{"product_id":"home-george-benckenstein-9798182034012","title":"Home: The Tree of Life - A Field Guide Home for the High-Functioning Soul in Midlife","description":"You are not in crisis. That is the deceptive part.\u003cp\u003eThe career still pays the bills. The marriage still functions - or went quiet so long ago the silence became a kind of arrangement. From the outside, the life still looks like a life. But there is a pressure underneath it that no vacation can touch, no prescription can dissolve, and no second glass of wine can soften.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat pressure is not a breakdown. \u003cb\u003eIt is the body's first honest message in decades. It is the call.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHOME: The Tree of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a foundational teaching for those who have begun to suspect that what they were given is not enough - the high-functioning person in midlife who has tried the protocols, the prescriptions, and the optimization, and still feels a quiet sentence installed before they could name it: \u003ci\u003eyou do not belong here.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is the answer to that sentence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the wisdom traditions of humanity - Vedic, Buddhist, Taoist, Hebrew, Christian, Sufi, and Indigenous - not as doctrine but as a remembering of what the body has always known, HOME maps the whole path on a single image: the Tree of Life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you will find: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the \"call\" arrives as fatigue, not fireworks - and why refusing it only adds interest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe two selves every lasting tradition has named - and why most people die believing they are only the second one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe four roots of a body in right relation, and the difference between moving for the soul and moving for the mirror.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy solitary practice can never finish the work - and what the Collective is really for.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat is on the other side of the wall between you and the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a man who declined a heart transplant at fifty-one - ejection fraction below twenty - and whose cardiologist, five years later, wrote one word in the file: \u003cb\u003eResolved.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou are not behind. You are not broken. You are not too far gone. The path begins exactly where you are sitting.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd we are all just walking each other home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Benckenstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798182034012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d","brand":"George Benckenstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174170435839,"sku":"9798182034012","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/home-george-benckenstein-9798182034012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}