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Official Review: Affair with the Divine by M. L. Curry
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3 out of 4 stars
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Affair with the Divine, Psychic Experiences through Grief and Adventure by M.L. Curry is an autobiography about one woman's journey through life and grief. Ms. Curry offers various insights to the experiences she's encountered and her beliefs that lie behind them. The book spans a period of years from the fifties through the nineties and shows how the culture of the late sixties and early seventies, along with her artistic tendency, had quite an impact on her life. Published in 2010 by Southern Skies Company, the book is a telling of her spiritual growth and ultimate feeling of connection to the world around her.
After gathering information from a host of books, seminars and personal discovery, Ms. Curry delves into making her own reality one that is seasoned with beauty, strength, and the love that comes from connecting to others and to the divine. As she brings the reader with her on her physical travels from America to France and Italy, we are also along as witnesses to the metaphysical experiences she strives to share with the reader. She welcomes these experiences with a positive heart and an open mind and in doing so she cultivates what she calls a connection to the divine. This connection aids her even later in life through the pain of losing a loved one.
M. Curry is an intelligent woman, who was immersed in the artists' world from an early beginning. She studied ballet during her formative years and received much training and experience in New York City. That experience and an impasse with her husband, Virgil, lead her to become a Professor of American Contemporary Dance in Vienna for a year. In Vienna she discovers that her psychic abilities are way ahead of her. Reuniting with her husband upon her return to America, she settles in LA and becomes more of "an active seeker in transcendental awareness" during the late 1970's. her "connections with the divine" are described as a natural gift that many people can learn to use with practice, and where she receives her energy and meaning.
What I liked about this book was the author's ability to describe emotional events, states of mind and her reasoning behind spiritual or "unseen" episodes. She is very matter-of-fact regarding her pyschic awareness and actively seeking to enhance it. While the author is frank about what she believes, the reasoning she gives for not believing in a God is a bit weak to me. I feel she is a product of the sixties culture wanting to break away from the popular religious beliefs of the time. She explains that if there were such thing as God, he purposefully put humanity on weaker footing, thus would not be a good God at all. I don't feel she's done as much research into the bible as she has outside of it with the more alternate theories. Her outlook is fresh and uplifting, however, and this book will cause you to examine your own beliefs a bit more closely. I found myself pondering religion, how I related with the world around me, and what I would do in times of emotional crisis. Did my beliefs support me as well as her beliefs did for her?
I would give the book a 3 out of 4 star rating, though, as I felt the book lacked direction at times. Thinking the author was making a point about the paranormal while describing a conversation or her hotel restaurant, I'd find myself wondering where she was going with it, only to be thrust into another scene and feeling a little lost. I thought there was too much written about the day to day part of her travels that didn't have much to do with the subject of the book. There were also a few typos that added to the confusion. Aside from this, I felt as though I would have liked to hear more about her psychic experiences and more how she overcame her grief through her connection with the divine.
I would recommend this book for those who are interested in the paranormal, for those who are dealing with their own grief, or for people who aren't particularly religious because parts of it are truly well written and beautifully described. She cites a number of helpful books for anyone interested in the "veil between mortality and immortality" and for anyone wanting to delve into meditation. .The author's story does remind one to actively seek all that is beautiful, mysterious, and good about this life whatever our circumstances and beliefs.
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3 out of 4 stars
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Affair with the Divine, Psychic Experiences through Grief and Adventure by M.L. Curry is an autobiography about one woman's journey through life and grief. Ms. Curry offers various insights to the experiences she's encountered and her beliefs that lie behind them. The book spans a period of years from the fifties through the nineties and shows how the culture of the late sixties and early seventies, along with her artistic tendency, had quite an impact on her life. Published in 2010 by Southern Skies Company, the book is a telling of her spiritual growth and ultimate feeling of connection to the world around her.
After gathering information from a host of books, seminars and personal discovery, Ms. Curry delves into making her own reality one that is seasoned with beauty, strength, and the love that comes from connecting to others and to the divine. As she brings the reader with her on her physical travels from America to France and Italy, we are also along as witnesses to the metaphysical experiences she strives to share with the reader. She welcomes these experiences with a positive heart and an open mind and in doing so she cultivates what she calls a connection to the divine. This connection aids her even later in life through the pain of losing a loved one.
M. Curry is an intelligent woman, who was immersed in the artists' world from an early beginning. She studied ballet during her formative years and received much training and experience in New York City. That experience and an impasse with her husband, Virgil, lead her to become a Professor of American Contemporary Dance in Vienna for a year. In Vienna she discovers that her psychic abilities are way ahead of her. Reuniting with her husband upon her return to America, she settles in LA and becomes more of "an active seeker in transcendental awareness" during the late 1970's. her "connections with the divine" are described as a natural gift that many people can learn to use with practice, and where she receives her energy and meaning.
What I liked about this book was the author's ability to describe emotional events, states of mind and her reasoning behind spiritual or "unseen" episodes. She is very matter-of-fact regarding her pyschic awareness and actively seeking to enhance it. While the author is frank about what she believes, the reasoning she gives for not believing in a God is a bit weak to me. I feel she is a product of the sixties culture wanting to break away from the popular religious beliefs of the time. She explains that if there were such thing as God, he purposefully put humanity on weaker footing, thus would not be a good God at all. I don't feel she's done as much research into the bible as she has outside of it with the more alternate theories. Her outlook is fresh and uplifting, however, and this book will cause you to examine your own beliefs a bit more closely. I found myself pondering religion, how I related with the world around me, and what I would do in times of emotional crisis. Did my beliefs support me as well as her beliefs did for her?
I would give the book a 3 out of 4 star rating, though, as I felt the book lacked direction at times. Thinking the author was making a point about the paranormal while describing a conversation or her hotel restaurant, I'd find myself wondering where she was going with it, only to be thrust into another scene and feeling a little lost. I thought there was too much written about the day to day part of her travels that didn't have much to do with the subject of the book. There were also a few typos that added to the confusion. Aside from this, I felt as though I would have liked to hear more about her psychic experiences and more how she overcame her grief through her connection with the divine.
I would recommend this book for those who are interested in the paranormal, for those who are dealing with their own grief, or for people who aren't particularly religious because parts of it are truly well written and beautifully described. She cites a number of helpful books for anyone interested in the "veil between mortality and immortality" and for anyone wanting to delve into meditation. .The author's story does remind one to actively seek all that is beautiful, mysterious, and good about this life whatever our circumstances and beliefs.
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