Beyond the Visible: An Artist's Exploration of Spirit

by Sandy McCartney Ehlers

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096327371X
• ISBN13: 9780963273710
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Near Water Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bold journeys

All of us are skeptical about what we can't see, feel, taste, or hear. It takes a courageous soul to take us to a place that challenges our ability to "believe".With grace, wit, intelligence, and humor, Sandy Ehlers does just that. She gently leads us on a journey far beyond our everyday experience in an attempt to enrich our lives and convince us that there is, indeed, a very great deal worth appreciating just 'beyond the visible'.

Meeting the God of Surprises

Sandy McCartney Ehler's journey takes us down paths of mystery in our own lives. As she moves beyond the visible she is ever the nurturer, ever the devoted wife, living courageously through the wonder and pain of spiritual growth. Her prayer touches the reader's deepest longing: "God show me what to do in the present moment and give me the strength to do it." As we read of Sandy's eighteen year quest we too meet "the God of surprises."

Artist and Healer

This is a book of compelling message and energy. Clearly the author is both healer and teacher, generously laying before us her experience and learning. The artist-writer is ever-present in the struggle to allow her outer eyes to assist and give way to her inner eyes. She nowhere paints a better picture than in the radiant love song to her husband in the epilogue, embracing him as her spiritual equal and ground. What womanly and humble courage it took to write this healing witness.

Beyond the Visible:An Artist's Exploration of Spirit

Beyond the Visible is a fascinating account of Ms. Ehler's journey through ten years of encounters with spiritual mentors of all kinds. She opens herself and shares with the reader her intensely private and personal experiences, and their effects on her loved ones. As a reader of many books on the Spirit, I found this volume to be unique in the author's frankness, and her expressions of her own fears in admitting to the rest of the world what she was going through. I also liked that this is a woman whose whole life did not crumble around her as she underwent the transformation to a deeper and richer spiritual life. Although the subject matter here is at times complicated, Ms. Ehlers' writing style is smooth and flowing. Anyone interested in spirituality will enjoy this book.