Affirmations

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Summary: May not be what you think
Review: Great reading.Opens your eyes and heart and mind. I'm actually not afraid to die. I'm happier then I could ever remember being. Will definetly be reading the other titles by Stuart Wilde!!

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Summary: May not be what you think
Review: I bought this book unseen with only the on-line recomendations expecting to learn about positive mental attitude via affirmations. I got stuck on Mr. Wilde's seemingly remorseless and perhaps even boastful background as a scam artist: in the first chapter he makes a big deal of being a tough guy in boarding school by selling protection to the other students, girlie magazines, and illicit cigarettes. From there he brags of staying in the U.S.A illegally while avoiding the INS. When he moves to California, he states the only games in town were being a guru or being in real estate. I gave up on the book after futher skimming it and coming across other information such as how Mr. Wilde moves objects with his mind. I could not get past Mr. Wilde as a person to read the rest of the book in any depth and relocated it to the trash.

I do, however, highly reccommend "You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought" if you are seeking a well written, serious, but funny book that teaches many of the important lessons on living a wonderful life. It's relatively inexpensive and available at Amazon.com.

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Summary: a spirited storyteller
Review: I love how Stuart Wilde tells about his extracurricular activities in boarding school like selling insurance against a masters paddling then paying off if the teacher paddles you anyway. Or also selling girlie magazines for extra money. I also like how Stuart Wilde made big money in the clothing business selling radical, alternative threads. I have read other books and tapes by Stuart Wilde and would recommend this one.

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Summary: A FIRM FOUNDATION
Review: This book is subtitled: How to expand your personal power and take back control of your life. And it does so mostly on the wilder side of metaphysics. The affirmations are printed in script and interspersed with the highly entertaining normal text - part autobiography, part good advice, part esoteric insights, all of it very uplifting. There are in-deph discussions of affirmations (the different types and how to use them) plus fascinating ideas on the life force and universal law. His descriptions of his astral travels "up the tube" still fascinate me and I love the Ayn Rand reference. Similar books that are equally engrossing: The Greatest Power In The Universe by U.S. Andersen and Cosmic Trigger Vol. I by Robert Anton Wilson.

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Summary: A FIRM FOUNDATION
Review: This book is subtitled: How to expand your personal power and take back control of your life. And it does so mostly on the wilder side of metaphysics. The affirmations are printed in script and interspersed with the highly entertaining normal text - part autobiography, part good advice, part esoteric insights, all of it very uplifting. There are in-deph discussions of affirmations (the different types and how to use them) plus fascinating ideas on the life force and universal law. His descriptions of his astral travels "up the tube" still fascinate me and I love the Ayn Rand reference. Similar books that are equally engrossing: The Greatest Power In The Universe by U.S. Andersen and Cosmic Trigger Vol. I by Robert Anton Wilson.

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Summary: Affirmations carried to the ultimate logical extreme
Review: Writing a 150 page book about affirmations would be a daunting task for most people. Even though the power of daily affirmations is well established as a means of freeing ones self from negative habits of thinking and is used with great success by groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, the process is usually relatively simple and straightforward. The process and techniques could easily be contained in a folded pamphlet.

Stuart Wilde expanded the entire concept of affirmations in this book. He carries it into a wide-ranging field of metaphysics, manipulation and, probably, magic. The concepts aren't new, but Wilde's approach is always interesting, pithy, usually helpful, and readable.

I have mixed feelings about Stuart Wilde, and similarly mixed feelings about this book. It's good, it's effective and it delivers what is offered on the cover. A means of taking back control of your life.

On the downside, I suppose I'd have preferred to see a stronger division between manipulative energy and merely self-improvement. The distinction is there inside the book, but I'd have liked to see it repeated a few more times.