Portals of Transcendence

As you read this book, you'll understand how all families possess nonverbal belief systems that are stored inside you and create blocks in adulthood unless you uncover them, learn from them, heal and move forward. Sue Scarborough shares her spiritual journey of discovering that everything is just as it should be and all can be used for spiritual growth and emotional freedom.

Scarborough's luminous memoir starts with her lonely, harrowing childhood and early teens in the Green Swamp of Central Florida that echoes a real-life version of "Where the Crawdads Sing." As the youngest child in her dysfunctional family, she's largely left to fend for herself after her siblings leave home. Her angry, gun-toting father embraces the lawless life in the Swamp while her ultra-religious, gossiping mother complicates the multiple abusive behaviors the young girl-nicknamed Ginger-experiences by pretending nothing has ever happened.

After Scarborough's lifelong search for God and meaning, a world beyond our earthly existence is revealed when a Near Death Experience (NDE) catapults her into a divine realm of love and acceptance and opens her to a path of spiritual discoveries. Her journey includes a vision in a dream, a family tragedy, the unexpected way a miracle list was fulfilled, and the stories of spiritual teachers who became a part of her life, including a psychic, a medium, and a pranic healer. Her sto-ries reveal dimensions that are joyful, healing, and put life's pieces together like completing a puzzle.

Scarborough begins to see her human condition with new understanding. Seeking answers to her life's challenges, she experiences spiritual awakenings, receiving messages of love through light energy, guides, and the spirits that surround and sometimes save her. Within this framework is an epic story of love for her partner, Tim, whom she cares for after a debilitating stroke and who joins her in her spiritual journey. Written with honesty and insight, Scarborough's memoir is a meditation on what it means to be both human and divine.