Title: Decoding the Butterfly Promise: Regaining our Sacred Power
Author: Gail Siler, PhD
Publisher: Toplink Publishing, LLC
ISBN-13: 978-1-948262-50-7
Pages: 360
Genre: Spirituality, Memoir
Reviewed by: Jason Lolus
Pacific Book Review
Decoding the Butterfly Promise: Regaining Our Sacred Power is a very thought-provoking book about decoding human nature and spirituality. Gail Siler’s metaphysical journey touches upon so many things: spirituality, sex, philosophy, human evolution, aliens, and love. It’s a difficult work to classify. The term “New Age” comes to mind but it is really a memoir about Gail’s quest for a grand metaphysical design of human behavior and love.
A nurse, mother, and social scientist, Siler’s practical profession is purposeful wanderer. From New York to British Columbia, her geographical meandering mirrors her gypsy-like spiritual quest. It all began with author and anthropologist, Carlos Castaneda. Overcoming her fear, she contacts his assistant, David Greene. With this call, she leaves what she calls “Normalville” and opens her mind to any and all possibilities. With Greene as a mentor and possible “completion partner,” Gail practices telepathic communication in “Dreaming” and hears voices from energy sources. Her major inspiration is the Empress of the Universe, a divine feminine force that embodies love, intuition, equality, and an energy that actually speaks to Gail.
It’s also a romantic quest as Gail continually searches for her ultimate completion partner. As she learns from the Empress through her own self-reflection and constant searching for meaning in the physical and metaphysical, she uncovers an ancient archetype that explains the evolution of males and females in human history. Stemming from the Egyptian Gods, Osiris and Isis, she traces a lineage from their unnatural separation long ago to the problems of male/female inequality and the grander problem of fear vs. love that we see in the world today.
A great deal is covered in this work and Gail’s narrative style is fittingly non-linear at times with consistent self-reflection. Epiphanies come after the fact, and as such, Gail digs into her past when the intuition or Empress calls for it. In revisiting her own past, she revisits humanity’s past, finding symbolic archetypal origins in Egypt which ties together that grand metaphysical design and male and female sides of humanity. Her story is a bit bewildering at times: aliens, Ramtha, telepathy, etc. But it’s all part of being open-minded in a profound and complete sense. It’s existential, romantic, and spiritual and therefore all over the place but cogent at the same time. Readers interested in such an audacious search for meaning will love this nomadic memoir about Gail’s theory of the lineage of human behavior and love in all its manifestations.
