In The Golden String, Dom Bede Griffiths wrote: "The rediscovery of religion is the great intellectual, moral and spiritual adventure of our time. It is something which calls for all our energies, and involves both labor and sacrifice. But it cannot be a mass movement. The discovery has to be made by each individual for himself. Each one approaches it from a different angle and has to work out his own particular problem."
In this autobiography, Dr. Dennis F. Augustine presents the spiritual autobiography of a driven and very successful podiatrist who walked away from his lucrative practice at age 37 in order to care for his soul.
The author begins with his childhood and adolescence in Hoboken — a time when "God was on hold." As a member of a New Jersey gang, Augustine had a penchant for courting danger which almost got him killed in a stabbing incident. But thanks to good advice and good luck, he decided on a career in medicine. By the time he was 30, Dr. Dennis Augustine was a millionaire with a thriving practice as founder and director of the Park Avenue Foot Clinic in San Jose, California. But the price was high; he neglected his wife and children and devoted every ounce of energy to what a counselor and close friend would later call "achievement addiction."
At the pinnacle of his upward rise, Augustine's body started to fail him and he was receiving inner signals about the insanity of his full-throttle-ahead lifestyle. As he struggled to find an alternate way of living, guides were there to assist him on a spiritual path.
Invisible Means of Support charts Augustine's transformational journey. He opens himself to the books and philosophies of Joseph Campbell, Matthew Fox, Brian Swimme, and others. He joins a synagogue and becomes involved in its Educational Forum. And then he realizes that writing about his spiritual odyssey would help others to see the value of lifeguides, synchronicity, mystical experiences, and authentic living. This book will be of interest to all those who realize that spiritual development is more enriching than "having it all."