Question reality. That's exactly what J. E. Ketchel does In Dreaming All The Time, the final book documenting her three-year-long shamanic journey of recapitulation. Vivid altered states of consciousness and communications with animal and spirit guides teach her that she is so much more than she realizes. As she journeys on, her total healing from childhood sexual abuse takes place in meaningful physical, mental and spiritual ways. In one final encounter with the man who abused her as a child, she learns a profound truth about her own life and the dream of her greater life.The ancient shamanic practice of Recapitulation led to complete healing from Complex PTSD for J. E. Ketchel. Her five books are a case study in that process, validating Recapitulation as a vital healing modality, offering guidance for anyone seeking a cure.Although J. E. Ketchel's books have been called difficult to read because of the incidences of sexual abuse, this final book, Dreaming All The Time, is perhaps the easiest to read. Replete with magic and mystery, and with fewer graphic descriptions of sexual abuse it covers the final leg of her dramatic healing journey. The first two books in the series, The Man in the Woods and The Edge of the Abyss are decidedly dark, as J. E. Ketchel recalled what happened to her in childhood. In the third and fourth books, Into the Vast Nothingness and Place of No Pity, the darkness and depression of first recall are being shed, trust is developing between the author and her helpers, physical and spiritual, and the magic is beginning to take over where the darkness had reigned. The hard stuff had to be recapitulated in order for the author to get to this state of magic and full healing, but you, the reader may jump ahead and read this book first if you wish, though know that you will be missing out on a lot of background information, and the details not only of her childhood but the intimate details of her everyday life that she shares so poignantly with her readers. So, start here, and work your way back as you discover that real healing only comes when the truth is faced and dealt with.J. E. Ketchel wrote The Recapitulation Diaries for three distinct reasons. First, to document that Complex PTSD is completely curable. Secondly, to underscore the brutal truth of what can happen to very young children in communities of every sort. Her experience is not unique. Sexual abuse of children happens all over the world; it's a uniquely human problem, and unless the brutal truth is faced it can't even begin to be addressed. Thirdly, as she discovered, the recapitulating and revisioning of trauma opens the door to a potential pathway to higher consciousness. This includes not only the discovery of life beyond the physical body but a discovery of the multidimensionality of human relationships that make possible the experience of love and acceptance of everyone and everything, for, as J. E. Ketchel discovers, her journey is ultimately about learning what love really means, and what it means to be a loving being, indeed, that love is the answer.Dreaming All The Time is indeed a book of magic and mystery. Life is revealed as full of meaning and possibility, as the author arrives at a peaceful and fulfilling journey's end.
