In this memoir Lori Morrison tells about her spiritual journey and finding her place in this world.
I enjoy books about the spiritual ; I especially like learning bout religious and spiritual beliefs that are different from my own. I sat down with my copy of this book excited to learn about a new set of beliefs.
Unfortunately, I became bored very quickly. Morrison wasn't able to make me connect to her on a personal level. The book is rife with mundane matters and spends more time telling me about who her husband was as a person that anything about herself. Sure I knew her accomplishments and love for husband, but id didn't know her so I wasn't as invested when she began her journey. I was so interested in everything she was learning but the writing did nothing to capture her true feelings and how the events affected her. She describes everything n a very clinical matter and by the time she goes to the mental institution, I have trouble defending her absolute distrust of medicine and her idea that she could cure everyone when doctors could not.
The one thing the book did do was make me curious about her clinic and her profession as someone who deals with mental problem using complimentary aspects of spiritual and medicine. As some one with a psychology background, I can truly get behind this and as I delved further into the book I could see Morrison start s to understand how the two work together. I am interested in finding out more about her actually philosophical ideas about treatment and how all sides can used to together to create a harmonious human being

This is compelling look at the authors grief and loss of two husbands. After the second husband passes she spirals into a descent of madness that leads her to a new life in Central America and a third husband. She begins to believe she is practicing ancient Mayan culture rituals. Her beliefs become her reality .
I found it hard to follow and not believable. it was traumatic in parts and the different effects of her descent were heartbreaking. If you have suffered tremendous loss this is not a example of how to forge forward with strength but a example of what happens when people have a sharp mental descent from grief they cannot process reasonably. it is a heartbreaking read from the perspective of one who has suffered traumatic grief from multiply deaths in a row and never experienced what the author had.

This ebook was provided by NetGalley for review.

This is a wonderful book describing a woman's soul searching in the wake of her husband's death, her blissful and terrifying descent into what is seen by society as mental illness, and her ultimate triumph when she comes into her own power. Highly recommend.

Let me preface my review by saying that I do believe that our souls live forever and our lives here are just a journey to someplace better. That being said, the author has the same feelings especially after her beloved husband dies.

In the novel, Lori Morrison describes in great detail her journey into the realm of the spirit world. She travels extensively from America to South America searching for answers while being infected with evil spirits. She visits shamans herself claiming eventually to be one, as she tries to rid herself of evil and even eventually finds herself in a mental facility in America, which some will definitely think is warranted. She traces herself back to the Mayan culture and believes she has a jaguar protecting her and goes through many ritualistic occasions with those who claim they can heal. Within that mental health facility, she claims to heal others and then takes the reader forward in her life.

It is not that I do not sympathize Lori and understand Lori's intense grief. It is the giant leaps she asks the reader to make that define what one commonly feel is reality. In reading the synopsis of her life, she has done some really good things for others, particularly those who lived in El Salvador where she and her husband resided. It is in the intense retelling of her experiences with some might label the occult that her story often falls flat for it unbelievably and improbable issues. I am happy that she found solace but have to question her ways of finding it.

Read through NetGalley and Four Jaguars Press an advanced copy of this novel.