From Other Dimensions
Some loves grant us passage
between worlds we understand
and mysteries we cannot.By: Eleanor Weber Griffitts
Can meditation draw essential forces of love into one's life? Can dreams warn us of pending danger? Can yoga center us in the struggle against violence and hate? Can prayer garner our inner forces when faced with enemies bent on destroying us? Can loved ones reach to protect us from beyond the veil of death? Written in the genre of The Spirit Walker by Hank Wesselman, Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, or The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield, Eleanor Weber Griffitts' new novel, From Other Dimensions, offers compelling insight into human spirituality in the unlikely tangle of murder, Mafia connections, mistaken identity, divorce, and mid-life romance.
About the B O O K
Is Maddy eccentric or simply a woman discovering the emerging contours of her wisdom, spirituality, and even the unfamiliar essence of her own sexuality? Her home had become an empty nest, vacated in these past few years by two college age children. Madeleine could no longer hide from the emptiness in her heart or her life - - - gaping holes left by a marriage to a worldly and successful attorney who had strangely never broken the hold of a domineering Italian mother. She had been living alone at the family beach house for a year now, awaiting legal resolution of issues around her divorce. Maddy's life would change forever on a cross-country train trip to visit her children at their Portland college. She had no idea that her husband would make several disparate efforts in this same time frame to save her life from a Mafia threat.Was it fate or Providence that pre-arranged on this train to Oregon her meeting of Lincoln Broadstreet, the striking, handsome psychiatrist who had a mysterious, uncanny knowledge of her circumstances and the dangers looming before her? A tender love story unfolds with intense philosophical discussions, candid descriptions of out-of-body experiences, and a powerful attraction between a man and a woman who seem to have been soul mates, even before they met. Could this meeting have been an accident? Or was it one of the universe's merciful acts? From Other Dimensions is a product of the coming Age of Aquarius, when the search for love and peace in the world will depend ever more on developing the strength of spirituality in our everyday lives - even when they are fraught with the complexities of family conflict, irrational urges toward violence, and the tangled web of human behavior.
Ms. Griffitts profiles the destructive potential of unhealthy dynamics in intergenerational control, failed communications within families, and the fatal outcome of misguided attempts to "protect" loved ones from the consequences of their actions. This author juxtaposes treachery to the hopeful leanings of the human spirit with its remarkable capacity to reach within and beyond itself in the search for truth, love and forgiveness.
About the A U T H O R
Eleanor Weber Griffitts began writing at age 9. Her poetry was published locally even as a teenager in high school. She stretched to hone her literary skills by writing short stories and fiction in college. As an adult, Eleanor wrote human interest stories for a Salem newspaper, for which she also had her own by-line.
Ms. Griffitts' professional career in Social Work was replete with rich experiences that allowed her to interact with people in diverse stages of development and critical junctures of human need. She served in the following capacities:
- Counselor to juvenile deliquent girls
- Title V program director, providing job training and educational opportunities for welfare clients
- Senior advocacy program director in a Tri-County Community Action program
- Social services director for two coastal hospitals
For the past ten years, she has invested her creative energies in writing novels.
Eleanor grew up on Long Island, New York. She went on to high school and college from her hometown of Merrick. This novelist worked and lived in several regions of the Southern United States and near the Atlantic coast before settling in Oregon along the Pacific coast. The special childhood memories of Jones Beach provided a hint of the beauty and grandeur to come in later life, when 300 miles of northwestern beaches would serve to nourish not only her family life with four children, but also her artistic talents.
Eleanor feels gifted to have traveled through Europe - - - touring Bavaria, southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The crowning experience was a trip to China in 1989. Her writing weaves strong fibers of spirituality into characters, who are as interesting as they are credible. With a deep belief in the resilience of the human spirit, Eleanor Griffitts invites us to take stock, listen and unleash our own untapped potential in mind, body and spirit.
