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BRIDGE TO LIGHT AND LOVE

Name: BRIDGE TO LIGHT AND LOVE
Author: Michael Waters
ISBN: 978-1478791119

ONE COUPLE'S IMMERSION INTO THE SHAMANIC SPIRIT WORLD

by Michael Waters Kathie Waters ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 29, 2017

Vivid paranormal events mostly presented in a persuasive, engaging, and illuminating way.

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A couple find an important role to play as a bridge between this world and the spirit realm.

After moving into a house built on an ancient Native American burial ground, debut authors Michael and Kathie Waters began to notice an unusual aura on their land. What was originally just a feeling soon transformed into visitations of Native American spirits, and these encounters quickly became more frequent and striking. It was soon revealed to Kathie that her duty was to help spirits cross into the light, meaning people who had died but not yet moved on. Kathie and Mike (who also experienced these spiritual manifestations) embraced this new charge and spent much time and energy, at home and elsewhere, conversing with spirits that appeared to them, fighting off dark forces (often with the help of spirits and animal guardians), studying shamanism, and helping souls cross into the light. During one episode, “Mike and I held hands and using the collective love in our hearts, we let the love flow. The light opened above the water and a flood of it came forth. I could see the spirits of men, women, and children running into it.” Eventually, the couple learned that the spirits had one more vital task for them: writing this book. The fact that the authors originally recorded these experiences in personal journals allows them to write with astounding detail, transporting readers into the story and making pages easy to turn. The book’s content is no doubt peculiar and to many unbelievable, but the couple exudes such great confidence that even skeptics might scratch their heads a little. Plot momentum seems to be rooted solely in the intensifying of the authors’ spiritual encounters, and this energy tapers off about halfway through the work as their experiences become more predictable and redundant. But the final pages include important conclusions drawn from the couple’s enlightenment, including: “If we could get back what our ancestors knew, we could heal our suffering world.”

Vivid paranormal events mostly presented in a persuasive, engaging, and illuminating way.

Pub Date: Oct. 29, 2017

ISBN: 978-1478791119

Page Count: 214

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Review Posted Online: Jan. 2, 2018

Review Program: Kirkus Indie

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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NUTCRACKER

by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996

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This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)

Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996

ISBN: 0-15-100227-4

Page Count: 136

Publisher: Harcourt

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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TO THE ONE I LOVE THE BEST

EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF LADY MENDL (ELSIE DE WOLFE)

by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955

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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.