INNER MESSIAH, DIVINE CHARACTER Provides Unique Perspective on Political Events

NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ Inner Messiah, Divine Character: Narrative Approaches to "Be Beyond Best" (Wipf & Stock/Resource Publications, 2014) provides a unique literary perspective on current political events and restores power and hope to disenfranchised individuals through an innovative construct, i.e., Inner Messiah, to empower readers to reclaim their divine origins as a starting point to achieve peace and justice in their individual and collective actions.

Whatever the source of current political, racial, and religious forms of persecutions and confrontations, Inner Messiah, Divine Character invites readers to pause and to consider what unites all individuals with their common, creative origins to help pursue constructive strategies to resolve conflicts and divisions.

Benjamin Yosef, legal scholar and theologian, believes that individuals cannot rely on traditional institutions to achieve acceptable, just and fair resolutions for our society's current challenges. Rather, Yosef encourages readers to empower their personal life stories and struggles with sacred textual narratives to converge upon some common creative origins from where all people can formulate effective dialogues to foster meaningful, positive social and political change.

Benjamin Yosef opines,

"While religion has been manipulated to justify tremendous international horrors and race has been has been a decisive and divisive factor in domestic legislative and judicial actions, humanity's common and collective origins have been detrimentally ignored by individuals and their leaders in adopting effective solutions to bring people together and to resolve destructive conflicts. Perhaps, all members of society can overcome divisions and obstacles and revisit their individual self-expressions with the goal to expand their perceptions to look beyond their differences to embrace their similar divine creative origins. In this way, current international and domestic tragedies can be conceptualized as types of Jungian synchronicities to bring individuals and societies together through common recognition of a universal spirituality at the origins of creation, rather than the destructive prejudices of international, national, and institutional self-interest and self-preservation."

Inner Messiah encourages its readers to evaluate various aspects of their thinking processes that preempt them from visualizing and attaining the superlative aspects of their character in both their individual and collective narrative expressions. Drawing upon Ancient Jewish mystical traditions in Freudian and Jungian psychology, the book inspires readers to exercise their imaginations to access the divine nature inherent in their creative capacities to appreciate their potential on humanity's collective historical narrative, as well as the role of spirituality in helping us achieve unity within the self and with all humanitythe ultimate narrative expression between Divine Creator and Divine Creation.

Book Details

Inner Messiah, Divine Character encourages readers to deploy their imaginations in describing their lives as a confluence of narrative constructs to identify, analyze, and overcome obstacles and destructive patterns in both their personal and professional lives. The book promotes a three-point strategy to empower and to improve readers' attitudes about their personal and professional struggles. Leading pastoral care scholars, such as Professor Donald Capps (Princeton Theological Seminary), praise Inner Messiah, Divine Character as "proof that a profound book may also be altogether practical, alive with insights that show us how we may leave our doubts and despair behind and embark on a life infused with living hope." For more information, please visit http://www.innermessiah.com.

Author Biography

Benjamin Yosef is a Peabody-nominated radio journalist at WPRB in Princeton, NJ, and has over ten years of spiritual counseling experience, including chaplaincy and workshop leadership. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University (BA), University of Michigan Law School (JD), and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv). For additional information about Benjamin Yosef you can visit http://benjaminyosef.com or send an e-mail to benjyosef@gmail.com.

Media Contact: Benjamin Yosef, Inner Messiah, Divine Character, 201 788 0217, benjyosef@gmail.com

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