NAVIGATING THE WINDS OF CHANGE

A spiritual guide that aims to set readers on the path to enlightenment.

Artist and debut author Trink offers assistance to those who wish to reach their “fullest potential from the position of heart-centered inner strength.” Drawing on Buddhist principles and detailing his personal experiences, the author maps out a route for a journey to potential enlightenment. Over the course of 21 chapters, he outlines each of the concepts and offers spiritual exercises that he asserts are essential for the understanding of the “divine self”; each ends with a “Reflection” that serves as a guidepost and daily reminder to be read twice per day, ideally in the morning and before going to bed. For example, the chapter on “Trust” reminds readers that “releasing your mind to the embrace of trust, is allowing Spirit to flow easily and effortlessly into every cell of your body.” Other concepts that Trink defines as being essential to the understanding of the divine self range from “Facing Fear/Trusting Life” and “Compassion” to “The Ego-mind” (“the part of our mind that weaves stories of duality and identifies itself with…illusions”) and “Epigenetics” (“the science that traces the vibrational signals from outside the cell membrane…that influences the expression of our DNA”). Readers may find Trink’s arguments repetitive (the “winds of change” metaphor loses its impact after a while) as well as inexact, as when he states, without evidence, that “science has confirmed that we live in a holographic universe.” However, Trink also includes some heartfelt accounts of personal experiences that led him to become a spiritual guide, including the loss of a spouse and a life-threatening illness, which led him to pursue a life guided by “self-love, wisdom, and divine knowledge.”

An earnest offering from a spiritual journeyman hampered by vagueness and repetition.