The birth of an awakened child with past-life recall and amazing healing abilities should be a cause for celebration... but how can Maggie Langford raise a conscious child in an unconscious world?
The birth of an awakened child with past-life recall and amazing healing abilities should be a cause for celebration... but how can Maggie Langford raise a conscious child in an unconscious world?
Coming of age, Occult & supernatural, Visionary & metaphysical
How Do You Raise an Awakened Child in an Unconscious World?
The birth of a child avatar should be a cause for celebration, but twentysomething Maggie Langford finds that sheltering Anna’s sanctity from the intrusion of the outside world is her first priority. She wants to allow this “great soul” to develop her full spiritual potential, but others like Maggie’s Hindu guru want to enlist her to promote their own agendas.
As Anna grows, so do the challenges. How do you tell a child who can heal any injury or disease that she must do it quietly, or not at all? Fortunately, Maggie can rely on Joseph, the child’s spirit guide, for advice. Anna periodically whisks them away to his “astral park” for consultations.
Exposed to Anna’s elevated energy, Maggie flourishes and becomes a bestselling children’s book author. They live a cloistered life until Child Services is alerted. Maggie becomes certified to homeschool her child and other Hindu children and all is well, until Anna transports the class to Joseph’s astral park amidst a dispute about the Bhagavad Gita.
When alarmed parents are told of this “excursion,” Maggie and Anna are summoned to a meeting with the School Board, a confrontation that could make Anna’s elevated being public knowledge. Maggie’s worst nightmare could be about to take place...
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“The Miracle of Anna” is a delightful book. The way John Nelson portrays the awakened child Anna is touching and believable. I still have a sense of her Being after I finished reading the story. In truth, I did not want this book to end as I wished to stay in Anna’s company. The story is captivating and engaging and it works on many levels. There are interesting power and relational dynamics explored between Anna’s mother Maggie and her parents, between Maggie and her Hindu Guru, and in the meeting between a secular American culture and Indian spirituality. Through all these complex relationships, where Maggie is fighting to keep Anna’s ‘special powers' from being commodified, we see how Anna’ s simple but profound way of being dissolves the various shadow aspects they encounter on their journey. I found the relationship between Maggie and Anna, mother and daughter, particularly moving. I found it touching to see how Maggie and Anna learned to navigated worldly matters, and how help always showed up at the right time in order to fulfill Anna’s destiny to be of service to the world. There is wisdom running through this story, evoking an inner sense of potential and even a memory of what it might be like to live so close to Reality. ~ Anne Egseth, Amazon
By Award-winning Author Meghan Don: www.MeghanDon.Life "This is not only a story with a nice spiritual theme, but one that serves to help reawaken our own memory of potential. Many of us were awakened children, but with societal conditioning the conscious awareness of our original nature quickly became lost. Our potential was not harnessed nor encouraged, nor even able to be recognized. The story itself is captivating with each of the characters being completely relatable, and like some other readers, I would eagerly rush to read what was happening next. When I did complete the book I felt sorry that it had ended. Waiting for the sequel!! May this book reach parents who are raising children right now, as it will be of great benefit to widen perceptions and notice what is coming forth from the young. In doing so, may it also widen our perception to what the human being is capable of. Thanks to John Nelson for having the insight to write this book. Now for that sequel..." ~ Meghan Don, Amazon.com
This is a book I would recommend to anyone wanting to learn more about Hinduism or world religions, mothers, educators, social workers and most of the general reading community would greatly benefit from the quality of this story. You feel spiritually more grounded after reading it. ~ Ashley Blank, NetGalley
In The Miracle of Anna, John Nelson tackles the difficult genre recently re-emerging as Visionary Fiction. Drawing on the life story of the 20th-century Hindu guru Sri Anandamayi Ma, to whom the book is dedicated, Nelson has an enlightened guru with marvelous spiritual and psychic powers reincarnate in 21st century California. The story is told simply, its deep spiritual truths embedded in the plot, as it should be. The book's strength is in its main hypothesis: what would (does) happen when a soul, enlightened with a process that covers many lifetimes and includes clearly recalling the lessons of those lifetimes, returns to a society that not only views reincarnation as crazy talk but also the activities of an enlightened being, especially if they are only a kid, as insane behavior. If you can even speculate along these lines, John Nelson's The Miracle of Anna deserves your attention. ~ Victor Smith, Amazon.com
The story is written in the third person present tense. I was captivated by the story and could not put it down until I finished reading it. There are many references to spirituality, yoga and the Hindu religion. I recommend this book to anyone that is interested in past lives and spirituality. For full review visit http://belladonnasbooks.com/?p=958 ~ Dawn Thomas, Belladonna's Books
I was going through a particularly difficult time and reading the Miracle of Anna grounded me and helped me to surrender my worries and to expect the best outcome. I think I will be re-reading this book whenever my spirit is low in the knowledge that it will calm my concerns and centre me on acceptance that this too will pass. ~ Anne Rodgers, NetGalley
The blurb for the book was interesting, and definitely lived up to expectations. I think the author should get some credit for his creative originality, as I have not seen or read anything with a story line such as this one. It stretched my thinking on this whole issue. It will appeal to any reader interested in rebirth. I think others also may find it quite a good read. ~ Kathy Talley, NetGalley
[Miracle of Anna] tells the story of a transcendent Hindu child born to a white woman in California. In San Luis Obispo, Calif., elementary school art teacher and children’s book author Maggie Langford is told by her guru that she will give birth to a fully awakened daughter: the reincarnation of a Hindu guru and Tibetan Rinpoche. Anna, as Maggie names the baby, communicates with Maggie telepathically from the womb, and later, as a toddler, is able to heal the sick and enter trance states. Throughout Anna’s life, Maggie takes steps to shield her enlightened daughter from exploitation by both their ashram and the media. Trouble brews when an angry parent objects to adolescent Anna’s impromptu whisking of her friends to the celestial plane to meet her spirit guide, Joseph . . . While Maggie’s love for Anna is evident, too often secondary characters accept Anna’s enlightenment without question. Readers with some knowledge of Hindu tenets may enjoy Maggie’s determination and faith. ~ , Publisher's Weekly
"Whether or not you are adept in Hindu mysticism, this story of the birth and contemporary challenges of an American child avatar will bring you into a new awareness of the Eastern spiritual experience. The story focus is on the child, her mother, her grandparents, and a few Hindu sages who recognize Anna as a great soul and want to protect her. The fact that Anna has the power to heal disease and to converse with other-dimensional spirit guides complicates her adjustment to the material objective world. The only disappointment in the book is that it ends with Anna (the child saint) as a pre-teen being separated from a desperate public who seek her blessing and healing. The last page screams for a sequel, and we wonder if any sacred soul can survive in the modern chaotic world." ~ Monty Joynes, Amazon.com
5/5 Stars Anna was born awaken in touch with her spirt. She remembered all her past lives before she was born and could speak to her Mom through spirt . If you believe in rebirth this is a very good book. I really liked it ~ Kivalina Gwynn , NetGalley
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