Soul Psychology : How to Clear Negative Emotions and Spiritualize Your Life

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Summary: When the student is ready, the teacher appears!
Review: As I read the first chapter, I remember thinking, 'oh lord, not another psychological mumbo jumbo book.' However, I decided to be open-minded and continue reading. Thank God for open-mindedness or I might have not tossed aside a book that, in my humble opinion, delievers an all encompassing view of what we will need to know about ourselves and how we can achieve much needed balance as we travel our spiritual path. The author begins with a simple overview of his interpretation of soul psychology, which is where I almost detoured off this path and put the book aside. In this first chapter, you may feel as though your are about to undergo another hideous variation of one person's answer in the never ending field of self-help. Fear not! This book will enlighten you and give you many tools to clearing the negative ego. A few chapters will seem very self-help oriented but don't let that scare you. These tools provided are excellent for healing emotions and working through the negative emotions that keeps coming up in your life. These tools can be of great assistance in situations where you keep repeating the same or similar behavioral patterns, emotions and reaction, as if you are caught in some sort of cosmic feedback loop. While the author doesn't describe these experiences the way I have and simply provides the tools, I have found that these tools offer an opportunity to rise above these pattern or step outside the loop. This is a major component in becoming more spiritual, for how can one be more spiritual when he/she consistently reacts/responds to situations with negative emotions such as fear, anger, powerlessness, frustration, indecisiveness, judgementalnes etc. The tools provided are helpful to rising above these conditioned reactions.

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Summary: Surprising erudite and without guile
Review: Frankly, a few years ago I browsed through one of Dr. Stone's books in a metaphysical bookstore. That particular book was about New Age Spiritual Ascension techniques, which left me cold as being just another fanciful dogma to compete with traditional religious dogmas in late 20th century America. Instead of the Christian "royal family" (God the Father, Jesus, Mary and that distant Uncle the Holy Spirit) this genre relied on personification of the divine in terms of great Ascended Masters who speak to Joshua. I was scandalized by this. Yet, recently I was drawn to Soul Psychology, and have been very impressed with its down-to-earth yet inspiring qualities. This is NOT your standard New Age fluff filled with pious platitudes and far out generalizations. Instead, this is a practical working guide to help aid the reader in working on release from the negative programming (of church, family, school, society, etc.) that Joshua characterizes as the "negative ego". How many adults cannot relate to the desire to reprogram their operating system to varied degree, to draw closer to the spiritual, and to what truly matters in life? I would suggest that if someone does not recognize their own "negative ego" (which is inherent to some degree in all of us) then that person might actually be speaking from (albeit immersed within) that negative ego. The differentiation between this negative ego (that mental voice that puts us down or puts others down...) and the ego aspects that allow us to drive a car is quite obvious the moment anyone reads past page 1. This is a sincere and kindly book. I recommend it wholeheartedly. Indeed, perhaps I'll give those Ascended Masters a spin around the book via one of Dr. Stone's Ascension series books. Who knows? They just might be friends of Seth (reference to a negative reviewer's reference to Jane Roberts).

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Summary: Excellent book for spiritual growth
Review: Hello everyone,

Soul psychology by Dr Joshua is one the best books I can recommend to anyone who is interested in developing their consciousness.Consciousness is everthing in life.Your thoughts create reality.You and your thoughts are different.If you keep your self open you will know yourself.This books gives all the practical application as to how to develop your three fold flame of personal power , self love and self worth.The book helps to develop excellent self image.It also helps you to reprogram your subconscious mind.It will be balance your right and left brain,masculine and feminie energies.The book has excellent tools to remove negative implants and clear our energy fields.I highly recommend this book , it will be a great asset whatever level you are in your spiritual path.
Much love
Vetri

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Summary: A truly life-enhancing book
Review: I hate to dispute the opinion of another, but I wonder if our friend below has actually read any of this book other than the blurb? Judging by his comments, I have to say I very much doubt it. 'Soul Psychology' is an extraordinary book that takes a look at psychology within the context of the mind and soul as opposed to just the mind and personality. The result is an inspiring, life-enhancing book, packed with various tools and techniques that are easy to use and extremely effective in dealing with negative emotions and mindsets and reprogramming the subconscious mind (I can vouch for their effectiveness!). Words cannot describe how empowering and invaluable this book has been. Simply put, it's a classic, visionary and pioneering work - I highly recommend it!

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Summary: Bound to be a Classic!
Review: I never thought I would gain so much insight, understanding and practical guidance from a single book. Dr. Stone has put together a modern compilation of techniques and psychospiritual systems in an easy to understand format. I definitely recommend this book!

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Summary: Negative ego NOT ego, read the book!
Review: This presents a rather outmoded view of the ego as the enemy; rather than as a "mechanism"whereby consciousness is able to focus on the external senses and external reality (i.e the world). Accordingly, where consciousness also focuses on the internal senses and reality, and with the awareness of the multidimensional nature of reality and of the self - the ego is perceived as one (quite useful) aspect of consciousness. Damning the ego feeds the illusion of conflict at the very core of one's self. This illusion may feel true due to information primarily perceived and cognized via the external senses - but this is not the "fault" of the ego. For non-conflict based explorations of the psyche read Jane Roberts, J Krishnamurti, Ken Wilber, or search "multidimensionality". Regarding Sai Baba, the reader is referred to the Neural Surfer where Sai Baba, and other spiritual leaders, teachings and lives are explored and scrutinized.