Edwin SteinmannEdwin Steinmann has worked as a prosecutor, public defender, and assistant attorney general in the state of Missouri, among other positions. In 1984 he read a book about dreams, "Healing and Wholeness," in which John Sanford, an Episcopal priest and ungian analyst, maintained that dreams were spiritually meaningful. He didn't believe it and put the book aside. Several weeks later, still skeptical but curious, he paid attention to a dream for the first time. He wrote the dream down and began to understand, in part, what the dream meant. "So this is what religion is REALLY all about!" he said to himself. He realized that religion (spirituality) was really about the relationship between the two minds in his head, so to speak, the mind he tended to identify with, his consciousness, and the other one, the mind-entity who had just created the dream and imaged "hirself" as his Creator. The dream changed him. Two months later he had an extraordinary inner vision (a "mystical experience"); it changed him even more. He has felt obligated to share the vision and does so in "Grace in a Wintry Season"-along with that first dream and thirteen others. Paying attention to the dream/vision Creator (Nature, the Holy Spirit) for more than thirty years has transformed Steinmann from a "none" to a "mystic," that is, from one who was religiously/spiritually disconnected to one who experiences the sacred in his dreams and otherwise. Read More Read Less