J. E. Ketchel was determined to find out why she had lived her entire life as if someone were chasing her. Little did she know that a simple quest for clarity would send her on a shocking journey into her past and into a childhood she had no recollection of ever having lived. Discovering that she had been sexually abused as a child, beginning at the age of two, she began a three-year-long investigative search for truth and meaning that ultimately led her down into the depths of her own soul. The Man in the Woods, documenting the first year of that soul-searching journey, is an intimate memoir...

J. E. Ketchel's foray into the world of the unconscious continues in Place of No Pity, Volume 4 of the Recapitulation Diaries. Where she went is not on any map, there are no directions, for it is a journey into the unknown. In her search for knowledge the fearless Ms. Ketchel was undaunted by what she encountered, always aware of the importance of keeping one foot in reality no matter where the journey took her. An intrepid traveler, she carried on the total dismantling of a self and a life that no longer served her while she simultaneously constructed a new self and a new life based on her...

J. E. Ketchel bares her soul as she takes us on a rare and intimate journey down the river of life, through the murky waters as well as the calm in Volume 3 of the Recapitulation Diaries. Along the way we are privy to fascinating experiences that shift our perceptions of reality and question our spiritual readiness. This is not your usual story of childhood sexual abuse, but a whirlwind journey into the experiential, the transcendental, and the transpersonal realms of which we are all a part. Into the Vast Nothingness invites us into the vastness of the river of self-discovery that Ms....

J. E. Ketchel's deep soul-searching journey is a riveting tale of adventure. She grabs you at the first line and takes you into her world as she seeks to discover and connect with her lost self, a journey that she first revealed in The Man in the Woods. Her second book, The Edge of the Abyss, based on diaries she kept during her three-year-long journey, takes us still deeper into her encounters with evil of unfathomable proportion, processed through the ancient shamanic practice of recapitulation. In her quest for truth and knowledge, the familiar solid world that Ms. Ketchel had lived in and...