How to Know... NOW: The simple, direct, immediate guide to meditation and spiritual guidance. Kindle Edition by Julie Pierce

How to Know... NOW: The simple, direct, immediate guide to meditation and spiritual guidance. Kindle Edition

by Julie Pierce

I am one of those not so very rare people who need to be hit over the head with a sledge hammer, not once, not twice, but more times than I would like to think.

I wrote this little book years ago after coming back from an amazingly rich and traumatic time in El Salvador. I wrote in in a shabby notebook, sitting on my friend's deck in Marblehead, MA, USA. I felt a compulsion to write it, as if I had no say in the matter. When I was finished, in a short time as it is a short book on a subject I had spent a lot of time with, I put the writing in a box with a pile of other stuff and forgot about it. The compulsion was over. I had done it.

Months (years) later I had a very disturbing dream. I dreamed that I had a baby whom I put in a cold room and shut the door. When I looked in the room, the baby was standing in her crib, with nothing on but a wet diaper, looking pale, skinny, and cold. I awoke very much shaken. I was a great mother who prided myself on keeping my kids dressed in natural fabrics, fed organic foods, warm and surrounded by nature and beauty. I was disturbed by this dream, couldn't shake it.

I went to visit my friend and mentor, John Gardner. He listened thoughtfully and made a suggestion that never would have occurred to me. He suggested that when I was falling asleep that night, I ask the dream (?) what the baby represented. (John, in his youth, had met with Carl Jung and had read his works on dreams.) That night, without much expectation, I did so. 

The dream started out the same with my opening the door to the room with the baby. Everything was the same including the chill and the greyness only this time the baby had a glaringly white tee shirt on. On the front of the tee shirt in big bold black letters were the words your book. I awoke with a start and for a bit I couldn't remember where I had put the little manuscript.

John had a good laugh about how easy it was to solve the mystery. My friend Ron took me under his wings and helped (made) me bring the book to print. It was so much fun to enjoy the stories of readers finding real help from How. I gave some talks, enjoyed the community that came from meeting people who resonated with my words, then I drifted into the next things in my life.

Right now, I am writing a new book, Julie stories, about living a simple but often extravagant life outside the normal economies...sort of from preppy hippie to bohemian nomad. As I was first thinking about my new book and trying to sort the thousands of crazy experiences my life has manifested, I pondered how to generate some buzz. Same frigging thing only less dramatic! I awoke at 3 AM from a deep sleep and heard the words "Your Book". Oh ya, back in the drawer of history. Being the wonder that she is, my Friend Randie had it up for sale on Amazon Kindle the next day.

I hope you read it. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you tell others about it, and I hope you are not so put off by the God stuff as my friend Charlie is. If you have been reading my blog, you know that I love all gods and Gods in pretty much equal measure.