

The message of the rose will make you an instant believer in synchronicity if you haven't already seen this at work in your life on a daily basis.

...There's the petal and the thorn.
There is beauty and there's sorrow,
And we all must face tomorrow
Like the rose...

~Jane Olivor

Carol says she lived much of her life without experiencing the mystical elements many claim to have experienced. Just when she had given up on filling her mystical cup, life took a few turns and found out that the outer world was reflecting her inner world.

Carol explores the topics of Family, Death and Beyond, God, Angels, Heaven, Hell, Peace on Earth, Do Not Judge, Giving and Receiving, A Friend on the other side, Little Lessons and From Darkness into Light.

Carol has the benefit of being able to do research in her diaries and she has forty-six years of her life recorded in diaries sitting on a huge shelf. All her handwritten books allow her to look at life and analyze her "messages from the Universe."

While writing this review, I saw and heard the word: "Discover." This happens to me all the time and sometimes the words make sentences that are quite meaningful. I had just glanced down to page sixteen when I saw the word and heard it on the radio.

Carol explains how you should write down your experiences with synchronicity and even keep a journal. My words are written on scraps of paper and I only have one friend so far who has been able to tell me what some of the sentences mean.

While I agree that beauty can grow out of great tragedy, I think each person's experience is going to determine how we view tragedy. Her idea of death and resurrection seemed appropriate even though I'm sure it will be difficult for some to see the beauty in this type of tragedy.

A poem by Rumi completes this book and there are quotes by Emily Dickinson and even a story about Emily Dickinson and how she influenced Carol's life.

~The Rebecca Review

P.S. Feb 1. 2007 - If you enjoy this book, you may
love the movie: The Celestine Prophecy

I really enjoyed Carol Lynn's book Consider The Butterfly.
She has a way of making you feel like you are somehow part of her
family as she takes around the country relating happenings of
synchronicities. Talking to you as though you are one of her
closest friends, she candidly discusses things that normally would
be considered personal. And it is this way of telling her stories
that Carol Lynn had me smiling about the Valentine's hearts that
were tracked through the house. Or the story of Wally's tie.
Carol Lynn also had me tearing up with her Katy stories because
she made me feel as though I've known Katy personally. These
stories of synchronicities reaffirms my belief that things do
happen for a reason and not just by chance.
Oh, and one last afterthought, Carol Lynn mentions Emily Dickinson
several times in the book. So I couldn't help but wonder if those
squiggly lines throughout the book that look like E's were chosen
on purpose or did Emily have something to do with that? Hmmm.

During and after reading this book, I noticed I also had syncronicities in my life I hadn't been paying attention too. If I had been following my intuition and syncronicities, I could have saved myself no small bit of emotional pain. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a path to follow which is not very often tread upon.

A wonderful validation of the knowing that our loved ones who have died ARE still with us, and active in our lives. They simply speak in a different language that the living must learn in order to hear and understand them. The author gets a little too *far out there* for me in the last 1/4 of the book, but the first 3/4 is so good, I recommend this one to family and friends often.

This is an enjoyable and enlightening little book!! One might think they are reading fiction, but the author is recounting true occurrences and events from her own life.

A few years ago, I might have poo-pooed the idea of meaningful coincidence and synchronicity, but events in my own life have led me to see the truth and importance of such occurrences.

This book can provide a good introduction to the subject of meaningful coincidence for anyone not familiar with the concept. From there, one might be prompted to dig deeper into the scientific aspects of this very intriguing subject.

I wish I could shout it to the world....."Wake up to what is going on in the world around you, for it pertains to your life!!" Thank you, Carol Lynn Pearson, for sharing your amazing experiences!

I'm not a Mormon or a Christian,but I found this book to resonate with my own spiritual beliefs (not to mention the synchronizations that sprung up for me while reading this book) and loved reading just about every page of it.Thanks Carol Lynn for putting your thoughts into this very spiritual book which I am sure has touched and will touch more than just this one soul.A book I am sure to read more than once.