THE SHAPESHIFTER

A memoir of divine love that reads
like a heady dream.

Debut author Navone writes that
she’s had numerous visions and mystical experiences over the course of her
life, but none surpass her extraordinary encounter with spiritual beings—“a
group of Enlightened Masters from the Brotherhood of Light”—who, she says, gave her the means
to write this book through the power of channeling. This “Divine Intervention”
transformed her worldview, she notes, and had an overall positive impact on her
life. Early on, she calls the tendency to live one’s life according to the
whims of one’s ego “the Waiting Room.”
She says that a person can live in a beautiful place, surrounded by luxuries,
as she was, and still be in the Waiting Room if one has a “closed heart.” But a
deep, powerful yearning for something greater, she asserts, can be the seed
that grows into a divine revelation, allowing one to cast off fear and
insecurity. The author traces her own metamorphosis from her first spiritual
encounters to the channeling of this book. Readers follow her as she travels to
many different places, including India and Brazil, on a quest to find sacred
portals where she could receive divine messages. Eventually she found herself
in Egypt, gazing in awe at the ancient pyramids, and there, she says, she
worked feverishly on the book for long periods with little rest. Throughout
this work, Navone writes passionately, her words filled with emotion: “Beloved
reader, it is time to wake up and feel the immense power that already resides
in each one of us.” Her descriptions of her time in Egypt, in particular, are
rich with symbolism and heavy with meaning. As a result, it may take some
effort on the part of the reader to cut through the flowery language (“I came to realize that Light is pure consciousness,
that Love is what unifies all parts of us into Oneness; the universal glue that
both binds us and dissolves all feelings of separation”) in order to understand the simple
message within.

A sincere
and compassionate work whose themes are sometimes overshadowed by flamboyant
presentation.