Love in Action - Truus Geraets

This small, important book by healing eurythmist Truus Geraets and her soul mate Dawud (David Anglin) is a painful, truthful, intimately human look at the enormous and disastrous US correctional system. It gathers real symptoms for thoughtful students of societal failure, and it is a lifeline to those inside and out, an affirmation that “we are all on a path of development.” We received it shortly before a close friend was to be released on parole, after five “bids,” from the NY state prison system, and quickly sent it to him. Its authenticity moved and reassured him. How important that someone knows and cares to write about the terrible stress inflicted hourly on almost every inmate! And about the catch-22’s and prejudgments which fill life on parole with anxiety and frustration.

“To believe in the higher self of the other as much as of one’s own, isn’t that another expression of LOVE?” asks Truus in the Foreword. She found that belief unexpectedly with Dawud while giving eurythmy lessons in a Michigan prison over thirty years ago. We learn of her strength, Dawud’s unforseen capacities, and then how caring for someone in prison pulls at and expands one’s horizons. Marriage, release, divorce, new charges—all unfold against the background of Truus’ work across the USA and in Africa and Dawud’s struggle to endure the system. Love in Action is a tough handbook for how to hold onto hope inside, and to sustain another person with belief, from outside, in their true being.

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