 Dreaming the BIG dream - Judy Gardiner's book Lavender wins Top Honors at the National Indie Excellence Awards
It is my absolute pleasure to announce that fellow colleague and friend Judy B. Gardiner was recently awarded the coveted spot for New Age Fiction by the National Indie Excellence Awards committee for her book, Lavender - An Entwined Adventure in Science and Spirit.
"The news of LAVENDER as 2014 winner of the National Indie Excellence Awards for New Age Fiction is the most exhilarating free-fall imaginable. The shining culmination of fifteen years of writing has left me at a loss for words. I didn't know what to do with recognition, but I did know that the Greats of all time were thanking me for listening and for not giving up on riddles that made no sense. I join in their immense gratitude to Ellen Reid and her team of judges for not only reading the tome, but understanding the enormity of the message. Indie provides hope to throngs of inspired writers who have taken the independent route just because they were called to write and felt they had no choice. This is my life. That is my story." - Judy Gardiner
Here's what the late psychiatrist and renowned parapsychology researcher Montague Ullman, M.D. had to say about Lavender in the introduction to this great work:
"This book is a lengthy parable rooted in facts that suggest two possible directions our dreams take. The first is based on the fact that dreaming consciousness is a natural healing system. There is observational and laboratory evidence that dreaming is characteristic of the entire mammalian species and that dreams serve a survival function of some sort. In humans, our dreams serve a healing function by confronting us with hidden truths about ourselves, good or bad, that we have not yet acknowledged. Since we are creatures capable of abstract thought, we are able to capture feelings in metaphors made out of words in poetry, and while we are asleep and dreaming create images that tell the story. Both the poem and the dream capture truths about ourselves that we are not ordinarily capable of acknowledging in ordinary discourse."
In case you missed it, be sure to tune in to my recent interview with Judy about her excursions into the terrain of dreams!
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In the Boston area? If so, join Alexis for a special event at Aveda Lifestyle Center:Transformation through Spiritual Wellness. A talk, guided meditation and book signing. Sunday, June 1st in Burlington, MA.
