Interlude With Sally Hemings : Diary of a Spiritual Healing

Thomas Jefferson’s Beloved Slave Tells Her Own Story After 164 years, Sally Hemings, the beloved mistress/slave of America’s renowned third president, finally reveals her own personal account of life with Thomas Jefferson when her spirit visits with the author in 1999. This book is a journal of the unedited dialogue between Sally and Rebecca; it chronicles the healing of two souls whose energies were strongly and karmically interwoven with each other and that of Jefferson in their lifetime together at Monticello. Sally provides a glimpse of Jefferson, the man; reveals her troublesome relationship with his daughters; and purges the corrosive pain of helotry as she raises our awareness that human bondage, in any form, damages the souls of all who are touched by it–no one in our global society escapes unscathed. This nonfiction work details the evolution of this unique spiritual encounter, including the four-month dialogue and the author’s ruminations–preceding, during and following Sally’s visitation. It is in a novel format for easy readability with an introduction and afterword by Rev. Vincent Bridges, a cerebral historian and spiritual counselor, that highlights some of the background of the Jefferson era. He also explains this extraordinary meeting of two souls metaphysically and their need for karmic healing. Through Sally’s painstaking insistence, Rebecca reluctantly comes to realize that sharing their story is part of this karmic process. Sally declared on April 26, 1999: “…I wants ya to tell. I shoulda told. I shoulda left it all for the world to know. You gotta tell.” The urging was stronger on April 29 “…Take this more seriously or I ain’t going no matter! Don’t listen to that goody part of you that don’t want no waves in your life. I shoulda told. You tell.” The intricate method of karmic resolution, the humanistic view of the paradoxical Jefferson and his slavery issues; the intimate glimpse of their famous love affair; Sally’s powerful personality and the mysterious, complex relationship with the writer creates an intriguing, dynamic reading experience that unfolds with surprises until the book’s final pages.