ONWARD! with Spirit presents a view that is distinctly different from other perspectives contained in many fine books about the second half of life. In this book, supported by thorough research, the author says that with each day, life event, opportunity, and obstacle we encounter we are growing, not declining. With each passing year, we are maturing, evolving, and moving toward healing and wholeness. There is no such thing as a decline in the second half of life. The stories you will read in this book offer you a new image of maturity, centered around wisdom, self-knowledge, transcendence, freedom, and continuing to be of service. These are the virtues of an archetypal figure long overlooked in modern society, the ELDER, equal in importance to that of the Hero.