Mystic Journey Wins 2013 Bronze Living Now Book Award

Online, October 24, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Living Books Awards has announced that Mystic Journey, Getting to the Heart of the Matter, by Robert Atkinson, a leading authority on helping people tell their life stories and professor of human development and religious studies, has been awarded the 2013 Bronze Living Now Book Award in the "enlightenment & spirituality" category.

In this book, Robert Atkinson describes life's greatest adventure: how we can discover who we are and why we are deeply connected to others by living our lives consciously, which reveals universal motifs and timeless patterns. Upon the release of this book in June of last year, Atkinson said that "there never was a more critical time than now - with so many global crises everywhere - to take the mystic journey of the soul that leads us into and through the spiral of life."

The Living Now Book Awards organizers state "that these awards celebrate the innovation and creativity of newly published books that enhance the quality of our lives. The medalists in this year's Living Now Book Awards offer a list of books representing some of the fastest-growing segments of book publishing today, and the Living Now Book Awards publicize the importance of these books to readers and their vitality in the marketplace."

Mystic Journey has received endorsements from leading figures in the human potential movement, such as Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life who called this book "a rich read" and Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and author, who said that "to read this magnificent study is to remember our birthright and to commit again to following the path that leads us home to who and what we really are."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROBERT ATKINSON, Ph.D., an internationally recognized authority in helping people tell their life stories, is an author of eight books, professor of human development and religious studies, and director of the Life Story Center at the University of Southern Maine. He is online at www.RobertAtkinson.net.

MYSTIC JOURNEY: Getting to the Heart of Your Soul's Story
Foreword by Marion Woodman
Cosimo Books, June 2012
Religion & Spirituality/Mysticism/Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 978-1-61640-715-5
Paperback, 158 pages, $12.99 / £10.99 (Also available as eBook with reKiosk.com and other leading online bookstores.)

ABOUT COSIMO BOOKS
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