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Dangerous Aspects by Colin Winston Aldridge
A must read self help novel.
Dangerous Aspects is a book like no other. To spread the word about a new paradigm of healing the author, Colin Winston Aldridge, has chosen to return to the age old practice of story telling. And what a story Dangerous Aspects is. Truly an exciting read from start to finish that builds in pace with the turn of every page. Yet the content is far from mindless. As the story and progress of the protagonist unfolds so does an enchanting and yet totally practical outline of a new paradigm of healing. Energy medicine is very much a 21st century happening in the Western world and with this story we get the opportunity to take the authors clever pathway right into the modality at work in real circumstances. Not only do we get the look and feel of this amazing new healing modality the author also weaves into the story a coaching manual so that what we get is two books in one. This departure from the self help genre whilst at the same time elaborating the need to find healing through a gifted story such as this is a magical use of the novel medium.
The key element of the story itself is the burning question: do we really know the person we live with? Misunderstandings and secrets are everywhere. Sometimes we just need to scratch the surface to find them out. What we may find could make us fall from the face of earth. Still, at the same time it could make us discover a hidden side of ourselves, tougher than we thought. These strong feelings run underneath this double layered novel.
A breathtaking plot in the first layer leads us into a story of drug racketeering, kidnappings and murders. The story starts out with our protagonist, Sondra Ackerman, uncovering some deeply disguised and well hidden secrets about her drug dealing husband Jack. To tell where this story ends up would be to deny you the excitement of the ending, an ending that twists and turns up to the very last paragraph. The layer beneath takes us on a journey to explore a new paradigm of alternative therapy and the powerful effect it can have on us and our vibrational harmony and wellbeing.
This story is thought provoking on several levels and rarely does a novel travel the distances Dangerous Aspects does to both thrill and inform the reader. Story telling is rarely this gifted!
Colin said of this work: " I truly believe in the goodness of my work Dangerous Aspects. The intent with which the story was written is so powerfully strong the reader will be uplifted by the strong healing messages that develop through the story and its conclusions."
Review
Here we have a very exciting book - two books in one in reality.
Firstly it is a novel about a woman's difficult divorce and a ‘good read' it is too. You can read it simply as a novel with its twists and turns, its murders and intrigues. It is an entertaining novel you will not want to put down and it is worth reading.
The central character, Sondra Ackerman, finds her world turned upside down by the discovery of her husband's involvement in drug racketeering. She did not realize that her decision to leave him and cooperated with the US Federal Authorities would result in the brutal murders of people she cared about and would put her precious children at dire risk. Sondra turns to her best friend, Connie, who is an alternative therapist, and eventually into the world of alternative health therapies when more traditional routes to help maintain her sanity collapse before her
Sondra is forced to flee with her children, from her husband's world of danger to the US Government's Witness Protection Program, where she struggles to stay alive.
The story follows a web of rage, murder and deceit from Philadelphia to Mexico recounting her evermore desperate attempts to avoid her husband's increasingly more vicious attempts to uncover her whereabouts and to silence her. When her children are involved the sakes become higher and Sondra must trust the local and federal authorities to save her family and a caring alternative therapy community to save her mind
The second thread is a life coaching manual. The woman's difficult situation produced almost intolerable stress causing her to seek therapy. Her journey to successful therapy is cleverly entwined into the story of the novel. You hardly notice it within the intricacy of the story, but the thread runs through the plot leading to a success which could stand as a lesson to us all when she tries Energy Psychology and is led to teach others Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
You can read the novel first, but do not overlook the coaching manual. Everyone deserves to read both aspects of this book.
Prof. Tam Llewellyn-Edwards, EFT Master.
TL-E(2008)
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