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The Seven Gateways of Spiritual Experience

Awakening to a Deeper Knowledge of Love, Life Balance, and God

Published by Findhorn Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

A journey through the seven most common and important spiritual experiences

• Discover how to recognize experiences of the Sacred and integrate them into daily life for spiritual growth, healing, wholeness, inspiration, resilience, and connection

• Shares intimate, firsthand examples of spiritual experiences and explores how they happen, what they are like, what they mean, and how they can help us

• Presents simple exercises and common practices to enter the states of super-consciousness that lead to spiritual experiences and connection with the Sacred

We all have unexpected moments that take us out of our ordinary lives, and into a sense of the extraordinary. Any one of us can have an experience that reveals our connection to the Sacred, through profound love, wisdom, or a radical shift in perception. Yet how often do we brush off these flashes of spiritual wonder, not realizing they can be stepping stones on the path of spiritual growth and personal resilience. As we acknowledge the expansiveness of the human heart and mind we access insights and feelings that help us to make peace with even the most difficult and confusing life circumstance.

Through dynamic stories of firsthand accounts, Jonathan Ellerby guides us in how to recognize and integrate the spiritual experiences that are already a part of our life and those that we may yet pursue. As we explore the non-ordinary modes of perception and the super-states of consciousness that underlie them, we realize how spiritual experiences happen, what they mean, and how they can help us cultivate creativity, healing, and groundedness.

Through simple exercises and sacred practices designed to expand perception, we go deeper and enter non-ordinary states of consciousness, which can enable us to have direct awareness of the fullness of life and higher consciousness.

Providing a map for navigating sacred encounters, this guide prepares us to face life with passion, purpose, and resilience.

About The Author

Jonathan H. Ellerby, Ph.D., has been a spiritual teacher, ceremonial leader, wellness expert, and leadership consultant for more than 25 years. With a doctoral degree in comparative religion, training as a counselor and chaplain, ordination as an Interfaith Minister, and certification in a variety of intuitive and energy-based healing practices, Jonathan has dedicated his life to understanding the spiritual world. Author of several books, including Return to the Sacred, he lives on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Findhorn Press (February 20, 2024)
  • Length: 176 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781644118870

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Raves and Reviews

“After decades of helping people on the path of healing and growth, it is clear that spiritual evolution is rooted in personal transformative experience. Jonathan has written a truly special book that is beautiful, accessible, and so important for people who want to better understand the inner world and spiritual experience.”

– Alberto Villoldo, medical anthropologist, founder of the Four Winds Society, and author of One Spiri

“Jonathan Ellerby’s experience-rich new book is full of heart and a timely way to wake up to our full nature. The Seven Gateways of Spiritual Experience offers us a roadmap to ways we can dive into spiritual knowing as well as discover the inner resources we each have and integrate them into our thinking and choices. Enter into the world of possibilities Jonathan unfolds and explore your own abilities to connect with The Sacred. A wonderful guide to ancient and new ways of knowing.”

– Ellen Meredith, D.A., EEMAP, energy medicine practitioner and author of Your Body Will Show You the

“In this book, the reader will feel an overflowing of hope, love, mysticism, and beauty. Jonathan fills the pages with his compelling storytelling gifts. Reading this book is like setting out on a real and ethereal excursion, and Jonathan invites all to travel with him. Not accepting the invitation into Jonathan’s journey is not an option because his writing is from deep within his heart and the desire to join him is palpable and unavoidable. All who read The Seven Gateways of Spiritual Experience will feel Jonathan’s profound vision on every page. It is likely you’ll find yourself mesmerized.”

– Steve Farrell, cofounder and CEO of Humanity’s Team and author of A New Universal Dream

“Jonathan’s guide on experiences of The Sacred feels like an answer to what so many seekers and students of transformation and consciousness are looking for. Profound in its depth and range of perspectives on the spiritual life, this book is wonderfully written, heart- and mind-opening, and a true spiritual experience to read.”

– Steven Washington, author of Recovering You: Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction

“I love this book! It opens the heart and mind and reminds us that we are all capable of profound love and wisdom—we are spiritual beings first. Jonathan Ellerby is the real deal! From direct experience to deep study, years of leadership, and the academic credentials to support this work, he is a visionary to follow and a wonderful guide for all seekers of transformation.”

– Dr. Ken Harris, M.S., D.C., chiropractor, educator, and author of Synchronicity: The Magic. The Myst

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