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Dear colleagues,
The following is from my D.Min. colleague (Univiersity of Creation 
Spirituality), Connie Kaplan, about her new book.  Please consider ordering a copy from 
your local bookstore, or from Amazon.com.

She did a "Soul Contract" reading for me a few years ago, and I found it very 
helpful.  This book tells how to go through the process of the reading for 
yourself, in these puzzling times.

To find out more about Connie, visit her website at turtledreamers.com.



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> When we look at the external world in the 21st Century, it's hard to find 
hope

> that our species can live in the peace and prosperity that we all desire and

> deserve.  

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> "The Invisible Garment" will anchor and articulate that hope for you.  This

> body of information, will awaken memory in you that you have a purpose in

> life, a gift to deliver to the world, and that you are totally loved and 
fully

> "sponsored" by divine and cosmic forces.  First you must remember the gift

> that you came to deliver, and then you'll (by example) teach others how to 
do

> the same.  The result of remembering your gift is inner peace, the outer

> result will be world peace.

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> From the prologue of the book:

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> We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single

> garment of destiny.

> Martin Luther King, Jr.

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>   The title "The Invisible Garment" introduces a metaphor which flows

> throughout this book. We each wear an unseen garment, woven in divine 
threads,

> which holds us, shrouds us, veils us, protects us, and simultaneously 
connects

> us to every other being in the universe.  Through the general knowledge of 
the

> tenets of quantum physics, most of us now intellectually know that life is a

> holistic experience -- that every being, organic and inorganic, is a unique

> thread in a galactic interwoven fabric.  Each of us is not only a fiber in

> this tapestry, but we are also embedded (cloaked) in its weave.

>   But intellectual knowing is not enough.  We long to experience our

> connection.  In a tapestry when one thread is either missing, faded, or

> damaged, a hole exists in the whole.  When we feel ourselves unraveling, we

> want to be reminded of our connection to something greater than our small,

> separate realities. The Invisible Garment outlines a practical way for you 
to

> chart the soul's purpose for your lifetime, and therefore to understand your

> own spiritual wardrobe.   It shows you how we each are simultaneously unique

> and one with The One.  Because we are each integral aspects of an awesome

> cosmic weaving, it is not only to ones personal benefit, but to the benefit 
of

> the universe for each person to understand his or her life purpose.

>   This book makes the radical (although not original) suggestion that who 
you

> essentially are is good.  It alleges that in other dimensions of

> consciousness, each of us writes a pre-natal contract with life, which we 
sign

> and seal at first breath.  These contracts are spiritual (being), not

> actual(doing).  They function as our clothing, our fiber, our safety net, 
our

> deep and unfettered connectedness to Creation and Creator, throughout our

> lives.  They consist of a configuration of spiritual principles, which

> articulate what is good about us -- what is right about us -- what is never

> broken in us. 

>   These principles remind us of the wonder of life, the awesome nature of 
each

> person's uniqueness, the incomparable miracle of humanity.  When you learn

> about your own spiritual principles, you realize the beauty of your 
beingness,

> and your behavior spontaneously becomes beautiful.  When your goodness is

> articulated, you begin to experience the all-embracing love which is the

> fabric of the universe living itself through you.  And as you wear your own

> invisible garment whether impeccably or imperfectly, you so contribute to 
the

> tapestry of society.

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> The fabric of society is not finished. . .

> It is on the loom, and it is made up of

> constantly changing relationships.

> Gandhi

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> Please give yourself the gift of investigating the purpose of your life.  
Get

> your hands on this book.  Read it ravenously.  Use it hungrily.  Give it 
away

> with insane abandon.  Be happy.

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> Thanks

> Connie Kaplan

> author