~HOW TO BE PERFECT~ A new book on spirituality....
	~HOW TO BE PERFECT~ You CAN be perfect - in fact, you already are. If your head says No, but your heart says Yes, read Sherry Sword's new book...... ~HOW TO BE PERFECT~ available at booklocker.com If you're one of the millions of readers of Neale Donald Walsch's "CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD", or even if you've never read a book on spirituality, you may have reached a point in your life when you want answers! - perfect answers to intimate questions - the questions only YOU can ask. I asked, and without thinking, "heard" the answers you'll read in ~HOW TO BE PERFECT~. This very intimate journal is your chance to eavesdrop on 'sessions' between a psychotherapist (me), and the 'best therapist the world has ever known'--the infinte wisdom we all have, ready and waiting within. Read on and you'll find.... EXCERPTS from several chapters in ~HOW TO BE PERFECT~ SHERRY'S JOURNAL- current updates and journal entries from my on-going 'sessions' . EMAIL me. And now.... the Introduction from ~HOW TO BE PERFECT~ some surprising revelations and comments from readers..... Introduction: In June of 1997 my life changed. I had been twice married and divorced--to a pro-football player and coach, then a lawyer--and had been living with an English musician for 17 years. I had been a model, a psychotherapist, an actor, a seamstress. As I sat one day trying to make sense of it all for "The New York Times Magazine" article `Lives', I gave up. I realized I had no idea what it all meant. I also realized I had only one ambition, to somehow use it all to make life better. But how? What could I do? After all my seeking--in the refuge of marriage, in the halls of academia and the profession of psychology, in the Hollywood night life of drugs, sex and rock & roll, in the acting-school life of New York City, and in the volumes of literature on spiritual enlightenment, I had no answer. And I wanted an answer more than I had ever wanted anything. In frustration, I wrote the words, "I want to be USED. How can I help?" and heard the silent answer, "FINISH WHAT YOU START". That was the beginning of the dialogue that follows. Over a period of nine months I wrote whatever questions came to mind from, How am I going to pay the rent? to What are black holes? Always I received an answer. Sometimes the answer was silence and when I asked why, was told I needed to be clear about what I wanted to know and I needed to be calm and patient in my ignorance. The answers I wrote with my own hand amazed me, thrilled me, baffled me and sometimes seemed dead wrong. I decided not to decide and to just write. I was choosing faith. It felt a lot like learning to do cartwheels when I was a kid. I would throw myself forward with only the vaguest notion about what I was doing and with fear that I would fall and hurt myself. I could `feel' a perfect cartwheel somewhere inside me. The thrill of it egged me on, ever hopeful. Each time I flopped I tried to figure out what I had done wrong and correct it but quickly gave it up in favor of just hurling myself forward with blind faith in that feeling within. Suddenly it happened--a perfect cartwheel. I hadn't figured it out and couldn't explain how I did it, but I could do it--again and again. I had it! Something in me knew how. It wasn't my mind and it wasn't my body. What was it? From then on, every time I did a cartwheel I was performing a little miracle and I knew it. The sheer joy of it. Look what I can do! Now my desire for perfect love and understanding was egging me on to ask questions, trusting that there were answers and that I could have them. My dialogue continues and has been such a life-transforming experience it became obvious early on I was realizing my ambition. My heart's desire was spilling out on the page and in my life. By publishing this very intimate journal I want to share, not the sometimes embarrassing details of my ragged, thick-headed human life, but the day-by-day process of learning to trust and USE the infinite wisdom that awaits us all. Sherry Sword New York City April 1998 Did you know............ You can't think and know at the same time? You can't judge and feel at the same time? The expression 'All In All' refers to the one superconscious mind we all share? Fear is not natural. It is learned and always disfunctional? Sex is a mechanism of limitation and reveals Truth? Illness is ambivalence--a split mind, which creates a lethal mixture of chemicals in our bodies that produces all sickness, aging and even death? DNA is the physical representation of your mind at a given point in time and is endlessly alterable? A lie is always a collaboration between sender and receiver? Feelings are pre-thought, while emotions are feelings altered by judgment? A desire expects fulfillment, a 'want' fears disappointment? Suffering and pain are always the result of resistance? We sleep in order to stop thinking? With surrender difficulties become miracles unfolding? Time is a device--a slowed-down illusion used to hold us apart from each other as long as this is what we want, like the still frames of a motion picture? We have the power to suspend time? Energy is will in action? We can grow younger? Everyone is wealthy, but few know it? It is an illusion to believe you are alone--ever? Fighting is never necessary? Your will is the most powerful thing in the universe? You'll find these topics and more in ~~~~HOW TO BE PERFECT~~~~ Comments from readers....... Ray Bennett of the progressive rock group FLASH (Capitol Records) and now solo artist on his new album "Whatever Falls" says: Reading ~HOW TO BE PERFECT~ will change your life and how you feel forever. You can be perfect. Perfection is not only possible, it is an undeniable fact. We are all steadfastly moving towards it, each in our own way. But why so slowly? Why not instantaneously? Perfection is always available right now. We have all experienced those `magic' moments when, mysteriously, things happen perfectly. This book will tell you how to be where you want to be right now, how to be thrilled by your life, how to rid yourself of fear, how to live PERFECTLY. We all want a better life, and that means a happier more fulfilled existence. Our life is made apparent to us by how we feel, and thinking is reflecting on what is apparent, or "what is appearing before us". The crucial relationship between feeling and thinking is explained in this book and the distinction between feeling and emotion. This all-important but over-looked distinction will change the way we think. And our thinking will change the world. Sherry Ann Sword has devoted her life to searching for truth, as a psychotherapist and in all her diverse endeavors. ~HOW TO BE PERFECT~ is an unedited, authentic journal, a very personal journey into the human heart which illuminates her life, and will your own, in a veiled and troubled world, where all of us are looking for answers, and more--HAPPINESS. I have shared some of the journey with her and have benefitted enormously from her work. I recommend it to you. Ray Bennett, musician Alfred Skipps - New Zealand.... Well, I bought your book, and I must admit that it was worth the download and the price. It was great, unbelievable. When I read it, it was like reading CWG - Book 4. There were the old messages being repeated, and done in a way that allows one to easily comprehend its meaning. And, what I love most of all, were the answers to questions that one couldn't even fathom, such as black-holes and holograms. My only regret was that the book wasn't longer. I finished reading it in two sessions, and I had to re-read it again. I also enjoy how you have shared your every-day ups-and-downs, and sharing your relationship with Ray. I hope that things are working well for you. My thoughts are with you always. Love, Alfred Jeff Olson - Canada.... Thank you! Thank you for a wonderful book! I was initially turned off by the title --How to be Perfect -- it sounded too grandiose and judgmental (and I am particularly sensitive to that as I tend to be grandiose and judgmental). But I could not stop going back to your web site to read again the truth and wisdom you have shared. I understand now that we are perfect as we are. I just finished the book and will read it and read it again. (I wish I had it as a paperback book so that I could read it at bedside every night.) May we all create prosperity, peace and joy for ourselves and for others. Thank you again, Jeff Olson Sherry Thorn - Utah.... Once I started it, I could NOT put it down! It's amazing and encouraging and enlightening and many other superlatives too numerous to mention. I have been revisiting the "Conversation with God" material and Neale's assertion that God does, indeed, talk to everyone and am heartened (and emboldened) enough to believe. I found your questions to be of universal appeal and your personal story is one which will strike a note of familiartiy with many people. I'm thinking specifically of baby boomers, who have been there, done that and have come up "empty!" As compelling as Neale's dialogue, your journal of your own "conversations with God" are proof that God DID NOT stop communicating with people 2000 years ago. Peace, Sherry ~HOW TO BE PERFECT~ is not yet in print, but is available in electronic format online at booklocker.com. I love 'real' books and look forward to offering a print copy in the near future, but I also love some unique features of this electronic version. My favorite is the 'find function', a feature of all PDF file electronic books, which allows you to instantly find all references to any topic by remembering only a word or phrase! I enjoy hearing from readers and answer all email, so feel free to write and I'll reply as quickly as I'm able. Thanks for visiting and I hope you'll come back often. I'll be adding updates in "SHERRY'S JOURNAL". Sherry Sword received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and her masters from the University of Southern California. She was licensed in 1979 by the State of California as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and now lives and writes in Las Vegas, Nevada. Excerpts - Page 2 Sherry's Journal - Page 3 Order HOW TO BE PERFECT Ray Bennett's web site