Silent Presence: Grief’s Unfolding Promise

 

SILENT PRESENCE: GRIEF’S UNFOLDING PROMISE
By Amaya Gayle Gregory

Many months before Ken’s death, his soul reached out to Gayle and shattered her understanding of reality. With six simple words, delivered in an explosion of energy, not unlike the Starship Enterprise shifting into warp drive, he set Gayle upon a collision course with every belief that comprised the fabric of her life. The words: “This cancer is my gift to you.” Nothing more; just a short sentence she thought she understood. She didn’t. If she hadn’t been holding on to the back of Kenny’s chair, she would have been knocked to her knees by the blast. And, that was nothing in comparison to what would follow.

Silent Presence comes from the very personal, direct experience of Gayle Amaya Gregory. Her words are self-aware, honest, raw and unprotected. She chose to accept Ken’s gift, to squeeze every lesson from his life, and the perfection of his death. She understood the gift’s power and wasn’t willing to miss one breath of the experience.

Gayle thought she lived in the present moment. Watching Ken, she realized that she didn’t. Ken embodied the present moment during his last months with his willingness to be present to his life and all it held, including the experience of his death, of leaving everything he loved behind. Ken’s life became the teaching, and through his conscious death, he teaches still.

Silent Presence documents the path of return. It is both a shamanic journey into fear and death and the slow dawning of remembrance, the return to True Nature, the I Am That I Am. As it passes through the ripping, pain-filled, mind quieting, heart opening lessons on its journey Home, it provides evidence of the heart’s triumph over mind’s trust in limitation.

To someone watching from the outside, the problems of life might seem unchanged, but that would be wrong. They have changed; the choices and perceptions, and exquisite peace and absolute freedom bear no resemblance to ordinary experience. Answers flow easily from within the heart itself.  Life is realized to be Consciousness creating, perfect and pure. It is something that cannot be described, only lived. Ken’s gift is that this is Who We Are; and the experience of it is always available right now.

 

Available in all e-book formats at  www.smashwords.com/profile/view/SilentPresence

Also available in print at www.amayagayle.com

 

 

About the Author

Amaya Gayle Gregory

Amaya’s Passion is Compassion 

Silent Presence is the life work of Gayle Gregory, who is now called Amaya. Silent Presence is also the title of Amaya’s latest book. Her work, everything she does, says or writes, flows from present moment awareness. It wasn’t always so.

In 1997 Gayle followed her dream and sailed to Mexico with her husband Ken. She left behind a successful career, high heels and suits, her status and, as she soon found, her identity. Upon the ocean’s waves, Gayle plunged into a primal reality that revealed her fears and opened her mind to the potential and possibility of life.

Inspired to find a deeper understanding and a way to navigate the fear, she returned home committed to befriending every fear and belief. In 2006 Ken was diagnosed with melanoma cancer. After five years navigating the medical system, caught between traditional and alternative therapies, Ken left his body in April of 2011. Ken’s life and his death, the grief anticipated and the grief of actual loss, saw the death of Gayle and the birth of Amaya. Like a Phoenix arising from the ashes, Amaya found herself in the timeless preciousness of the Silent Presence, the here and now of the present moment.

What others say about Amaya Gayle:

“Thank you for risking to give full expression of your being. You are making a difference in this world and it is having an impact on me personally. You know how to cut to the chase with no holds barred. Your interview on Dr. Beth Erickson’s show is proof. ” WD ~ Oregon

“Gayle is grounded in Source love and compassion. Her deep core work springs from this foundation, allowing a sacred space for shedding old patterns and inspiring new insights and behaviors.” JG, Oregon

“I love reading anything you write. Your article last month sharing the conversation you had with your son about “letting go” was very powerful for me. I have filed it to reference again and again.” KS, Idaho

Author’s Website:  www.amayagayle.com

 

Applause

Amaya, this is NOT “Kenny’s story,” or even YOUR story of this passage you shared with him, but rather it is OUR (collective) story … a story not of death and dying, a story of choosing to fully live. Silent Presence captures the struggle of being in a body, the immense pain-confusion-disappointment-fear of being in a body, and the joy of growing awake to the Presence that lives beyond (and sometimes through) the body. It is a brilliantly written reflection of how a mind can release its hold through a process of physical death and dying, but more importantly it is a vivid reminder to let life have us, completely and without reservation. It is a call to open our hearts more widely than we might know how to do. Thank you, ever so much, for the beautiful-eloquent-radiant way your words capture the passage of one beloved and open the way for the Beloved to live more boldly … here, now. SG, Idaho

 

Kenny said cancer was his gift to Amaya. Reading this book was a gift to me. Thank You so much for it allowed my own processing of pain and emotion as I experience the declining health of my partner. Much that Amaya reveals, with such raw honesty, is the same experiences and feelings that I have had. This sort of pain is a stripping away that exposes a person’s core. Amaya’s journey has inspired me with the courage to view death and dying as a gift of the soul. As I read, my image of both Kenny and Amaya was of a layered stone, polished by the experience to reveal the beautiful crystal, gifted to each other through spirit. PD, Washington

 

Amaya, I have finished your book and am filled with your soulful experiences. You have entered my dreams, as has your owl. A flicker of the wings catch the setting sun and there is a surprise glow and an unexpected communication. I didn’t expect to find a message along the road. It’s usually a lessor being. Never have I seen a golden colored eagle on the road side or had a wing catch the setting sun. That this should happen as I travel the road with the essence of your story seems like a communication at another level. It was a blessing, as you are to all of us with your ongoing exploration of the sacred life experience.  VS, Portland

 

Amaya, I am loving your book (although book is not the right word – testament of Love perhaps). I received it in the mail yesterday and I am already up to Spring 2008. This book is so very beautiful . . . the quality of the print, the pictures, the anticipating of each new awakening that you reveal in these pages takes my breath away. I love the quotes at the beginning of each new section. Thank you, thank you for bringing this forth. As I type these words, I feel your presence surrounding me and the love that you offer is present here now. With love and gratitude, NV, Idaho

Available in all e-book formats at  www.smashwords.com/profile/view/SilentPresence

Also available in print at www.amayagayle.com

 

 

 

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