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My Lifetime Journey
The Stories is a collection of deeply personal reflections with each story representing an encounter with faith, destiny, or divine intervention. Why was this an important book for you to write?
For posterity, it was important for me to record amazing stories from my lifetime journey in various roles and over times and places. I had shared many of these stories with family members, my university students (as examples for learning), and colleagues at professional conferences, especially during the years when I presented conference papers on the topic of psychospirituality. It was important for me to share stories within the context of readers understanding human vulnerabilities and human possibilities. It was important for me to share these amazing, if not incredible, stories from my experiences as a civil rights pioneer and leader, as a child growing up in the Jim-Crow South, as a counselor-psychotherapist, as a consultant, as a family member and friend, and as a channel of messages from a spirit existence as well as my experiences in meeting people who voluntarily shared their stories of spiritual channeling, clairvoyance, and telepathy.
What were some ideas that were important for you to share in this book?
Much of my writings tend to teach and enlighten. Through my stories, I trust that I have communicated to readers to do what is right, continue to grow and learn, share your gifts and blessings with others, value family and your children, and listen to spiritual messages from God and your ancestors.
What was the most challenging part of writing your memoir and what was the most rewarding?
The writing of the manuscript for THE STORIES was more joy than a challenge. It afforded me the opportunity to recall and reflect upon significant experiences and encounters during my lifetime. I guess that a minor challenge was writing down my stories in detail from memory and personal records while I was still cognitively competent in my 70s. Some stories go back to age three and to times when I was in elementary school.
What do you hope is one thing readers take away from your story?
I hope and trust that readers of THE STORIES will follow their heart and mind, and discover and pursue the light of talent from within them. After years of doing so, I realized that I was gifted as a thinker, writer, helper, leader, and organizer. Therefore, my purpose during my adult like has been to “CREATE [such as writings] and SERVE [e.g., as counselor and professor of counseling] for good cause.”
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The Stories
Frederick Douglas Harper’s The Stories is a collection of deeply personal reflections that straddle the line between memoir and spiritual testimony. The book unfolds like a tapestry of moments rather than a straight narrative, each thread representing an encounter with faith, destiny, or divine intervention. Harper shares tales of near-death experiences, prophetic dreams, and ancestral guidance, interwoven with memories of growing up Black in the Jim Crow South and his long academic career. More than a life story, it’s a meditation on meaning, a spiritual ledger of lessons learned and messages received. The book moves through themes of faith, purpose, race, family, and love with honesty and heart, creating a body of work that feels both confessional and universal.
Harper writes with conviction and humility, his voice both scholarly and soulful. At times, his stories surprised me with their sincerity. His recounting of prophecies and clairvoyant encounters might sound far-fetched to a skeptic, but he presents them with such clarity and calm faith that I couldn’t help but lean in. I found myself feeling comforted by his certainty that life’s events, however strange, connect in divine order. His storytelling rhythm is slow and deliberate, full of pauses for reflection. He often circles back to the same questions: Are our lives predestined? Do spirits guide us? I liked that he didn’t try to convince me. He just invited me to listen.
What moved me most wasn’t the supernatural stories but the raw humanness underneath them. The moments where Harper described loss, or his mother’s death, or his early brushes with racism, those hit hard. There’s pain in these pages, but it’s wrapped in grace. His prose is plainspoken, but it carries warmth and wisdom. I could feel his gratitude in every story, even the hard ones. What I admired most was his lack of bitterness. Harper has lived through injustice, through grief, through brushes with death, yet what he chooses to write about is redemption and light.
The Stories is for readers who like to think, to feel, to question what they believe about life and what might lie beyond it. It’s for those who’ve wondered about coincidences that feel too perfect or dreams that feel like messages. Harper’s book feels like a long, heartfelt conversation with an old soul, and by the time it’s over, you can’t help but feel a little changed. I’d recommend it to anyone who finds comfort in faith, mystery, and the quiet beauty of lived experience.
Pages: 446 | ASIN : B085DYRJT7
Toward a Theory of Everything
When I opened this book, I didn’t expect it to be such a sweeping mix of science, spirituality, and poetry, yet that’s exactly what I found. Harper begins with his lifelong quest to make sense of existence. He sketches a vision of two interwoven realms, the physical and the spiritual, and then spends the first part of the book expanding on what that means for everything from the birth of the universe to the mystery of human consciousness. After that, he shifts into poetry, both intimate and universal, before closing with collected quotations that highlight the themes he has lived and breathed. The book is less a tight academic theory and more a tapestry of reflections, stories, and insights born from decades of learning and personal searching.
I found myself caught off guard by the way Harper writes. At times, his prose felt deeply personal, like he was letting me peek into the inner conversations he’s been having his whole life. He weaves science with faith, mixing astrophysics and ancestral spirits in the same breath, and though the connections are unconventional, they carry a kind of honesty that’s hard to dismiss. I didn’t always agree with his conclusions, but I respected the curiosity that drove him there. His ideas about memory, reincarnation, and the merging of science with spirituality made me pause more than once and reread passages.
What struck me most emotionally was the poetry. It wasn’t just filler after the theory section; it was the heart of the book. The poems softened the heaviness of the philosophical ideas and grounded them in human experience, like grief, joy, friendship, faith, and love. Reading them felt like sitting across from Harper and hearing his voice shift from lecture to prayer to conversation. There’s a warmth in his writing, even when the subject matter is heavy. I felt his sincerity and his longing for people to live with more awareness and compassion.
I’d recommend Toward a Theory of Everything to readers who aren’t looking for airtight arguments but who enjoy being nudged into reflection. It’s for people who don’t mind wandering between science and spirituality, who enjoy a mix of heady ideas and heartfelt poetry. If you’re open to curiosity, to a voice that blends scholarship with faith, this book will give you plenty to chew on and maybe even leave you feeling a little more connected to the mysteries of life.
Pages: 264 | ASIN : B07KZPY5YP
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