Journey To Alternity
Transformational Healing Through Stories and Metaphors
By Judith Simon Prager, Ph.D.
Reviewed by Lorrie Kazan for The Whole Life Times

What sets this book apart is the quality and concise style of writing, combined with the author's knowledge and experience with alternative healing modalities.

Dr. Prager, a practicing clinical hypnotherapist and clinical homeopath, is also a consultant to Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where her pre and post-operative imagery CDs are being used in a pilot program in the Cardio-thoracic Surgery unit.

The author reveals her own process in releasing a financially rewarding career in writing and advertising to follow an inner calling as a healer. It's a journey that led her from the east coast to the west, and required that she let go of, not only her possessions, but ways of thinking and believing.

She skillfully incorporates her life experiences, as well as those of her students (she teaches writing at U.C.L.A.), in order to demonstrate what she refers to as alternate reality, or "Alternity." Since consciousness is non-local, then "stories and pictures can be held in your body as experience and transform your world."

Alternity is the magical world in which one trusts intuition, one follows one's heart, and taking intuitive leaps, one is met by the miraculous, though not always in the way one might picture. For example, there are stories, such as Beth and the Angel, which recount one woman's spontaneous remission from cancer, contrasted with other stories in which lives were transformed as a result of openness to change.

"Interchapters," labeled as such in case one wants to skip them, provide simplified scientific explanations for the theories, which belie these unusual states. I enjoyed reading her pragmatic explanations of such concepts as "String Theory," or Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

This heart-centered book includes exercises to expand awareness into the consciousness of boundless possibility where what one believes can change reality, and with desire, one can change what one believes.

Writer's Club Press, 2000.