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Chris Evers
Diane
Harrison
Kate Miller
Robert Snow
Steve Rider
Title:
'Awakening'
Author: Mary Rodwell
Publisher: Future Books Ltd.
Price: £9.99
ISBN: 1-903782-03-1
Reviewer: Steve Rider, Southampton UFO
Group's Secretary
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This book is subtitled 'How Extraterrestrial Contact can Transform Your Life', my first feelings were really wondering what to expect, especially so when the comment on the front cover comes from Dr. Roger Leir (who also writes the foreword to the book) and states "In my opinion this book will become the bible of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon". When someone of Dr. Leir's standing gives a book such a high accolade, you have to be impressed. However, I was already eager to get 'stuck into' this book having spoken to Mary at the 21st Leeds UFO Conference in September.
Every so often you read a book that makes you sit up and
take note, this book does more than just that?
Mary Rodwell is a trained midwife and therapist from Australia; she is also
the principal for ACERN (Australian Close Encounter Resource Network) and
a Counsellor and Hypnotherapist. I have to be honest here and say that I
agree one-hundred percent with Dr. Leir's statement, this book is something
special.
I really have only one problem? I do not think that my words for this review can do justice to just how good this book is?
Awakening covers all aspects of the Abduction/contact phenomenon, including regression, implants, missing pregnancies, star children and much more. However, what is different about this book is that it is aimed at the experiencers and specifically directs you to ask the question "Am I having Contact?"The book offers support and advice to those who know or suspect that they may be having contact. It is for this reason that I feel it will become an invaluable tool for experiencers, researchers and counsellors alike.
The book is written in a way that makes it easy for everyone to understand and a compelling read. The whole view point of this book comes from a qualified therapist who was initially sceptical of the contact phenomena, but remained open minded. Once she had spent time working with these people she became convinced that whole phenomena of Abduction/contact was something real and happening to ordinary people the world over.
The information included in the book that comes from the experiences of those that Mary has worked with is a refreshing look at the whole phenomena. Especially so as the book opens with the experiences of one of those people, in the form of excerpts of a letter written to Mary.
I don't think that I have been able to find something about
this book that I do not like. However, if I had to state one thing it would
be that it is not long enough and I would definitely like to read more about
Mary's research.
This book is a most compelling read and one that I found hard to put down.
I certainly feel that this book should be on the shelves of all those serious
researchers into the Abduction/contact phenomena. I would definitely recommend
it to those I know. I am not one for grading books, but if I had to for
this book I would give it 10 out of 10.
Finally, I have one more thing to say about Awakening? Read it, Now! You may find you own life transformed!
Steve Rider
Southampton UFO Group, Secretary.
October 2002.