Living in Process : Basic Truths for Living the Path of the Soul

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Summary: A very basic overview of the soul
Review: Anne Wilson Schaef presents her reflections on how to live a soulful existence. The ideas are sound and the voice engaging. Yet as an introduction to her "Living in Process" workshops, the book does not give any techniques to explore, so the outsider cannot gauge whether it is something to pursue further. Her viewpoint is very holistic, but does not stand out from a very crowded bookshelf. Read this as support for your own work, not as a guide to exercises to perform.

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Summary: A new way of seeing
Review: Living in Process is a deep jewelry box of ideas. Slowly, you must sort thru the anecdotes and stories to find glittering meaning. I found some other reviews of the book amusing, "where are the exercises?" other readers demand. This is a gentle book that invites you to change your world. Change your viewpoint. Open your mind. It invites you to change your entire view on how you live your life, not a chance to scurry through a set of exercises or mantras. I adored it. "You are what you read" I've heard. If you are a seeker on a path of enlightenment, I recommend this book as a companion.

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Summary: A new way of seeing
Review: Living in Process is a deep jewelry box of ideas. Slowly, you must sort thru the anecdotes and stories to find glittering meaning. I found some other reviews of the book amusing, "where are the exercises?" other readers demand. This is a gentle book that invites you to change your world. Change your viewpoint. Open your mind. It invites you to change your entire view on how you live your life, not a chance to scurry through a set of exercises or mantras. I adored it. "You are what you read" I've heard. If you are a seeker on a path of enlightenment, I recommend this book as a companion.

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Summary: New Age Revision
Review: Readers of this book consistently report to me that they find this book unintelligible. This is no surprize. The author gives us an endless array of jargon cobbled together in a way that obviously makes sense to her. To others better acquainted with her meanderings it is not only poorly written, but what is presented as fact is fiction, and what is fiction is frightful. One reader repeatedly copied and recopied a phraze from the book, over and over, as if by doing so she could make sense of it. Sadly enough, there was no sense to be found. But people are unreasonably trusting and that trust is egregiously exploited by anyone who promotes this book as something of quality and worth reading. It is unintelligible. When no longer looking for the sense in nonsense, it becomes humorous and pathetic.

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Summary: New Age Revision
Review: Readers of this book consistently report to me that they find this book unintelligible. This is no surprize. The author gives us an endless array of jargon cobbled together in a way that obviously makes sense to her. To others better acquainted with her meanderings it is not only poorly written, but what is presented as fact is fiction, and what is fiction is frightful. One reader repeatedly copied and recopied a phraze from the book, over and over, as if by doing so she could make sense of it. Sadly enough, there was no sense to be found. But people are unreasonably trusting and that trust is egregiously exploited by anyone who promotes this book as something of quality and worth reading. It is unintelligible. When no longer looking for the sense in nonsense, it becomes humorous and pathetic.

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Summary: Very Practical!!! If you understand her premise
Review: This book had improved my life. It had not changed the way other books had but this book does not try to do it all, but her premise is extremetly powerful. Yes, life is not static and that idea has very powerful consequences, and then you realize that it always was true and all she is saying is something that had always beein that way but now you see explicitly. The realization that Life is not static will bring your life to new heights. It did to me. I am more loving, less stressfull, more happy and feel a whole lot better after that simple realization. It is dificult at the begining but once you accept the difficult idea that life is not static then you become free!!! Great book. Not a one stop all, but a great and powerful simple idea. That simple idea has had very practical applications in my life.