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Summary: most of her books
Review: I have read all or most of Lynn Andrews book from Medicine Woman, Crystal, Jaguar, Star,Windhorse Woman All were 10 star. Please read they well take you on a wonderful adventure.
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Summary: mixed metaphors run rampant
Review: I kept on checking the spine to make sure it said "non-fiction", but it did. Andrews uses such a variety of native terms (ranging from Cree, Lakota, Zuni and Mayan)that it seemed to be more new-age mumbo jumbo than something to take seriously. Seems like Andrews may belong to the "Wanna-be" tribe.
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Summary: Opens Up Your Mind
Review: I understand many view Lynn's journeys as quite "far-fetched", but I do believe this book serves to open up our minds so that we do not limit ourselves to the rote and to the ordinary. Perhaps the reader struggle to identify with Lynn's adventures because we simply don't have that opportunity to experience those incredible things, but the underlying message is to create that sacred space within your own self and surroundings, and it doesn't matter where you are.
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Summary: It's so wonderful !
Review: I was very imppressed by the power and the strange atomospher of this story. It took me to an another world that I've never know, filled with wonder and awe.
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Summary: No Matter What the Source.........
Review: Long before I knew of L.V. Andrews, a love interest would often read to me excerpts from Carlos Castenada's books as we sat under a tree. Castenada's books are an exemplary example of command of the english language and his descriptions, often put humorously, not without a touch of eloquence. But both Castenada and Andrews portray a certain un-gracefulness of the human nature that can only be refined with growth and that is the point. How that growth is attained though is pertinent to an individual's soul choices and the message it brings to assist others - not based on whether the journey it's self began in Beverly Hills or while a student at U.C.L.A.. These are only extrodinary precicely for the fact that consciousness could indeed "meet it's fate" and flourish from such a mundane starting point. In the case of Ms. Andrews (and Mr. Castenada), both were fortunate to have physical teachers to guide them which to some would be considered a luxary now days. Though as Andrew's mentor, Agnes, interjected in one of her later books, Andrews herself would one day graduate to teachers of higher learning and she (Agnes) would no longer be necessary. This then confronts us with an even more seductive proposal which I venture to say hinges on the universal rather than the particular (race, culture or language) of which so many jealously guard. The glimpse's of Ms. Andrew's various "lives", as illustated by her books, confirms that the soul is diverse in it's many sojourns and that lives are merely identities or roles played by a higher self or over soul. That her teachers were Native American or Buddist doesn't ultimately matter because the message is always the same: "know thy self". A suggestion given but not often considered since to do so requires a certain identification with others firstly and an acknoweledgement of our collective human dilema that is often too painful to admitt. In her succeeding books, again, L. Andrew's depicts a course that is not exclusive to her teacher's heritage since in one she delves into a life lived in England and another, Japan. What is exclusive is the bond that she has with these women whom have obviously guided her throughout many life times and I find this no different from Babaji guiding Paramahansa or the many Masters so many identify with today. I find it unfortunate that others would miss the point altogether and judge what they don't understand and that she would not be allowed to be supported for her efforts that no doubt have assisted others, including myself. That her writings be fiction or non-fiction is also not the point, except that they inspire another to seek the hidden potential within. As we read, within our imagination is a truth which her writing conveys and that is: on some level what we imagine is already real even if only seeming "fiction", because we cannot see it.
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Summary: read the rest, they are great!!!
Review: Lynn as a knack for putting things on paper. I love this first book of hers! I wish that I could have a teacher to show me the way. She shows you that you still can field that place inside you that has to hold your spiritual self. I love all her books
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Summary: the beauty of tolerance
Review: My journey with lynn began almost 4 years a go... i was very ill and saw her face in a magazine....i though who is this woman who dares to speak in the name of natives...! i wrote her...and received info...and found out then that she was a writer.... out of pure curiosity i began reading her books,and found out that...i was not native either... ahhhh my god!... the books took me beyond color and race....beyond dogma...or hidden agendas.... and soon i found myself traveling to meet her... i continued reading....it has being 4 years now... and my life forever changed!.. not only did i heal the illness that i had on my body...but i healed the hatred ...and the lack of tolerance within me... the sacred teachings of all people...in all ages speak of uniting as one... i am a woman part chinese...part italian...born in venezuela...raised in the states... so why cant i share the beauty...that natives have always cherised as their birth right... Lynns words open up my eyes and i began to feel pure love and respect for the native people who walk before me...who have always honored life...and lived in harmony... this book...as well as the others gave me the gift of opening my arms to the beauty that has always being there...my colors...my races...myself the teachings within the books...made me look with in...and start on my journey.. lynn andrews offered me a chance through her words to see this... i welcome people....to look with in....
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Summary: Disagree with Chant, very much so.
Review: People like Chant Down irritate me so much I needed to respond to that person's review as well as add my own two cents.Drop the intellectual snobbery, Chant. Open communication between different cultures can't happen otherwise. Be thankful Agnes and Ruby were willing to teach Lynn - however silly she is - their way. People like you stand in the way of progressive understanding and enlightenment. If you read her books closely you'll see that she has changed her perspective on life, rejecting that which is external for the internal, re-discovering her spirit, re-learning what is important, and that is our connection to the great spirit - God, the Great Father, Mother Gaia, whomever you want to call it. Many religions use similar paths to the Truth as the Medicine way - Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam... just different methods. Whatever people can do to discover this, how much we have in common with one another, and learn to get in touch (for lack of a better phrase) with our spirituality and our connection to the world around us, the more hope there is for respecting one another's differences, and ultimately, lasting peace. People who want to rag on the authenticism and cut others down in order to make themselves superior to others ought to do themselves a favor and get lost. That said, Lynn's writings for the most part are enlightening - I have learned a lot from her books and Ruby/Agnes/Lynn all have wonderful insights and I am glad they are sharing them with us, especially when it comes to reminding us of our responsibilities to the environment, to each other. Lynn, however, strikes me (at least in Medicine Woman) as not having very much self-confidence at all, and as I am a pretty strong woman, that irritates me. Perhaps it is something she needed to learn on top of all the other things Agnes and Ruby needed to teach her, but it takes away a piece of the enjoyment for me.
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Summary: A Fraud!!
Review: She claims to have been taught by a Hopi Medicine Woman. Her Indian ex-boyfriend later revealed that she perpetrated a multi-million dollar hoax. A Beverly Hills actress who claims that in the mid-'70s she became an apprentice to Agnes Whistling Elk, a Native American medicine and a Cree shaman from Manitoba. Her Workshop "Into the CrystalDreamtime" has gone on nationwide tours. Medicine Woman, the initial account of her experiences, won Andrews an enormous response from readers across the country. Suspiciously, all subsequent books were marketed as nonfiction. The reason for this was that in November 1988 an affidavit was filed with a lawsuit brought by David Carson, Choctow, a writer and former live-in companion of Andrews, contending that "as a result of our personal relationship, she and I composed a series of literary works." Carson has since made claims suggesting that many of Andrews 's experiences were the results of his own creative imagination. He claimed he wove them into a fictional narrative describing her exotic adventures with various shamans based on his own limited knowledge of Choctow culture.
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Summary: Lighter than Carlos Canstaneda and much, much more fun!
Review: Thank you, Lynn! This entire series is written beautifully. There are those that think that Carlos' work is deeper, but not me. Your story touches a woman's heart and transports her to a place of wonder. I believe it's true, because I want it to be true. There are those that think it's just a story because they are not ready to accept the truth. In the end we all find our own path. Thank you for sharing yours with us.
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