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Summary: A Bit Too Complex!
Review: This was a very complex book. I found myself rereading things as it had lost me along the way. I found the discussion of chakras and energy medicine very informative but again it was to such a complex level. It also discusses the practice of using Medical Intuitive as a way to maintain wellness before the illness starts or is presence. I think the content in this book is excellent but the complex manner it is a book you must reread several times before you grasp the entire content.
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Summary: A really good introduction
Review: I found this book an excellent introduction to the concepts of chakras and energy medicine. I especially liked the background information on Caroline, since she could be just anyone writing a book. The most helpful thing for me was when she tied specific ailments to their spiritual problems. I use this book frequently when encountering people with specific physical ailments and find every time that Caroline's on the money with her assessments of the spiritual problems that caused them.
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Summary: Great views about how attitudes determine health
Review: This is a deep spiritual book. It has exercises that reveal a lot about your upbringing and subconscious thoughts, which have a lot to do with your current life situation. It will also introduces the practice of using Medical Intuitives as a way to maintain wellness way before an illness starts to develop.Because of this book, I feel very comfortable working with a Medical Intuitive.
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Summary: Spirit filled
Review: This book has given us a map to find spirit all around and from within
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Summary: Another addition to the mystical rip-off genre
Review: I agree with a previous review - this book is full of hyped promises but does not deliver on what it supposedly sets out to do, namely, show the reader how to become intuitive. But surprise, surprise, the author follows up with one new self-help book after another, and the readers keep buying as they keep trying to find the hidden secret. I find these tactics to be dishonest and self-serving. Another talented person whose original desire to help mankind has been overcome with greed.
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Summary: A helpful book with a powerful message
Review: For those interested in healing self and others.
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Summary: Excellent summary and insight into......
Review: our lives, our religions, and our "sacred" selves. Carolyn takes great material and puts it into a clear representation that brings harmony rather than diversity. If you ever belonged to one of the major religions of the world, this book will make sense to you, and help you see yourself as part of a much larger world community. Not only that, but you will gain new insight into yourself as a person, and the parts of your life you hold sacred and those you pay no attention to. This book was a great beginning for me to pay closer attention to my body. Gary Zukav's book "Heart of the Soul" is a great follow up with practical advice on "actively" using your body and emotions to change your life for the better. Happy Reading!
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Summary: Excellent overview of spiritual matters.....
Review: In the last part of ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT, Caroline Myss unites her discussion of three belief systems (Roman Catholic Sacraments, Kabbalah Tree of Life, and Hindu Chakras) within the concept of living in the present moment. Many who have trod the spiritual path Myss describes and faced the Three Big Crises - absence of meaning and purpose; strange new fears; and devotion to something greater than one's self - will appreciate her final words. Suffering produces spiritual rewards. Not everyone will appreciate Myss' book. I would like to send the audio version to my 87-year old aunt who is devoutly Roman Catholic, but I don't think she would like it. My Southern Baptist aunt would probably disown me. My daughter would appreciate it - but she's a fan of Bishop Pike. For a change, Myss has written a book older folks will appreciate more than younger ones. I know something about the sacraments having been raised with them. I've also acquired a great deal of knowledge about the Chakras in the past 40 years (via reading and Hindu friends). I have studied the Kabbalah (it is far more complex than Myss' book indicates). Like Joseph Campbell whom she apparently see as a model, Myss sees a larger truth underlying religious structures and/or tribal systems of belief. Myss is billed as an expert on energy medicine. In the early 1980s, I had the pleasure and privilege of being in Louis Hay's home. I can testify that "whatever your mind can conceive and believe it will achieve." Whenever I have an ailment, I whip out Hays' healing books (Myss cites one of them). Healing takes many forms. Doctors mostly facilitate the process or mess it up. The power of positive thinking, prayer, the laying on of hands, and laughter all work to heal the body-mind-spirit. What Myss shares is not new, but if you haven't heard about it elsewhere you can learn more here. This is a good book. I've heard, read, and/or experienced most of what Myss describes so I can testify to the truthfulness of it. If you are ready to move beyond tribal boundaries and become whole this may be the book for you.
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Summary: Dissecting the Anatomy
Review: In "Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing," readers are asked to reject their religious beliefs. Hitting on the same core market as Tolle, Chopra, and even Dr. Phil, Myss has garned support for her wildly accepted books by pointing out how broken we all are. We are tired. We've endured a tough economy, divorce, 9-11, and lots of personal struggles we never tell anyone. That is what Myss wants to address. But she does it the wrong way. Seven steps seem easy enough to fix our mistakes, hurts, our loneliness and our rejections. According to Myss, the math runs a little like this: A Hindu practice + a Christian practice + a Jewish practice, mixed just so = healing and inner strength. She doesn't stop there. She adds Buddhism whenever she can. Now, Christians who follow the Bible know this is against the rules. In fact, Jews who who read the same Scripture in Deutoronomy know this is against the rules. Why does this matter in a book review? Because categorically, Myss' asserts that Judeo-Christian theology lies when it says, "put no other god before me," and what Jews and Christians believe is wrong. "Anatomy of the Spirit" is all about syncretism, and Myss fails when she thinks spiritually grounded people will accept this. Mixing Gods is a bad idea, but Myss presents it as a possibility. Not acknowledged is that a Jew and Christian must both reject a key Scripture to do so. Moses was pretty ticked when he came back with the Ten Commandments and saw what the Jews were doing with the gold idol. That's what Myss is asking Catholic, Jewish and Protestant readers to do: build a new god from nearby resources. Dr. Phil has more to say than Myss when it comes to healing. He doesn't mask his ideas with a false spirituality. Instead, he just tells the reader to fess up where we've messed up, and to get over the pain others have caused us. He tells us to move on, and start doing what we should be doing. Myss, however, muddies it with watered-down mistaken theology. More depth and truth can be found in "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things" by Robert Fulghum. Fulgrum breaks it down into a more honest language. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: Remarkable insights
Review: The main thing I appreciate about this audio series of lectures, is that she unearths and explains the similarities between the practices of the Ayurvedic chakra system and the Judeo-Christian traditions. I don't think anyone in modern days has ever explained the Catholic sacraments or the Jewish Sephorot in such an accessible and globally conscious way. Over the years as I have worked with the Vedic energy systems, I have often wondered how to tie it into my Catholic and Jewish upbringing -- it's easy to connect Ayurveda to Eastern medicine but it has always been in the back of my mind, that there had to be some link to the West, but I couldn't find it. Thankfully, Ms. Myss has done the work for all of us! The result is a profound and powerfully persuasive argument for individual autonomy and accountability -- no matter what belief system or religion one subscribes to. Her main message seems to be that we all have the tools to know everything we need to know, to have everything we need and to experience life as a constantly enlightening and enlivening process, at all times. In some spots she makes general statements about political events or historical figures that ignore many of the facts, but those offenses are minor and mainly serve to get specific points across, I guess. One thing is for sure -- anyone who listens to this series will be affected in some way, and I for one cannot imagine them not being better off for it.
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