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Free Will, No Choice (Paperback)
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Free Will, No Choice (Paperback)
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Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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"Free Will, No Choice" is Wendy Buckingham's first published work,
a memoir which chronicles her childhood, adolescence, and how she
came to meet and join The Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung
Moon. She was to be a faithful follower for half of her adult life
before becoming disillusioned by it all after making a pilgrimage
to Korea intended to further deepen her faith. The story opens with
the recollection of a picture-perfect day with her and her
playmates enjoying a carefree life in a wooded bedroom community in
the northwest suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1950s. The tragic death
of her older sister from leukemia at age 8 creates a tangible
disturbance in the family, and as happens all too frequently when
such a tragedy strikes a young married couple, her parents divorce
not long after. Her mother decides to move back to her hometown of
Denver with Wendy and her younger sister Georgia, just as the girls
are reaching adolescence. Mother realizes that she cannot survive
for long as a single mom with two daughters without an income, and
sets her sights on well-to-do bachelors in the Denver social
circles. Drugs and alcohol come to be convenient avenues of escape
for the author as she is moved in and out of a variety of schools
before finally graduating from high school back in Illinois. She
has the opportunity to do some traveling with Georgia before the
independent-minded Hitchcock sisters seemingly go their separate
ways. In 1975, a letter from Georgia from a new age community
outside of San Francisco gets Wendy's attention. Sensing that
Georgia may have been lured into a cult of some kind, the author
decides to travel to the west coast to see for herself what sister
has gotten herself into. Long story short, Georgia's stay with the
Creative Community Project (aka The Unification Church) ends within
3 months. Wendy's is to last considerably longer. Positive changes
in mind, body and spirit are immediately evidenced for our heroine,
who begins to experience a most substantial presence of and
relationship with God. The first seven years in the movement are
spent on MFT (Mobile Fundraising Teams), raising money to support
Rev. Moon in his vision of building the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth
(even though Jesus very plainly said that The Kingdom of Heaven is
within you.). Having laid the seven year foundation of fundraising
to qualify to be matched (engaged) and blessed (married) by Sun
Myung Moon, the scene shifts to New York City and the New Yorker
Hotel (now the World Mission Center for The Unification Church),
where Rev. Moon is preparing to match 1,500 men and women with
unshakeable faith in him as the 2nd Coming of Christ. Wendy emerges
from the ceremony with her fiance, Francis Buckingham, and her
foot-soldier days are behind her. As family life begins, they find
in one another alternative sounding boards for what they really
believe and why they are doing what they're doing. With the arrival
of their son in 1991, the demands on their time and the little
money they have for themselves become more and more unreasonable
and unbearable. Where is the messiah when you really need him? As
the storm clouds loom in the distance, hope arrives in the form of
a book they discover sitting on a shelf in the home of another
church couple. It's entitled A Course in Miracles. It begins by
stating: Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the Peace of God. The story of the next leg of the
journey is now in progress: the power of Faith guided by Wisdom.
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