Title: The Metaphysical Metamorphosis of Miss Nancy
Author: Nancy L. Briggs
Publisher: Stratton Press
ISBN: 1643451057
Pages: 136
Genre: Creative / Metaphysical
Reviewer: David Allen
Hollywood Book Reviews
Imagine if you can Joan Rivers doing a stand-up monologue co-written by universalist preacher and former presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson. Imagine a heartfelt exhortation assuring you that despite the present tumult in the world, things will all work out.
This is what author Nancy L. Briggs delivers mightily sometimes-tongue-in-cheek clarion calls to sanity and to evidence of our senses. Briggs is a healer who has done her experiential and library homework. The Metaphysical Metamorphosis of Miss Nancy is honest, direct, often hilarious, always passionate and sharing.
Let’s talk about the evidence of our senses. Back in the 1970s philosopher Julian Jaynes boldly asserted that historically, ‘hallucinations’, ‘visions’ and ‘trances’ were actual phenomena during pre-rational times when the right side of the brain literally ‘spoke’ to the left side of the brain. He gave as examples the well-known ‘talking of the gods’ to the heroes in Greek and Roman mythology.
Nancy Briggs invites readers to tap into their collective spirit, to their autochthonic totemic beasts and mythologies, to reap the harvest of bigger, better, and wider consciousness. Which makes Briggs and the rest of us better able to heal.
Briggs is both a healer and a fanciful talented writer. She urges us to approach our lives not just with a sense of wonder, but with an acute appreciation of their overlap with the marvelous, the sacred, the uncanny. Her descriptions of noumenal experiences — ranging from surviving a burglar intrusion in her home, to kidnap and forced detention by agents of ”dark forces” and mind control for extended periods of time — can be read as merely metaphorical. Or as events experienced by an author who is intent on transforming her pain and joy into something readers can use. She survives energy attacks from ‘FS’ — ‘former spouse’ — whom we like less and less as we come to know him. She is set upon by a pack of dogs but divine Grace and who knows what other deus ex machina lets her live to tell the tale. Another time she realizes that she is under surveillance from a grinning very well-dressed man riding back and forth on a bike outside her window, who ‘looked like he belonged in the Tour de France.’
For Briggs, the universe is bountiful and well-intentioned. The myriad events thrown her way help her in her personal journey toward becoming a healer. Healer, heal thyself…And Nancy Briggs has done exactly that, coping with multiple sclerosis for over 30 years yet somehow making the best of things. Far as the rappings and knockings in the dark go, here’s Briggs again: The mind is the greatest creator.. Nancy Briggs’ travelogue of her journeys around the spiritual block, impassioned and funny and as hopeful as they are, becomes a feast for the hungry. And Briggs doesn’t forget to remind us that we are going through a Time. Hers is a therapeutic, delightfully pantheistic and appreciative view of the burgeoning universe.
The Metaphysical Metamorphosis of Miss Nancy serves as a reminder to the power of inner light and the importance of embracing one’s spiritual journey, no matter how mysterious or challenging it may be. The author Nancy L. Briggs writes a moving and insightful book that will resonate with those seeking deeper understanding and spiritual empowerment. This book would be suitable for readers who are interested in spiritual growth, supernatural encounters, and metaphysical transformation.