Where is there a place for you? Where do you belong?
You may no longer aspire to follow the way of organized religion. Even if you still practice, the way of rules has begun to wear on you. You may have met a spirituality that feels not much different with its new rules for a healthy body and mind and its judgment of the ego, or you may have encountered a “woo woo” spirituality of soothing voices, crystals and incense. You may have been content within a spiritual group for a while, and yet felt a keen yearning for something still missing.
In this time of uncertainty, upheaval, and disequilibrium, you may feel as if something is being born out of what is passing. You feel more nervously anxious about security than ever before and, at the same time, more vested in liberation and being your authentic self.
If you are feeling this way, The Given Self might be, for you, a call to a transpersonal spirituality and the connection that you are missing.
Written by an ordinary lower-middle-class woman, once a single mother who had to work her way off of welfare, now a grandmother mulling over questions of servitude versus service, a woman who had God reach out to her in her despair and ask her to give her all to the writing of the books of A Course of Love (a sequel to A Course in Miracles), The Given Self is part memoir, part manifesto, and a call to rediscover what’s been missing – YOU.
If you’ve ever felt a connection with God, a soul mate, nature – the kind that made you wonder how, before it was felt, you were able to breathe, your heart able to beat; if you have felt a connection that sent you on a quest to discover how to sustain it – then you have felt the intimacy that is your given self and you have already begun the personal spiritual journey that can’t be replaced by a quest for higher consciousness, a pure and healthy life-style, or any desire for betterment or the achievement of an ideal. It is a quest that can only be met by finding rather than seeking and by acceptance of who you are, as you are, rather than by denial of all but what you deem the “best” parts of yourself. It is a way of the heart that calls up your passion to be true to yourself and to share who you are. This is what the world needs in this new time.
Find your given self, heed this call, and be blessed by a belonging that is everywhere and nowhere.