Nothing inspires me more than people who embrace change. People who listen to the calling of their hearts and find courage to take "the road less travelled". What can be more challenging than conquering the fear of the unknown we instinctively feel at the prospect of change? But often, perhaps always, it is the only way to move forward and toward who we are meant to be.
Katherine Connon is one such person. She has left behind a secure professional career in social work in order to embrace what she calls her healing gift. Despite everything she has seen and experienced during her work with clients in Ireland, India, USA, Spain and elsewhere, she still calls herself a skeptic, and this level-headed, sober impartiality enables her to maintain a certain degree of detachment that I believe is not only beneficial but perhaps vitally important in her healing work.
This book chronicles Katherine's evolution from her beginnings in social work to where she is now, over two decades later, and also offers several case histories of her miraculous work with clients. All of these accounts have the potential to leave the reader gaping in wonder - or in disbelief. But should we dismiss the miraculous, the divine, just because it stretches our beliefs? Or should we at least consider the possibility that this world, and our lives within it, might be more mysterious, dare I say more wondrous, than our own self-imposed limitations allow us to see?
For me, this book has become another stepping stone to somewhere, to a place shrouded in mist and swallowed by distance. It's been a while since I understood once and for all that it's much too convenient - and dangerous - to live our lives enslaved to our own fixed opinions and scoff at ideas that challenge our views and beliefs. It's much more difficult, but infintely more rewarding, to explore and understand those ideas, and reject or accept them from a position of clarity and understanding rather than ignorance.
Katherine Connon's book has allowed me to take another step. Her wonderful book opens up vistas of sparkling beauty that fill the reader with hope, wonder and awe.
