FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
'One Spirit: A Creation Story for the 21st Century' - A Unifying, Upbeat, Beautiful Book for Today
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (March 6, 2006) - "One Spirit: A Creation Story for the 21st Century," gives our pluralistic, postmodern society what it needs - its own tale of how we came to be, and a non-judgmental, upbeat theory of where we might be going. It is a timely book that will be welcomed by the majority of Americans who see no conflict between evolution and the belief in a Creator.
"One Spirit" is a grown-up picture book in which One Spirit becomes bored, decides to explode into Creation, and sends evolution on its merry way to eventually create the universe we know today. Although not technically a children's book, it can be used by parents to gently introduce their children to creation, life, death and eternity.
"One Spirit" is for everyone in its celebration of diversity - "male and female, human, plant and animal, black, white, brown, red and yellow, gay and straight."
Jean Latz Griffin , a former Chicago Tribune reporter, wrote the book seven months after her mother died when she realized that when we lose someone that close, we cling to whatever belief system allows us to see that person again and know them as we knew them on Earth. "One Spirit," thus, can also help those who are grieving the loss of a loved one, who work with the dying or who are facing their own death.
Griffin and her sister-in-law Jane Gaunt, an addictions counselor at the Betty Ford Center, collaborated over the past several years to make the story come alive through Gaunt's amazing ability to create magical wonder and give form to even the most abstract concepts. Griffin and Gaunt are available for interviews and workshops.
One Spirit: A Creation Story for the 21 st Century , by Jean Latz Griffin , illustrated by Jane Gaunt.
64 pp. Full color
3,000 first printing; 6-city tour
Pub date 4/21/06
Publisher: CyberINK
ISBN 0976861038
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'In the Same Breath' Compared to
Aldous Huxley's 'The Perennial Philosophy'
Beautifully illustrated book praised as
opening readers to world's wisdom traditions
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (March 9, 2006) - Ten years in the making, In the Same Breath , a hybrid book that provides insight into the world's great spiritual traditions as well as springboards for meditation, hits the shelves in April to profound praise from best-selling author Mark Epstein, M.D.
Epstein, author of Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being and Open to Desire , sums up In the Same Breath's vision and appeal:
"Jean Latz Griffin's In the Same Breath is a beautiful book. It reminds me of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy , one of my favorite works of all time. I am sure that this book will open its readers to the world's wisdom traditions, just as Huxley's did for me."
Griffin, a former Chicago Tribune reporter who has written about spirituality for the Tribune and other publications, collaborated with Downers Grove artist Christine Tobias to meld 52 readings from the world's wisdom traditions with more than a dozen illustrations that evoke the essence of the readings and the times in which they occurred.
Meticulously researched but simply written, with overviews that place the readings with the historical and religious context of their times, the book traces humanity's attempts to understand the mysterious unity of God and Creation through writings from 600 BCE, when human consciousness made a huge leap all over the world, to the 21st Century.
One of the book's more interesting discoveries is that the concepts being expressed regarding this mystery in the 20th and 21st centuries - both from secular and religious writers - are more similar to the thoughts expressed 2,600 years ago than to anything that has gone between. A strong argument is made that the increasing global connectedness and the concepts of relativity and the new physics have enabled a spiraling back to those earlier, less dualistic times.
Griffin and Tobias are available for interviews.
In the Same Breath , by Jean Latz Griffin , illustrated by Christine Tobias
152 pp. Index, Bibliography, Glossary, Timeline, two 8-page full color inserts
3,000 first printing; 6-city tour
ISBN 097686102X
Pub date 4/21/06
Publisher: CyberINK
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