2 Becoming A Young Lady in 1880s - Death, Divorce, then it gets weirder

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The story of a normal girl growing up in the 1800s shifts introducing the concepts that there is more to the human experience than most people recognize. Going away to the New England Conservatory of Music, her disastrous first marriage, then left a widow after her second marriage and how she supported her four children as a piano teacher. Throughout the book she mentions that her life took a very unexpected path, despite the fact she is in other ways a normal American woman of her time. The rest of the book focuses on how she learned and developed as a healer, as a psychic and as a person,.

Playlist : "Harrie Vernette Rhodes"

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Timecodes:
00:00 Family Affairs - Chapter 2
04:31 1890 - Life as a young woman of marriageable age
05:24 The husband with a brilliant mind and an unpredictable temper
06:15 Sage advice on living through hardship
06:41 Harrie's Mother dies
07:25 Jackson Michigan, four children, teaching and more studies
08:05 Harrie's Beloved Father dies and marriage is failing
08:33 Second Marriage
09:03 Harrie becomes a widow
09:54 Harrie talks about her children
12:23 Thoughts on listening to Harrie's experiences that fall well outside what most people are familiar with.
15:04 Children and psychic experiences
16:05 The story of the "Dying Doctor" - a peek into the afterlife

Note: chapter 2 and chapter 3 have fewer illustrations than the other chapters. In time, I will come back to update these like I have in all the subsequent episodes.

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.

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.

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