Review: Philip Smith's book "Walking Through Walls" - I LOVED IT

A quick apology, as book reviews aren't my strong suit. I just felt so strongly about this title that I had to share it as part of my own personal evolution.

I'd looked at this book on numerous occasions, but couldn't bring myself to order it. Something about the way the book description was written made it sound a little cheesy. It's not that I wasn't believing of the subject matter, it's just that well, maybe I wasn't quite ready for it yet.

So once I finally ordered it, it sat around the house for a little while before I picked it up. 3 days ago, I start to read it. The first 40 pages were a little wordy...and I couldn't see where the story was going. But then.....

Wow. I just finished it sobbing into a pile of kleenex.

The book is a memoir written by Philip Smith, about life with his father Lewis (Lew) Smith. If you do not believe in the metaphysical, you might want to move on from this particular title.

Lew was a spiritual healer who used a variety of modalities (homeopathic medicine, Bach Flower Essences, Reiki, etc.) to cure people of the most life threatening ailments. Cancer, brain tumors, liver failure... And keep in mind that this was the late 1960's and early 1970's. People weren't as open minded and accepting of alternative medicine as they are today. Lew constantly battled doctors and the authorities to help people from being unnecessarily operated on.

Lew received guidance from a number of different spiritual entities, and most frequently, Chander Sen (a Tibetan Monk from the 14th century) and Arthur Ford (an American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient ). Who many times would communicate information to Lew in front of his son. (Or anywhere else for that matter - Arthur would cause the lights to blink 3 times when he was about to give Lew a message. At the house, in a restaurant - anywhere.)

Through the use of a pendulum and divination, Lew was able to diagnose peoples unknown illnesses in a matter of minutes when doctors were at their wits end with a patient. He could use the pendulum to locate missing people, animals, and once to help find and heal his son from a distance in Spain when he came down with a fever and an infection that almost killed him.

Philip struggled his whole life with his father always being able to know exactly where he was and what he was doing. Philip just wanted to be a normal kid, with a normal dad instead of a kid whose father was working all day and night to help people with their illnesses.

Did I mention that Lew never charged a single penny for any of his healing work? He said that it was God's work, that he was doing the work for his highest good...

Sometimes a book comes along at just the right time, as this one did for me. It brought me back to a place of remembering that we are here to serve a greater good, and if we focus, that we can move mountains.

Highly recommended. Well written. Excellent.