Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1Part 1 explores the identity crisis that often accompanies late life. It may be triggered when we encounter the divine messengers that were witnessed by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.#2 Our identity is formed of countless generations of genetic streams running through us, family narratives filled with memory, pride, and shame, and socially constructed stories of gender, race, and class.#3 As the vehicle of life begins to decline in late life, what does the soul ask of us. Are we stuck in a past identity that no longer serves us. Are we unknowingly living a worn-out personal story or myth that we no longer believe.#4 The dream messenger reminded me of a famous Buddhist tale of divine messengers, a tale of waking up to the truths of human life. I was in denial, sheltered from the storm of the phenomenal world. I had grown up under my father’s protection, and when I left his palace garden at eighteen, I was under a spell: oblivious of the stark realities of human suffering and death.