Saturday, 22. December 2007
Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary

Shakti Gawain is a pioneer in the field of personal development. For over twenty-five years, she has been a best-selling author and internationally renowned teacher of consciousness. The first book I read was 'Creative Visualization', followed by 'Living in the Light'.

This is an updated New Age classic and a good handbook for those starting their deeper spiritual journey. Well written and easy to understand.

Self-knowledge is vital to success in life and this book helps you begin to learn who you are, truly. Not who you think you are.

She explains our role as channels of energy, and our job is to allow this energy to flow freely through us into the world for positive change. She demonstrates how problems can result from blocking this flow, and shows how dissolving blockages through meditation and other methods can heal and empower us. The book is divided into background theory and practical application.

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Part One describes a set of principles, including:
  • A New Way of Life
  • The Higher Power Within Us
  • Intuition
  • Becoming a Creative Channel
  • Exploring Our Many Selves
  • The World As Our Mirror
  • Spirit And Form
  • The Male And Female Within, and Men And Woman
  • East And West: A New Challenge.


Part Two describes living the principles, including:
  • Trusting Intuition
  • Feelings
  • Balancing Being and Doing
  • Authoritarian and Rebel
  • Relationships
  • Our Children
  • Work and Play
  • Money
  • Heath
  • Your Perfect Body
  • Life and Death
  • Transforming Our World, and A Vision

Shakti's writing style provides a nice blend of ideas, personal experiences, meditations, and exercises. I especially like her call for acceptance and balance in dealing with seeming contradictions in our nature. Much of what she describes I can see in myself and in others. I recommend reading the book to see if there is something of value to you in 'Living in the Light'.

Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation
by Shakti Gawain
New World Library, 1998 (Revised Edition) | 224 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB
Category: Books & Magazines | New Age & New Religion |




Life on the Other Side: A Psychic’s Tour of the Afterlife

Perhaps the greatest question ever asked is "What happens after we die?" Every human being eventually deals with this question and ponders the mysterious answer. But, until it's our turn to travel to the Other Side, we can't know what we will find. Or can we?

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The entire first chapter details the life of world-famous psychic and New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne, also the lives of her ancestors as they relate to the spirit world. She goes into detail about HOW she knows what she knows. Sylvia writes, that through this book she is acting as our "psychic travel agent" answering the five basic questions, "How do I get there?", "What does it look like?", "What are the local (people) like?", "What is there to do?" and "How exactly do I get back". Things that most of us would be "dying" to know.

There's an awful lot of "facts" she provides for us to consider. She believes that "The Other Side" is Home, where we all came from and where we will all go again, and that we carry very real memories of it in our spirit minds.


Whether or not you end up believing what she writes, you can't help but come away with food for thought. Most interesting! It left me with a peaceful feeling about the hereafter.

Take a comprehensive "tour" of the afterlife, includes:

  • how spirit guides and angels "talk" to us daily
  • the truth about ghosts and hauntings
  • solving "unsolvable" missing persons cases
  • how psychic energy can keep people healthy and improve relationships
  • why we shouldn't fear aging and death
  • must-read predictions for the new millennium
  • and more


Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife by Sylvia Browne & Lindsay Harrison
Publisher: Signet, 2001 | 270 Pages | PDF | 1,1 MB


Links:
Official
Sylvia Browne official website
The Society Of Novus Spiritus - Browne's church
Sylvia Brown's Online Talk Show at HayHouseradio. Next show 'Mystical Travelers' on Sunday, December 23, 2007. Free registration required.

Critical
Stop Sylvia Browne - a site critical of Sylvia Browne
King of the Paranormal by Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
Sylvia Browne Clock by James Randi from James Randi Educational Foundation.
Her biggest opponent.

Transcripts
Official transcript: Are Psychics Real?, Larry King Live, September 3, 2001.
(Browne and James Randi)
Official transcript: Are Psychics for Real?, Larry King Live, March 6, 2001.
(Browne and John Edward)
Official transcript: Psychic Powers Debunked in Shawn Hornbeck Case, Anderson Cooper, January 19, 2007. (Browne's manager and Randi)
Official transcript: Psychic Psychic Reality Check, Anderson Cooper,
January 30, 2007. (Browne's manager and Randi)
Category: Books & Magazines | Incarnation & Death | People & Organisations |


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