4 out of 4 stars
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Dancing Forever With Spirit: Astonishing Insights from Heaven by Garnet Schulhauser is a book fashioned like a spiritual guide book. It is the second book in the series after Dancing on a Stamp.
In this book, the author continues his tale of spiritual enlightenment. The book begins with the author starting on his second book when his spiritual guide, Albert, makes a reappearance to continue their adventures and to take Garnet (the author) further on his path to spiritual enlightenment. Albert takes Garnet, or rather his spirit (since they leave Garnet’s body behind), on a series of supernatural adventures. Garnet’s adventures take him to faraway places to witness human exploitation and abuse, to other planets in the galaxy, to the sparkling city on the Spirit side and sometimes to revisit his own past lives. Through his out-of-the-world excursions, Albert guides Garnet on what humans should do to achieve their enlightenment and helps Garnet in disseminating these ideas through his book.
Initially I was confused why this book has been put in the non-fiction category, since Garnet’s astral excursions appear prima facie fictional. However, our author claims that these are his real life experiences, so who am I to dispute his claims? Since, this is the second book in the series the author explains his first meeting with Albert in the Introduction chapter itself. Though the narrator refers to his first book a lot, I believe it’s not necessary to the read the previous book to understand this installment, which is a plus point of this one. The author’s writing style is simple, displaying a good use of metaphors and imageries in certain places and giving interesting descriptions in certain other portions like when he is describing the planet Proteus or the Spirit city, Aglaia.
This book covers a wide range of themes ranging from protecting our environment and our fellow livings, to understanding why we are here and what this life is all about. The concept of re-incarnation is explained in a thought provoking manner by the narrator’s spiritual guide. Albert takes Shakespeare’s quote on the world being a stage a bit further. According to Albert, there is no heaven and hell, and no one is rewarded or punished for their acts on earth. They all travel to the Spirit side after their deaths and keep reincarnating till they have achieved their spiritual evolution. Albert explains that their actions on earth are just acts or roles they have to play on earth for which they will not be judged in the Spirit world. Though many people might disagree with this idea, but this conception behind rebirth is quite popular in certain religious traditions like Buddhism and some strands of Hinduism. Apart from this enlightening concept presented in the book, I also liked the idea of Garnet reviewing his previous lives and Albert explaining how humans need to evolve from their present state of negativity, in order to save the planet and not decay like some civilizations (case in point Atlantis) before them.
The message of this book is simple: be kind, share love, laughter and compassion, and don’t take life too seriously. This message is presented in a thought provoking manner, laced with wit and humor when required. I recommend everyone who is seeking to understand their purpose in life and to evolve should give this one a try, even if they might not agree with all the author says. I rate this one 4 out of 4 stars for being a deeply engaging and enlightening book to read.
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Dancing Forever with Spirit
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