“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans,” John Lennon was singing around the late 60s and early 70s. During that same decade the career I’d embarked upon came to a shuddering stop. Struck down by an undiagnosable illness, my body systems gradually collapsed and my world shattered. Virtually paralysed, I was confined to bed where I lay unable hold a conversation, read, watch TV, feed or wash myself. Often in agonising pain, I longed for death. And then the miracle happened. ‘A story crying out to be told,’ concerned friends told me.
As a trained sculptor my hands had always taken the lead in shaping and bringing my ideas into form. Words, I felt, were more problematic, inadequate. Yet as I lay now embedded and immovable, lines of poetry insinuated themselves into my mind. I groped for a pencil—began tracing one word at a time, struggling to put them down on paper. Slowly, from that moment on, my first ever book took shape and became Pathway Into Sunrise.
Pathway is an autobiography with a difference, and the important difference is that it is co-written: it includes another voice. For not only did I learn to become a writer, I became a channeller as well. Astrazzurra, the Blue Light which had appeared to me in my darkest hours and begun, not just to heal me, but to awaken in me the knowledge of the power of healing within myself, also began to communicate. His wise and loving words form part of this book.
→ Review by Rosalind Oliver (‘LIGHT’, Journal of the College of Psychic & Spiritual Studies)
→ Review by Rose Flint (Autumn 2000 issue of KINDRED SPIRIT)
→ Review by Grethe Hooper-Hansen (appeared in issue No. 70 of NETWORK, The Scientific and Medical Network Review, and in SEAL, The Journal of the Society for Effective Affective Learning, August 1999)