The Author

Dr. Donovan has authored two books:

• The Face of Consciousness: A Guide to Self-identity and Healing
  
  
  Finalist in the 2007 Nexus Book Awards
  
  
• Dancing with The Beloved: Resurrecting Divine Sexuality Through Profound Relatedness

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THE FACE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
A Guide to Self-Identity and Healing

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"Who are you and why are you here? Why is anyone or anything 'here', living in this world, this universe? Better yet, why is there anything at all, even a 'here'? Life forms come and go, eventually to be lost to the dark abyss of the evolutionary obsolete. Even you and your loved ones come and go, each a mere microsecond on the time line of eternity. It all seems so useless, so meaningless! But why is it so?"

In The Face of Consciousness: A Guide to Self-identity and Healing, Dr. Donovan, with the help of Dr. Joiner-Bey, attempts to answer these questions by presenting a unifying theory of creation, life and the transformational process of healing. This unifying theory is predicated upon the primary theme of self-realized identity. It is based on the properties of living systems, as described by modern physicists, biologists, philosophers and mystics. The fabric of this theory is woven from parallel threads of evidence based on the mystical traditions and scientific evidence pinpointing consciousness as the fundamental phenomenon (the "Materia Prima") of life and the conclusion that the primal driving force of life (its "raison d'etre") is its "sacred quest" for a sense of its own identity i.e., a realization of itself through the experience of itself.

The Face of Consciousness offers a new perspective on consciousness and its manifestation as life. It proposes a theory that explains the "why" of creation and life and defines the transformational process of healing in a way in which it can be practically applied to one's life enabling one to transcend death and transform illness into greater life. The Face of Consciousnesness was one of five finalists in the 2007 Nexus Books Awards.

• Read an excerpt of The Face of Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Identity and Healing
  
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Downloadable e-book, US$14.95

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DANCING WITH THE BELOVED
Resurrecting Divine Sexuality Through Profound Relatedness

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This book is written to reintroduce and reintegrate the erotic and sensual into the spiritual experience of each individual who reads it. The patriarchal-dominant, Judeo-Christian culture from which most of us in the "Western" world have gotten our spiritual guidance, has exiled the erotic and sensual experience of profound relatedness from the spiritual realm to sex and the "sins of the flesh" leaving most of us impotent and passionless in our relationship with The Divine. Instead of passionately and sensually engaging The Divine as a lover engages his or her beloved, we are taught to engage God the Father as an obedient child, ever in fear of his divine retribution and stern reprimands. And what of God the Mother; where is she? She too has been exiled by the powerful patriarchy! Only she has been exiled to nature and, as we well know, nature is corrupt for its "desires of the flesh" were the cause of man's fall from paradise and "original sin". Such guilt! Such repression! Such a sterile, spiritual emptiness this cultural doctrine has left us with. Where is the juiciness and sensuality of life; the warmed-womb security and soft, wet kiss of our beloved's lips upon the pale, white skin of our desire? They are here with us in the sexual experience of profound relatedness if we are willing to be a lover and erotically engage the world as though it were our beloved and dance. This book will give its readers a template from which they can develop their own particular dance step and dance with their beloved—with The Divine.

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