Amazing Grace

The rollicking adventures of a man born into privilege, who chose to leave his old world behind to find a path of soul.

Amazing Grace: Memoirs of a Transformational Journey is about one man’s struggle to discover his soul in a soulless world, in which he argues that a new kind of human being needs to emerge if our society is to be healed. This new person will need to be someone who will have ‘worked on themselves’ to have become less materialistic and less ego-centred, more planet-friendly and, in particular, more concerned about the well-being of their fellow human beings. In this honest and no-holds-barred book, we learn that if we choose to undertake such a journey, there is no avoiding a confrontation with all those areas of ourselves which prevent this. In author Serge Beddington-Behren’s case, this included his need to come face to face with his chauvinism, his ‘little boy’ who refused to grow up, his narcissism - the myth that the ‘right woman’ would save him - and the delusion of being ‘special’! Chronicling his encounters with the many wise people he’s met along his way, Amazing Grace shows how to let go of attachments to false narratives and assists one in becoming more honest and open-hearted. Serge’s adventures are amusing in places; his hope is that upon discovering the many gifts and blessings that came his way as he aspired to evolve, the reader might feel moved to embark upon similar journeys of self-discovery, vital to our planet’s survival.

Dr. Serge Obolensky Beddington-Behrens, MA (Oxon.), Ph.D., K.O.M.L., is an Oxford-educated transpersonal psychotherapist, spiritual educator, teacher of transformation and change agent. In his mid-twenties he moved to live and work in California, cofounding the Institute for the Study of Conscious Evolution in San Francisco, during which time he also helped put on many global conferences, the most well-known being a celebratory Florence Congress of the New Age which took place in Florence in 1975. For over forty years he has had a private psychotherapy practice and has trained psychotherapists as well as having lectured, taught workshops, and run spiritual retreats all over England, Europe, America and Russia.

He has contributed over fifty articles to journals dealing with transpersonal issues and has written two books, "Awakening the Universal Heart, a Guide for Spiritual Activists", and most recently "Gateways to the Soul, Inner Work for the Outer World, published in 2020. He now lives in Mallorca but travels a great deal training people in the art of being spiritual activists. In 2000 he was awarded an Italian knighthood for services to humanity. He is married and has one young daughter.