To Love and To Teach: Betrayal, Racism, Addiction, Sexuality, Spiritual Awakening, AA & 12-Step Recovery, Love, Cancer, Forgiveness, Meditation, Relationships, Shame & Steroids - Softcover

Baumann, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500390623 ISBN 13: 9781500390624

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

To Love and To Teach is applied spirituality—where the rubber meets the road. It asks us to consider our own hard questions from a new vantage point, with total transparency, and to use them to move beyond the confines of our human egos. Author Michael Baumann reveals himself in starkly humble and vulnerable terms, and in the process offers us a glimpse and a pathway to “crack the ego” and find true personal freedom. At times poetic and at other times highly logical and systematic, To Love and To Teach hits from many different angles to reach its goal. Who may find To Love and To Teach an important and useful book? · Those whose lives have been turned upside down by events beyond their control, · Those who struggle with purpose and negative thinking, · Those in 12 step recovery, including AA, Al-Anon and others, · Those interested in spiritual awakening beyond the trappings of religion, · Those who struggle to live their higher spiritual principles in this world, · Those who want better relationships with others, · Those who are not afraid to ask questions and look deeply at themselves, · Those who are willing to risk having an open mind, · Those who want a deeper conscious relationship with Spirit.

About this title

About the Author:

About Michael Baumann (1961-2014) Grew up on black and white TV · Related to Mary Shelly, author of “Frankenstein” · Have relatives in North Carolina · Was in jail in Singapore · Grew up spiritually in Thailand · Went to an all boys school in the US · Have relatives in Wisconsin · Author of “A 12 Step Handbook for the Spiritually Awake and Recently Sane” · Love a man named Harrison Sinclair · Have relatives in Austria · Love the movie “12 Angry Men” · Have relatives in Tel Aviv · Fourth child in a family of eight kids · Love Pink Floyd · Have relatives in Texas · Love a man named Jared Michael · Love football · Member of the Brotherton Indian tribe · Believe that love is the most important thing in life · Believe that waking up spiritually is essential to love · Have had racist thoughts · Have relatives in California · Left-handed when writing and eating, serve in ping pong and tennis with my right hand but play with my left, right-handed for everything else · Love Supertramp · Think that guy “Joe” on the American morning show on MSNBC is full of it, but he’s getting better · Ex-smoker · Love a man named Lee Tyler · Love my 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Norma Pilot Peters · Polished shoes in taverns as a kid to earn money · Stole a baseball from Sears when I was 11 · Love a man named Nicholas Peter, who, along with my aforementioned Harrison, Jared and Lee, are all my dearly beloved sons, to whom this book is dedicated · Believe in the supernatural, having both witnessed and participated with it in direct experience · Believe in this saying perhaps more than any other, “Love is the moment between two human beings that when in silence they indeed know they are one.”

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500390623
• ISBN 13: 9781500390624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Stetina Troy