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“Polygamy?” says the mainstream Mormon Church. “We gave that up long ago.” Not so, claims noted LDS poet and author Carol Lynn Pearson, who examines the issue as it has never been examined before. Any member of the LDS Church today who enters the practice of polygamy is immediately excommunicated. However, Pearson claims, polygamy itself has never been excommunicated, but has an honored and protected place at the table. It has only been postponed, a fact confirmed by thousands of “eternal sealings” giving a man an assurance that he will claim as wives in heaven the two, three, or even more women he has sequentially married during his lifetime. No such opportunity is available to women. Through her own personal stories, those of her ancestors, and the thousands of stories that came to her through an Internet survey, Pearson shows the power of the Ghost of Eternal Polygamy as it not only waits on the other side to greet the most righteous in heaven, but also haunts the living—hiding in the recesses of the Mormon psyche, inflicting profound pain and fear, assuring women that they are still objects, harming or destroying marriages, bringing chaos to family relationships, leading many to lose faith in the church and in God. Mormon historian and author Dr. Gregory Prince says of The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: “Carol Lynn Pearson has hit a home run in her quest to illuminate both the damage that Mormonism’s de facto practice of polygamy continues to inflict, and the route to a better, more humane place. Those who truly hope for eternal polygamy or who resent any call to institutional reform will be upset, but countless others will rejoice that she has shown ‘a more excellent way.’ ”

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Carol Lynn Pearson is the author of more than 40 books and plays that together have sold over 800,000 copies-autobiography, inspiration, humor and novellas. She claims to have been "born into women's issues" and "married into gay issues," both of which she has fearlessly addressed on the difficult terrain of religion. She considers her newest book, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, to be one of the most important works of her literary career and a vital move forward in the worldwide tide toward transforming patriarchy into partnership. Ms. Pearson was born in Salt Lake City, received an M.A. in theatre from Brigham Young University, and lives in Walnut Creek, California. Visit her at: carollynnpearson.com facebook.com/clpauthor

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pivot Point Books (July 12, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 242 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0997458208
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0997458206
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.61 x 9 inches

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Carol Lynn Pearson is the author of over 40 books and plays that have together sold over 800,000 copies. Her memoir "Goodbye, I Love You" tells the story of her marriage to a gay man, their four children, subsequent divorce, ongoing friendship, and her caring for him as he died of AIDS. This story made her a guest on such programs as "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and "Good Morning, America." She was featured in "People Magazine."

She wrote and performed over 300 times internationally a one-woman play, "Mother Wove the Morning," in which she plays sixteen women throughout history in search of the female face of God, and which earned an award from "Booklist" as "one of the top 25 videos of the year." Her book "Finding Mother God: Poems to Heal the World" continues the theme of welcoming back into our lives the Divine Feminine.

Her latest book, "The Love Map: Saving Your Love Relationship and Incidentally Saving the World," is a visionary romance that tells the inspiring story of a young woman whose Higher Self calls her on a hero's journey to learn that "Falling in love is easy. It's rising in love that is the growth and the challenge and the joy."

Carol Lynn has been a featured speaker at numerous events as diverse as the International Conference of the Sisters of Mercy, the National Association of Women Judges, and the International Conference of the Red Hat Society.

She lives in Walnut Creek, California. Outside the window of her second-story home office is a magnolia tree, which is always in full bloom on Valentine's Day. Visit her at www.carollynnpearson.com.

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Lindy Porter

As a former member of the LDS church, i was shocked at the information given.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2022

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As a former member of the LDS church, i was curious as to what the author would say about polygamy. I'm familiar with other books by this author. She is also the aunt of one of my best friends. Publicly, the Church has abandoned polygamy. NOT TRUE. A very important tenant of the church is the temple marriage and the “ sealing” of family. This “sealing” makes it possible to the husband/ wife/ children to live together in eternity. A man can be sealed to as many women as he would like. The woman can be sealed to one male. The male can cancel the sealing if he would like; the women do not have this power. She would need permission of her husband and authorities of the church. The Church believe that their goal is to have many children to populate the earth. These children would be LDS; thus preventing the growth of other religions. If a woman becomes single either by divorce or widowhood, she is still sealed to her former husband. Single men are hesitant to marry these women. If they married one of these ladies and they have children, the children would be sealed to the former husband not the biological father. This confusing tenant was one of the reasons my husband and I ASKED to be excommunicated from the church. What a relief!!!

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Joseph fought polygamy.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2023

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I think the author would like to know that Joseph fought polygamy his whole life, which makes a lot of things male sense. It was pawned off on him after he died. Read the Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy series by Richard and Pamela Price. It is very well-sourced and gives a very clear picture of exactly what really happened in the early church.

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Kat Coyote

This book needs to be read by anyone male or female who believes in true partnership equality.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2022

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Carol Lynn Pearson has a gift for seeing past and present problems with LDS church doctrine in a true and bright light. She can talk of prophets with respect while analyzing some of their biggest mistakes, such as the practice of polygamy. Patriarchy is the water we all swim in. It is time to lift our heads out of this water and really see the truth -- that polygamy never came from our God the Father or our God the Mother. That women were never meant to be slaves or rewards for "good men" in the eternities.

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amazing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2022

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Shes a gifted writer!! This book should be read by all men and women in the church. I love her bravery in writing this book.

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While I love the sentiment of the church revoking it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2016

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The content of this book will have your jaw to the floor the entire time when you read about this repugnant practice and the life after life after life it has destroyed. It's a horror story. While I love the sentiment of the church revoking it, the issue is...they can't. The temple is the cash cow of the church. They need you to go to see weddings, to save your dead relatives...which btw is such a horrible step on their personal boundaries, and learn handshakes and secret oaths to get back to God. If you were a Christian and believed that Christ died for you and you just had to believe in him to be saved, the temple would be a gross slap in your face, because it teaches you there that you must obey to wear long underwear for life, give all your money, time and resources to the church, females must submit to men, and yes, your marriage is in polygamy. Your husband receives you just as he'll receive many others and if you are female...you are tough out of luck and like all the stories in the book illustrated...you'll keep a portion of your heart just for you to have the strength to survive when you find out he's looking for the next one.

I believe Joseph Smith was a serial adulterer and groomed young, vulnerable girls over and over and over for his advances. He fleeced so many people especially those from the UK and Europe to leave everything and come to Nauvoo only to lose everything they had and fall into polygamy. He knew how to trap them..."separate a man from his purse and you've got him!". I think Joseph and his family including his Aunt were criminals and we have now in 2016 the fruits of that. We have massive malls, retail outlets, massive land grabs and real estate investments....but where are the free schools, hospitals, employment opportunities for the poorest among us? Where are the soup kitchens in every city, every State, every Country? Why does the church even have a "for profit" arm?

I can't sit and support a man who destroys gays and especially recently with over 50 suicides of our most young and vulnerable people..because behind closed doors their parents are abusing them so badly that death seems the only way out. I've been abused like that and I know exactly how that feels. When I found out what was happening in the pits at BYU to my GLBT brothers and sisters and the torture to their genitals just for being gay I wanted to throw up. To know Monson was so heavily involved in their torture has just torn me asunder. To think people revere him as some godly "prophet" while so many gays have killed themselves is atrocious.

Women. Oh how my heart weeps for the women who are told from birth they cannot have careers, cannot have their own income, cannot live on their own two feet and must be dependent on a man, must iron, cook, clean and bare and take care of countless children for him, while he goes off and works full time and then spends most evenings for the church leaving you to be a single mother, a single spouse and a lonely, miserable disempowered human being. To be told you cannot even fully participate at church, you can't have the power of god, you can't even look at or talk to god without a covering on your face is such a massive insult. I could go on and on.

I know the author has her reasons for remaining in this organization. But, oh how I must more powerful she'd become if she took a side, and stood up by walking out of this murderous, abusive cult!

People are dying...daily from this cult. There is no love, only conditions, only threats.

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Sharing how Polygamy is currently effecting saints

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Ghost of Polygamy is the perfect name for this book. People here and now are still haunted by our “polygamy deferred” false doctrine.

It’s actually scripture truths on the way to receive the promise of Eternal Life that made me realize there’s no way 132 could be correct. Scripture itself refutes 132. The true way to receive Eternal Life is a consistent and constant message in scripture, until 132 when Eternal Life is received through marriage. It just doesn’t fit.

I know women who have remained widows for 40 years; women who were certain they had forefeit Eternal Life because of their non-LDS marriage; women who married non-members because that was all that was available to them; women who were dying and couldn’t marry quickly due to the church having say over their previous temple marriage.

Polygamy is a plague, and I greatly appreciate how this book gently and empathetic-ly shows there’s no good fruit here. This book is yet another witness to me that it’s not of God.

In these accounts, many express how their souls knows this can’t be of God. That’s the light of Christ within us. When we are willing to listen, God shows us how it’s not of Them. Heavenly Mother and Father can teach us this truth.

Camille

Much needed!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 13, 2017

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As a born and raised Mormon woman I have struggled with this from the day I learned about our polygamous history. The relief I have felt after reading this book, the relief of the possibility it might have all been a huge mistake, is priceless to me. Thank you Carol Lyn!

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Scott Goobie

The hope for change in Mormon Practice

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The author has stated a good case for change. She also seems to play down the importance of God’s ability to define his Kingdom in a way that is a fulfillment of all of our hopes (and much more). I am certain our concerns for the institutions of this world will be addressed fully in heaven to fill everyone’s highest potential.

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The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 8, 2016

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A must read. With all I've read in relation to polygamy I'm glad I added this to the repertoire. Thanks!

Davina Harbon

great book

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on November 27, 2016

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I totally agree with the arguments against polygamy Pearson has written. I read it all in one sitting, couldn't stop. Pearson has a way of bringing everything to life with her style of writing.

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