Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations Review

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Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations ReviewBeginning at the age of 11 and occuring several times more throughout his life, the author found himself in an altered state where he was able to view Heaven, or "The Golden World" as he called it. The title of this book then, "Balancing Heaven and Earth", chronicles his spiritual journey which was characterized by the need to balance or integrate the nearly undescribable bliss of heaven with the author's ordinary existence.
Looking back on his life while near the end of it Johnson examines and chronicles his life and spiritual journey for us, including his experiences growing up as a poor kid without a leg, his meeting with Carl Jung and subsequent career as a Jungian analyst, writer and speaker, and his adventures traveling around the world. Especially interesting are his tales of India.
Johnson's "voice" comes across as grandfatherly and warm. He doesn't claim to have achieved enlightenment, doesn't claim to know all of the answers, and he clearly isn't attempting to recruit followers, or build up his ego, resume or bank account. He writes simply and elequently, and avoids the complex, philosophical jargon that render many writers (such as Ken Wilber) somewhat inaccessible to simple lunkheads like me. (Note however, that a basic understanding of Jungian psychology will add to one's understanding).
Here is a sample passage that I particularly liked, which is the author's take on sainthood, coming after a small town in India had asked him to live there as their local "saint":
"I have meditated on the subject of sainthood many times since this experience, and I find a bit of wisdom in understanding that saints are people who suffer the projection of unlived holiness from a group of people and are made to serve in this strange role whether they like it or not. It is only the other side of the coin of scapegoating, in which a group chooses an individual to carry the dark side of their own personalities, which they are unwilling to own for themselves...God help the poor person who is landed with either of the excesses that humankind finds equally difficult to bear."
(The theme of people unwilling to "own" their own best qualities, and therefore projecting them onto a religious guru, is touched upon several times throughout the book).
Overall, this is a wonderful story of someone following God's leading throughout life and finally coming to a place where they are comfortable in their own skin, both physically and spiritually - having learned to lay down the ego's agenda and follow the subtle leading of the Spirit of God.
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