Inner Coach, Outer Power

Inner Coach, Outer Power, Keith Varnum, New Dimensions Publishing, 2002

Using the author's own experiences, this book tells how anyone can free themselves from emotional and psychological boundaries and embrace the possibilities inherent in this thing called life.

There are lifelong spirit guides that Varnum calls Ascended Masters, nonphysical beings who impart their wisdom to him. Occasionally, they have to use the equivalent of a kick in the rear end when the author isn't "listening." Perhaps the author's bout of blindness, from which he cured himself, was some sort of mainfestation of him going in the wrong spiritual direction. There are a number of experiences which most of us would call "coincidence" or "just one of those things," but Varnum realizes is his inner coach pointing him in the right spiritual direction.

In his continual quest for spiritual education, Varnum gets much too close to what turns out to be a soul-destroying cult. Among the things experienced in this book are: talking to nonphysical teachers, out of body travel, time travel, near death experiences, reliving other lifetimes and experiencing miracles. Then there were the times that the author communicated with plants (and they communicated back), and he completely healed a very broken wrist within just a few minutes using reiki healing.

The old saying goes something like, "When the student is ready, the teacher appears." I must not be ready, because I had a very hard time "getting" this book. Whatever the reason, I don't mean to imply for a second that this is any sort of terrible book, because it isn't. I am sure that this book has helped, and will help, a lot of people; I am just not one of them.