One Eye Open, One Eye Closed: Honoring the Divine Human Within

The path of self-awareness can be a long and extensive journey. It can also be a dazzling and enlightening experience that slowly reveals a truly spiritual self.When your true ‘Self’ awakens, perception changes.This can be observed in a shift in your relationship with your immediate surroundings, an increased intuition or widening of empathic awareness. It can certainly include psychic phenomena and the feeling of movement on different emotional and spiritual plains. Inside these realms, the ability to co-exist in ‘parallel’ realities is a skill that will intuitively feel right and true.Jeanette Spence has travelled this journey on a personal quest for enlightenment since childhood. As an avid teenage reader of theology, ideology and world philosophy, she has walked that path from an early age. Her journey into adulthood developed as a nurse and caregiver, all the while expanding her understanding of spirituality and compassion. A connection with nature grew with the years, expanding her perception of the relationship of the natural world with human existence.She has followed academic paths exploring Psychoneuroimmunoloy, attended courses in all fields of healing, sat in women’s dream circles examining ancient mystical teachings alongside new age perceptions of worldviews. The teachings of Angeles Arrien, Hildegard of Bingen, Juan Angel Ruiz, Lao Tsu, Rachel Naomi Remen, Yogi Ramacharaka, Rilke, Rumi and myriads of others have been studied and compared. Jeanette has enjoyed spirituality in every manner possible, and has brought all that knowledge and understanding along for her own personal journey chronicled within these pages.This book narrates and brings Jeanette’s remarkable journey into focus, signposted with her creative journey photographing the beauty of decay in everyday objects. In a seminal moment during her life’s journey, recovering from a serious illness, Jeanette started to see nature in a new way. She felt more connected to everything, All That Is, and began to take photographs of rusted metal surfaces. These images display the hand of nature on everyday objects, offering beauty in their abstract forms, and offer the perfect pace-setting for her personal spiritual journey within these pages. ‘One eye open, one eye closed’ - to trust one’s own inner wisdom and perceptions of reality, and to also trust oneself in relationships in the world at the same time.Remembering our source of connection to our Essential Self, and to our own Wisdom, is a skill that many have forgotten.Life invites us to rediscover who we really are, Magical Blessed Beings connected to All That Is. Open your heart and travel your life’s journey with one eye open, one eye closed. Read more