And now for something a little different.....
Synopsis: Circumstances force a young woman photographer named Cassie to take an unlikely assignment in Egypt, where a diary mysteriously appears in her camera case. Inexplicably drawn to its content, Cassie begins to discover a surprising connection to the diary’s writer. She doesn’t know whether to believe it, but if the diary is true, it means not only that its writer is in mortal danger but also our entire world.
The discovery of the diary starts Cassie on a journey that takes her to some of the world’s most ancient and enigmatic sacred sites, and leads her to uncover some of the planet’s largely hidden, primeval and powerful knowledge—including the surprising secret of her past.
As her startling mission becomes clearer, Cassie finds herself and the diary’s distant (or not-so-distant) writer tapping into a potent stream of knowledge and energy that has flowed through ancient civilizations from Atlantis to Egypt and Israel, to South America and the South Pacific. It gradually becomes clear that understanding the secrets that underlie our world and these civilizations is not just a stop on a tour bus, but rather it is essential to battling the forces of darkness, ignorance, fear, and separation that threaten our very planet.
To find the diary’s owner and save him, Cassie must overcome her own self-doubt, and come to terms with her gifts and passions, and with a purpose she never knew she had.
Review: This book is semi-biographical, as the author herself did as Cassie and moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles,for her career as a fashion photographer.Through a series of unexpected events she found herself in Egypt studying with a well-known author, teacher, and trance medium. A year and a half later she returned to Egypt as his staff photographer.After that second trip,the heart of what was to become “The Keeper of the Diary” came roaring through her in four flurry-filled days of typing while staying at a friend’s bed and breakfast in Northern California.She spent almost ten years visiting, photographing and learning about many of the earth’s ancient megalithic (“great stone”) sacred sites
I included this review today, as there are about 1200 meagalithic 'scared' structures in Ireland., including the Beaghmore Stone Circles in Northern Ireland, with it's 3 pairs of stone circles.The Ballycrovane large standing stone is on the westernmost point of Ireland, and Creevykeel in in County Sligo (one of the best preserved circles). These also include barrow mounds which have been found to not contain bodies as originally though, but line up for astronomical dates.
This was a hard book for me to read, as it is rather LARGE at 500 pages! The book goes back and forth for the first half between the diary, which is in a cursive print, and the fiction narrative. As the book is on beigey type paper, it was hard on the eyes. The fiction narrative really progressed the story and was a great read, with the mystery of why a character keeps popping up in her life at weird places, keeping you reading.
The diary section was the one that I had a hard time with, as I hate to say it leaned 'too new agey', but in essence it did. There was just SO much info that the brain kept shutting down and not wanting to read the diary sections anymore. And to be honest I stopped about halfway through, as otherwise I would of never finished the book. YET, the end explained a lot of the diary's contents, so it was ok I skipped them. Which leads to maybe a better editing would have made the book smaller and an easier read. It was an interesting concept though with the reason for the sacred sites being explained. Again, it's not a bad read, just be prepared to read it over a week or so, as you will probably need to take it in increments and then take a break from it like I did,
About the Author: Judith Diana Winston, is a visionary artist, writer, life mentor, and author of “Meditative Magic—The Pleiadean Glyphs,” an inspired collection of consciousness-altering symbols.As Winston notes, like Cassie, “it was only when I was able to embrace a much larger perspective on life that I began to understand how the many inexplicable, and seeming unrelated events in my life were tied together and made sense.” Also like Cassie, Winston has photographed and experienced the mysteries of many of the world’s sacred-stone sites, including the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu and Bolivia’s Tiahuanaco, and more
http://thekeeperofthediarybook.com/
Synopsis: Circumstances force a young woman photographer named Cassie to take an unlikely assignment in Egypt, where a diary mysteriously appears in her camera case. Inexplicably drawn to its content, Cassie begins to discover a surprising connection to the diary’s writer. She doesn’t know whether to believe it, but if the diary is true, it means not only that its writer is in mortal danger but also our entire world.
The discovery of the diary starts Cassie on a journey that takes her to some of the world’s most ancient and enigmatic sacred sites, and leads her to uncover some of the planet’s largely hidden, primeval and powerful knowledge—including the surprising secret of her past.
As her startling mission becomes clearer, Cassie finds herself and the diary’s distant (or not-so-distant) writer tapping into a potent stream of knowledge and energy that has flowed through ancient civilizations from Atlantis to Egypt and Israel, to South America and the South Pacific. It gradually becomes clear that understanding the secrets that underlie our world and these civilizations is not just a stop on a tour bus, but rather it is essential to battling the forces of darkness, ignorance, fear, and separation that threaten our very planet.
To find the diary’s owner and save him, Cassie must overcome her own self-doubt, and come to terms with her gifts and passions, and with a purpose she never knew she had.
Review: This book is semi-biographical, as the author herself did as Cassie and moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles,for her career as a fashion photographer.Through a series of unexpected events she found herself in Egypt studying with a well-known author, teacher, and trance medium. A year and a half later she returned to Egypt as his staff photographer.After that second trip,the heart of what was to become “The Keeper of the Diary” came roaring through her in four flurry-filled days of typing while staying at a friend’s bed and breakfast in Northern California.She spent almost ten years visiting, photographing and learning about many of the earth’s ancient megalithic (“great stone”) sacred sites
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| Creevykeel, courtesy of Ireland National Monument Service |
I included this review today, as there are about 1200 meagalithic 'scared' structures in Ireland., including the Beaghmore Stone Circles in Northern Ireland, with it's 3 pairs of stone circles.The Ballycrovane large standing stone is on the westernmost point of Ireland, and Creevykeel in in County Sligo (one of the best preserved circles). These also include barrow mounds which have been found to not contain bodies as originally though, but line up for astronomical dates.
This was a hard book for me to read, as it is rather LARGE at 500 pages! The book goes back and forth for the first half between the diary, which is in a cursive print, and the fiction narrative. As the book is on beigey type paper, it was hard on the eyes. The fiction narrative really progressed the story and was a great read, with the mystery of why a character keeps popping up in her life at weird places, keeping you reading.
The diary section was the one that I had a hard time with, as I hate to say it leaned 'too new agey', but in essence it did. There was just SO much info that the brain kept shutting down and not wanting to read the diary sections anymore. And to be honest I stopped about halfway through, as otherwise I would of never finished the book. YET, the end explained a lot of the diary's contents, so it was ok I skipped them. Which leads to maybe a better editing would have made the book smaller and an easier read. It was an interesting concept though with the reason for the sacred sites being explained. Again, it's not a bad read, just be prepared to read it over a week or so, as you will probably need to take it in increments and then take a break from it like I did,
About the Author: Judith Diana Winston, is a visionary artist, writer, life mentor, and author of “Meditative Magic—The Pleiadean Glyphs,” an inspired collection of consciousness-altering symbols.As Winston notes, like Cassie, “it was only when I was able to embrace a much larger perspective on life that I began to understand how the many inexplicable, and seeming unrelated events in my life were tied together and made sense.” Also like Cassie, Winston has photographed and experienced the mysteries of many of the world’s sacred-stone sites, including the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu and Bolivia’s Tiahuanaco, and more
http://thekeeperofthediarybook.com/
Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this book, free of charge, from the author, via Bostick Communications, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it
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