So, a good friend of mine, Jeffry, from my doctoral program, just published an amazingly insightful new book. It is called, "The Shining One" and I am in LOVE with it!!
Being that I am not the most religion person, I honestly just set out to buy the book to support my good friend. However, as I read just the FIRST page, I was hooked!! It is a book that focuses on 100 things that you only thought were in the bible. Like I said, I am not too familiar with religion, or the Good Book, but, everything I have read in Jeffry's book were things I have definitely heard to be true, but that are in fact, not even told that way in the bible.
Smith (2011) writes, "Psychologists call that false memory, or episodic amnesia...Our minds tend to fill in blanks, and unfortunately, our minds are not like video cameras. Images can change and can be influenced in a number of ways" (p. 10).
I cannot tell you how many times I do this. Where I TRULY believe something happened and in fact, it didn't at all...or it happened in a different way in reality than I remember it in my head. Crazy. True.
Anyway, I strongly urge you to purchase this book. It will jog your mind, challenge you, amaze you and teach you. For that, I am grateful. As the eternal student, I love getting my hands on books that truly make me think about things in different, new ways!
Smith, J.L. (2011). The Shining One. Parson's Porch Books: Cleveland, TN.
...I may need to borrow this. I am curious.
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