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Falling into Light is a magical, heart-warming story about the meaning of love, death, and reincarnation.

Jake Bennett, fifteen years old, is still devastated by the tragic loss of his parents a year ago. When the novel begins, we find him running through a redwood forest near the northern California town of Occidental, where he lives, literally trying to outrun his pain.

Then he stumbles upon an unusual cat named Maya, who leads him down a mysterious path to a clearing, where an old woman named Bertie is quietly working in her garden. Bertie sees Jake’s pain and opens her heart to him. She takes him into her arms, and together they embark on a healing journey filled with light and magic.

Bertie introduces Jake to the spiritual wisdom of her late husband, an African-American named Meriweather. As the story unfolds, we see the heaviness in Jake’s heart fall away as he reconnects with the source of love and wholeness within him. At the same time, he is given a dramatically new perspective on where we come from, why we are here, and what happens when we die.

Just at the point where it seems Bertie has helped him find the answers to all his questions, their journey comes to an unexpected end. At first, the shock of this turn of events seems to threaten everything Jake learned from Bertie.

But the novel ends with a surprise twist reinforcing what Bertie showed him. There is a divine power, mystery, and grace to life which, when we open to it and trust it, lights the path before us and guides us every step of the way.

                                            Contents

  1.     Into the Forest... p 5                     

  2.     The Suffering... p 10                              

  3.     Maya and Bertie... p 14                          

  4.     Jake Opens Up... p 20                          

  5.     The Energy... p 26                               

  6.     Meriweather... p 31                              

  7.     The Ashram... p 37                               

  8.     Big Questions... p 43                             

  9.     The Source of All Healing... p 49              

 10.    God and Dr. King... p 56                        

 11.    The Beauty of Life... p 62                       

 12.    By the River Ganges... p 71                     

 13.    A Holy Union... p 77                               

 14.    Under the Full Moon... p 82                     

                    15.    A Strange Brilliance... p 89                      

 16.    Questioning Reality... p 97                      

 17.    A Manila Envelope... p 102                      

                    18.    Jake Gives Thanks... p 107                      

          Acknowledgments... p 113                    

About The Author

Jim Dreaver, a native of New Zealand, was on a spiritual quest for twenty years before finally awakening to the freedom and love that are his true nature. His gift is being able to deeply connect with people and transmit the authentic taste of that freedom and love.

He lives in Los Angeles, California, and teaches at Esalen Institute and other venues. Esalen is located near the beautiful, wild coast of Big Sur, California. His next workshop there, titled Awaken to Freedom, will be July 5 - 10, 2009. Visit www.esalen.org to register.

He is the author of the new, non-fiction eBook, End Your Story, Begin Your Life, a real-life examination of the message of Falling into Light, which is that while we have and tell many, many stories, we are not our stories, but rather the clear, luminous consciousness which creates them.

The eBook is available for $10.95 at www.endyourstory.com.

He is also the author of The Way of Harmony (Avon, 1999), The Ultimate Cure (Lewellyn, 1995), both of which are available used from www.amazon.com, and Somatic Technique, an illustrated manual for chiropractors, massage therapists, and body workers, written while Jim was still a chiropractor. It can be previewed and purchased for $24.95 at www.somatictechnique.com.

To sign up for his free, monthly Wisdom emailing, visit his web site at www.jimdreaver.com, or email him at jdreaver@aol.com