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Soul Notes of a Composition: In the World Between Two Worlds of Grief from Suicide
Soul Notes of a Composition: In the World Between Two Worlds of Grief from Suicide
Soul Notes of a Composition: In the World Between Two Worlds of Grief from Suicide
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This Composition describes the Soul Notes of a mother. She becomes the Librarian for pieces that explain and describe the experiences of those who find themselves in The World between the Two Worlds of God, life and death. Through this compilation of pieces, held together by soul prayers, she provides an understanding of the disease of Bipolar Disorder and the decision of suicide. The mystery of the afterlife is shared by Intuitives, who provide prayer intercession in the thin spaces connecting the Two Worlds. This Composition includes the notes of those who are touched by experiences of healing. The notes confirm the resurrection of subtle energy that never dies. Poetry, journaling and sandtrays hold the images of the journey, a journey to find meaning in a childs decision to choose suicide.

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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateDec 21, 2010
ISBN9781452086248
Soul Notes of a Composition: In the World Between Two Worlds of Grief from Suicide
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Trudy Corry Rankin

This is the record of a wife, mother and professional woman who lived with her family in a lower class barrio in Costa Rica in the ‘80’s. This writer uses the demands of everyday experiences in a new culture for individual reflection, personal growth, and spiritual insight. Through the reading of these one page Parables of story telling, the reader will have a new appreciation of the impact of global living on the expanded world view of an individual and a family. The writer is a young wife married to an global thinker who wants to raise his two children in a Latin culture. She is a professional health care provider, who found means of self expression in this culture through education and service. The reader will find the pages to be filled with written images that make the culture and the people of Costa Rica come alive!

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    Soul Notes of a Composition - Trudy Corry Rankin

    SOUL NOTES OF A

    COMPOSITION

    In the World Between Two Worlds of

    Grief from Suicide

    by

    Trudy Corry Rankin

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    This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

    © 2010 Trudy Corry Rankin. All rights reserved.

    No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

    First published by AuthorHouse 9/21/2010

    ISBN: 978-1-4259-8468-7 (sc)

    ISBN: 978-1-4520-8624-8 (ebk)

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2006911058

    Printed in the United States of America

    Bloomington, Indiana

    Contents

    THE ENSEMBLE BEGINS

    HIS-STORY WITH ME

    CREATIVITY GONE WILD

    THE GRIEVING PROCESS

    THE OVERTONES

    The Syncronization of Another Stanza

    More Stanzas

    The Melodies Seem Real

    More Pieces are Added

    Author’s Note

    I have been quite satisfied to be the Librarian for this collection. I am humbled at completion.

    The painting of the cello on the cover of this book is by Dr. Melissa Rankin, Corry’s cousin.

    The symbol (∫) used as the chapter guide is an f-hole found on the surface of the cello. This hole contributes to the vibration of sound as a cello string is played.

    I express appreciation to my husband, Larry, and to members of our family. They have understood my need to put this journey into readable form to show dignity and respect for what has happened to us. Thank you for your willingness to be exposed, so that the story could be told. I am trained as a registered nurse, a psychotherapist and a spiritual director. I am out of my comfort zone in expressive writing. So, without the encouragement and support of those who are the foundations of my life, I could not have completed this.

    I must add my deepest appreciation to Wanda Taylor, writer extraordinaire. She has edited this with me on every comma and period. Little did we know, when we went to the ends of the earth together in southern Argentina, that we would reconnect after 35 years to share together these experiences, in the World between Two Worlds. My sister also gave her time in editing me through this.

    Dr. Linda Russek gave me encouragement to continue, acknowledging that we had been given a gift that needed to be shared with others for us all to understand more fully the resurrection. She encouraged me, as the EnsembIe began. Linda G. Russek is a clinical psychologist specializing in heart-centered psychotherapy and energy medicine in Tucson, AZ. She was co-founder and co-director of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory and co-facilitator of energy medicine in Dr. Andrew Weil’s program in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. She currently is the president and director of the Heart Science Foundation and its Center for Family Love and Health. Dr Russek is also clinical assistant professor of medicine in the department of medicine at the University of Arizona. She received her MA from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from United States International University in 1978. For 20 years she was director of the Harvard Mastery of Stress Follow-Up Study.

    The final decision to use Authorhouse in Bloomington, Indiana, for self-publishing was a synchronistic addition to this Composition.I made an appointment to inverview Authorhouse about the possibility of collaboration on this work. In flying to Bloomington to spend a week in Corry’s world there, I opened the New York Times to find Authorhouse discussed as a national leader in self-publishing. This confirmed that my book, Corry’s cello and his violin would all be made in the same community in Bloomington.

    I wish I could know how this is received by those who share it with me. I hope that the reader will grow in appreciation for the expanse of God’s reality for us all.

    If some great idea takes hold of us from outside, we must understand that it takes hold of us only because something in us responds to it, and goes out to meet it. C.G.Jung

    THE ENSEMBLE BEGINS

    The Encouragement to Believe

    Words from Dr. Linda Russek

    ∫∫ The Encouragement to Believe

    Perhaps the essence of the crisis of our times is that we are approaching the limit of the usefulness of our knowledge of the cosmos and are now in need of turning our attention to consciousness of ourselves.

    Dr. Jonas Salk

    All of our science measured against reality is primitive and childlike.

    Albert Einstein

    When someone we love dies, we are often left with so many unanswered questions that often collide with our unresolved feelings and preconceived beliefs. With the suicide of her beloved son, Corry, a gifted cellist and aspiring instrument maker, Dr. Trudy Rankin, a trained nurse, psychotherapist and spiritual director, was given the unexpected opportunity to grieve his death in a way most people have never thought possible. Trudy’s transformational spiritual journey of love and healing awaits you in this precious book you are now holding. It is made possible by Trudy and Corry, Trudy’s husband, Larry, and an extraordinary group of people that continue to experience Corry’s gentle presence in their lives. This is a love story.

    In the pages that follow you will come to know Trudy and these very special people who have generously contributed to the orchestration of this living, breathing, composition ultimately without end. We are given a rare glimpse of a bigger meaning and purpose in which Corry’s loves, his short life, his afterlife consciousness and his material contributions are realized.

    Several offer Trudy and her family bits of information they knew of Corry’s last days while others share their direct after death communications with him and other messages. Trudy has lovingly scooped up these heartful pieces and delivered Corry’s legacy to us. Whether you seek only to understand another’s grief or are yourself the one who grieves, this book will help you to seek comfort in opening to a more expanded consciousness that while extraordinary, is none the less real.

    Modern scientific research operates under the premise that by expanding infinitely new bits of linear information, i.e. the discovery of ever new relationships and correlations between 3–dimensional phenomena, we will come to know the divine plan of the universe.

    However, we see and hear only a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum expressed in Nature. It is strange, therefore, that most of us assume that Nature abounds only within our physical 5 senses. The fact is that 90% of Reality is invisible such as music, our ancestors, energy fields, cells, thoughts and emotions, microbes and speech, yet, we cannot rule out their effects upon us. Further, our fundamental nature shared with other life forms is not dense matter but made of living energy exhibiting 8 properties: vibrating, interconnecting, circulating, remembering, evolving, creating, knowing, and enduring.

    What science requires is a giant vertical leap to an entirely new paradigm, where a higher order of priority is given to the unseen rather than the seen. Boehm, a renowned physicist, spoke of the implicate order behind observed reality while Albert Einstein is reported to have felt within his body, intuiting the truth of E=mc² and then having to rework his discovery from the other end using mathematical terminology. Quantum physics supports such a shift and allows for the influence on matter arising from human consciousness and intentionality where Newtonian physics does not.

    When we grieve the loss of a loved one, as Trudy began her grieving of Corry, she became engaged in a process of conscious thinking and feeling that is beyond everyday thought patterns. In this intense process of remembering and sorting through, she exemplifies the path now being forged by the new science of human transformation, subtle energies, consciousness and intentionality.

    The energy of her will exercised directly upon her mind through continued prayer, meditation and exquisite questioning, progressively freed her from the limitations of her prior programming so that it could open for a brief instant. Through the act of persistent intention, and attention to this journey she, and those on this journey with her, were able to perceive thought energy of higher dimensions. This is what is called intuitive insight. Corry could be felt here.

    Dr Tiller, an emeritus professor from Stanford University and esteemed visionary scientist says it this way,

    "Perhaps our growth in consciousness is strongly correlated with what one consciously thinks of as being meaningful. Perhaps when one broadens one’s perspectives of what is meaningful, the unconscious will edit and prepare an expanded spectrum of information kernels to send to the conscious brain. The richness and quality of these individual kernels will depend upon the character and detailed nature of the infrastructure that has been built into the various layers of the person."

    Dr. Tiller believes that our unconscious minds manipulate, edit, process and dump more than a million times as much raw neural information than it actually records in conscious experience. Only those kernels of information that have explicit meaning are directed to the conscious brain.

    The question of whether there is a Living Soul that survives death and continues to evolve consciously needs a certain expanded human consciousness and depth of love and will to even sustain the question. Trudy’s heartfelt and open-ended inquiry with herself, Corry, God, family and friends, and her therapist, in addition to the attention paid to the synchronicities happening around her, speak to this persistent and dedicated focus.

    From our scientific experiments and intuitive understandings conducted over the last 10 years with remarkable mediums and sitters (those who grieve) at the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona and from my private practice

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