Epiphanies: Where Science and Miracles Meet - Paperback

by Ann Jauregui (Author), Huston Smith (Foreword by)

In a quiet moment of therapy, a breakthrough comes -- the miracle of the new.

To experience an epiphany is to have sudden insight into the essential meaning of something, unleashed sometimes in exquisitely slow motion, sometimes in a flash. In an intimate, lyrical integration of the science of psychology and transcendence of spirituality, celebrated clinician Dr. Ann Jauregui introduces us to nine individuals who have undergone astonishing transformations by exploring a world quite different from the one described by our five senses. With moments of miraculous and joyful surprise, Epiphanies exposes a reality outside of everyday existence that has momentous implications for life's ultimate questions.

"Shyly we venture out with these stories," Dr. Jauregui writes, "into a world where science itself is struggling to describe a realm out of time and space and language." We are the beneficiaries of these extraordinary shifts of perspective, invited into a sparkling conversation that allows us to see the potential residing in all of us.

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In a quiet moment in therapy, a breakthrough comes--the miracle of the new."
"Epiphany" is defined by Webster's as a "sudden insight into the reality or essential meaning of something."
"But my favorite part of the definition," says psychotherapist Ann Jauregui, "tells us that the revelation is usually brought on by some simple, homely, or commonplace experience. Something big is occasioned by something little, something easily missed. And it unfolds from there--sometimes as a flash, sometimes in exquisite slow motion--out of conventional time and space and language. 'Look at this, ' you whisper as you see something about the universe you've never seen before. 'And look at this, ' you whisper too, seeing yourself seeing it. The universe is bigger than it was a minute ago, and so are you."
In this intimate, lyrical integration of psychology and spirituality, Dr. Jauregui shares the stories of nine clients, casting light on moments that "just came," bringing surprise, comfort, and joy. "Shyly we venture out with these stories," she writes, "into a world still in the thrall of a reluctant science and its cousin, a reluctant psychotherapy." We are the beneficiaries, invited into a sparkling conversation that explores these life-changing surprises, and our own.