If You Build It: Creating Your Own Spiritual Field of Dreams [Paperback]

Joseph D. Cusumano (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 7, 1999

All books shipped are author-signed, first-edition, first-printing copies. If You Build It is the first book published about the movie Field of Dreams. It reveals its deep spiritual and psychological truths. Especially written for those who love the Transcendentalism of Thoreau and Emerson, and for those who want to explore mysticism, quantum physics, and synchronicity. American Literature teachers: it can be especially useful when teaching your Transcendentalism unit. Field of Dreams is the most useful way to demonstrate the major tenets of this movement, especially through the writings of Thoreau and Emerson. Students easily understand its concepts when filtered through Field of Dreams. If You Build It essays 2 through 4 are extremely useful to help make these connections.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"As he did in Transforming Scrooge, Joe Cusumano continues to provide surprising, deeply illuminating insights into the nature of the psychospiritual world. If You Build It, significantly enough written as we enter the dawn of the new millennium, is certain to help its readers find the tools needed to forge his or her own magical pathway to higher consciousness." -- Kenneth Ring, Ph.D., author of Heading Toward Omega and Lessons From the Light.

"If You Build It underscores the importance of inner listening. Once again, Joe Cusumano presents clear keys to help us move beyond our limitations. An inspiring journey to the realm of infinite possibilities." -- Michael Toms, co-author of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do; co-founder of New Dimensions Radio

"Joe Cusumano has blurred the line between fiction and reality--to the advantage of both. Only through the persistent use of enlightened creativity, coupled with a dedication to hope, will our species make the next leap in evolution. From Emerson and Thoreau to Gary Zukav's Seat of the Soul, this book is a compendium of inspiration for those willing to construct a new world, for "if we build it...it will come." -- Arthur Paul Patterson, Watershed Online: A Resource for the Imagination, Winnipeg Canada

About the Author

Joe Cusumano, therapist and teacher, is also the author of Transforming Scrooge: Dickens' Blueprint for Spiritual Awakening and numerous psychospiritual magazine articles. He has been a guest on The Art Bell Show and New Dimensions Radio with Michael Toms. He has a grand, life-long passion for baseball.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Joseph D. Cusumano, Ph.D.; 1 edition (December 7, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0967460506
• ISBN-13: 978-0967460505
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,422,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for metaphysical studies & self-help readers., May 8, 2000

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This review is from: If You Build It: Creating Your Own Spiritual Field of Dreams (Paperback)

Each year since its creation, more than 50,000 people pilgrimage to "The Field Of Dreams" movie site in Dyersville, Iowa, attesting to the ongoing power of this film. In If You Build It: Creating Your Own Spiritual Field Of Dreams, Joseph Cusumano presents eighteen interrelated essays about the many myriad transcendental/metaphysical truths of this classic movie, offering a virtual "how to" reader for anyone to build his or her own unique, multi-sensory dream field, to move beyond their perceived limitations, and experience their own revelatory insights and accomplishments beyond anything they had ever before aspired to. Highly recommended for metaphysical studies and personal self-help reading lists.