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The Place of Knowing

By: Emma Lou Warner Thayne

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An intriguing spiritual memoir from an unusual woman. Centered on Thaynes near-death experience following a car accident when she was in her 60s, this autobiography contains thematic chapters that explore her changing beliefs about mortality through meditations on family, language and other daily concepts. As a Mormon grandmother, parts of Thaynes lifeher long marriage, religious devotion and large familyare seemingly typical for someone of her generation. However, Thayne is also a poet and writer, weaving many of her poems and other writings into the body of this work. Often, Thayne describes the two roles of homemaker and author as being at odds with one another, at least within her own mind. In addition to her active, fulfilling involvement in the Mormon Church, she characterizes her writing life as almost a personal struggle. In a major theme of the book, Thayne seeks to resolve the internal conflict she feels when torn between her vocation and her concerns about meeting outside expectations. Interestingly, she addresses this internal conflict by looking both into her Mormon heritage and out toward other spiritual traditions and lifestyles. Discussing her parents and grandparents, Thayne reveals their warmth and the absence of doctrinaire beliefs in her childhood home. Her description of everyday Mormonism could be compared to the womens Islam for Muslim writers like Fatima Mernissi and Leila Ahmed. However, in her search for enlightenment, Thayne isnt content merely focusing on previous generations of her own family. Instead, she visits healers, helps bring to light the work of artists with AIDS and recognizes many influences from outside her own community. As a result, shes a complex, evolving narrator, grappling slowly with her own expectations and the challenges of life. Her meditative, fluid narrative might not satisfy readers looking for an eventful, action-oriented story, but readers interested in the optimistic pursuit of spiritual development shouldnt miss this one. Gentle, inclusive ruminations sure to strike a chord.

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The Place of Knowing

A Spiritual Autobiography

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The Place of Knowing

A Spiritual Autobiography

By: Emma Lou Thayne

Out of an excruciating accident, Emma Lou Thayne is offered a breathtaking view of life after death. This experience becomes the catalyst for reflection on what matters most in a lifetime. With an open and honest voice, out of years of being an inspiration as an LDS woman, wife, mother, church worker, and professional, she invites readers into a real, sometimes painful, more often joyous spiritual journey.Learning in a busy life to relish silence and afford solitude gives mystical dimension to being a Mormon matriarch. Her words to the hymn Where Can I Turn for Peace? written in personal anguish, become a plea for peace on a global scale. This is a book about love and loss, expectation and fulfillment in the healing power of nature, medicine, human connection and Divine intervention. Mostly, this is a series of love stories that bind generations, family, friends and strangers to each other.Since my accident, the nanoseconds, the smallest measure of time of my being back from death, mount up to years as the mystical connections multiply like stars in the heavens. Days go by so fast I cant live them. Only reflection saves their gifts to my life. I hope this book makes clear that they are there for anyone, the small miracles. But only through paying attention can we respect and retain what is there to awaken us, to guide us to a state of realization.

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