Book Reviews (Mar 2009)

Frances Vaughan. Shadows of the Sacred-Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books – The Theosophical Publishing House 1995   318 pp   $21.95

This is a book worth tasting, a little morsel at a time, and chewing upon thoughtfully. Frances Vaughan shares of her own wisdom and, through profound quotes, from observations of others across space and time.

Though her book is more than a dozen years in print, it is timely in the context of the needs of humanity to waken to our connection with the All if we hope to survive the planetary crises facing us today. Vaughan notes, "The seeds of grassroots spirituality seem to be springing up everywhere through the cracks in the old order." (p. 3)

Read more in IJHC January, 2009