EMMA JEAN'S DREAM

About the Book

Emma Jean’s Dream is the “partially true” story of a dog, Emma Jean Powell. As the story describes in a very colorful manner, Emma Jean was indeed the Queen of the Powell Roost, and everyone was happy with this arrangement. Indeed, Emma was so happy with it that she would actually eat the cat food when the cats were all fast asleep, since she somehow preferred it to ordinary dog food.

Little did Emma realize, though, that this simple act of secretly eating cat food would eventually have awesome, and even breathtaking, repercussions, if only in her dreams. (Ah, and that is part of the story’s charm—we’ll never know whether it really happened, or whether it was “just” a dream—this is the philosophy of solipsism, and it has stumped the world’s greatest philosophers for millennia). For once she began eating cat food, she quickly came to notice that she herself had become a black cat totally without her knowledge! And people like to talk about having a bad day! For once Emma realized that she had become a cat, simply by eating cat food, she simultaneously realized that she had no choice but to find a way—ANY WAY—to become a dog again.

Emma Jean’s Dream is the delightful and imaginative story of precisely how this process of self-transformation took place. Best of all, through the magic of symbolic thought and the integration of all knowledge, spiritual and otherwise—into one common intellectual tapestry, we can learn about each and every one of our own spiritual journeys by reading Emma Jean’s Dream—because the answer to all of our developmental problems and issues lie precisely with the plight of this lost little dog.

And it is precisely here that the story inadvertently takes a major step into intellectual greatness; for without realizing it, Ms. Powell had unknowingly interjected the very best of the Wizard of Oz’s plot machinations into Emma Jean’s Dream, without even being aware of it! So the story itself has the grandeur of The Wizard of Oz, which is precisely why it belongs in the minds, libraries, and lives of our young ones today—because The Wizard of Oz is the only story that accurately describes the human developmental process from beginning to end.

Indeed, this is the one thing that is missing from our modern-day reading curriculum for our young people today—it lacks stimulating, exciting, and imaginative books that have everything to do with our own spiritual development, and precisely nothing to do with lions, tigers, and bears, as such. We should be thankful that a highly creative book such as Emma Jean’s Dream is available to our children again today, for after enduring a profound creative drought at the children’s book level for many decades, it is finally possible to find—and forever enjoy—the literally brilliance and excellence of Emma Jean’s Dream—it achieves the “virtually impossible”—namely, it contains the best of all possible worlds, for both children and adults. One of the few other authors who has been able to “encode” or symbolize many deep human truths in the form of a fanciful children’s tale has been the great C.S Lewis, a magnificent writer by any stretch of the imagination.

So do yourself a favor and purchase a copy of Emma Jean’s Dream today—for your children, as gifts for other children, or perhaps best of all, for yourself. It is guaranteed to help you with life’s greatest task—the facing and transcending of your own inner demons, through the successful embarking of our own spiritual journey through life’s many developmental pitfalls.