5 stars! Wonderfully Healing:
"This amazing, well-organized little book surprised me in that when
I had finished reading it, I realized that I had forgiven several people
who had caused me Horrific hurts, without even trying! Understanding was
enough. Because the author put into words her own mystical experience
and applied it in a practical way to life, I am changed. I immediately
purchased 10 copies to give away because I wanted to share what's in
this book." — L.H., Readerok.
“…each page sparkles with insight…. At the end of this journey, though
our heads may be spinning, we feel that we have learned something new,
and the world sits a little more easily around us. Spirals: The
Connection offers a different viewpoint, one you haven't experienced
before. It's deep, very deep, so watch out…you just might fall in.”
— Geri Hall, New Age Review
"This is a good book...filled
with wonderful, wonderful ideas!" — Richard Fuller, Metaphysical
Review
"After
reading this book, I felt that if I simply… loved my fellow beings,
everything would be all right. Spirals gives us hope." —
Patricia Darlington, Ph.D.
"...You won't read about bliss or nirvana here. Nor will you hear
about oneness or any other worn out cliches... The author describes the
foundations of reality, and we
begin to see the shape and reason behind human nature." — Clarice Raksin,
e-Writer Magazine
About the Book (see excerpts below)
The
Dilemma
The world is full of contradictions, and humans have struggled for
all the millennia 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
Spirals: The Connection 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
Spirals: The Connection is
different. Going to the
core of mysticism, it looks directly at a personal experience of the
divine
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. Greenspan, “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 Spirals: The Connection is to open
the eyes and reveal the governing structure hidden beneath everyday
events.
The
purpose of Spirals 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.
Spirals: The Connection 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.
Deborah Greenspan is an artist as well as a writer, and works in
television and film—industries where the ability to visualize is as
important as the ability to put words together.
As a
mother of two, she is concerned with the state of the
world, which is why this book was finally written.
Deborah is thrilled by ideas.
She spent most of her life honing her ability to put
ideas into words, getting a Master’s degree in Communication,
and then going on to create children’s books, screenplays for
feature films, and television documentaries.
She supported herself and her children through her writing
for many years, becoming a publisher in 2000.
In college, her professors described her as an “original
thinker.”
Deborah has dedicated her life to creating
works that entertain and teach without being exploitative or
moralistic. She loves
what she does, and considers it a privilege to be able to share what
she has learned with others.
