Eve East & West of Eden
The Journey of Working Mother Between Mideast and America
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All my life I have felt like a wanderer, a person without roots. As a woman who was born into a cross-cultural environment, I have experienced the frustrations, fears and shortcomings of being schooled in a number of different institutions where language and customs were foreign. Today, I speak Farsi, English, French and Arabic. I dress according to the acceptable codes of the country where I find myself visiting, residing or doing business. Sometimes I am veiled because I am in Dubai and I know I will be treated more favorably when I enter banks and administrative offices. On the French Riviera or in Malibu, I will most likely wear a bikini for the beach, or a leotard if I am going to work out at a health club. Here I will blend in with the other women in a society that is accustomed to exposing most of their bodies in public. For me, there is no right or wrong; there is only honor and respect for the local morés, whatever they happen to be.
That was not always the case. For years, my daily life, my value systems and my relationships were governed by the same confusion, ambiguity and separateness that have caused major cultures of the world to regard each other with fear and disdain. This separateness has been at the foundation of brutal wars that have literally ripped apart the planet. If one stops to think about it, it’s a miracle we are still alive today.
It has taken me a long time to come to this point of integration where I can be at home in both the West and the East; and I find no reason why other young people today, including my own six-year-old daughter, Marwa, should have to repeat my painful experiences. We are living in a new world. The Internet, jet travel and other modern technologies have continued to shrink the time and space between countries and nations. Why can’t we all live together, celebrating our uniqueness, at the same time enjoying pleasures that are common to all people? Who doesn’t love to laugh? Who doesn’t have an appreciation for nature and its wonders? Regardless of our heritage, the gifts and opportunities of freedom, growth and joy are common to all people. Who cannot feel grateful for the experiences of self-discovery that open us to our unique talents and gifts?
I believe it is possible for Eastern and Western philosophies and cultures to live side by side – and together. And because I truly believe we can achieve global unity, I have chosen to devote my life to developing a number of international schools located throughout the planet that will promote understanding, peace and harmony through a new form of education.
The first of these schools, a prototype, will be located in the United Arab Emirates, where I now reside with my daughter. In the following proposal, I shall outline the mission and philosophy that will govern this pilot school and briefly present a curriculum of studies that I believe will accomplish our goals at the end of the book.
My spiritual journey to find the “Mohammed Jesus Buddah Nature” started with spiritual teachers in 1997 Abraham hicks, Kevin Ryerson, lazaris. I learnt about cocreation process with higher self through right teachers at the right time. As a result the story of “Eve East and West of Eden” is created. Eve representing spirit of mother of living. I felt I found the purpose of my life “bridging the gap between east and western worlds from spiritual perspective for children of multicultural generation”.
My prayer is that the materials worked on over 4 years can benefit people who are torn between the two-worlds. I wrote all with help of teacher’s guides, spirit, masters with open-heart open mind.
Eden series for children (1,2,3)
Eve series for adults (1,2,3)
The objective of Eve 1 is to show the spiritual transformational of turn soul. By learning the co-creation process with higher self with reputable teachers.
The objective of Eve 2 is to bridge the gap between the eastern and western philosophy from historical and spiritual perspective as a liberated woman.
The objective of eve 3 is to unite east and west philosophy through the new spirituality doctrine proposed by Emtiaz backed up by personal experiences and factual research.
Vivian Efsoon Emtiaz
Dubai
July 2001
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Eve East and West of Eden is the story of a woman who was born in Iran but grew to adulthood through the cultures of Europe and the United States while never fully surrendering her Persian heritage. She became successful in business and has returned with her daughter to the Middle East in search of a wholeness which can embrace the best of each culture she has adopted.
In her search for authenticity as a woman, as a citizen of the world, as a daughter, as a mother, and as a soul mate to a spiritual partner, she generalizes her own experiences to lay it over the experience of the planet entering the Twenty-first century. In the Middle East she finds the rich soil for discovering spiritual healing and loving perspective, while never quite attaining the peace she, and all humankind, spends a lifetime pursuing.
There is much in her story to instruct readers about the contrast between Christianity and Islam, between the West and the Middle East, and between a chaotic and tragic past and the promise of the future. Among the patterns she weaves are the threads of hope for her daughter, and through her, hope for the children of the world who will inherit the next opportunity for planetary healing.
Vivian Emtiaz's book is a true inspiring story of a young woman's quest on behalf of herself, her daughter, and today's world. She was born into a world full of the challenges, conflicts, and hardships presented by the close proximity and competition of Mideastern and Western cultures and values. Throughout, she has been driven by a vision of a future in which her daughter and all those of her daughter's generation could have the opportunities and understandings of ways to integrate the west and Mideast cultures. Central to her story has been the guidance and teaching she has received from the reportedly non physical beings that communicate through the America-- And how she was saved many times by "spirit" "Mohammed (PBUH" and the Holy Spirit. She has sought to make her life a teaching story that might be useful to others.
Jon Klimo, Ph.D. Author of Channeling: Investigations of Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA.
About the Author
Vivian has received her B.A. in international relation and French in 1984 and MBA degree from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California in 1989. at present she is working on her Ph. D. degree from international school of theology, San Bernardino California. While developing a series of private schools to educate her daughters and others in a way which would permit them to be at home in the East and the West, and to make peace, as a modern woman, with her roots in a culture known for its stifling of women. She has written about these experiences to provide an example for the many women who in the Twenty-first Century will face a similar challenge.
She lives with her daughters between Las Vegas, Malibu, Dubai