How to find yours & make it last forever
He was its publisher, she was a writer. They fell in love in the most romantic way, in romantic northern Michigan.
Last year, the Lundys decided to sell Healing Garden Journal and focus their efforts in a new direction. Their newly released book, Perfect Love: How to Find Yours and Make It Last Forever, is the fruit of those labors and a powerful testament to the strength of their belief in the lessons they've learned.
The book centers around a simple idea, one that rings perfectly true: We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The Lundys have discovered a profound level of intimacy by addressing and honoring each other at that level, by committing to a relationship that is spirit to spirit, not self to self. With ego in the way, it is almost impossible for two selves to become one, as almost every marriage vow ever spoken promises. But when two spirits unite at the highest levels of consciousness, nothing stands between them.
For the cynic, Perfect Love might be seasoned too heavily with sailing metaphors and metaphysical overtones, reflecting the concept they call Soul Sailing(TM), a series of techniques to help people relate to one another as Spirit.
The Lundys have reached the heights of spiritual awareness, and they acknowledge in the book's introduction that some of what they're saying might sound at first like a foreign language.
Of course, that would be the first step in moving from ego to spirit. Without an awareness that both exist, and are vastly different from one another, there's really no need to look any further.
In just 150 pages, Perfect Love moves the reader from that initial awareness into very practical techniques. The authors speak openly of their own struggles with physical illness, depression and the spiritual tools with which they mended their battered ship.
The last pages imagine taking all relationships - family, friends, co-workers - to the highest "vibration". The Lundys speak of a global shift, the kind that can alter the state of human consciousness from violence and chaos to peace and understanding.
One of the book's most valuable tools is a list of emotions that are based in either ego spirit - and the assurance that we always, always have the power to choose.
Make no mistake, these pages are not filled with easy answers. They will gently push you to do the kinds of things we always leave for last - showing compassion, reaching out, understanding what seems incomprehensible, forgiving when forgiveness seems impossible.
Perfect Love is first and foremost a book filled with hope and the promise of a brighter future for every relationship - most importantly, the ones we have with ourselves.