Eyes of Sophia : A Dream Come True [Paperback]

Donna May (Author), Alan Chien (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2006

Eyes of Sophia is a true love story which confirms the multi-dimensional nature of our existence. This story shows us that we really do co-create our lives in concert with a loving and organizing Divine Presence, Sophia, which speaks to us through our hearts. Too often we are easily intimidated by the authority and advice of the outer world and cease to trust these tender feelings which offer us continual and perfect guidance.

The magical tapestry of events we experience when reading Eyes of Sophia is given credence by a series of extraordinary photographs and we are blessed with the revelation that, indeed, we can attain our hearts' desires.

"This book is an extraordinary account by two extraordinary people. Given the premise that Sophia's world lies hidden and invisible within this one the continual synchronicities abounding in this true story make sense, if not serving as proof of its existence. Though the account is extremely personal it touches the universal and thus becomes meaningful to anyone reading it. It's Donna's loving and enthusiastic eye that reveals it and Alan's charming and rational acceptance that gives it form. I marvel that I had the privilege of playing a small part in this unusual drama!"
-Alice O. Howell
Author of The Web in the Sea and The Dove in the Stone

"You and Donna have experienced, certainly at a feeling state, at least one other cognitive band of this total reality and you appear to have some space-time cognitive data in the form of your pictures to confirm that something extra-ordinary was happening."
-William A. Tiller, PhD
Author of Science and Human Transformation
(written after viewing the photographs, September, 1995)


"This is a truly spiritual book, in which the presence of divine love allows the experience of human love to flourish. It can be read as a romantic story like Bridges of Madison County, but here the romance is allowed to flourish and lead to a sustained relationship, and there is an experience of divine grace as well as human passion."
-Harvey Honig
Jungian Analyst

Editorial Reviews

Review

Eyes of Sophia tells a magical, miraculous and marvelous story of finding love and Spirit.. -- Richard Fuller, Senior Editor, Metaphysical Reviews-August 2000

Though the account is extremely personal it touches the universal and thus becomes meaningful to anyone reading it. -- Alice O. Howell, author of The Dove in the Stone and The Web in the Sea

About the Author

Alan Chien was born in Shanghai, China in 1930 and moved to New York State shortly after the Japanese invasion in 1937. There he spent most of his life until his recent move to the Midwest. He graduated from Wesleyan University with BA and MAT degrees, served in the army and taught art at public schools for 30 years. He now enjoys putting his energy into his art work.

Donna May was born in 1952 and grew up in Southern Wisconsin. Donna is a metaphysician in private practice for over 15 years. She continues to facilitate healing in others through utilizing her unique understanding and highly developed skills in bio-energetic healing and spiritual astrology.

It was Alan's background in art and photography which attracted the attention of Donna May who was preparing to write a book. They became partners in this venture and in life. They are married and live in Southern Wisconsin where their home is filled with love--Alan's art and photography, aromas of their latest joint cuisine efforts, continuous music, their dog and three cats.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (July 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552123499
• ISBN-13: 978-1552123492
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,674,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn How to Live a Dream-Come-True, November 7, 2000

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Cynthia Sue Larson "www.realityshifters.com" (San Francisco bay area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Eyes of Sophia : A Dream Come True (Paperback)

This book is a deliciously suspenseful true love story that describes how Donna May met the man of her dreams, Alan Chien. While we know from the start where this love story will end, we don't know how two people from such different walks of life who don't know one another can recognize each other after their first chance meeting.

Told alternately from Donna's and Alan's point of view, this story demonstrates the way synchronicity operates in real life. Donna enters the story as an experienced healer, energy worker, and dream interpreter who is learning to better understand how to communicate with spirit. Alan just begins to discover these things as he witnesses first-hand the way Donna's waking dreams have real-life significance, and begins to find meaning in coincidental happenings in his life as well. Both Donna and Alan discover a deeper sense of love and connection between each other and all that is, as they learn to trust their hearts and spirits to guide their lives.

When I meet couples for the first time, I almost always ask them, "How did you two get together?", because I love to glimpse the way the spirit behind physical things pulls us closer to those we need at just the right time in our life. "Eyes of Sophia" shares these gifts of spirit with us as it opens and reveals a world of interpreting dream symbols, physical pain in our bodies, coincidences and synchronicities. This book shows how even the occasional disappointments and set-backs along the way have meaning, and are part of the grand design of life. I love the way this book effectively demonstrates how the more closely we observe the details (names, articles, dates, songs), the more meaningful our own life story can become. Donna May and Alan Chien's autobiographical tale is exactly the kind of sign-post people need to find the spiritual meaning behind coincidences in their lives, and learn how to live a dream-come-true.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Awakening, September 20, 2000

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Paula A Hulick (Skanee, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eyes of Sophia : A Dream Come True (Paperback)

Coincidence has now become a dusty old relic in my dictionary of terms. Have always wished for 'just the right' term for what I knew was more than mere coincidence and after reading this book I now have it. Synchronicities, our lives are so filled with them and few of us heed them as did Donna May.

Eyes of Sophia enabled me to see with much greater understanding, 'the other side of the coin' in terms of relationships and what sometimes may be painful is part of a much greater plan over which we really have no control.

The photos were spectacular and the romance even more so. Having just read once again, 'The Mists of Avalon', it seemed quite COINCIDENTAL that the story also focused on 'The Tin Man' containing the words Sir Galahad!

Hopefully we will hear more from these two romantics and believers in Synchronocities.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instructional and Inspirational!, October 9, 2000

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"tups" (Chiago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eyes of Sophia : A Dream Come True (Paperback)

This was very entertaining to read and it was different to read a story like this that is a true one. But it was so much more than that. I learned so much about how to get out of my own way in order to let my best come to me. It was easy to see when I was reading it and thought of myself and others I see that we block our own happiness and good things coming to us because we are afraid to act on the very feelings that will allow it to come to us. This is a little hard to explain but when you read it its easy to understand.

I will never ever again not do what is in my heart of hearts even if it is in against what somebody else thinks or what I grew up learning was the way to do it. I want what the magic they found and they make me understand how to go about it. By the time I got to the last chapter I had changed my whole thinking around about alot of things. Then I got to the last chapter and the pictures and wasn't just thinking different but knew that this is story is more than just written by people but is a story that also comes from somewhere far beyond here and from something much bigger than people.

Alan Chein says in the beginning that it was a gift to them that they are sharing. It was a gift to me and I'm going to read it again.