The
Dilemma
The world is full of contradictions, and humans have struggled for
all the millenia of their existence with the moral and ethical dilemmas created
by conflicts between what’s reasonable, what’s right, what’s expected, and
what’s expedient. We’ve learned
to choose sides--idealist, pragmatist, realist—and in all these centuries
we’ve yet to reach consensus. To
this day, the idealists argue with the pragmatists about what is real, never
mind what is right.
Mysticism
Mystics, however--and there are more of us than most people imagine--seem
to agree that there is something within the human heart or soul that is
indivisible. When we connect with
this oneness, we gain such great understanding, compassion, and knowledge that
we are able to accept life as it is and find that the contradictions that
consume so many of us are really no more than partial truth facing off against
partial truth.
Paradox
The paradox inherent in translating the mystical experience
into language is the reason InSight
of God was written--words cannot contain it, yet it must be said.
Others have tried, claiming union with an infinity of love,
bliss and peace so inexpressibly magnificent that it defies
description. But if
something “defies description" how can we write about it?
The
difference
InSight of God is
different. Going to the
core of mysticism, it looks directly at a personal experience of God
and discusses how this vision impacts thought, belief, and behavior.
What makes the book unique is that rather than talking about
how the experience affected and transformed her, the author describes
what she actually saw and demonstrates how this vision impacts our
ordinary lives, thus making it possible for others to see it as well. For Ms. Claire, “seeing God” was seeing the
structure of Reality, "the rhyme and reason behind events, the
framework upon which the matter and energy of the universe is
laid." The purpose
of InSight of God is to open
the eyes and reveal the governing structure hidden beneath everyday
events.
The
purpose of InSight of God is to make the reader aware of the joining of
contradictions that is the nature of truth, thereby opening the doors
to his or her own mystical experience. By
explaining the relationships between life and death, men and women,
good and evil, power and love, freedom and responsibility, disease and
health, and God and self, the author leads the reader to an awareness
of how opposites connect, and beyond that coupling, to the vastness of
“all-that-is” that is the source of life itself.
InSight of God is an
experience that can stimulate individuals to grow toward greater
awareness of themselves and of each other.
The book is a step forward on a journey that each of us is
meant to take.
