One More Book Validates TM with Focus on Conciousness
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This is a most worthwhile book to read to reinforce the theory that God is in all things.  His description of consciousness is helpful for us to recognize we are all empowered to be good and love everyone. An easy read and one that should not be missed.
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This book is both useful and insightful in that it holds the fairly unique perspective that sufferers of "MPD" "do not have more than one personality; the so-called different personalities are fragmented components of a single personality..." Now that MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) has been re-classified as DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and various theorists, educations and experts in consciousness, from Dr. Fritz Perls (the creator of Gestalt Therapy) and Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone (the creators of Voice Dialogue), there are many, many more tools that will benefit the healing process of adult survivors of childhood sexual, ritual or priestly abuse. That said, a book such as this is a useful resource and guide, and may offer both insight and comfort, to those suffering from DID or to those who support them in a therapeutic or other healing setting. Additional books that are likely to be of value to the population experiencing issues of DID, or those who work with them, include:

<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Embracing-Ourselves-The-Voice-Dialogue-Manual/dp/1882591062/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Embracing Ourselves: The Voice Dialogue Manual</a>
<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/What-We-May-Be-Techniques-for-Psychological-and-Spiritual-Growth-Through-Psychosynthesis/dp/B0006E4XHG/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">What We May Be: Techniques for Psychological and Spiritual Growth Through Psychosynthesis</a>
<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Owning-Your-Own-Shadow-Understanding-the-Dark-Side-of-the-Psyche/dp/0062507540/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche</a>
<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Soul-Retrieval-Mending-the-Fragmented-Self/dp/0061227862/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self</a>
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Good reminders of how to communicate with honesty and integrity. It made me want to read his book Conscious Business.
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Purchased V2 and love it so far.  The publisher needs to add the contents of these compilations in the description.  Kessinger makes some great reprints and the hardcover was really nice quality.

Contents:

Reincarnation and the Law of Karma; New Psychology Its Message, Principles and Practice; Telepathy: Its Theory, Facts, and Proof; and Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life.
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You may well find things in this book you disagree with. I did.  But overall, it is a very usable roadmap to the workings of your mind and how you interface with the world, in fact, creating your own reality, in part consciously, and mostly unconsciously.  And that last is the crux I think that puts this head and shoulders above "law of attraction", "The Secret", "What the Bleep...", etc.  Dr. Surprise takes into account (though I would have preferred more emphasis on this) the fact that a great deal of how we shape our personal "reality" is driven by our unconscious or subconscious beliefs and desires.  You can do affirmations until the cows come home but if you are conflicted deep down about what you really want, that is what you will get.  The conflict and mixed messages you are sending is exactly what you will receive.  So deep personal work may well be required to sort things out.

After reading the book I find myself laughing as the synchronicity of my finding it when I did as so much of my personal explorations and thoughts of late have been around just the issues covered.
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Susan Dugan's latest book, Forgiveness: The Key to Happiness, is another 'must read' for students of A Course in Miracles (ACIM), and/or those who aspire to be, while recognizing their resistance to the happiness this profound yet practical metaphysical curriculum offers. In her third book about ACIM, Susan's writing continues to provide easy to enjoy  and relate to!  short essays that typically begin with personal anecdotes about every day challenges which inexorably lead back to the decision-making faculty in our mind that can 'choose peace instead of this.' With consistent humor, depth and breadth of insight combined with vivid storytelling, Susan uses examples from her waking dream world to help us generalize and see the way out of ego's quagmire by shifting our identity from selfish, special, separate interests to the soothing, unshakable comfort of the thought system of Unbroken Inclusion we all share; where our real happiness eternally awaits our mind's decision to let go of (as our shared mentor, Kenneth Wapnick, suggests) ego's 'maladaptive solution to a non-existent problem.' Each essay returns us to mindful revelation, release and replacement of these maladaptive thoughts by using her forgiveness classroom of specifics to return us to the tranquil, joyous Self as we join in her ego-undoing process, not as mere spectators, but co-participants, as these delightful stories resonate with similar episodes in our 'own' dream dramas. Like her prior two books, I enthusiastically recommend this one!

 Bruce Rawles, author of The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation
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While there was nothing new in this book, what I liked about it is the way that Richardson organized and systemically addressed anxiety, depression, anger and fear without sounding clinical nor going all huggy huggy and  Kumbaya on the reader.  As one who believes in continuous self development I believe that if I take away just one new thing, perhaps a different perspective on something, then the time spent reading was well worth it.  My new perspective?  Affirmation, more than just a unicorn wish, rather a reprogramming of our subconscious, just like reprogramming a computer.  It's good!

Recommend the book. Sharpening the personal development saw.
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Reading the currently posted 75 reviews of Sogyal Rinpoche's "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" is an education in itself. Devotion, gratitude, and open-minded reading in the majority of the reviews are juxtaposed with ignorance, mis-information, and a desire to make points in other reviews. Thus is our human condition. There is a Tibetan saying, "When luck comes to the mouth, the tongue pushes it out." Let us see "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" for what it is: pure good fortune.

Sogyal Rinpoche wrote this book desiring to benefit beings and to do nothing less than to revolutionize "the whole way we look at death and care for the dying, and the whole way we look at life and care for the living." He is succeeding.

His book launched that revolution and through his organization, Rigpa, he founded a Spiritual Care Program to put a human face to his revolution. Each of us who reads "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" has the opportunity to participate as spiritual warriors and practice our own revolution in the deaths that come into our lives.

I re-read his book after the death of my sister in a car accident in 2004. I re-read his book again this spring after the death of my 90-year old mother. As I keep re-reading it, I come closer to being ready for my own death, whenever it may come.

  --Janet Grace Riehl, author&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Sightlines-A-Poet-s-Diary/dp/0595374999/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Sightlines: A Poet's Diary</a>
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An updated version of the former "The Teachings of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu" (from "The Mirror" magazine, based on lectures from 1993-7) re-ordered, edited, & end-noted, it briefly describes Yogacharya; Shine, Sutra vs. Tantra, modern vs. ancient Bon, Yantra Yoga, bodhichitta, Mahamudra etc.  Per many other Tibetan works, it's a union of legend/myth & reality/practicality--traditional hagiography, metaphors, & assumptions are mixed with high teachings, practices, & views.  One needs discriminating wisdom IMHO to separate wheat from chaff.  Per Blanchard's "Situational Leadership" there are task skills (specific to a situation or, in this case, culture) & transportable skills (archetypal truths that cut across situations/cultures).  IMHO one needs to detach from the former to pursue the latter.  However, despite traditional biases, Norbu R. provides extensive wisdom & courageous insight: p. 86: "The various Tantric deities are personified forms of different functions of our own energy, pp. 89-90: "A serious teacher of Dzogchen must understand the experience of a particular student, & then be able to suggest practices according to the way in which that individual is developing, not just give practices according to a set formula regardless of the character, capacity, & progress of each student...When you enter the practice & become a good practitioner, the teacher is found within you," & that Tantra did not come from the physical (Nirmanakaya) Gautama Buddha but from his Samboghakaya.  Overall, there are good teachings in this short book, but it is debatable if it's worth the price for a new copy.  It's not IMHO up to the level of Norbu R.'s 9 other works I've read, esp. "The Cycle of Day and Night, "The Mirror, & "Supreme Source."
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Marc  Singer's work is a calm and thoughtful approach to developing our ability to self-reflect: to grow beyond the confines of emotion and illusion to a true understanding of who we are really are. I appreciate the author's rejecting easy answers, yet his guiding readers in each page to take one step at a time toward personal growth.
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I have read and enjoyed previous work of Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, The Four Agreements Companion Book, and The Mastery of Love. This last book I've probably liked better than the other ones. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because it's a lesser known book or that it was a bit less mystical than the other ones.

In any event, I found The Voice of Knowledge to be a very insightful piece of work. It was easy to read and had a section titled, "Points to Ponder" which helped summarize the major points in each chapter. I also bought the The Voice of Knowledge Card Deck which has all of the major points contained in 48 beautifully illustrated cards. Some examples included:  The truth is perceived with our feelings, All of the drama humans suffer is the result of believing in lies, mainly about ourselves, and Heaven is here, but we need to have the eyes to perceive it.

Ruiz's work is vital to my deeper understanding of human behavior. It is important to me as a relationship/personal development author to give really good advice in terms of awareness, skills, and strategies. And this the, The Voice of Knowledge, helps to keep me on track so that I can be of better service to those who trust in me for sound advice in their dating, love, relationship, and communication areas of their lives.

This is a highly recommended book for those with a higher awareness and seeking deeper understanding of the invisible forces in our lives.
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This book is a jewel, in the context of publications about meditation and mind-training. While recognizing the ways in which our chronic distractability diminishes the quality of our attention, of emotion regulation, well-being and health, this book offers a clear path for overcoming these limitations. It offers a path with practices and milestones, in the sense of nine stages, that can support our focusing, refining and deepening of attention. The practices are based in Tibetan Buddhism; yet, these forms of mind-training can be described and applied in universal terms. Next to the attention practices, Four Qualities of the Heart are addressed (loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity). Both groups of approaches complement each other. The book offers the reader many examples of guided meditations, the style is accessible, and there are notes and references for those who seek a deeper immersion in these themes. Anyone, at whatever level of absent-mindedness or attention precision will find inspiration in this enriching publication.
By Adeline van Waning MD PhD, author of&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Less-Dust-the-More-Trust-Participating-In-The-Shamatha-Project-Meditation-And-Science/dp/1780999488/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Less Dust the More Trust: Participating In The Shamatha Project, Meditation And Science</a>
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This is an excellent book.  It's the second one of his I've read.  The chapters are very short; they are rather like blog posts.  I suggest reading just one a day.  The basic ideas are not new.  For example, introspection does not reveal "a permanent, independent, enduring self" because it's actually "being constructed and deconstructed continually, moment by moment."  The fundamental thesis, too, is simple:  "What is required is nothing special, simply that we start paying attention and wake up . . . All else will follow."  If you are interested in deepening your enjoyment of the impersonal mystery of awareness, you'll relish this long book.
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I love this book. I feel that the content is very similar to "Quantum sucess" by Sandra Ann taylor. I love both of them. This book provides a lot of evidences and success stories of properous thinking. Mostly it also provides the practical exercises that help you transform your thinking to be properous. As same as other books, it gives you a lot of idea of nice affirmation. But what I like the most about the affirmation in this book is all of them sound like prayers and remind me a lot about God-self in me.

I am a new age practitioner. This is another book we can use as a guideline to live life prosperously. :)
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When I saw advertised on Amazon The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too) I said yes, send it along.  Im guessing that like me, many readers would like to know how to make life better!  Will Gretchen Rubin, our author, deliver on her promise?  For some people,  yes.  They will see themselves and others well described in this book and think about things they might do to be more effective in accomplishing their goals and objectives at home and at work.

Gretchen begins her book with a test we need to take to identify our most important Tendency: Upholder, Obliger, Rebel, and Questioner.  Gretchen tells us: You are the best judge of yourself.  If you believe that a different Tendency describes you better, trust yourself.  I took the test and the results told me that I am a Questioner.  This result is  accurate, but like the good questioner that I am, I question the validity of Gretchens test.  Is it reliable, valid, independent, and comprehensive?  The answer is no.  We need to do just what Gretchen says; that is, look at the descriptions of each Tendency and decide for ourselves what Tendency describes us best.

Does the fact that her test is not valid mean that Gretchens book is useless?  Not at all.  Many readers are going to enjoy Gretchens relaxed and breezy style of writing as she talks about our Tendencies and how they affect our interactions with people at home and at work.  Her book is often a fun read.  Her book may not qualify as science, but her observations about people are often valid.  She says about me that I put a high value on reason, research, and information.  Absolutely!  Also, she tells me that I make decisions based on information and reason.  Right again.  She goes on to say that as a Questioner I hate anything arbitrary.  Well, hate is too strong a word, but by and large she is correct.  Gretchen described me well and I  think many other people who read her book are going to agree that one of her Tendencies is going to accurately describe the way they behave with people at home and at work.

Most self-help books and self-help tests don't qualify as science.  Even a famous test like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has received much criticism from scientists.  That criticism does not stop more than 2.5 million people from taking this test every year.  We should be guided by science, but not ruled by it, at least in my opinion.  Remember, as a Questioner I even question some of the results science gives us, particularly when these results come from our doctors.  My doctor tells me that science tells him that taking supplements like glucosamine for knee pain is useless.  I question his findings; my glucosamine supplement definitely helps my knees.  My doctor tells me it is all in my head.  I tell him my head is not a bad place to start if my head helps relieve the pain in my knees.

Gretchens test for the four Tendencies may not be valid according to strict scientific standards, but much of her advice and counsel is valid, at least for me.  Additionally, Gretchen invites readers to participate in her blogs and web site.  She wants to open up communication with as many readers as are interested in communicating with her and other like-minded people.  Her book will provide all the particulars readers need to hook up with her.
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I like the affirmations that you can hyper learn.  And this book identifies a few key systems that make hyper-learning more manageable and effective.  Good job Tim.  Keep it up.
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Marcus Buckingham's latest book, The Truth About You, is a well-packaged look at discerning a reader's strengths and weaknesses while trying to move the reader to live a life that provides more time for the former and requires less of the latter.

Buckingham encourages the reader to work to identify his strengths and then incorporate those strengths (not necessarily things the reader is good at but things he enjoys doing) more into his everyday life. The book comes packaged with a DVD that is essentially a Cliff's Notes for the book and a steno pad colorfully labeled "rememo," which the reader uses to write down strengths and weaknesses as they happen.

The essential goal of all of this is to fill the reader's life with more time for fulfilling and rewarding work. Buckingham acknowledges that there are risks involved, but he believes that, at some point, the risks for not following our strengths outweighs the potential pitfalls of trying to become the people we are meant to be. The book is well put together, and it provides an enjoyable and concise read. It should appeal to anyone who finds himself in the wrong job or on the wrong career path. Buckingham's essential conceit is that you know yourself better than anyone who might give advice around you. You know you. And now, or so Buckingham hopes, you know the truth about you.