Synopsis

FLIGHT WITHOUT POWER

A Spiritual Journey from the Dream of Separation to the Freedom of Awakening

What if everything you need to rise above life’s difficulties is already surrounding you?

When a glider pilot releases the tow rope, the engine noise fades, and the aircraft is left to fly without a motor. To an observer, it may seem that the pilot has surrendered the very power needed to remain in the sky.

But the experienced pilot knows something remarkable: the atmosphere itself provides the energy needed to soar.

What if the same principle applies to our lives?

In Flight Without Power, author and experienced soaring instructor Robert D Sears takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the skies and into the deeper questions of human existence.

Drawing upon his personal experiences in gliders, including a flight that nearly cost him his life, Sears reveals how the natural forces that sustain an aircraft can teach us profound lessons about living.

Discover how:

• Thermals transform the heat of anger, frustration, and adversity into opportunities for growth.
• Ridge lift reveals that the obstacles blocking our path may also offer a way forward.
• Mountain waves demonstrate how a higher perspective can transform our understanding of life’s difficulties.
• Converging winds show how opposition and disagreement can become opportunities for greater understanding.
• The silence of flight without an engine reflects the peace available when we release our need to control everything.

But the journey does not end in the sky.

Drawing upon A Course in Miracles, the teachings of Jesus and Buddha, and a thought-provoking interpretation of Adam’s sleep in Genesis, Sears explores a remarkable spiritual possibility: What if our experience of separation from God and one another is part of a dream from which we have yet to awaken?

Through 21 reflective chapters, he invites readers to question the ego’s demands, reconsider the meaning of suffering, and discover the transforming power of forgiveness.

This is not simply a book about flying. It is an invitation to discover that the peace, love, and spiritual freedom we have spent our lives searching for may never have been absent.

Perhaps awakening is not about finding a new source of power. Perhaps it is about recognizing the power that has been carrying us all along.