The Given Self

You might wonder how cover-designs are chosen. At O Books you are asked to note covers you like from their other titles and to give a brief description of any idea you have or any “no way — don’t do that” instructions. My “No way” instructions were followed (no purple, nothing overtly spiritual – you know – like doves or angels). I had chosen covers you might call visually interesting. I got a flower. I didn’t complain. Who knows if simple isn’t just the right thing.


I thought it was about time that I share the cover and copy of The Given Self.


There is an urge coming from somewhere inside of you, a little voice that starts getting louder, telling you that you have to take back your life from the person who’s been running it so ineptly. The life you’re living doesn’t feel like your own. The person who people take you to be doesn’t feel like you.

We miss the self who has been stolen through an identity theft in which we have conspired. Our own diminishment makes it necessary to quit going along, to cease leaving ourselves open to those forces that take us away from our humanity, and to increase every opportunity to know our own given selves once again.

Mari presents her honest process in search for the authentic self - The Given Self. She accurately demonstrates that we cannot embrace an impersonal spirituality unless we integrate the personal self; without this piece, invalidation occurs which is a common trap for spiritual seekers. This book will help many learn to trust their authenticity - the path home to our Given Self. Nouk Sanchez & Tomas Vieira, Take Me to Truth; Undoing the Ego.

Mari Perron is the author/scribe of the Course of Love series (three books written in the tradition of A Course in Miracles), of two books of The Grace Trilogy, and is winner of the Jean Keller Bouvier Award for literary excellence from the University of Minnesota.