Creating Heaven on Earth: My Journey from the Devastation of My Life into the Heaven in My Heart

Anne Celeste’s story has given many people great hope for their lives. It demonstrates that no matter how great the difficulty in which we find ourselves, we can use those very difficulties to create a life of meaning, purpose and grace.

From a pinnacle of fulfillment and success, Anne’s life was utterly devastated, shattered by a series of great tragedies. She lost everything. Devastated and grieving, she fell so severely ill that she was not even able to stand, and was not expected to recover. For seven long years, everything she tried to heal her body failed.

How do we create a life of meaning and value in such an unyielding circumstance? How do we heal a debilitating illness for which there is no known cure?

Without any physical cure available, Anne gradually learns the secrets of healing from the soul. By surrendering her personality into the Unity, God, she learns how to transform tragedy into grace, transcending the physical, living moment by moment in what is true and enduring. She discovers that the more she lives from the pure love within her spiritual heart, the more tragedy turns to grace.

As Anne writes, “This was soul healing--learning to live from the presence of the divine within as a living reality. It would bring me a great, great gift—the way to be constantly held within the pure love of the Unity, God, regardless of what was going on around me. It would move me from personality to presence…from doing to being…from physical form to spiritual essence…from personal willing to open surrender…from inner struggle to an abiding inner harmony. It would heal my very broken heart, and with that, my very broken body. It would totally transform my life, cleanse it, and right it. It was going to root me deeper, raise me higher, and expand me into more than I had ever known. It was that Big.”

Anne Celeste is a spiritual counselor, teacher, and healer who guides people to live within the soul. Her life work focuses on the spiritual soul, loving consciousness. She has made a lifelong study of the process of spiritual development, integrating the inner, mystic paths of Christianity, Yoga, Sufism, and Tibetan Buddhism with the contemporary work of Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner, and others. Anne is an authority on intuition. Since 1981 she has taught thousands of individuals, many in the caring professions, to live within the guidance of the soul. She was honored to be selected for research by the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Anne is a master teacher of the Sufi way, appointed in 2003 by the beloved Guide Sidi al-Jamal of the Shadduliyah Way. This designation signifies that her heart is the earth on which others can travel as they journey into the Unity.