When was the last time you read a book where you had to stop to digest what you just took in because you wanted to savor what you felt?

   Spiritually Uplifted through Words of Another

And then while resonating with it, you get a warm glow about yourself; you feel lighter, more connected with the world, and so happy that another person can put into words what you know is so true? 

That’s what I got (and am getting) from a book by Judith S. Miller, a psychologist who melds science with spirituality and shows how the two can energize each other. I want to write to her to ask, “Where have you been all of my life?” and to praise her for what seems to be a ground-breaking offering.

She’d probably blush and humbly thank me while giving credit to the many mystics who came before her and tried to teach humanity the lessons such a merging could provide the world. But then, I’d have her speaking one-on-one with me, allowing me to bask in her explanation and to pose many follow-up questions to my heart’s delight.

Being Tapped for My Innate Wisdom 

     Her words touch and indeed “delight” my heart. She taps into a wisdom that I already have, one which I believe I was born with, and gently pulls my consciousness to a level where I can see that innate wisdom. We all have the seed of knowledge inside, but we too often overlook it through doubts, misunderstandings and a lack of compassion for ourselves.

I just finished “Healing the Western Soul, A Spiritual Homecoming for Today’s Seeker,” and picked up her previous book, “Direct Connection, Transformation of Consciousness.”

“Mystical insight is a reality that exists independently of other experience.”

It motivated me to think and to feel how my path to a higher level of consciousness has taken me to where I am today. It offered hope for those of us who deal with minor bouts of anxiety, panic attacks and other forms of mental illness. (I got PTSD — Post-Traumatic Stress – from the Vietnam War.)

If you’re brave enough to look yourself in the mirror to see how glamorous you already are, and to deal with the few flaws such a view will uncover, then pick up a copy of her book. You’ll see how you have already been transformed and be glad that someone has put it into words for you.

You too can Become a Mystic!

     Judith S Miller, PhD, is a professor of developmental psychology at Columbia University.