Roll Around Heaven (Hardcover)
An All-True Accidental Spiritual Adventure
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Winner of the 2010 Gold Nautilus Award for Best Spiritual Memoir.
Winner of the 2010 COVR’s Visionary Award for Best Auto-/Biographical Book.
An all-true accidental spiritual adventure that led one nonbeliever to lunch with Deepak Chopra, dance with Stephen Hawking, heal animals with Yogananda, sing Christmas carols with an enlightened rabbi, banish evil spirits with a Himalayan Rinpoche, talk all night with the daughters of Islam, find true love in a Presbyterian choir, share Celtic visions on the isle of Iona, and learn an abiding respect for all paths to God.
Chronicling nearly two decades of Jessica Maxwell's all-true accidental spiritual adventure and filled with astonishing stories, witty insights, and breathtaking revelations, Roll Around Heaven will surely inspire each reader to embrace the power of the divine in his or her own life.
An adventure writer by trade, Jessica had never given God a second thought until, as she describes it, "He/She/It grabbed me by the ear, marched me into the divine principal's office, and told me to quit goofing off and start paying attention." On her amazing journey, Jessica travels the globe on magazine sporting assignments, only to end up talking about God with Islamic women in Dubai, chasing away evil spirits in a Himalayan hotel, and receiving Celtic revelations on the holy isle of Iona.
Jessica soon learns that her earthbound goals are mere day hikes compared to her soaring ascent to heaven on earth. Spiced with humor, rich with original insight, tart with irreverence, and sweetened with compassion for the modern pilgrim, Roll Around Heaven offers readers a perfect recipe for spiritual success in a chronically baffling world.
- Publication date: 10/06/2009
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 288
- ISBN: 9781582702360
- Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
- Categories: Spiritual Lifestyles
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Forget about searching for the divine only in dusty old churches. In Roll Around Heaven, Jessica Maxwell proves you can stumble into a state of grace in a baseball stadium, on a pig farm, or even while lumbering down a freeway.
—David Oliver Relin, author of Three Cups of Tea
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Successful magazine travel writer Maxwell didn't intend to write a book about spirituality... Her cheeky-to-chaste style is both conversational and controlled. Readers will enjoy watching this “former spiritual dodo-brain” discover beauty beyond nature.
—Publishers Weekly
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What a fabulous journey! Through Jessica's eyes and voice it is just pure magic!
—Taj Mahal, American bluesman
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After you've been there and done that, it's time to figure out what it all means. Jessica Maxwell applies her deceptively light touch to the idea of spiritual seeking. Highly recommended
—Tim Cahill, author of Hold the Enlightenment and Lost in My Own Backyard
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The message of the book is that we are all brothers and sisters, and we can all know the bliss of God within if we just show up and ask. It is a message that is not preached, but shared as by an intimate friend, and given wings by wit, eloquence and a generous spirit.
—Miriam Knight, New Consciousness Review
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Readers who enjoyed Eat, Pray, Love will hop aboard and enjoy every minute of this rollicking spiritual ride. An inspirational feast for the faithful and enlightening food for thought for the more cynical.
—Margaret Flanagan, Booklist
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If you want laughs, you don’t usually turn to spiritual memoirs. But Jessica Maxwell’s Roll Around Heaven is so full of LOL moments, it fits the bill.... Maxwell is exuberant, grumpy, skewering, wise and so gosh-darn good-hearted in her quest to understand the universe, I couldn’t help wanting to tag along for the ride—er, roll.
—Stephanie von Hirschberg, More
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Jessica Maxwell and her book are the real deal. Inspiring, encouraging, full of enough good humor and awkward learning to make anyone on the spiritual path laugh and keep going. That's my kind of adventure.
—Dr. Susan Corso, The Huffington Post
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Roll Around Heaven radiates the humor of life’s absurdities, the intrigue and breadth of an accidental globe-circling quest and the energy of a heartfelt prayer. In it, Maxwell knocks the pompous off their pedestals and finds inspiration in unexpected, sometimes terrifying places.
—Faris Cassell, The Register Guard
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High energy and smart, like Maxwell, Roll Around Heaven: An All-True Accidental Spiritual Adventure is full of fun and fantastic moments. Embrace your own spiritual being! Or just enjoy Maxwell playing tag with hers.
—Brian Juenemann, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assoc.
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Jessica Maxwell
Jessica Maxwell is a widely published international adventure writer, author and photographer with a special emphasis on food, conservation, women’s journeys and spiritual transformation.
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