{"product_id":"2940013668553","title":"The Road I Know","description":"I must write this book for three reasons: First, to satisfy numerous\u003cbr\u003ereaders of THE UNOBSTRUCTED UNIVERSE-the third of the so-called \"Betty\u003cbr\u003ebooks\" and dictated by her through another psychic after her death-who\u003cbr\u003edemand insistently to know \"how Betty got that way\"; second, to answer\u003cbr\u003equestions from the many who, in one way or another, are setting out on\u003cbr\u003ethe path Betty followed; third, because in her own training Betty was\u003cbr\u003egiven a pattern for living which could well be used by all of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor one by-product of THE BETTY BOOK, and ACROSS THE UNKNOWN, written\u003cbr\u003ebefore Betty's death, as well as THE UNOBSTRUCTED UNIVERSE, published\u003cbr\u003ejust eighteen months after she died, is a widespread interest in Betty\u003cbr\u003eherself. This is more than a mere curiosity as to personality. The\u003cbr\u003elatter is well enough defined by what these books report of her words\u003cbr\u003eand thoughts. Rather, people want to know-to judge by their letters-how\u003cbr\u003ethat personality came about. Flow much was her original self? How much\u003cbr\u003ewas of her own volitional development How much was due to her training\u003cbr\u003eby the Invisibles?* What was that training? As applied to her, alone, or\u003cbr\u003eto be aspired to by others? For of course a good deal of the teachings\u003cbr\u003ein the three books is an account of training methods for mankind in\u003cbr\u003egeneral. In a word what hundreds of my correspondents say they want is a\u003cbr\u003ebiography of Betty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Betty's name for discarnate personalities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut not a biography in ordinary definition. Rather a biography of inner\u003cbr\u003elife and development. What made her what her three books show her to be?\u003cbr\u003eAfter all, that is the essential aim of any biography-to evaluate the\u003cbr\u003eexpansion of a person's life, and to examine the influences and\u003cbr\u003ehappenings and accomplishments that brought this person to wherever he\u003cbr\u003eor she had landed by that pausing-time we call death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs with most lives that grow to an ultimate fullness, material in\u003cbr\u003eBetty's case is embarrassingly abundant. The difficulty is not of\u003cbr\u003esearch, but of selection and arrangement. The whole record of the work\u003cbr\u003eBetty did in the higher consciousness, both while she was still here and\u003cbr\u003eafter her death, runs to two thousand four hundred single-spaced pages.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the two thousand done in her lifetime I have clipped those passages\u003cbr\u003ethat carried individual instruction. These make over three hundred\u003cbr\u003epages-all material from which to select. Besides, there are, of course,\u003cbr\u003emy own recollections of nearly forty years. And in addition, more than a\u003cbr\u003eyear after her death, I came upon a filing folder containing a\u003cbr\u003emiscellany of papers in which from time to time she herself had set down\u003cbr\u003ejottings of her own attitude toward the work she was doing, and the\u003cbr\u003eimpression she had of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, in order to make a start, it is necessary to adopt a point of view.\u003cbr\u003eIt must be this: that here is an account of one person's psychic\u003cbr\u003etraining for a specific job of what later, after her death, she was to\u003cbr\u003ecall \"divulgence\" It is quite aside from the purposes-and also the\u003cbr\u003epossibilities-to do a portrait or a \"character sketch\" of Betty. She was\u003cbr\u003eas many sided as she was femininely elusive. When I think of attempting\u003cbr\u003eit, I share her own impatience with words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's like trying to look at the stars in the daytime,\" she once\u003cbr\u003ecomplained. \"It's perfectly clear until I bring it into the daylight of\u003cbr\u003ewords, and then it's gone. I don't want to be silly; but the words make\u003cbr\u003eone laugh: they are so long-drawn-out for the amount of idea in them. It\u003cbr\u003eis as impossible to put my world* into words as it is to put the ocean\u003cbr\u003ein a bucket.\" Again and again I remember her interrupting her reporting\u003cbr\u003eto express that despair over the impossibility of containing such things\u003cbr\u003ein language. Nearing the end of her long experience she wrote this, in\u003cbr\u003eher own person, one of the fragments I found in her files.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177897509104,"sku":"2940013668553","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013668553_p0.jpg?v=1763583705","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013668553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}