Across the Divide to the Divine - Lewis I. Murphy

"This is why you have come!" From across the crackling flames, the Maasai laibon, the shaman Sarototi, rises, points, shouting at me, "Someone has stolen the flow from your life and we can give it back to you!" His words ricochet off the stars, off the trees of the Sacred Forest of the Lost Child, from dimensions of time, penetrating through the walls of my porous skin into the very cells themselves---"and we can give it back to you...back to you...you." Without me revealing much of anything, someone has heard, listened, grasped, is willing to hold my story with all of its complications.

Across the Divide to the Divine: An African Initiation is of an American woman's initiatory journey before, through and after the Maasai Warriors, a story of reclamation. Inspired by the stories of the Kalahari, in search of more, Lewis takes flight from her fashion career to Botswana. Only to discover through an intuitive she had been a San Bush-woman in 1787, who was kidnapped by the Maasai and dragged across the continent to heal their elderly. This pronouncement will lead her to Kenya in and out of NYC on her holidays where she will be immersed in the culture through a naming ceremony, a water ritual and the final fire walk, which opens her heart, awakens her gifts, catapults her out of the corporate world, transforms the way she sees the world.

"Deeply rich and beautifully cinematic, this book is an escape into a secreted and disappearing world. A page-turning glory that holds the power to bring you beyond the demands of the overarching culture into the divine calling that is waiting in your wildest dreams. Incredible." Suzanne Kingsbury, The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me, The Gospel According to Gracey.

"Across the Divide to the Divide is an unceasing journey from America to Africa and back and forth, but also an unceasing journey into the self. Both are compelling for their passion."--Gay Walley, the erotic fire of the unattainable, Venus as She Ages Collection, The Waw