1 Growing up in the 1870s while trying not to faint! - Harrie Vernette Rhodes

The autobiography of Harrie Vernette Rhodes. What if you had an usual story like this in your family history? Few of the incredible family stories make it into a book that brings the events and most importantly the context to life. The most interesting part to me is that she believes that everyone can learn to see and do incredible (as in unbelievable) things if they put aside some of the concepts of modern views of reality. I am amazed at how many of the things she says are highly relevant today as a way to reduce stress in your life among other things. More on this as we get deeper into her story.

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Timecodes
00:00 Introduction
01:06 Chapter 1 Book Begins
01:52 The healing connection opens
03:05 First time healing
05:44 The girl who lived
06:40 Life with stern Grandpa Rhodes as Harrie was born
08:42 Trip by train & the luxury hotel debacle
10:11 Earliest Memory-sewing machine needle in the finger
10:36 First love of music
11:32 The Philadelphia Expo - 1876
11:51 The awesome horse
12:39 Little Falls - living in a vacant store
13:57 Finding Mary Vernig
14:51 On Knitting... 800 sweaters for the war
16:10 Siblings and others in the large household
16:27 Aunt Franc - Noted Woman Archaeologist
18:12 Father - Henry Rhodes
20:08 Mother - Ellen Perrigo Rhodes
20:54 Tales of Harrie's siblings
23:31 Father and his music
24:00 Magic Music Game - was it psychic?
25:39 Longing for school, but always fainting

This chapter is a fascinating look at life from 1870-1880 as it introduces the ideas of learning to live with you weaknesses as well as your strengths. She mentions the serious issues with her eyes, fainting and other health issues the prevented her from school and many normal activities, yet these are like talking about the weather, her environment, yet her interests were with the family, what was normal for her, her aunt collected and studied native artifacts that are still on display at the Smithsonian, her father's journey from pharmacy to law, and how many of her life long interests were rooted in what she learned as a child. Most interesting was the "music game" variant of hot and cold - where guests would plan some crazy thing when Harrie was out of the room- take an object from one person, then hang it on the ear of another person - then young Harrie would perform the exact task - guided by her father playing notes on the piano - like the game Hot and Cold.

This book "In The One Spirit" was written about my great-grandmother so it has always been a curiosity in the family. Was it possible that she could do the many things that are talked about in later chapters. The magical parts, the healing and her many experiences talking with the spiritual realm are told in the same matter of fact way that she tells of riding in the horse drawn wagon with her father to deliver medicines to people.

The co-author Margueritte Harmon Bro brought the first viral attention to the American seer Edgar Cayce, "Miracle Man of Virginia Beach," published in the magazine Coronet in 1943. After that, she heard many stories of physics ad healers. Despite this, the author found only two people interesting enough to write about - Edgar Cayce and Harrie Vernette Rhodes. This autobiography of great-grandmother was book published in 1951.