Bigger Book Review.
Meet “Bigger than All the Night Sky”
Isabella Cates has written a soulful, eloquent introduction to “Bigger than All the Night Sky.”
Could you use some fresh inspiration right now? Then come jazz up your day, thanks to this Isabella-flavored treat.
And thank you so much, Isabella Cates!
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Now, here’s my favorite review yet for “Bigger than All the Night Sky.”
Bigger Book Review… Begins
WARNING: This firsthand memoir of spiritually awakening to one’s life purpose may be contagious.
Do not read it unless you’re prepared to accelerate your unique spiritual journey.
The best memoirs remind us of something universal about human life, the heartbeat of one person’s life reminding us of our own inner throb to be something more.
The best spiritual memoirs awaken us, showing us the sacred within our own lives.
The memoir does both, and it does them well.
In the beautifully and aptly named “Bigger Than All the Night Sky,” Rose Rosetree — now 70 and an accomplished spiritual teacher and writer — has given us the first installment of her life story, the first 21 years recounted with astounding perspective.
Written from the point of view of her young self, with voice gradually maturing as the pages turn, we stumble and join in glee with little Laura Sue Rosenbaum (Rosetree’s birth name) as she adventures and grows.
As endearing and absorbing as her in-the-moment storytelling style is, the author’s wisdom as-she-is-now, in 2018, is hidden in plain sight on every page.
Warmth and compassion for her younger self radiates. By this first installment’s end, Laura Sue Rosenbaum might still be stumbling and unsure, worried about whether her seeking will lead anywhere worth going.
But we know: Apparently, she does just fine. Better than fine.
Bigger Book Review. The Birthday
Chapter One opens the book with an absorbing flurry of physical and spiritual drama, a riveting account of the author’s own birth. There in the delivery room, our protagonist watches her mother labor.
From the ceiling, in her body of light, soon-to-be-Laura-Sue-Rosenbaum notices everything, including what her mother, Sue, is thinking. (In her body of light, Laura still speaks telepathy.)
One painful, yet relatable example, of Sue’s thoughts during delivery:
“This hurts like hell. Do other women have to go through this? Or is my version worse? As usual.” Poor Sue.
In the maternity ward:
- There’s a chorus of childbearing women screaming, “Mommy!”
- There’s a awe-inspiring “sacred light show,” as one more human life begins on Earth.
- And there’s the finale, which requires the author to leave her comfy spot on the ceiling to enter this new physical body, and regrettably feel that terrible, signature feeling again, “Earth alone.”
Bigger Book Review. More Savory Truth
So, by the end of Chapter One, you’ve already got what you came for — entertainment, inspiration, and a basket full of what I came to think of as Rosetree’s signature type of phrase: delicious, chewy nuggets of savory truth… bits of the human experience that everyone else has skipped over, only she’s managed to put to the truth of it into words.
Rosetree has a reporter’s accuracy, but not for the who-what-wheres of her life: For the spiritual and emotional truths of life. This adds dimension to every story. You’re not just entertained… you’re ennobled. And you learn.
She turns that truth-seeking (and truth-finding) eye on her own life:
- As a preemie in the 1940s, kept untouched in an incubator
- And as a sweet and so smart, but sickly, little girl
- Later, as an earnest and longing teenager
- And finally as a collegiate hippie turned spiritual teacher in the wild ‘60s.
Bigger Book Review. Spiritual Star-Studded College Years
Rosetree’s college years are fascinating; also, spiritual-star studded. Reading the story of her meeting with Ram Dass after he returned from India, but before he became famous, makes the man seem even more mysterious than before.
Learning that she was offered LSD by Timothy Leary himself — and in a suitably weird way — is hilarious, but also slightly disturbing.
Reading the moving poem that she wrote and read aloud, with shaking voice, for her famous former guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is moving. No wonder it made the great man weep.
Bigger Book Review: Tale of a Pre-Incarnation Planning Meeting
But the best part of the whole book happens when the author is just age five, having a decidedly unglamorous tonsillectomy. During the surgery, Laura revisits her Planning Meeting and rediscovers her life purpose. And it’s a doozy.
Spoiler Alert!
I’ll spoil it here, because it might be your life purpose too: To be a part of the “Awakening Project.”
To be one of hundreds of thousands of souls incarnating on Earth now, helping to awaken humanity at a time of great change.
The chapters dedicated to describing this Planning Meeting and The Awakening Project were life-changing reading for me.
If you think you might be a part of the so-called “Awakening Project,” do yourself a favor: read this book, and see if it resonates with you.
In Conclusion
I highly recommend this spiritual memoir. It will entertain you, move your emotions, and maybe even bring some spiritual awakening.
Keep going, Laura Sue. We’re rooting for you.
And keep writing, Rose Rosetree! We’ve got to know how it ends. Or is the joy… that it never does?
Author’s Note
- Use this link to purchase “Bigger than All the Night Sky.”
- BTW, if you’ve read it, I sure would appreciate a book review at Amazon. Just use the that previous link and toss me some stars!!!!!
