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100 1  Beck, Martha Nibley,|d1962-|eauthor. 
245 10 Diana, herself :|ban allegory of awakening /|cMartha Beck.
264  1 Arroyo Grande, California :|bCynosure Publishing,|c[2016] 
300    308 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Bewilderment chronicles ;|v1 
500    Includes A Guide to Bewilderment (pages 281-297) and an 
       excerpt for Maelstrom (pages 299-308) 
520    "Maybe, once or twice in your life, you've experienced a 
       surge of destiny so strong it made you believe in 
       miracles. Such bolts from the blue seem to hit when 
       weariness or ill fortune have plowed through the ground of
       reason, breaking it up so magic can take root. What 
       follows is so perfect that to call it accidental defies 
       belief. Diana Archer is an absolutely -- mathematically! -
       - average woman, living an unremarkable life, when destiny
       reaches her. Without quite knowing how or why, she finds 
       herself leaving everything familiar and moving into a 
       world where miracles are commonplace, where her supposed 
       flaws become her salvation, and where each person's story 
       is everyone's. In this exuberant allegory, bestselling 
       memoir and self-help author Martha Beck takes readers into
       the wild parts of the world and the human psyche. The 
       story of Diana, Herself helps every reader chart a course 
       for awakening to greater joy, adventure, and purpose. It 
       feels almost magical to Diana Archer -- out-of-work store 
       clerk, former foster child, and bearer of multiple 
       psychological diagnoses -- when she's pulled into the 
       orbit of world-famous life coach and reality TV star Roy 
       Richards. Together, Diana and Roy embark on the latest in 
       his series of "conquests," surviving a month in 
       California's trackless Sierras Oscuras National Forest. 
       It's in the forest that their quest devolves into disaster
       -- and the real magic begins. Lost, alone, and dying, 
       Diana is taken under the trotter of a benevolent spirit 
       animal (or is it a projection of her perennially troubled 
       mind?) who promises to take her home. But "home" proves to
       be a place much more mysterious than Los Angeles. 
       Awakening is the goal, Diana learns, and bewilderment is 
       the method. As the first volume of the three-part 
       "Bewilderment Chronicles" proceeds, Diana will undergo a 
       transformation that will change her irrevocably, and just 
       possibly save the world. Let the enchantment begin."--
       provided by publisher. 
650  0 Women. 
650  0 Survival. 
650  0 Magic. 
650  0 Self-actualization (Psychology) 
655  7 Allegories.|2lcgft 
800 1  Beck, Martha Nibley,|d1962-|tBewilderment chronicles ;|v1.