Alive in God's World Book

The visionary testimony of Joa Bolendas awakens us to the full reality of spiritual life on earth and in heaven. To be alive in God's world means living in a prayerful and powerful unity with God, with those risen from the dead, and all the peoples of the earth. To live this unity is to be truly human.

The purpose of the visions in this book is to bring awareness of the deep bonds uniting the living with each other, with the dead, and with God. In the fragmentary discourses with those risen from the dead as reported here, we experience their awakening to a new life in a greater life in God's world. The risen ones tell us to make God's kingdom alive on earth and thus release a process of great spiritual energy to guide humanity and restore the earth to its spiritual axis.

About the Author:
Joa Bolendas, now in her eighties, is a contemporary Swiss visionary and down-to-earth mystic, in the mold of Hildegard of Bingen, who has had visions of spiritual beings since the 1950s. She grew up like any normal child, but it soon became evident that she had psychic gifts. With her confirmation into the Protestant church, she became aware of God guiding her and began to have important dreams. The first visions concerned the unity of the Churches. The heavenly figures who came to her also spoke to her about the state of the world-ecological, geopolitical, and social-and asked her to pray. And so Joa undertook great prayer battles for the future of humanity and the earth. These became known-no one knows how-and occasionally foreign governments would consult with her. She continued to live simply, while deepening her devotion to God and the world through profound prayer. In more recent years her visions expanded to include revelations relating to the meaning of life on both sides of the threshold. Joa Bolendas still goes weekly to various neighborhood churches to pray, and she still receives visions whose range and depth continue to expand.