Roll Around Heaven: An All-True Accidental Spiritual Adventure
August 02, 2009
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An all-true accidental spiritual adventure that led one nonbeliever to lunch with Deepak Chopra, dance with Stephen Hawking, heal animals with Yogananda, sing Christmas carols with an enlightened rabbi, banish evil spirits with a Himalayan Rinpoche, talk all night with the daughters of Islam, find true love in a Presbyterian choir, share Celtic visions on the isle of Iona, and learn an abiding respect for all paths to God.
| Format | Hard Cover |
| Number Of Pages, Discs, Etc. | 288 |
| Publisher | Atria Books • Beyond Words Publishing |
| Date Published | October 06, 2009 |
| ISBN-10 | 1582702365 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781582702360 |
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Jessica Maxwell’s exuberant prose tumbles across the page like a whitewater raft, carrying the reader through the rapids, shallows, twists and turns of a pretty amazing life journey. This book has everything one could want: drama, adventure, romance, irreverent humor, spirituality and deep wisdom all woven through with magic… and it’s all true!Have you ever had a coincidence, synchronicity, or –go on, say it – a miracle that changed your life? Well Jessica had a whole slew of them. The first few amazing happenings, like seeing her just-deceased father’s face in the clouds, caught her attention. Being a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic, however, it took a lot of effort and persistence on the part of the universe to nudge, badger and slam her onto the path back to God, enlightenment, Source, whatever you want to call it. "Roll Around Heaven" describes the sometimes painful, but always amazing and even miraculous experiences that moved her from being militantly anti-religious to becoming what her spiritual mentor calls a holy woman – a mentor she calls the Holy Pig Farmer, and yes he does farm pigs. Like many stories of personal transformation, it started with a cosmic 2 by 4 delivered squarely to the ego by 9/11. Work dried up, she lost her house, her marriage was down the pan...you know, everyday life. Being a journalist specializing in nature and adventures in far-flung places, Jessica was curious and open to experiences of all kinds. When something as weird as personalized cloud formations happened, she was determined to understand how and why. This fierce need to know magnetized some amazing teachers to her, including a handyman, a rabbi, swamis, gurus, ministers and a golf-playing Indian mystic. She began to be able to see auras, like the aura of a major league pitcher extending out to the batter before striking him out and winning a playoff for the Seattle Mariners. Spanning dimensions of space and time, she was visited by orbs, angels and the energy bodies of Jesus, Ganesh the Hindu God, and a delightful centegenarian spinster who had just passed. She discovered first hand the incredible healing power of prayer, and the ineffable bliss of connection to all that is. The fascinating thing about this journey is how universal were both her questions and the answers that presented themselves. It brought her back to a perception and love of God that would be at home in any religion true to its original spirit. The message of the book is that we are all brothers and sisters, and we can all know the bliss of God within if we just show up and ask. It is a message that is not preached, but shared as by an intimate friend, and given wings by wit, eloquence and a generous spirit. I predict that this book will be another blockbuster for Beyond Words/Atria, possibly rivaling the success of "The Secret". I expect it to be a powerful force for awakening and giving rise to a new consciousness. Was this review helpful to you?
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Reviewed byMiriam Knight August 02, 2009 #1 Reviewer View all my reviews Report this review |
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