Turning To Home by Barbara -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of my youth was spent parked in the corner of the local public library with my glasses at the end of my nose, pouring over whatever happened to be my fancy at the moment. When I was about 12 years old, my Social Studies teacher asked us to write a paper on World Religions. I spent hours reading for that paper. That sparked a life-long interest in the spiritual. This eventually led to my immersion in religion, which led to metaphysics and back to spirituality. In 1974 a young man I was seeing gave me The Prophet and Siddartha for my 17th birthday, and our talks were filled with the state of our souls. Despite our relationship ending in a pregnancy during which he abandoned and smeared me for over 20 years, it fueled the engine that drove me on and on. T he Celestine Prophecy, The Book of Miracles, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Carlos Castaneda, Rumi, The Zohar, Deepak Chopra...