Author: Kevin Marley:

ISBN: 1411622197

The present review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews 

A Human Soul is watching the people of Earth from Heaven, knowing that he is
about to be sent there to become human. He is born as Ray Sawol of Philadelphia.

Ray grows up in present-day America, about which the author has very little good
to say. His parents get divorced, because of his father's infidelity. Ray is on
a constant search for enlightenment, for that undefinable "it." The difference
is that Ray, even as a youngster, remembers the primordial bliss before he was
born. He tries to alter his consciousness to experience not just the physical
world, but also the spiritual world with which he was familiar before birth.

He attends Temple University, becomes Dr. Ray Sawol, and stays at Temple as a
faculty member in the Psychology Department. He marries Kristine, his college
sweetheart, and they have a daughter. He is a relatively successful radio talk
show host, talking about psychological matters, kind of like TV's Dr. Frazier
Crane. One day, Ray goes on a rant about how people should wake up and there is
a whole separate spiritual world out there, and becomes an ex-radio talk show
host.

Kristine contracts, and dies from, breast cancer. While dealing with her death,
Ray goes to an emotional, state of mind, sort of place called the Idea Factory.
There, he spends time with Kristine's soul, and learns to transform his
consciousness. When he returns, the world is, literally, at war. The Forces of
Mechanization have invaded and are attempting to wipe out those who believe in
the Human Soul, once and for all. This is a real war, with lots of blood and
destruction. Ray takes the few Soul Soldiers (for lack of a better term) left to
the Idea Factory, and shows them how to transform their consciousness and those
of others.

This book takes a little while to get going, but, by the end, it turns into a
really good and thought-provoking story.