About Time: Book I- Upon A Time In France By James I Kepner
What do a modern psychologist, a Master Alchemist, a mystical Abbess, and a ragtag band of orphans in 15th-century France have in common? A wondrous story of tragedy, love, camaraderie, and spiritual unfolding!
From childhood, the author hungered for direct experience of spiritual things he read and wondered about. This desire was put on hold as he studied psychology, and built a career and family, and continued to contemplate spirituality. Why were the experiences of transcendence, subtle energy, past lives, and such, always so elusive? Was any of it even real?
When what he sought finally unfolded, it was both more subtle, yet more wondrous and specific than he ever imagined. This memoir tells the story of a life with extraordinary teachers, of a sacred calling found, and of discovering how this calling is found again and again throughout many lives.
About Time recounts the author’s experiences with his teacher Rose and how she helped him to connect to the phenomenon of subtle energy. As his subtle perceptions unfolded, so too did his memory of life in 15th-century France as Étienne, along with his Maestro Edouard, the alchemist, a mystical Abbess, and a band of Etienne’s fellow orphans. Join him as he recounts this journey into a life remembered and the present illuminated by the soul’s hidden path.
Jim Kepner is an author, psychologist, and international trainer based in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Body Process: working with the body in psychotherapy (1987/99), considered a classic text in Gestalt therapy and in the area of body-oriented psychotherapy.
Healing Tasks: psychotherapy with adult survivors of childhood abuse (1995), which presents a holistic and holographic model for understanding the healing-as-growth in the process of recovery from childhood trauma.
James I Kepner
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Profoundly moving on many levels. I have read About Time over and over, continuing to find deeper and deeper meaning. The author has shared his gift of insight and memory about a time of darkness in France where abiding love from important teachers allowed Etienne to heal past soul injuries and continue to grow. The story is compelling and the lessons from that time are very important for the evolution of consciousness that is occurring in this age… A beautifully written story that is hard to put down…
Penny Friedman
Transporting and transformative. The story is a captivating page-turner and truly hard to put down. But it's so much more than just a story... The energy of the teachings embedded in it vibrate through the pages. There is so much to learn about how to carry and nurture the light during dark times. I now own both the Kindle edition and a paperback so that I can loan it to friends.
Melanie W.
A page-turning story that elicits mystical energy. It is rare to find a book like this in which the words on the page carry spiritual energy. About Time- Book 1 was a compelling read; I cared about the people in the story, and wanted to keep reading to find out what would happen next. Equally as valuable, reading About Time- Book 1 allowed me to quiet my culturally-taught belief that experience is only “real” if it is rational and logical, and be drawn into a more spiritual energy. From this energy, it was easier to learn the many important spiritual/life lessons that Dr. Kepner describes. What a gift! I very much look forward to Book 2.
Laurie
A timely story about how we exist in time. A fun read about intrigue, adventure and magic in the fifteenth century as 'remembered' by the 21st century author. But it’s also a bigger story about how and what and perhaps why we remember… previous lifetimes…it evokes in the reader the sense that the boundaries of time are not distinct, and invites us to feel into the edges to remember our own past stories.
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