Portals of Transcendence: A Memoir of Spiritual Awakening - Paperback

by Sue Scarborough (Author)

Sue Scarborough's coming of age story--centered in the Green Swamp of Central Florida--in the 1960s echoes a real-life version of Where the Crawdads Sing. The area was rugged, dangerous, and isolating. The swamp was a lawless untamed frontier, with shootouts, robberies, abuse, wild animals, and wildfires. Drowning in guilt, shame, and fear of her gun-toting father's explosive brutality, Scarborough also feared the unwritten rules of society and the judgement that came her way due to her intuitive introversion. As a teen and young adult, she rarely lifted her head to make eye contact with others and became mute for a time during her freshman year in high school.

Scarborough carried her childhood trauma into adulthood. Religion created a diversion, for a while, in her lifelong search for God and meaning. Then, during a dark night of the soul, Sue experienced a life-changing glimpse of the Other Side that opened her to a path of spiritual discoveries. Seeking answers to her life's many challenges, she experiences spiritual awakenings, receiving messages of love and acceptance through light energy, guides, and the spirits that surround her and sometimes save her.

Scarborough's memoir is a courageous story of, at first, hopelessness, followed by a Near Death Experience (NDE); a vision in a dream; a family tragedy; and the unexpected way a miracle list was fulfilled. She shares the stories of spiritual teachers who became a part of her life, including a psychic, a medium, a pranic healer, and a natal astrologer. Her sto-ries reveal dimensions that are joyful, healing, and put life's pieces together like completing a puzzle.

Within this framework is an epic story of love for her partner, Tim, whom she cares for after a debilitating stroke and who joins her in her spiritual journey. Written with honesty and insight, Scarborough's luminous memoir is a meditation on what it means to be both human and divine as she explains:

"Everything happened for me, not to me. I was no longer a victim of my circumstances. Both my consciousness and personal reality were shifting. Suffering has the potential to up level us and can be a catalyst for profound transformation. Every step on my life's path had a purpose. Often, the darkest and deepest challenges are experienced by those who can rise to the highest timelines. To the extent that you have known pain, you can know joy at the same contrasting level."