Standing Stark – Author’s Note

Author’s Note

 

A number of years ago, someone told me that my fate in life is to experience things and then share them with others. It is uncanny how that remark has come to evolve so far. Perhaps it was through that suggestion implanted in my mind¾or not. Whatever the origins, the evolution has continued to resonate with me through time, and I live with the prophecy.

This book is a sequel to my previous book, Calling Our Spirits Home: Gateways to Full Consciousness. Here I offer you what I have continued to find widespread in the unfolding of spiritual consciousness. Through witnessing my own path and engaging intensively with others, I have found the sweet truth that we are all the same. We are all one at the core. We all desire deeply to go to the identical place. It’s only through the choices of our expressions and knowledge regarding possibility that nuances exist.

As for any author, Standing Stark is a snapshot of where I am at the time of writing. There are similarities and yet vast differences to my previous book due to the layering effect of my own discoveries. I present to you what I have found to be universal in its essence.

The narrative transitions back and forth through concepts, real-life examples, trance-like metaphor and analogies. This movement is specifically intended. It is meant to take the reader on a ride between ordinary and non-ordinary reality, the conscious and unconscious mind, the literal and abstract. In this way, integration toward true understanding is possible.

During various forums, I am sometimes asked startling questions. They are startling in the sense that they often unnerve a part of me that had been trying to hang onto an increasingly narrow foothold in a reality that doesn’t even really occur, except in the limitations of the mind. But I am grateful for the questions because they instill a deeper asking on my part. My intent is that a similar curiosity and affinity for the journey will be transmitted here.

In these pages, I have also related what could be considered paranormal or esoteric events from my own life. Happenings of this nature are by-products of spiritual intent and practice. My sense though is that they present a parallel learning for everyday life. Since all life has meaning to me, I have sought in this text to uncover a relevance from which recommitment to the path naturally transpires.

⏤ Carla Woody

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