Rated 4.3 out of 5 on Goodreads! Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American transcendentalist, poet, essayist, and reformer, has been presented in many ways, hut never simply and radically as a guide in self-transformation. Geldard traces Emerson's path of awakening to "the life above life." He shows how Emerson's path of "voluntary obedience" to the intuitive whisperings of the world through "the act of reflection" leads to an understanding of mind and the human condition. Paperback book in like new condition, with the exception of a little bit of underlining here, and there throughout the book; therefore listed the book as in excellent condition.