This book invites the reader into the rich inner journey of a woman whose
husband died of a heart attack and left her, bereft and alone, in a brand new
town.
Unlike many who suffer sudden, unimaginable loss, Kreilkamp, 60, did not fall
into depression. She describes, in detail, her “year of conscious grieving”
during which she formally attended to new widowhood as a precious and
short-lived mine of information and inner expansion. Interweaving the many
dimensions—visible and invisible, literal and spiritual—to which she was privy
during the initial stages of her mourning process, she shares both poignant
remembrances and the shocking transformations that moved her and moved through
her like squalls.
This Vast Being plunges the reader into the dynamics of a difficult marriage
that gradually evolved into a union of equals and opened both their hearts. And
it reveals the complex inner reality of Jeffrey Joel, a mostly submerged
Renaissance Man who, post-death, presented unusual phenomena to demonstrate his
existence in a realm that she sensed only a hair-breath from ours; who continued
to impart his wisdom after he died and, to her surprise and delight, who invited
her into a deeper intimacy than he could afford while embodied.
Finally, This Vast Being invites the reader into certain interior spaces of
which most of us are not normally aware, and to explore them. As we open to this
vast being inside us, we access an expansive awareness that transforms what
appears as irreplaceable loss into a magnificent cache of hidden significance.
In so doing, this book creates a down-to-earth and unusually inclusive template
for human healing.