Claim Your Basic Rights: Create a Practical Partnership with Your Soul

Claim Your Basic Rights--Create a Practical Partnership with Your Soul written by Jennifer Palmquist and Daniel Cohen, M.D. is a must read for people who yearn to understand the practical relationship between themselves, their soul, and God and how that can benefit them. The book is not a treatise on Theology, nor does it contain Religious references, but it does delve into Spirituality in the context of practical, real life situations. Much of the book is a dialogue between a fictitious personality and their soul framed within our Basic Rights as human beings. These Rights are put forth by the authors for thoughtful consideration. They are guidelines not rules, that can be used to evaluate how we live and what we can aspire to become. The Rights and dialogue are effective tools used by the authors to help us understand how we, through our own choices, have compromised our lives and widened the divide between our personality and spiritual self. Throughout the book, the soul mentors the personality in provocative, but lighthearted discussions about everyday experiences and demonstrates to us how each one is a learning opportunity. As the book progresses the personality and the reader learns to appreciate his or her coping strategies (defense mechanisms), why they developed, and how they play out in everyday life. More importantly they learn that by constantly using their coping strategies, they remain much less aware of their soul. While reading this book, readers begin to recognize their inner voice, become aware that they are not alone, and realize that practical help is available from their soul. Do you have a soul? How does your soul manifest in your everyday life? Are you listening to what it has to say? Do you want to?