Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

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Summary: Complete new insight into self perception.....
Review: I was enraptured by Caroline Myss' redefinition of the parameters of self responsiblity in our physical as well as our emotional bodies. Regardless of her esoteric claim of being a "medical intuitive", her contribution to the way we perceive of ourselves as body, mind and spirit would be illuminating, in and of itself. I love her approach and enjoyed what she reveals to us about ourselves in this book. I think she has much to contribute to the coming times where one absolutely must take responsibilty for their own health by making healthier "informed" choices based on a new paradigm of knowledge and self awareness.

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Summary: A road map to holistic health
Review: An excellent presentation of holistic healing techniques, borrowed from many religious traditions. Myss is a little too authoritative at times, when her standing isn't as 'self-evident' as she may believe it to be. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book with only minor irritations. Myss should take a look at the wonderful and TRULY revelatory "The Autobiography of Jesus of Nazarreth and the Missing Years" by Richard Patton, to see how to deliver information of such magnitude. Patton reveals a unique portrait of one of the greatest healers of all time - and doesn't spare us the detailed training it took to get there! Myss's engaging style greatly assists the conveying of many esoteric truths and deserves to become a success. Recommended reading.

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Summary: Best Exposition Yet of the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection
Review: It seems Myss has rediscovered what Mary Baker Eddy tried to re-integrate into Christian practice at the end of the 19th century. The beauty of this book is that Myss delineates a way to healing using three religious traditions. Essential to her argument is personal responsibility. Do not turn over your power for self-healing to doctors and drugs. She beautifully affirms in this well-written book the spiritual basis of all life. For me it was a compendium of the spiritual wisdom of the world.

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Summary: Anatomy of the Spirit is a must read for holistic healing.
Review: The book provides an opportunity for the reader to explore and understand how choices a person makes can influence their health. Ms. Myss provides some of the necessary information to understand how your thoughts and behaviors can result in malfunctioning or ill directed energy. She then gives information on possible ways to redirect your bodies natural energy, so you can begin the process of healing. It is must read for any person involved in the teaching of how to help others heal or continue on the path to ultimate health.

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Summary: A journey into healing your life, health,spirit & your mind.
Review: Ph.D. Caroline Myss doesn't only have the uncanny ability to intuitively see illness and it's origins but the skill to pass on her wisdom to readers. She will inspire alternative ways of thinking that will promote changes in you, your health, as well as your inner and outer world. Her excellent examples of healing and failing to make that choice will inspire you. She will educate you into the concept of chakras and energy in a way that grounds them in sensible and understanding manner. The most secure part of her message is that it is for you. She is intelligent, inspirational and sincere. Caroline Myss can change your life if you choose to read her fascinating work with an open mind and practice what you learn

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Summary: The clearest exposition of spiritual energy distribution!
Review: Anatomy of the Spirit is the ONLY book I have seen that truly ties spirit, mind, and body together. It explains, in rational terms, how we receive spiritual energy, how that energy supports our body, and how we suffer physical illness when our mind dissapates that energy through needless worry. As a text for learning the specifics of spiritual energy distribution, this book is superb. In diagrams, charts, and straight-forward discussions, Myss changes vague ideas about energy flow into specifics, complete with examples. Her descriptions of the consequences of energy mismanagement leave no room for misinterpretation. The benefits of calling back our negative energy losses are crystal clear, thanks to her insightful presentation. For anyone serious about learning how to use their spiritual energy this is the text to study.

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Summary: The physical is only but a glimpse of a much bigger picture.
Review: Anatomy of the Spirit is the missing link between the physical plane and the higher levels. People have often wondered why people afflicted with the same physical health problems, where treated the same and the outcome was so different. Finally holistic care has come of age and it is books like this that show exactly where these connections are and how they can be addressed. A joyful thanks to Dr. Myss for showing us that addressing the non tangible part of our being we can heal the tangible or physical body

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Summary: Life-changing
Review: Caroline Myss has woven together the mind, body, spirit paradigm in such a clear and careful way that you find yourself thinking "I get it. I can do that" instead of "huh, I guess I am meant to meditate on that" as so frequently happens with text dealing with seemingly esoteric topics

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Summary: A must read for the sick, sick at heart and spiritual seekers.
Review: Myss weaves an elegant tapestry representing health and power using the ancient threads of Christian sacraments, the ten Judaic Sefirot, and the seven Vedic chakras, with accents from Buddhism and Jungian archetypal psychology. The three wisdom traditions are so deftly blended that the result seems, in the words of my first calculus teacher, "intuitively obvious." Myss calmly encourages victims of wars, incest, financial reversals or any common or bizarre trauma to stop talking "woundology." Instead, she encourages all of us to plug into beliefs and activities that strengthen and free us. She synthesizes seven univeral truths, requiring ten skills or character traits: spirituality,wisdom, understanding, mercy, judgment, beauty, majesty,endurance,stability, and creativity. Consummate storytelling with a wise,detached sense of humor and wonder draw the reader closer and closer to her message. This is a must read for spiritual seekers, the self-help set, and the sick at heart. Those who have chronic or acute illnesses will appreciate how she connects chakra (spiritual development) issues with body organs, emotional issues and physiological dysfunctions. Those who think they've heard it all, still need to read and wonder. The open mind has more to offer than we've ever dreamed. (6 diagrams, selected bibliography, index.)

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Summary: Listen and take what you can
Review: Not very good at all. The whole lecture comes from a christian standpoint. Caroline searches for the basic truths that all older folk-based religions possess, but realizes the christian "religion" does not have these truths. Then she begins to relate the sacraments to the chakras, saying that the truths are hidden. This may be so, but through the finding of these truths she reccomends things like praying to god for help, admitting that your anger is your own fear and asking god to help you. I find this very weak, as I do the whole christian religion. It seems the "new age" thinkers are still trying to twist christianity into the spiritually uplifting religion that every other religion is. Its funny that it has never been taught by nuns or priests the way it is being "interpretted" now.
I don't advocate asking for help from god when things go wrong. I don't believe getting angry with someone shows that I am somehow afraid of something within me-and therefore must submit to god. The church and their bible do not advocate finding your own way through the path of spirituality yet the new age idea of christianity twists it to say it does. Just drop your bible and the whole christian influence as a whole and learn from your blood. A religion that never came from it's own people, but was forced upon them can NEVER lead us to a path of spirituality no matter what you "interpret" it to be.