Good morning beloved reader,
And once again welcome new readers, I’m thrilled to have you here. Also to those of you who have been reading and participating in this Substack community for the past year or so, you have my heart-felt appreciation and gratitude. I’m so happy all of you are here, now, reading these words.
Lately I’ve fallen into a pattern of offering a Sunday short-post, then on Wednesdays I’ve been serializing a chapter from Part Two of The Rising of the Divine Feminine and the Buddhist Monks Across the Road: A Memoir.
But before sharing the next chapter, I want to shine the light on how ‘redemption’ is such a prominent theme in so many American memoirs. Perhaps this reflects the fact that Christianity is the world's largest religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers, which represents one-third of the global population — and so many Western authors have come from a background of Christian conditioning.
The Oxford English dictionary defines ‘redemption’ as “the act of saving…