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Designed Illusions: Via Divine Power is a fascinating memoir detailing your experiences and designed illusions. Why was this an important book for you to write?

No doubt in my mind DIVINE want.

I appreciated how candid you were in this book. What was the hardest thing for you to write about?

Negativity within my mother.

What were some ideas that were important for you to share in this book?

Experiencing the Power of the DIVINE.

Do you plan to write another memoir that picks up after 1948?

It already continues on after 1948.

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Giving constant thoughts of my time in Vasto, Italy, 1945, at seven years old, I always ventured in part of Vasto town. I saw not a single person or activity. Eventually, I made my way toward a large body of water, much later known to me as Adriatic Sea. I stood there, still saw no one or activity, not a single ship or vessel. I knew nothing of World War II. Then the war either still active or about to end.As I was about to go backward, metal wheels alerted me that I would finally see someone. Scooter Boy, about my age, stopped in front of me. We spoke, but it led nowhere. I never saw him again. I was alone again. The scooter boy and I spoke a foreign language-English. I didn’t know that I shouldn’t speak English. It would be my only language ever.On my own, I was always barefoot but never felt any discomfort and never gave it a thought. I never ate anything, never had an appetite, and thus never had a toilet break. I didn’t know anything of a toilet. I proceeded on without normal sense. My time in Vasto was always a sunny day. A drop of rain had never fallen on me. All per divine power. Then I didn’t know it but had my suspicions. Now when I think of the Adriatic Sea, I don’t see just an empty large body of water. Now I know of a violent world of a time gone by. I’m totally aware of the horror of the mass murder of men, women, and children in most of the countries across where I had stood looking out at an empty sea.

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Designed Illusions: Via Divine Power

Aug 16

Posted by Literary Titan

Designed Illusions: Via Divine Power is a fascinating memoir that details the experiences, and designed illusions, of the author beginning from the age of (about) seven. Readers get a fascinating look at profound moments in P J Ricchiuti’s life. He describes these various moments in detail, and they are all accompanied by thoughtful reflections of the events as well as his emotions and thoughts. At the end of each chapter there is a Retrospect section where the author provides personal commentary and a summary of the experience in the chapter.

This is an intriguing memoir that covers moments in the authors life from 1944 in Italy to 2017 in the United States. The author often references the ‘Divine’ throughout the text and wonders which of his memories were scripted by a Divine power, which were illusions and which were real. This made reading this book all the more curious and compelling for me as I too tried to determine the origin of these experiences.

The memoir does not provide a complete picture of the authors life, but from what I can understand from the text I don’t believe the author fully comprehends some events in his life either, and this book is one of the ways that he is trying to make sense of the Divine activity in his life. He asks various questions throughout the book that give readers insight into his own thought process and the things he wonders. This all comes together to make a very compelling memoir that is engrossing and hard to forget.

P J Ricchiuti has written a thought-provoking memoir that will provide readers with a look at a unique individual’s life and the seemingly mystical happenings in his life. I highly recommend Designed Illusions: Via Divine Power to readers looking for a wholly unique experience.

Pages: 110 | ASIN: B092DWCMRP