Readers Review
Alexander's Review (2006)

"Return to One" captures the heart of a personal and universal journey in natural depth that is not esoteric, but still enlightening. The author, from her own life experience, has skillfully illuminated a path we all seek, but don't quite know how to find. Quite early into the book readers will notice many insightful truths present themselves. However, the real treasure lies in allowing oneself enough freedom to be drawn into the journey. In that process readers will come to find an endeavor of equal capacity of that expressed in the novel within their own personal potential, one that will invariably lead into the depths of the innermost soul.

Cathy has a talent for communicating the essential elements of our deeper reality in a way that non-fictional writers cannot begin to accomplish. There is an awareness that shines through her writing and penetrates archetypal issues the individual person is faced with. The portrayal of those issues is deeply philosophical, yet humbly unpretentious in the same light. To her readers, she has offered this book as a present, a short, but vibrantly evocative reunion with the Divine One. Those on a personal life-journey, no matter on what road, are destined to find this novel a diamond along the path.

Many known novelists have captured the essence of the human experience, but none have explored the spiritual experience in a fiction work as well as Cathy has done in this one. "Return to One" explores that essence of raw human "being-ness" which embroils experiences one cannot explain with the rational mind, and it does so in a most natural and intelligible language.

Even though those peak experiences of Truth tend to be such a rare gem for the modern individual, Cathy brings no mood of lacking to her words. The novel has an abundant aura of storytelling capacity intertwined into it, it radiates a natural brilliance and many chapters underpin deeply moving spiritual truths. Cathy brings in many elements into her writing that draw her readers into the very worlds and experiences of the characters, for instance, here is a short excerpt from the book:

It slowly became night, and as the sun slid behind the hills and the sky turned a rich indigo hue, then a deep dark blue, and the stars pricked the sky with pinpoints of brilliant light, at last they felt the tiredness that had been denied them. There, in that cold night, with hard earth beneath them and stone as a backrest they fell asleep. Strangely it felt warm, safe and comfortable.

"Return to One" feeds our deepest spiritual cravings and highlights the inward path to self-realization intuitively rather than dogmatically. I believe this book is long overdue to the world -- it impels a voyage in which we are granted a rare chance to rediscover the lost light of our true being. Spiritual seekers, and those of us who are just curious, will find both inner satisfaction and unanticipated delight in reading this novel. Each chapter in "Return to One" has come together to make a substantial impact on my life-perspectives. It is truly a unique and classic tale worth reading and re-reading many times.

Alexander De Foe, Australia
Psi Training Institute