JUNE BOOK OF THE MONTH: IN SEARCH OF THE LUMINOUS HEART BY VICTORIA RIVERA MCKINLEY
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IN SEARCH OF THE LUMINOUS HEART
By Victoria
Rivera McKinley
Published by O Books
Beginning with her family’s origins
as tenant farmers in the mountains of Puerto Rico at the turn of the nineteenth
century, Victoria Rivera McKinley leads readers through dramatic and painful
events, which in spite of psychological explanations, add up to experiences
that are much larger.
Against a historical backdrop of
Puerto Rico’s changing culture, she shows how a family of ten children survive and
learn to look out for one another.
This is a success story, but not
simply because the author leaves Puerto Rico and becomes a psychotherapist in
America. Rivera McKinley offers an extraordinary perspective that finds truth
in how each person lives experience in his or her own way. Her own journey ends
in the Rocky Mountains, where Buddhist teachings offer her a spiritual and
philosophical framework with which to understand her life.
In Search of the Luminous Heart is a
deep and unusual look at adversity and belies terms like “dysfunctional” for
family. Here, generosity of spirit is the key to survival. The family endures
by using intelligence, compassion, and accepting lives that have the real taste
of tears, blood, songs, and prayers.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR: Victoria Rivera McKinley is a 73-year-old Puerto Rican
mother of two married daughters. She is a practicing psychotherapist in NYC.
From her early youth she was her family’s scribe and longed to one day write
their story for the benefit of the future generations.
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