 Author Name: Stone, Ganga
Title: Start the Conversation: The Book About Death You Were Hoping to Find
Book Condition: Like New.
ISBN Number: 0756762065 / 9780756762063
Seller ID: 0417J475599
Hardcover. Stated 1st printing HARDCOVER with dustjacket 1996 Diane Publishing. Never read: superclean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Only light shelfwear. Gift-giving condition. 185pp. Language: English. 'After 2 years in an ashram in India, Stone felt called to work with the dying. Out of that calling have come a meals-on-wheels program for AIDS patients, workshops for the terminally ill and those involved with the dying, and now this book. Named after the workshops, it strives to convince us of 2 primary propositions: we are not annihilated by death, and grief--that is, the psychologically and often physically debilitating reaction to a loved one's death--is neither necessary nor beneficial. Physical death is certain, Stone bluntly reminds us, but souls are eternal. Meditation is especially useful for realizing the soul's timelessness, she says, and once one accepts the soul's perdurability, there is no reason for grief--sadness, yes, but not the confusion and misery of extreme mourning. The most striking thing about Stone's very accessible, jargon-free effort is that it presents Christian understandings of eternal life and of consolation very well with virtually no God-talk.'--Ray Olson, Booklist.
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