The Way of Intuition: A Book Review of Second Sight

by Deborah DeNicola

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Dr. Judith Orloff’s new book Second Sight, is a fascinating memoir of her journey to come to terms with her psychic intuition. From the time young Judith is a child, she is dreaming and foreseeing future events, the illnesses and deaths of relatives and family friends. As a teenager she has a near death experience during a car accident where she enters the tunnel and sees the light.

Always discouraged by her social-conscious mother,  Judith is afraid of her own powers until she becomes part of an experimental research teamin L.A. and meets others with developing psychic powers. Each chapter brings more and more insight into her experiences until she recognizes that all humanity has the power now to cultivate new senses.

I was especially drawn to this book as it is in the same genre as my own memoir. What is important about books in this category is that readers get to validate their own experiences. Many of us are out of the closet now in full support of the new era upon which humanity is embarking, which is actually a return to an esoteric age we had lost touch with. Let me quote Dr. Orloff here as her own words are most prophetic:

We have come full circle. Our earliest ancestors passed on a rich intuitive heritage: prophets, oracles, shamans, healers make up a vital portion of our history. Yet as the Age of Exploration took off and science became revered, what had been considered natural for so many thousands of years was then labeled superstitious nonsense or condemned as the work of the devil. Seers were deemed to be witches and burned at the stake for their so-called crimes. Later, industry and technology—focused always on rational explanation—drove more nails in the coffin of intuition.

This book is a must read for all of us, those who have tapped into their powers, and those who may find these ideas suspect. Dr. Orloff’s life study is documentary proof that seers are not charlatans cloaked in turbans gazing into crystal balls, and her argument is that every one of us can develop highly sensitive intuition that will be useful in medicine and the transformation of our society.

Recently a new review of my memoir was posted on Amazon.com. This person, T. Ruth, said ”I am so grateful that Deborah had the courage to share her personal story with the world in such a detailed, thoughtful, honest, loving way.”

This fan emailed me personally on Facebook to say her husband had also read my book and was anxious to begin developing his feminine side, or the feminine way of knowing. In moments like that I feel so blessed to have had the impulse to share my knowledge and research into human esoteric history.

Judith Orloff calls for the same goal that I encourage in my book, an integration of intellect and intuition. I recommend this book with no reservations. It reads like a novel, an adventure story with an encouraging ending.

. . .  now at the edge of the twenty-first century, there is an increasing movement of people who realize how much of our soul we’ve sacrificed. That split just isn’t necessary. Envision a furture where all of our analystical accomplishments and the intuitive work hand in hand—realizing the best of both worlds. That’s where I believe we’re headed.

Amen, I say to that. And so it its.

New Review from Facing North for Deborah’s Memoir

Facing North – The Future That Brought her Here: A Memoir of a Call to Awaken

Great New Review in The Huffington Post Living Section

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-susan-corso/the-future-that-brought-h_b_366745.html?view=print

Dr. Corso

Read More: Deborah DeNicola,

Deborah DeNicola approached the spiritual life seriously because of a broken heart. So many of us create crises in order to awaken; it’s definitely one way to do life, but, believe it or not, crises are not a requirement. Neither is exquisite poetry, but DeNicola thrives on both.

Her new book The Future that Brought Her Here: A Memoir of a Call to Awaken is one woman’s story of a life lived in the process of awakening. Sometimes she wakens joyously; at other times, kicking and screaming. Regardless, awakening is her mandate, and awaken, she does.

DeNicola realizes quickly that all things on this Earth are designed to awaken humans. All. No exceptions. She wakens through dream work, channeling, automatic writing, readings, relationship, travel. Anything and everything is an opportunity to waken if we’ll take it that way.

And Deborah DeNicola does.

For many years I have credited Mama Donna Henes with this quote: “Your mama never told you bedtime facts–she told you bedtime stories.” When I told her about it, she laughed, and said she couldn’t take responsibility for it!

DeNicola tells us story after story. Rich, full, interior. Seeking validation of her own mystical experiences, she validates those of her readers. Unusually, her experience with the intuitive and mystical is physical. She feels light touches and adjustments within her body as she grows. Guidance comes to her through dreams, workshops, healers, therapists, channelers and a host of miraculous occurrences. Is it believable? To me, it is. I have my own version of her story.

In truth, so does everyone, but does everyone validate it? Sadly, no. This is why it’s so good to have another book in the world telling one woman’s personal experiences. No one will have identical experiences, but we all have similar ones.

Interspersed through her written journey are divine poems. I mean divine in the holiest sense. Deborah DeNicola is an inspired poet. She uses her artistry to understand her world. Poetry of itself is naturally liminal, and this award-winning poetess (isn’t that a lovely, old fashioned word?) soars when she grasps her world through words.

One of her guides suggests that we strive and that we affirm that “I accept this in peace,” whatever the this is in that sentence. It is this surrendered self that DeNicola cultivates. Her journey is a shining example for all who know that surrender is the easiest way to live.

Her father died of a drug overdose in 1963 when the author was 15. My father died in 1963 as well; I was five. The resonance of the dates primed me for healing as I read her poem cycle about her father’s death. Consider these striking words:

Sweet yearning
for the beauty of touching with the heart
what the mind did not
in creating the sorrow
of the body.

Oh yes, the premature death of a parent. Premature? Is there ever a good time for a parent to die in the mind of a child? No, not really. Her poem cycle leapt off the page to heal me. For that I am grateful, a better daughter.

Thank you, Deborah DeNicola, for writing this book bent on empowering the feminine in a world that so achingly needs Her.

For you, who agree with her, and even for those who don’t, read this one woman’s everyday, spectacular journey, and be confirmed in your own.

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New Amazon Review of “Future” by The Midwest Review

An inspiring read especially for women, October 12, 2009

The wholeness of a spirit fulfilled is a desire that will take people across the world. “The Future That Brought Her Here: A Memoir of a Call to Awaken” is Deborah Denicola’s reflections on her spiritual journeys around the world. Encouraging women to use their natural gifted intuition, she shows what knowledge she has gained going around the world, from Israel to France and beyond. “The Future That Brought Her Here” is an inspiring read especially for women.

Review by Judith Laura, Author of Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century

The Future That Brought Her Here: A Memoir of a Call to Awaken by Deborah DeNicola (Ibis 2009)

This spiritual memoir by a widely-published poet is both an inner journey and a geographical pilgrimage. DeNicola is author of 5 poetry collections and editor of an anthology of contemporary poems about Greek mythology. She is recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts plus other writing awards, and has taught at Massachusetts College of Art and Lesley University. She shares some of her wonderful poetry in this book, yet her background also means that DeNicola is an adept writer who knows when to use poetic language in prose (in this book she uses it sparingly and effectively) and when more direct diction is appropriate. This skill makes this book a pleasure to read.

Check out the whole review  at Medusa Coils