Stephen Paul Chong - Letters Across Time: A Journey of Enlightenment

This latest work by Stephen Chong, Letters Across Time: A journey of enlightenment is very special and beautifully written! Love and wisdom beam off the pages. Through the medium of story-telling and the delightful duck-pond tales Chong encourages us to reach across time to delve deeper into ourselves and our own Book of Mysteries. This work is both timely as it is providential. Enjoy it! Its fresh and exciting!
Ancilla Fasciolla BOccThy - Queensland Health

Chong, in Letters Across Time shows yet again, that he is an inspirational writer who knows how to move and enable the reader and how to leave the world a better place. Letizia C De Rosa - Director of Book Creators Circle

Stephen Chongs new book, Letters Across Time, is a testament to his writing style and to his sense of the spiritual. As he says, it is designed to help the reader discover, within themself, the motivation and inspiration to realise his or her highest potential in life. It contains the continuing story of Benjamin Duck and his descendants, taken from his previous book The Music of the Soul (2011). But it is interspersed with telling short stories and quotations designed to inspire. Good reading for the new age reader or just for those who are interested in the higher dimensions to life.
Graham Nicholson, Hidden Words Bookshop

What I love most about Chongs books is that no matter where youre at in your life, there are always opportunities to take away a message that you need right now. Then the next time you feel stuck or dissatisfied in any way, you can re-read his books and find a different lesson that will help you initiate change.
Wendy Ackland

Stories fairytales, folktales, parables, myths, allegories since time immemorial, have been the means of imparting wisdom and used as a mode of transformation. Such tales can entertain us, make us think, trip the mind or access and stimulate the place within us from which all wisdom arises.

In Letters Across Time, Stephen has again with an inspired allegory, interspersed with cogent parables, brought to all who read it, the way to that place that resides in all of us.
The Universal Storyteller

First published by O-Books, 2013
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Text copyright: Stephen Chong 2012

ISBN: 978 1 78279 018 1

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In most societies around the world I would be considered old, which, in the West, generally means, throw it away and get a new one. But now I have passed my three score years and ten, with snow upon my roof in this, the winter of my deep content, the extended time has allowed me insights that are rare by todays measure.

My twenty-five thousand days have seen me experience the highest of the highs, in music, sunsets and love, and the lowest of the lows, in child abuse, starvation and brutality. I can view the world from international, national, urban, suburban and rural perspectives.

Once you reach about twenty-five years old, you understand where you sit in the scheme of things with regard to politics, history, science, communication and all the other information that allows us to live and interact in society.

Then, maybe you start to appreciate that there is some other stuff out there. It starts with questioning the world around you, like University students sitting around discussing whether there is a God, how big the universe is and what our place is in the great scheme of things.

Further on still, there are philosophy, art and ethics, and then you have to put all this knowledge and instinct into practice and stand behind your own code of beliefs. As with most things in this life, the world then tries to undermine your values by kicking and pummelling you into the shape of the lowest common denominator: greedy, selfish, dirty and wasteful.

Should you survive that journey, you emerge with a degree of Wisdom, a word that is not used much these days. If your life revolves around McDonalds, Kmart and Facebook, you probably dont have a lot of use for Wisdom.

If, however, you start to be aware of abstract and moral values, and you question how to put more quality and appreciation into your short life, then Letters Across Time is the book for you.

My good friend, Stephen, has a muse that marches to the beat of a different drum. He has worked past the mundane, where admittedly we all have to exist (think of gas, electricity, food, cars and rent/mortgage), but he has gone way beyond that to abstract lessons, fables and stories to illustrate this universal Wisdom as told through the eyes of a Duck! Now that, my friends, is innovative and inspired!

These ideas are presented as parables: little stories with a message for you to apply to your own life. They are designed to allow you to absorb the lessons his muse presents, into your particular circumstances. It is eminently readable and presents some deep thoughts and questions, but with a light touch.

The language of his muse sometimes appears to be that of a couple of centuries ago, and so its occasionally quaint and quirky. The substance, however, is very valuable, not immediately in monetary terms, but in enhancing the quality of your present and future life. Those vicissitudes of living that I mentioned before are more easily dealt with, should these lessons be understood. People around you will have more respect for you, and eventually you will become very much your own person. You will mature into an individual of integrity and balance, and one who is trusted and professional, in the sense that you dont need supervision to do the right thing. Your achievements will be greater in depth and easier to attain because of Stephens concepts.

Stephen has written two other books in the same vein: The Book of Testaments and The Music of the Soul. These, too, come highly recommended. Stephen is a great educator, gentle but forthright, and committed to bettering those people around him, who have possibly lost their way.

We are both grey-hairs and members of Book Creators Circle, where we met, and both of us have a passion for books and for writing.

Stephens knowledge, together with his ability to communicate, is very rare; so dont miss this one.