The Life of a Stone

The Life of a Stone is an unusual spiritual memoir, in which Peter Mond weaves the story of the passage of his soul over two lives. During a past life regression he discovered he had been a Jewish teenager in the Warsaw Ghetto. The memoir spans his past life in the Ghetto and his present life in England and Israel. The Life of a Stone draws significant events and themes of the two lives together under one canopy: From the dilemmas of a young smuggler going back and forth the stone barrier of the Ghetto, to the dilemmas of a boy in Brighton, England, who created an "inner ghetto" built with imaginative stones, to the adult Peter, who in Tzefat, Israel, learnt that stones (a cognate of the Hebrew word understanding) can be used as building blocks to create new connections between events, lives and sources of wisdom. The memoir describes the process over a lifetime of learning to see personal history as a history of discovering meaning through confronting what was hidden and baffling within the events of life. Seemingly meaningless disturbances in life came to reflect encounters between the individual and the Divine; they became a source of revelation.