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Standing at the leading edge of a new year is a little like looking around from the tip of the high dive. Despite trepidation and occasional backward steps, our resolve got us to this point, perhaps farther out on the edge of an inner frontier than we"ve ever been. We carefully chose our mentors, outgrew some and balance on the shoulders of others. And yes, serve as role models for those who are seeking their own balance. This month, I offer three books that can provide patterns for excellence. |
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With ENCHANTED LOVE: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships, Marianne Williamson helps smooth the path to a dearly sought destination: a courageous and understanding heart. For those who seek not only to love in a special relationship but to be able to accept love, her point of view defies the fears or sadness that deprive people of the joy life can hold. "Revealing romantic love as our newest spiritual frontier and spirituality as our next relationship frontier," Williamson builds on "the powerful messages about spirituality and relationships that informed her previous bestsellers, A Return to Love, A Woman's Worth, and Illuminata; [she] charts a course for |
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understanding the mysteries and hidden powers of intimate relationships... Williamson writes movingly mysteries and hidden powers of intimate relationships of the subtle yet pervasive shift in the way we are beginning to perceive love, one that involves letting go of our resistance "and moving toward a more exalted state where we can be at peace with ourselves. Helping readers navigate through the essential phases of an intimate relationship -- yearning, coupling, staying, leaving --- she shows how this new loving attachment is the positive culmination of what is finally possible between men and women and God. Acknowledging that the war between the sexes is over, with Enchanted Love, Williamson gives us the language and the framework with which to construct the peace. She writes, "Men and women need each other, at least now as much as we ever did, but for a deeper experience than mere procreation or protection. We need each other now to conceive the miraculous things of spirit." (Approx. 280 pages, $24, Simon & Schuster.) |
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| When you see the cover of ADVENTURES OF THE LITTLE GREEN DRAGON, 10 charming tales culled from past issues of Unity's Wee Wisdom and "Best Children's Book" of the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Awards Competition, the child in you will smile. Waking up in the morning under a patchwork quilt, Little Green Dragon sits up and contemplates the world outside his window as if he can hardly wait to start the day's adventures and misadventures.
The author, Mari Privette Ulmer, knows how to weave marvelous stories for children from the most primary of themes, a ploy that not only keeps their interest but can nestle deeply into who they can become. Such values as seeing beyond appearances, being true to oneself, settling disagreements |
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| peacefully and knowing God as the source of all that is are handled deftly, with a pen so light that the story that expresses them will be remembered.
A "Learning from the Little Green Dragon" study guide, a helpful aid for discussion. Detailed color illustrations, by Mary Maass, are fun to look at and decorate every page. The award mentioned above is the second major children's book award garnered by this book; it was a finalist in the Visionary Awards by the Coalition of Visionary Retailers. |
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Have you thought about your teeth lately? You should excuse me for bringing up such an intimate subject, but Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS and Thomas Levy, MD, JD have done a lot of thinking about the subject and give us pause with UNINFORMED CONSENT: The Hidden Dangers in Dental Care. If this is the year you want to act on the resolution to get those amalgam fillings replaced, Drs Huggins and Levy will provide you with fuel for the finger that dials an informed, local dentist.
You'll learn a lot from the authors. The highly credentialed doctors clearly and comprehensively "discuss all the issues, clearly detailing the research linking the deteriorating state of the public's health and mercury toxicity... They reveal...its possible effects on MS, Alzheimer's, Hodgkin's, |
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| Parkinson's and autoimmune disease, birth defects, chronic fatigue, indigestion, cholesterol production and leukemia." They answer questions about how modern dental procedures adversely affect the immune system; how to make informed decisions before visiting your dentist; and options on how to proceed to remedy already existing conditions."
(My own dentist once believed that amalgam was perfectly safe. Thanks to the uproar from some of her patients, she did her homework. While the numbers of dentists who offer replacement continually increase, I suggest that you check with the American Dental Association for practitioners with a holistic, medically complementary, viewpoint. A little anecdotal evidence: over the years, several of my friends have taken matters in hand and had their fillings replaced with non-toxic substances. Judging from their enthusiastic endorsement -- all swear they had forgotten they could feel so much better! -- Huggins and Levy aren't just leading us on. After all, if (as reported recently in the news) a smidgeon of mercury from replaced gas meters in people's basements sends in emergency cleanup crews in jumpsuits, masks and visors, then please give me one good reason, aside from ignorance or blinders, how the one safe repository for mercury (and other heavy metals) has been in a "silver" filling inside your mouth? If that question sounds too simplistic, please check with Uninformed Consent. Are the authors' findings scary? You bet. But then, so is nuclear energy that's gone wrong; the health of people worldwide has been sacrificed -- accidentally. Little did we know we were participating in our own accident: we paid to have toxic substances installed. Now that we have the authors' authoritative testimony, we have a choice to make. (Softcover, 278 pages, $14.95, Hampton Roads.) |
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