Dive into dreams, visions and coincidences, where you meet not only the author's heart but your own.
Dive into dreams, visions and coincidences, where you meet not only the author's heart but your own.
Dreams, I ching, Mindfulness & meditation
A messy wool ball, a smelly sick cat, a cranky corpse - unrelated images coincide to bring the author’s family to a threshold of make or break. He faces the legal threat of colossal corporate fraud while his daughter wrestles with a life-threatening eating disorder. We walk with them to the edge of life’s mystery, where dreams and our living are interwoven in coincidences. We venture into a liminal realm where traumas are healed, sufferings are remade, and symbols sacred and profane are brought to their manifestation.
Social scientist and author Manny Mak explores spiritual experiences with an anthropological rigor rarely seen in spiritual books. Written with the sophistication of a veteran researcher and the naïve sensitivity of a spiritual seeker, this book offers a unique combination of first-hand testimony and a rigorous examination of dreams and meaningful coincidences. The captivating prose and paintings cultivate a sensibility in readers - one that is healing, dream-awakening, and spiritually enlightening.
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This book is a profound revelation of reality as an intricate multi-layered complexity where sensing, dream symbols and implicit knowing are available to be formulated into a new understanding of life. We re-experience our own reality in order to make sense of it, as well as re-experience others' experiences to understand theirs—just as readers re-experience and dip into the intriguing reality articulated in this book. ~ Akira Ikemi, PhD, Professor, Kansai University
This beautiful book conveys a view of the world in which our living is vividly interpenetrated by a second life of dreams and synchronicities. The author writes with intelligence, grace and insight. His words are like a path. A path to the edge of mystery. Where you meet, not only his heart, but your own. ~ Rob Foxcroft, author of Feeling Heard, Hearing Others (Antonine Books, 2018)
With his keen ethnographic mind, the author revealingly examines his profound dreams and synchronicities. His many deep analyses demonstrate that active engagement awakens deep psychological and spiritual growth. ~ Bernard Beitman, MD, Founder and President of The Coincidence Project and author of Meaningful Coincidences (Park Street Press, 2022) and Connecting with Coincidence (Health Communications, 2016).
The author uncovers the mystery of human experience by sharing his personal and poignant stories. As a social scientist fascinated by ethnographic research on vulnerable groups, he delves into his own struggles with anxiety and fear, loss and grief, and the illness of his daughter. Through painting, dreams, meditation, and narratives we are invited on a journey of enlightenment and recovery with, at the same time, a glance at synchronicity and coincidence. This is a courageous project embracing all ways of knowing in his writing about intricate relationships with the self, family, friends and nature. ~ Eddie Chiu, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Professor at Alliant International University
