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Reviews of Windows to the Soul

Kevin Ryerson, author of Spirit Communication

A delightful yet confrontational journey through the psyche.

Richard Gerber, M.D., author of Vibrational Medicine

This is a wonderful book that helps to teach us to recognize the powerful healing and transforming potentials that we each carry within...

Charles Bensinger, author of Chaco Journey

With deftness and clarity, Rick Phillips illuminates the role of Higher Self in leading us away from the destructive pattern of self-judgment.

The Arizona Light

If you're ready and willing to seek a spiritually-oriented direction toward freedom from the indulgence of the emotional body and have decided to conquer your addiction to creating and perpetuating more and more pain, Phillip's methods may help you give yourself permission to experience a beautiful and wonderful dimension of your higher self.

Abigail Lewis in Whole Life Times

If you are looking for a well-written and comprehensive book on basic metaphysics, with a light touch, you will enjoy this one.  Phillips' concept of the "Divine Child" is as a dimension of our Higher Self.  "When we are ready, we transit the dimensions into the physical body of a baby.  The spiritual of the Higher Self that leads us at this time is the Divine Child.  This is the spirit that infuses the body with the knowing of our divinity.

There is quite a bit of information about healing and emotional release, as well as exploration of energy and chakras.  Since I've heard several different version of what color represents which chakra, I was interested to read an explanation of the origin of these colors.  Color, I supposes, is as subjective as anything else.

I was also pleased to sexual karma addressed, and the idea that it carries over from bodies of other lifetimes.

If you are looking for a more personal connection, Rick Phillips runs the Deva Foundation near Santa Fe, which presents workshops and trains healers and practitioners in search of expansion.  It sounds well worth a visit.

"No Gurus Here" by Clark Manning, L.Ac. in Santa Fe Spirit Magazine

This small book is one of those rare gems worth its weight in gold.  While it seemed to get off to a slow start, I wonder how much of this was my internal resistance to a vastly important new idea.  Historically, resistance to a new idea often has been directly proportional to its importance.  The importance of the material presented in Windows to the Soul (previously published as The Emergence of the Divine Child) soon became clear to me.  By the third chapter, I was so engrossed that I was reading it immediately on waking up in the morning.  By the time I finished the book, I was inspired to meet Rick in person.

Rick's background is similar to the stories of many Santa Feans.  At eighteen, he began the study of Transcendental Meditation.  After obtaining a Master's degree in Environmental Management, his life was transformed by a Higher-Self guided visit to Santa Fe.  Sound familiar anyone?  A local astrologer sent him to Chris Griscom whose work on him inspired Rick to study Chinese medicine.  Rick and soon-to-be wife Paula assisted Ms. Griscom in her work and later helped her to found the world-famous Light Institute.  Rick and Paula left the Light Institute in the Fall of 1987 to establish the Deva Foundation, where they have carried this work a quantum leap forward.  Going beyond the past-life orientation of the Light Institute, they incorporate various types of meditation and psychological techniques, Neo-Jungian concepts, specific issues, symbols and present-life work in healing sessions which are rapidly achieving global acclaim.

So what is the reason for all this excitement?  It has to do with Rick's uniquely original idea: the Divine Child concept which supercedes the well-known Inner Child paradigm and must be viewed as a distinctly new idea.  His discourse on this idea is somewhat lengthy, so I have excerpted its major points in the following quotation.

"The energy of the Higher Self that comes into the body first is what I call the 'Divine Child', to be distinguished from the concept of the 'Inner Child' commonly used in psychotherapy...Therefore, the Divine Child is a dimension or an aspect of our Higher Self, and like other aspects of the Higher Self, the symbol enriches us with its unique hologram of possibilities and unique perspectives...The Divine Child came forth as vibrant awareness of wisdom that immediately guided the client through the healing of childhood wounds."

More simply put, the Divine Child appears to be an energetic template of wholeness originating in the Higher Self that has the potential to catalyze vastly accelerated healing in the injured Inner Child.  The Divine Child actually appears to neutralize what I refer to as negative feedback loops.  These loops manifest as inappropriate reactions to normal stimuli, such as fear after being complemented or given some other type of positive feedback.

Rick says that his success rate with most problems, while not perfect by any means, is quite high.  He does regular follow-ups on clients and notes that failures are usually concomitant with reluctance to "do the work".  Because of the phenomenal acceleration of psychotherapeutic processing which occurs with the Divine Child paradigm, the work of Rick and Rachel Phillips is gaining an excellent reputation among more traditionally oriented "psych" professionals.  It adds the realm of the spiritual to "mind work" or psychological healing.

Rick feels that the issue of separation is the real theme of his book.  No healing is complete until this issue has been resolved and the client realizes on a cellular level our absolute connection to the cosmos through love.  In actuality, we are all one.  "If there is a child starving in Africa, part of me is starving.  To deny the situation of this child is to deny an aspect of my being.  I may not have the means to physically save the child, but I have the means to be aware, to have understanding and compassion, to radiate love.  Through the coherence of love's energy comes a subtle, sometimes tangible stimulation of that frequency of karma within myself that can heal individually and collectively the world's symbolic starvation."  It is at this level of awareness and beyond that Rick is motivated to reach out to his world and endorse it with his hard-earned green energy and valuable time.

Can I speak highly enough of Rick or his new book?  Probably not, but I have tried.