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About Time: Book I- Upon A Time In France
What do a modern psychologist, a Master Alchemist, a mystical Abbess, and a ragtag band of orphans in 15th-century France have in common? A wondrous story of tragedy, love, camaraderie, and spiritual unfolding!
Since childhood, the author hungered for direct experience of spiritual things he read and wondered about. This desire was put on hold as he studied psychology, and built a career and family, and continued to contemplate spirituality. Why were the experiences of transcendence, subtle energy, past lives, and such, always so elusive? Was any of it even real?
When what he sought finally unfolded, it was both more subtle, yet more wondrous and specific than he ever imagined. This memoir tells the story of a life with extraordinary teachers, of a sacred calling found, and of discovering how this calling is found again and again throughout many lives.
About Time recounts the author's experiences with his teacher Rose and how she helped him to connect to the phenomenon of subtle energy. As his subtle perceptions unfolded, so too did his memory of life in 15th-century France as Étienne, along with his Maestro Edouard, the alchemist, a mystical Abbess, and a band of Etienne's fellow orphans.
Join him as he recounts this journey into a life remembered and the present illuminated by the soul's hidden path.
Since childhood, the author hungered for direct experience of spiritual things he read and wondered about. This desire was put on hold as he studied psychology, and built a career and family, and continued to contemplate spirituality. Why were the experiences of transcendence, subtle energy, past lives, and such, always so elusive? Was any of it even real?
When what he sought finally unfolded, it was both more subtle, yet more wondrous and specific than he ever imagined. This memoir tells the story of a life with extraordinary teachers, of a sacred calling found, and of discovering how this calling is found again and again throughout many lives.
About Time recounts the author's experiences with his teacher Rose and how she helped him to connect to the phenomenon of subtle energy. As his subtle perceptions unfolded, so too did his memory of life in 15th-century France as Étienne, along with his Maestro Edouard, the alchemist, a mystical Abbess, and a band of Etienne's fellow orphans.
Join him as he recounts this journey into a life remembered and the present illuminated by the soul's hidden path.
348 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 10, 2023
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July 8, 2023
Read This To ReEmpower Your Own Path
Without any training as a story telling writer (in this lifetime), this author writes like the master novelist most fiction writers dream to be. And yet, the story from James Kepner’s pen, is the story of a deep abiding memory of events—an even greater feat that reaches back in time, way back to a previous life and personality and body, on another continent.
Then, there’s the story itself, about personal transformation: Alchemy of the soul. Can there be anything more important or universal to the human journey in any century? A topic so compelling that even if the reader doesn’t understand the concept completely, can be easily swept up in the movement of the author’s own evolution, and through grace, come to see their own journey (even if only slightly conscious of it) through the author’s honest personal recounting.
About Time is one of my favorite books now across several genres; half way through my kindle version, I purchased 5 paperbacks to give as gifts. When I re read this in a few weeks, I’ll use my highlighting marker to underline the most moving passages, and will meditate on them again.
For the path of this extraordinary story (and spiritual-human experience) to fruition, deep bow to Rev. Rosalyn and the other teachers and community that the modern James Kepner acknowledges.
Without any training as a story telling writer (in this lifetime), this author writes like the master novelist most fiction writers dream to be. And yet, the story from James Kepner’s pen, is the story of a deep abiding memory of events—an even greater feat that reaches back in time, way back to a previous life and personality and body, on another continent.
Then, there’s the story itself, about personal transformation: Alchemy of the soul. Can there be anything more important or universal to the human journey in any century? A topic so compelling that even if the reader doesn’t understand the concept completely, can be easily swept up in the movement of the author’s own evolution, and through grace, come to see their own journey (even if only slightly conscious of it) through the author’s honest personal recounting.
About Time is one of my favorite books now across several genres; half way through my kindle version, I purchased 5 paperbacks to give as gifts. When I re read this in a few weeks, I’ll use my highlighting marker to underline the most moving passages, and will meditate on them again.
For the path of this extraordinary story (and spiritual-human experience) to fruition, deep bow to Rev. Rosalyn and the other teachers and community that the modern James Kepner acknowledges.
July 18, 2023
A Captivating Story Of Past Lives
What would it be like to have a vivid memory of a past life, not just a vague sense of déjà vu? Jim Kepner answers this question in About Time: Book I- Upon A Time In France, providing not only a fast-paced adventure set in fifteenth century France, but a fascinating account of how a twenty-first century seeker might break through the perceptual barriers to access that previous life. The story of "Étienne," a young boy orphaned by one of the many recurrences of the Black Plague who is adopted by a mysterious practitioner of the arts of subtle energy, is framed by an account in the present day of the author who finds a way to access that prior life. Both stories are engaging and well-told.
Whether you take the story as fiction or fact, the narrative of a search for a different sort of knowledge is compelling, in the tradition of James Hilton's Lost Horizon or Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
Recommended!
What would it be like to have a vivid memory of a past life, not just a vague sense of déjà vu? Jim Kepner answers this question in About Time: Book I- Upon A Time In France, providing not only a fast-paced adventure set in fifteenth century France, but a fascinating account of how a twenty-first century seeker might break through the perceptual barriers to access that previous life. The story of "Étienne," a young boy orphaned by one of the many recurrences of the Black Plague who is adopted by a mysterious practitioner of the arts of subtle energy, is framed by an account in the present day of the author who finds a way to access that prior life. Both stories are engaging and well-told.
Whether you take the story as fiction or fact, the narrative of a search for a different sort of knowledge is compelling, in the tradition of James Hilton's Lost Horizon or Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
Recommended!
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