Gifts from Eykis

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Summary: Pablum
Review: Everyone should read this book? Please. Tonight I happened to be in my local B&N when Dyer was doing a talk/signing, and he spent five minutes reciting a bunch of unoriginal, feel-good, psycho-babble (...) that I remembered having recieved as unsolicited email weeks ago. The guy publishes SPAM. Your high school teacher was an idiot. You want a worthwhile book about how to live (without all the new age hooey), try the Dhammapada.

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Summary: Parable Form Does Not Suit Dr. Dyer
Review: I have read and enjoyed virtually of all of Wayne's major works. However, I feel compelled to give this book a 1-star review. Why? Because Wayne simply does not write well in this format. Compared to Masterpieces like "The Prophet", "Gifts from Eykis" is a joke.

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Summary: Parable Form Does Not Suit Dr. Dyer
Review: I have read and enjoyed virtually of all of Wayne's major works. However, I feel compelled to give this book a 1-star review. Why? Because Wayne simply does not write well in this format. Compared to Masterpieces like "The Prophet", "Gifts from Eykis" is a joke.

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Summary: Common Sense, un-commonly presented
Review: I read "gifts" quite some time ago now and have given away my last copy. Lessons from it still become active in my day to day routine, however. When I hear someone refer to anxiety attacks I immediately think of Eykis' reports on, "Anxiety gathering to the North of the city, preparing to attack at . . ." Which is not to say that these experiences are not 'real' to the people so afflicted but Mr. Dyer puts them in a perspective which shows that they can be overcome. The best part of the book for me was the last couple of chapters where Eykis shares what she learned during her time on Earth. The simple maxim, "Live and let live," grow your own garden and let your neighbor grow his with whatever he chooses to put in it, would serve world leaders well to heed. As with "Eroneous Zones" and "Pulling Your Own Strings," Wayne has said it again in a no nonsense, common sense vein that, "If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting."

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Summary: Common Sense, un-commonly presented
Review: I read "gifts" quite some time ago now and have given away my last copy. Lessons from it still become active in my day to day routine, however. When I hear someone refer to anxiety attacks I immediately think of Eykis' reports on, "Anxiety gathering to the North of the city, preparing to attack at . . ." Which is not to say that these experiences are not 'real' to the people so afflicted but Mr. Dyer puts them in a perspective which shows that they can be overcome. The best part of the book for me was the last couple of chapters where Eykis shares what she learned during her time on Earth. The simple maxim, "Live and let live," grow your own garden and let your neighbor grow his with whatever he chooses to put in it, would serve world leaders well to heed. As with "Eroneous Zones" and "Pulling Your Own Strings," Wayne has said it again in a no nonsense, common sense vein that, "If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting."

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Summary: A true gift from Dr. Dyer to the World
Review: It is perhaps one of the best books ever written. If only more people read, understand and apply the beautiful lessons offered in the book. Dr. Wayne Dyer is a gift to the world!

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Summary: Should be required reading in all high schools
Review: My junior year English teacher was brilliant -- he made us read this book and write a number of essays on the topics it covered. I have never looked at the world the same way again. This book presents all the big topics: education, parenting, government, business, religion, ethics... and shows you a new way to look at them. Or rather, it shows you what is wrong with the way society deals with these issues in today's world. Wayne Dyer uses the novel format to get his message across. And it works. Unlike his other books, this is not your everyday self-help book -- it is more of a large-scale self-help book for the world. He uses Eykis, an inhabitant of the planet Uranus, as the main character, who, as an outsider, has the necessary objectivity and amazing clarity of vision to see what's wrong with this world and how to fix it. This is a must read. I firmly believe that our society would improve for the better if this book became required reading for all high school kids. This book should not only be read, it should be applied to real life.

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Summary: His best book!
Review: Obviously DT did NOT read the book. Its insights are astonishing....his best work....Dyer should pen a return visit from Eykis....or at least a 're-release'. The world needs it now.

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Summary: Should be prequisite reading for all parents and children.
Review: This is one book I purchase to give away. It is brilliant. If everyone in the world would read this book and practice the principles, the world would be at peace and all would be happy. Crime would be nonexistent. This book awakens a whole new way of thinking. An unprecidented way of reverse thinking makes this book one epiphany after another until you say, why can't this be? This makes so much more sense that the way we think now. Buy it, read it, and give it away for someone else to read. One of the best books I have ever read! Five stars!!!!