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Searching for Sassy: : An L.A. Phone Psychic's Tales of Life, Lust & Love Reviewed By Bani Sodermark of Bookpleasures.com
- By Bani Sodermark
- Published August 18, 2012
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Bani Sodermark
Reviewer Bani Sodermark. Bani has a Ph.D in mathematical physics and has been a teacher of physics and mathematics at the university level in both India and Sweden. For the last decade, her interests have been spirituality, healthy living and self-development. She has written a number of reviews on Amazon. Bani is a mother to two children.
Author: Alyson Mead
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
978-1-4525-4194-5 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4525-4193-8 (hc)
ISBN:
978-1-4525-4195-2 (e)
Preparing
for a Life
This book describes a certain phase in the making
of Sassy the Psychic. As a story, it marks the end of a year long
period of Alyson Mead’s life that was particularly difficult on her
physical body. The full story of the entire transition clearly
demands a sequel and one that is worth waiting for if this book is a
precursor of the same.
The story starts with the reader
meeting Alyson who is working at a call centre as a psychic. Her
boyfriend of a few years has just left her, and desperately in need
of comfort, she moves to Los Angeles from her hometown of New York
where she intends to rebuild her life.
Her work at the call
center is not too well paid and the men she meets do not turn out to
be potential partner material. Nevertheless, she learns a lot by
working at the centre. She attends a course on astrology to
supplement her intuitive psychic work and her coworkers introduce her
to the ouija board and to trance channeling, from which, she is given
messages of her life undergoing a major change.
An earthquake
in Los Angeles puts paid to her job as the call center is forced to
close due to damaged equipment. This is a time of extreme physical
deprivation and searching for Alyson, as she is forced to go hungry
and has to combat loneliness to boot. The only comforts she has are
the spirits she channels and a few sessions of other worldly guidance
channeled through her erstwhile co-workers at the call center. She
also takes a course in learning how to use a gun.
Finally,
after a long search, a temp job opening comes her way. This temp job
paves the way for others as Alyson uncovers a new sense of
self-confidence, one that does not demand validation from any
man.
One of the greatest plus points in this book is the
attention to detail. Though these events took place a good many years
ago, they are related in second to second sequencing; Alyson
truly captures the immediacy of the moment. Also, the peep into
Alyson’s work as a call centre psychic is very interesting and
instructive, it is clear that she has a talent for this kind of work
that she has now made her calling. Many readers would like to read
this book for the benefit of the client conversations alone.
But
this book is more than just a conversation of a psychic with her
clients. It delineates the progress of a soul in transition, of a
desperate search into the nether worlds to retrieve the pearl of
price. It is a story of looking up to the stars and inner guides with
intense longing for help to survive another day of hunger and
loneliness and of slow step by agonizing step of movement towards the
ultimate goal of conjugal bliss and financial freedom.
This
book is not an easy read. Personally, I needed to read it a couple of
times before I understood its import. It describes a journey that is
relevant to many of us today, a journey to our unencumbered, vibrant
selves.
Read this book to find out what Alyson did.
Highly
recommended.