Inside Out

by Don Childers

Two years of prison changed his life, gave him life, and awakened the healer within. It was when his freedom was taken away at age 40 that he started discovering the power in "being still." And what a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593303513
• ISBN13: 9781593303518
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Aventine Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A True Transformation

This book is about the author's "awakening" during a two-year prison sentence. You might say he was transformed from grizzly bear to teddy bear. "As I started thinking about what I could do instead of what I could not do, life started coming back to me," Don Childers explains the attitude change that came over him during his first days in prison. Before entering prison, Childers, a burly guy, was into boozin' and brawlin'. "The older I got, the further away I got from my true nature, and the anger and resentment grew inside of me because I did not like myself," he writes, adding that the more angry he felt, the less he wanted to live. This resulted in him turning to drugs, alcohol, sex, and money to cover up his feelings. It wasn't until he was behind bars that he began searching for some meaning in life. He started by observing the other prisoners and guards, trying to figure out what prompted their negative behavior. "I could see that everybody was full of fear and anger," he writes. In effect, he was beginning a spiritual quest, one in which he would find God and discover that he had the ability to heal by the "laying of hands." Although he doesn't call it an out-of-body experience, as such, he seems to have learned how to leave his physical body and travel outside the prison walls. In the process of becoming spiritual, Childers became a philosopher, a keen observer of human nature, especially the dark side. The book offers much wisdom - profound in its simplicity. "I have learned that in life we only see the part we want to see," he writes. "We are seeing very little of it." In another chapter, he observes that everyone wants to be a teacher and have others listen to them, and no one wants to be a student and listen. "I believe we think ourselves into our troubles," he writes in still another. Before he was imprisoned, Childers was somebody few people wanted to mess with. However, after he found a spiritual path, he tried to avoid physical confrontations. Knowing this, other prisoners tried to provoke him, but Childers managed to befriend most of them and even offered them healing with his new-found psychic energy. A number of chapters are devoted to other prisoners and his interaction with them. In telling the stories of other prisoners, he talks about the head "games" played by them, the prison politics, and some of the corruption within the system. You see that in the movies now and then, but Childers' accounts give real life to them. In finding his spiritual self, Childers came to see much hypocrisy in organized religion. Some of the ministers he came in contact with thought his healing energy was demonic. After searching various churches, he concluded that he is better off listening to the "small voice" within rather than to those claiming to be ministers of God. Overall, this is a very intriguing read. If I were a prison warden, I'd give one to every prisoner. In fact, I'd recommend it for everyone who