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Lee Hillberg has had a very full life: He was born in South Dakota during the Great Depression and remembers his family's many deprivations; in the US Air Force he worked on complex radar equipment; and he was vice president of a major American corporation. So after retirement, having grown up in an area infused with Native American history and with a great love for nature, he undertook a personal study of the culture and traditions of Creek/Muskogee tribes in the Georgia and Alabama region where he was living. He became knowledgeable enough to give lectures about these groups. Through communion with his natural surroundings and connection with his inner guides, he acquired a spirit name, Red Eagle, was initiated as a shaman by his supernatural mentor, Ax. These experiences opened the way for Hillberg to become a healer, using color therapy as his tool. He enumerates different colors in all their subtleties in different disciplines, through chakras, auras, meditation and especially through observation of the natural world, his lifelong passion. He has found personal guidance for this work in contact with such experts as Ted Andrews, Carolyn Cummings, Carter Shephard, and Native American medicine man Jerry Lang.
Hillberg's engaging account is thorough and well researched, and could readily serve as a guide for others interested in health and inner enrichment through color. He uses photos and diagrams to emphasize the etheric power of colors. He balances his facts with dreams and visions that he has had since childhood, when he had contact with his grandmother, a spiritual medium who could talk to departed souls. His book is more than a manual for the essentials of color therapy. As the title suggests, it is also a description of the path from ordinary perception to heightened, spiritualized awareness.
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