COSMIC


Anneloes Smitsman 

and Jean Houston (2022). Return of the Avatars: 
                                          The Cosmic Architect Tools of Our Future                                           Becoming--Book 2 of the Future Humans                                              Trilogy


Smitsman and Houston are both PhD's, visionaries, mystics, and beacons of light in our world. This is a work of fiction describing the heroine journey of Rose that began with her near death experience in Book 1 The Quest of Rose and continues in this Book 2 Return of the Avatars where Rose is initiated into Avatarian rites by her wise Grandmother for the positive evolution of humanity. 

The "practices" in the book are guided meditations in the same format as the previous book, The Quest of Rose but this time using different Avatarian tools for transformation and evolution. At this time, i have the same comments as the previous post for The Quest of Rose: while i see value in the meditations, trying some of them myself, i need something more behavioral, practical...i often felt lost in the "cosmic" language, making it difficult for me to resonate and follow the ideas...

In fairness to the authors, i did not actually DO all of the meditations, and i did find myself dreaming about some of the images from the book, meaning the content is reaching me on a subconscious level...the summer when i have more time, i plan on testing out the guided meditations.


For practice, each person is invited to read and try out the meditations for themselves and/or go to Smitsman's website to engage in some of the on-line group workshops:  https://www.earthwisecentre.org/anneloes-smitsman
 



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