Unlimited, unconditional, unending love. Is it fantasy or reality? In this extraordinary and fascinating book, bestselling author Jess Stearn reveals that perfect love does exist--that you can find it, experience it . . . and with it, change your life forever. Here are the inspiring stories of many real-life soulmates Stearn has met, the innermost secrets of celebrities like Shirley MacLaine, Susan Strasberg, Howard Hughes, and Joan Hackett, who have sought and found the ultimate love.
Now you can share in the drama and ecstasy of fulfilling your deepest and most powerful yearnings and desires. You too can find your own true soulmate.
Stearn was a Jewish-American journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers. As an author, Stearn specialized in sensationalist speculative non-fiction. His early work focused on outsiders and marginalized individuals such as prostitutes, drug addicts, and homosexuals. His later work focused on spirituality, the occult, and psychic phenomena. His most popular works were two biographies on the American psychic Edgar Cayce; Stearn was a conference speaker for the Association for Research and Enlightenment and a proponent of Cayce's theories.
A lot of this book is very new-age pop-psychology 1980s-California-loopy. However, I love and firmly believe in the concept of soulmates, not in the sense of a "perfect relationship", but rather, in the sense of a "perfect love", which is a different thing in my mind. For that reason, this was interesting, and it gave me quite a bit to ponder. Reactions to this book will be varied, depending on one's beliefs concerning religion, the metaphysical, and soulmates in general, but it's well worth the time spent to read it. It's one of those books that makes you think and clarify your own life philosophy, whether or not you agree with the author's stance.
I enjoyed this book thru and thru. An anecdotal documentation of varied examples of reincarnation, along with good explanations of the "soul mate" phenom. Like many books of this type, it raises more questions than it answers, but such are the many mysteries of life. I think this work would be comforting to many people in search for, or having lost, "the one." A bit more New Age foo foo than I'm used to, but still happy I picked it up.
This is not your typical book on the psychology of relationships. It is a metaphysical book.
It has very interesting stories on how some have found their soulmates.
It gets a bit more questionable when the author and interviews get into the past, present and beyond.
I am not one who believes in re-incarnation like the author and other's like Edgar Cayce, Shirley McLaine etc. But I do however belief that whatever relationships we have had in the present will also be in the beyond, if we choose to go forward with the relationships. The choice is always ours.
I started reading Edgar Cayce in the 1960's and I very much respect Cayce and his works. He was a very formidable influence on many of us in the metaphysical world.
Let me explain why re-incarnation is questionable in my own life. I was brought up in a very religious Catholic family, my father was studying for the priesthood, left it all behind after seminary school. I have 3 aunts who are religious and 2 uncles who entered the priesthood (all deceased except one aunt.) So you might say I was a bit brainwashed. Let's move on to the 1970's and after much searching, I slowly (still am) pushed myself away from many of the Church's teachings.
Re-Incarnation to me was about Jesus who came on earth to deliver a very important message. "To love one another and He loves us." Jesus being the incarnation of God the Father.
Personally, I don't want to come back in another human form, I want to move on into the beyond, be the person that I am and grow in love and wisdom.
The images/themes of two burning towers and North Carolina made their way into my consciousness multiple times throughout.
Even though this book was published in 1984, I find it deeply fascinating that the chapter, "The Deeper Call," reflects upon Donald Trump's booming success at age thirty-six. In an airline magazine article he states, "Life is what you do while you're waiting to die." (218).
Donald Trump is now the President of the United States.
I found the story pessimistic.however I loved the way the characters transformed as the situation of life change in the novel influence their characters & the changing characters influence the destiny in their own way . excellent description & way of the time ,simple but superb😇✌