Conversations with Jesus An Intimate Journey A Rainbow Ridge Book Alexis Eldridge

ISBN: 978-0-9844955-1-1 Length: 208 Pages Size: 5.5 X 8.5-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Metaphysical/Spiritual Price: $17.95 US Availability: In Print Click below for: Synopsis • Introduction • Reviews

Synopsis

"Let it be known that there will be stories and information that you may not have heard before. I encourage you to allow yourself to remain open and to receive what is meant for you. Time continues to go by so quickly. Grasping for crumbs of harmony and joy is not what your life ought to be about. Be assured that it's definitely not the reason you're here."

How does a Jewish woman from Brooklyn become best friends with Jesus? What makes one person's experience of Jesus more important than another's? Does Jesus speak to people in the twenty-first century, or is He confined to the Scriptures? The truth is . . . there is no way to really answer these questions definitively. Even the authenticity of the Gospels is questioned by many scholars, as there have been so many revisions and translations over the centuries. The only way to approach the information in this book is to consider whether it is relevant to you, the reader-- whether it touches you and makes sense to you . . . or not.

As we are all the creators and judges of our own lives, we also know what is meaningful to us. As you read these pages, you will hear the wonderful and profound messages that Jesus wishes to convey, and you will know if its truth is yours . . . or not.

You be the judge.

Alexis Eldridge has a BA in Psychology from Hunter College, CUNY, and a Master of Science in Education from Brooklyn College, CUNY. She worked for many years as a guidance counselor for special education children in elementary schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and as a clinician in private practice. She is now an artist, an energy healer, an intuitive, and follows her chosen path in partnership and communication with the spirit realm. She lives near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Introduction

How does a Jewish woman from Brooklyn become best friends with Jesus? I ask myself this still, even though it has been quite some time now. Although when I reflect upon it, there is some indication of the answer. I see myself as a young girl in the single digits. I'm at an adult gathering of my father's friends-standing in the background and watching them. It was at that time when I first knew there was something different about me-something different from the rest of my family. I asked my father to step out of the group, so that I could speak with him. I then told him I knew what everyone was feeling and thinking. He smiled strangely, went back to his friends, and we never spoke of it again.

Many additional occurrences in my youth continued to encourage me to suppress my intuition. It was painful then, living through my teens and twenties, having forgotten what I once knew ....

I first noticed Jesus about ten years ago. A symbol related to him appeared in a painting I had done. The difficult choice to not smear the form, so that it would become once again only color, changed my life in myriad ways-including recovering my intuition. He then became a presence in various poems. I began writing about his strife, and the way he loved. It was as if I knew him intimately. I felt him and his life's experiences.

I started believing that there was someone I could relate to-another who had been judged, misunderstood, and not appreciated for his way of being. I didn't question how I knew this, having never been exposed to a Bible or what he taught. It simply felt natural and right.

An actual relationship began a few years after the time I've just described. Through a guided visualization with a group of others, all being led to meet our individual spirit guide, he came to me. He let me know he was the one. It was surprising, despite what had come before. Previously it had been a bit of a mystery. This made it real. I understood, at that point, that the groundwork was being laid. Through the painting and the poems, he was becoming accessible to me as I was becoming open to him. And at the age of thirty-three, feeling ready for a new chapter of my life to begin, one with more richness and meaning, the most loving being I had ever known showed up to guide me there.

It took some time for me to accept him into my life on a regular basis. But I did. Learning how to hear him fully also took practice. The most significant challenge was believing in his guidance and trusting in my experience of it. I often wondered if it was just my vivid imagination creating it all. As his guidance began to prove itself to be that which was for the highest good (which was not something I was used to), my belief strengthened. My daily experiences became less threatening, more understandable, and I felt deeply supported. Life was unfolding as I was hearing it would.

All of this, and more, has led me here-writing the introduction to a book about what Jesus wants to be known. The book was first encouraged by a friend I had told that Jesus and I spoke together regularly. The idea came as a surprise. And yet, when I asked Jesus if that's what he wanted, I heard a clear confirmation. However, I didn't know if I could do what he asked. "How will I know which questions to ask you?" I said. "Will I be able to really hear your answers clearly enough to transcribe them?" I was then reminded of the pages and pages of written information

I had received for myself, by hearing him. And yet, it was still inconceivable to be able to do it for others with such precision and deliberateness.

Before I agreed, I wanted to practice. I was afraid that I would fail, so I decided to be very nonchalant about it. One autumn day, driving around in my pickup a long way from Brooklyn, I asked Jesus the type of question to which I thought people would want to hear an answer. He answered me with vital information, and I heard it clearly. I was then one step closer to committing.

A few more weeks went by and then our process of written conversations began. Autumn was ending and the nights now had a chill to them. One in particular had a little more obvious magic that it wanted to share. I was pulling into a parking space at my local DVD rental shop, enjoying the last few lyrics of an unfamiliar folk song. What I heard, although I can't recall the exact words, I'm now going to share:

"We spend our lives learning ways to live ... when really it's about learning how to live from the truth of who we are."

Those words sum up my life so far and why I agreed to cocreate this book. Those words have also proven themselves to be the theme of what you are about to read. It is my deep wish that this sojourn leads you to the truth of who you are.

Through grace and with gratitude,
Alexis

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