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The Making of a Mystic: My Journey With Mushrooms, My Life as a Pastor, and Why It's Okay for Everyone to Relax
There is an increasing interest in the mystics, contemplative faith, and what it feels like in real life. We have teachers who can explain the path and help us understand, but we need guides who have experienced the path and who can show us how it unfolds. This is what The Making of a Mystic is all about.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 31, 2022
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Kevin Sweeney
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July 9, 2022
I would recommend this book. Kevin does an excellent job of weaving truth with story in a way that is compelling and easy to read. The layout is such that there is space to sit with the lines that resonate with your innermost being. There are two or three chapters alone that make this book worth your time. Though I suspect what those chapters are will be different for you.
May 31, 2022
Yes. There’s Francis of Assisi, John of the Cross, Gertrude the Great, Rob of Bells…But now we have Kevin of the Skyscraper aka A modern-day mystic.
There are books you read once, forget & let rot on the shelf for the cockroaches…And then there are books, like Kevin Sweeney’s, where you’ll keep chewing on like a fat cow eating cud-extracting every bit of transformative wisdom to further nurture your spiritual journey with the Divine.
I woke up early on release day. Ate this book in one seating. Left no crumbs. Except for dozens of highlights on every page.
This modern-day mystic of the Skyscraper proves that you don’t need to move to the middle of the desert and starve yourself to death in silence to experience the Divine as the great mystics did in the past.
Kevin writes truth with a moving poetic style that will resonate with every reader. He will leave you smiling, laughing, and maybe even shedding a tear (which I may have at his initial encounter with Christ). But above all, he awakens the True-self within and explains with joy the importance of how “All mystics know that death is the secret to life” (pg 250).
Buy the book. Worth every dollar and minute spent.
There are books you read once, forget & let rot on the shelf for the cockroaches…And then there are books, like Kevin Sweeney’s, where you’ll keep chewing on like a fat cow eating cud-extracting every bit of transformative wisdom to further nurture your spiritual journey with the Divine.
I woke up early on release day. Ate this book in one seating. Left no crumbs. Except for dozens of highlights on every page.
This modern-day mystic of the Skyscraper proves that you don’t need to move to the middle of the desert and starve yourself to death in silence to experience the Divine as the great mystics did in the past.
Kevin writes truth with a moving poetic style that will resonate with every reader. He will leave you smiling, laughing, and maybe even shedding a tear (which I may have at his initial encounter with Christ). But above all, he awakens the True-self within and explains with joy the importance of how “All mystics know that death is the secret to life” (pg 250).
Buy the book. Worth every dollar and minute spent.
June 22, 2022
I just want to take a moment to shout out Kevin Sweeney on his amazing book, The Making of a Mystic. Kevin has a way of say things of profound depth in easily relatable ways. I cannot recommend this book enough. Two reasons you should buy this book. First, it is an amazing read. Second, his chapter on failure was a breath of fresh air in a stagnant leadership obsessed culture.
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