An intriguing blend of reincarnation and the quantum multiverse well-aimed at empowering the spiritual seeker.
A detailed lesson plan for tapping into “the divinity that is already inside of you.”
Kelley’s (Healing Through Past Life Regression...and Beyond, 2012) latest book opens with a foreword by best-selling author and motivational speaker Wayne Dyer attesting to Kelley’s experiences with past-life regression, a semihypnotic state in which a participant feels connected to previous incarnations of his or her soul or essence throughout time. Fans of such past-life regression books as Brian Weiss’s Many Lives, Many Masters (1988) will find much that’s familiar in Kelley’s book, in which she asserts her belief that it’s possible “to heal your present by working with your past.” She offers readers a 10-chapter series of revelations that she’s learned through her own experiences recalling her past lives. For newcomers to the concept, she begins by defining her terms—the soul, or spiritual essence, of each person; the vaguely godlike “Oversoul” from which all those souls originate; and so forth—before getting down to specific cases, often highlighted by the experiences of clients she’s worked with in her own past-life regression business. But Kelley broadens the more traditional narrative of past-life exploration by taking a page from the playbook of quantum physics and adding parallel lives belonging to an infinite variety of alternate selves. “All of your present experiences are drawn from what was once a possible reality,” she writes, and each person’s decisions cause their immediate realities to shift and realign with new possibilities. Much of this is couched in a comforting blend of quasi-Buddhist contemplativeness and quasi-Christian determinism in which bad things happen for a reason and even personal tragedies are part of an ultimately uplifting design. Everything, from life’s ordinary little disappointments to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is used in examples of how positive perceptions can rescue even the grimmest realities from pointlessness. The book’s utilitarian aims are emphasized by a series of exercises and Q-and-A’s designed to reinforce the main point that people can be masters of their own destinies.
An intriguing blend of reincarnation and the quantum multiverse well-aimed at empowering the spiritual seeker.Pub Date: July 29, 2014
ISBN: 978-1401946043
Page Count: 248
Publisher: Hay House
Review Posted Online: July 17, 2014
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.
A compendium of charts, time lines, lists and illustrations to accompany study of the Bible.
This visually appealing resource provides a wide array of illustrative and textually concise references, beginning with three sets of charts covering the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament and the New Testament. These charts cover such topics as biblical weights and measures, feasts and holidays and the 12 disciples. Most of the charts use a variety of illustrative techniques to convey lessons and provide visual interest. A worthwhile example is “How We Got the Bible,” which provides a time line of translation history, comparisons of canons among faiths and portraits of important figures in biblical translation, such as Jerome and John Wycliffe. The book then presents a section of maps, followed by diagrams to conceptualize such structures as Noah’s Ark and Solomon’s Temple. Finally, a section on Christianity, cults and other religions describes key aspects of history and doctrine for certain Christian sects and other faith traditions. Overall, the authors take a traditionalist, conservative approach. For instance, they list Moses as the author of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) without making mention of claims to the contrary. When comparing various Christian sects and world religions, the emphasis is on doctrine and orthodox theology. Some chapters, however, may not completely align with the needs of Catholic and Orthodox churches. But the authors’ leanings are muted enough and do not detract from the work’s usefulness. As a resource, it’s well organized, inviting and visually stimulating. Even the most seasoned reader will learn something while browsing.
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-5963-6022-8
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This a book of earlier, philosophical essays concerned with the essential "absurdity" of life and the concept that- to overcome the strong tendency to suicide in every thoughtful man-one must accept life on its own terms with its values of revolt, liberty and passion. A dreary thesis- derived from and distorting the beliefs of the founders of existentialism, Jaspers, Heldegger and Kierkegaard, etc., the point of view seems peculiarly outmoded. It is based on the experience of war and the resistance, liberally laced with Andre Gide's excessive intellectualism. The younger existentialists such as Sartre and Camus, with their gift for the terse novel or intense drama, seem to have omitted from their philosophy all the deep religiosity which permeates the work of the great existentialist thinkers. This contributes to a basic lack of vitality in themselves, in these essays, and ten years after the war Camus seems unaware that the life force has healed old wounds... Largely for avant garde aesthetes and his special coterie.
Pub Date: Sept. 26, 1955
ISBN: 0679733736
Page Count: 228
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Sept. 19, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1955
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