Frances Vaughan

What happens after we or our loved ones die, even if under tragic circumstances? What happens to centuries of wisdom when threats to freedom arise? How do we keep ourselves hopeful in the midst of grueling day-to-day struggles? How can we connect with, and remember, the larger tapestry of our existence?Seven Stories to Light the Way follows in the spirit of the first two books in the "Greater Reality" series by Cynthia Spring and Frances Vaughan: Seven Questions About Life After Life and Seven Questions About the Greater Reality. But this book illuminates through stories.Imagine a starry night sky when it shows the expanse of our galaxy. Imagine that each star offers a threshold, or a portal, into the Greater Realty. How many portals are there? Too many to count. This book offers seven of them. If you peek at the greater reality through each of these portals, you can put together an expansive view of your own making. Each story is like a puzzle piece. Pick one up and it's interesting. Put them together, and a whole picture starts to emerge. Seven Stories expands your consciousness through new ways to understand how our human incarnation fits into a larger frame of existence that we all share-including new ways to experience it. Each of the seven stories in this book captures a moment or event set in the context of a greater reality. Commentary and dialogue between Frances and Cynthia follow the telling of each story, illuminating their broader meaning."Truth and Story always walk together, and people love them both."Seven Stories to Light the Way. Time to come home.(This is Book 3 in the Greater Reality series by Cynthia Spring and Frances Vaughan. Book 1 is Seven Questions About Life After Life. Book 2 is Seven Questions About the Greater Reality.)

Seven Questions about the Greater Reality: We Are Spiritual Beings Having a Human Experience is Book Two of The Greater Reality Series. It continues the journey begun in Book One by giving us a larger frame within which to hold the precious contents of our human lifetimes. In this second volume of the trilogy, co-authors Frances Vaughan (discarnate / speaking from her vantage point in a greater reality) and Cynthia Spring (incarnate / speaking from the familiar space/time dimension) offer seven new questions to spur our realization that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Each question goes into a deeper place of exploration. So the question in Book One, "Am I more than my physical body?" becomes "What Is Aliveness?" in Book Two. The dialogue engaged in by these two souls provides insight on how to hold onto your life purpose when the infrastructure around you is crumbling. Opening to this consciousness helps us answer the questions that are most urgent for our upheaval-filled times and persevere during the third decade of the 21st century. Here are the questions raised: (1) What is aliveness? (2) How do we let go of the fear of death? (3) How do we participate as co-creators of reality? (4) How can we contact the other side? (5) What are we here to learn? (6) How do we live our purpose during the upheavals? (7) What is time-bound? What is eternal?Because the kind of transition we are currently experiencing involves a letting go of old forms, it is vital to remember that our existence extends beyond our physical body. By finding our unique purpose for this incarnation and carrying it out to the best of our ability, we can maintain our balance and clarity, and co-create our future on this planet. The overarching mandate is to be love now, preserving the values of harmony and service within our families and our communities. Knowing that there is life after life, we can courageously confront the forces that would tear us apart. Knowing that our consciousness can tap limitless wisdom and compassion from the collective reservoir gives us strength and perseverance. Being in communication with loved ones "on the other side" demonstrates that we are not alone. Question 3 asks: How do we participate as co-creators of reality? The answer reinforces the main theme of the book: We are conscious beings first, and we are co-creating our physical space/time world together. This recognition is the task at hand. We can discover that so much of our reality can be remade to fit a more loving, more balanced world.This book also provides an approach to a direct experience of "the other side" by means of automatic writing. Where Book One offered a variety of portals, Book Two concentrates on developing the portal of automatic writing, or channeling. As the reader, you are gently encouraged to try your hand at it, to see if you can contact a loved one who has passed or a discarnate mentor. The practice of automatic writing allows you to have your own direct experience.To know "there is a greater reality" puts you on the threshold to explore. To know that "Love is the answer" can give comfort while traversing unknown territory. To suggest that you open a dialogue with a loved one on the other side offers you confidence in the truths of this book from your own direct experience. To realize that you are a spiritual being having a human experience means you grasp the essential message of this book.

Cynthia Spring and Frances Vaughan are engaged in a dialogue based on seven questions about life after life. This fascinating book -- an anchor during a chaotic time filled with confusion and suffering -- offers a larger frame, a greater reality. The authors, one incarnate, one discarnate, address the fears we all are experiencing as we watch our world crumbling. Countries are collapsing; religious and political institutions are wobbling. In this time of rebalance, we are learning the hard way that change is the only constant. Knowledge of life after life helps us let go of the primal fear of death itself. Frances Vaughan's vantage point "from the balcony" offers us a more expansive way of seeing our world. This book encourages direct experience over belief, and provides portals for exploration.Seven Questions also moves us toward a greater sense of consciousness, of love, of the value of our own evolution. Frances describes the dimension she is in - earth-like, filled with Love and Light, and surprisingly integrated with our own space/time dimension. We can make the transition more peacefully, knowing that we will reunite with loved ones who have gone before us.The way to deal with the "upcoming upheavals," as Frances calls them, is to be of service in whatever ways we can, unique to our own evolution.Frances: Let me just say that the experience of this side fills me with a joy beyond comprehension. The important point for us to convey right now is that the reality of life in another dimension is what awaits all of us. If you can accept that as a guiding principle, then you will live your life according to higher values, no matter what is going on around you.

Since 1976, the channelled writings of A Course In Miracles have touched millions of readers, seekers and students of self-development. The widely regarded spiritual and psychological scholars, Frances Vaughan and Roger Walsh, distilled the most poignant passages from the Course in their beloved volume ACCEPT THIS GIFT is now back in print in this Tarcher Cornerstone Edition.This slender, immensely powerful book provides the perfect gleanings for anyone at any level of interest in A Course In Miracles .'An invaluable collection from one of the great sources of the perennial wisdom.' - Ken WilberThis is another classic title in the 'Tarcher Cornerstone Edition' series, in which the great works of philosophy, spirituality and mind, body & spirit are presented for today's readers.

'A brilliant and groundbreaking exploration of the promises and pitfalls of the spiritual path written by one of the pioneers of transpersonal psychology. A must for every serious spiritual seeker, students of consciousness, and all those concerned about the future of our planet." -Stanislav Grof, M.D. 'Regardless of one's religious preferences, this pioneering classic eloquently and objectively addressees the spiritual issues of our time." -Angeles Arrien 'Here, presented with clarity and courage, are the foundations for a transpersonal psychotherapy the respects the multileveled richness of the human psyche." -Ram Dass

The philosophical depth, psychological insight, and spiritual guidance of A Course in Miracles have been an extraordinary treasure of wisdom for millions of readers worldwide since its original publication in 1976. The reason for its popularity is simple: It deals directly with the root causes of human suffering and proposes the means through which we can return to our natural state of wholeness and peace.This volume, beautifully illustrated with more than 125 photographs by award-winning photographer Jane English, brings together the most evocative and inspirational selections from the Course and contains the entire texts of three previously published books, Accept this Gift, A Gift of Healing, and A Gift of Peace. Exceptionally poetic and moving, these succinct, powerful passages readily stand by themselves as potent capsules of profound inner wisdom, and as tools for our hearts and minds in the wider world.