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Seeking the White Root: An Australian Story

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I was very skeptical of this book because my own spiritual views are quite a bit more conservative than the ones promoted in the text. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the book held my attention very nicely. In future endeavors, these authors should probably spend more of their prose on character development. However, the story had plenty of twists and turns which created enough suspense for me that I couldn't put the book down. I read the entire thing in a Saturday morning, and I learned a few things about Australia in the process of reading it. For my rating, I couldn't decide between 3 stars and 4, so I opted for the generous side of the range, simply on the basis of the enjoyment I got from reading this work.

Seeking the White Root is more than simply an entertaining tale of two cultures clashing through time, culminating in the challenging life of a young modern Australian woman. Much more importantly, this book communicates a vital message for our entire species in the here and now: We must remember and live by the essential wisdom of the ages (here represented by the earth-based spirituality of Australian Aborigines). The world view and behavioral patterns of the Industrial Revolution and subsequent cultural mindsets, which inflate egos and promote both personal and corporate greed, cannot sustain us spiritually, emotionally, or even physically any longer. We--and consequently our world--are dangerously out of balance.

Woven throughout the story of Jane Lawton and her ancestors are lessons on how to connect with our spiritual selves, how to maintain and focus life energy, how to determine the purpose of our lives, and how we--as a species--can become reconnected to the wisdom of the ages that can be found in nature as well as within ourselves.

If you are interested in a story about how connecting with your spiritual side will assist you to move forward in life, this book is for you. The story takes place in Australia and documents the experiences of two groups, western European immigrants and the Aborigines, who have lived on the land since ancient times. As the main character of the book seeks to uncover her secret past, you will be exposed to the injustices that white men wrought on a native people. A healing occurs for both groups and hopefully for a country that must pay for all the ravaging that modern man has wreaked on the earth. In the end, the reader is reminded that what we do with the events of our life is ultimatley up to ourselves.