Shirley MacLaine's books and life story chronicle her sense of a spiritual odyssey.  She believes we are each in search of parts of ourselves, the chapters of life we might have lived, and have yet to live.  Her journey led her to ask how the parts all fit together.

Her writing describes how she travelled further than she had ever expected to go, into herself, into worlds of psychic phenomena, and to places where genuine immortality of the soul became more real to her.   She encourages us to explore our views of the supposedly known and unknown.  In her mind, deciphering your dreams happens as you;

1) Accept gifts with gratitude and humility.  Every person, situation and experience is a teacher, not simply an opportunity to learn, but to learn to think differently than before.  Selective perception, at any age, will make you wiser and expand your senses.

2) Recognize that life, lives and reality are what what you choose.  You have arrived to where you're ready to re-evaluate what life is all about.  Everything you know about reality begins and ends with experience.  What are you waiting for?

3) Do what it takes to strengthen your sense of purpose.  Listen to your innate compass.  Why don't you take the time to look deeper?  It takes time to get-in-touch with yourself, to discover power in faith, determination, patience and love.  You'll get there.

4) Sense duality everywhere.  You understand something without perhaps knowing exactly what you understand.  You may sense a struggle underneath examples of happiness you know.  Both sides are lead to balance.  Discover new dimensions to life beneath denial and deceit.  What is going on you hadn't noticed?

5) Reach deeper inside yourself.  Keep an open mind.  Realize time, space and other self-imposed beliefs are limitations that veil your awareness.  Its not a question of whether immortality  and dreams are true, it becomes a question of how they work.  We each find our way.  What do you need to complete your life?