Dead To Divine
A Long Strange Trip from The Grateful Dead to Grateful DOGS
by Jewel AKA: Rhonda Jensen Jewel
Dead to Divine is a heartfelt true life story, a memoir that follows my journey from the early days of the Grateful Dead to a life of spiritual awakening, resilience, and purpose. This is a story of music, transformation, and reinvention from the wild freedom of youth to rising into my calling as a holistic health practitioner dedicated to pets, spirit, and soulful living.
About The Book
Dead to Divine
A Long Strange Trip From Grateful Dead to Grateful Dogs
Dead to Divine is a heartfelt and inspiring memoir about one woman’s journey from a life lived in the colorful chaos of the Grateful Dead world to a soul-centered mission of healing, spirit, and service.
Jewel’s story begins as a young girl, backstage with music legends and unfolds through love, hardship, reinvention, and spiritual awakening. Raised in the vibrant energy of the Grateful Dead family, she learned early how life could be both magical and unpredictable. Those experiences taught her about trust, intuition, resilience, and the deep wisdom found in embracing the unknown.
As life took her through motherhood, personal challenges, and powerful inner shifts, Jewel transformed pain into purpose. What started as survival became devotion. What began in confusion became clarity. What once felt “dead” became truly alive.
Eventually, her path led to creating Holistic Pet Care, a business rooted in natural healing for pets. Along the way she discovered that her true calling was not just helping pets thrive, but supporting human hearts in healing, reconnection, and spiritual growth.
Dead to Divine isn’t just a personal history it’s an invitation. An invitation to remember that transformation is real, that you can rise from any chapter, that spirit moves in mysterious ways, and that your highest purpose can emerge from the most unexpected places.
“Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.”
Grateful Dead
“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
Gerard Way
“Transformation isn’t a destination it’s the moment your soul remembers why it came here.”
Jewel Rhajarani
Holistic HighVibe Books By Jewel
Jewel is an animal naturopath, holistic mystic, and frequency alchemist who has spent decades blending natural healing with spiritual awareness. She is the founder of HolisticPetCare.com and HolisticHighVibeTribe.com, where she shares guidance on energy, consciousness, and natural wellness with a growing online community. Her life journey is detailed in her Memoir, Dead to Divine-A long Strange Trip from the Grateful Dead to Grateful DOGS. A journey from the psychedelic 60s/70s as part of the Grateful Dead family growing up in the Bay Area scene through love, loss, prison, love again and manifesting her visions to come true. Her journey to eventually becoming a spiritual visionary, mystic and animal naturopath forms the heart of Dead to Divine. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, surrounded by her beloved animals and her high-vibe tribe.”