A short, clear exploration of the dimensions of awareness and an encouraging guide for readers seeking spiritual development.
A manual offers advice on how to reach new levels of enlightenment and peace.
Hershey (Thoughts to Consider with Love, 1992) delivers an easy-to-read spiritual book about consciousness and the movement to a higher dimension through chakras, meditation, and other practices that lead to awareness. She begins by addressing readers who need basic definitions of terms related to the field of energy and vibrations. She explains dimensions and frequency, focusing on helping readers comprehend the bridge from the third to the fourth dimension. The author notes that readers will understand the shift into the fourth dimension when their perceptions of past, present, and future start to blend. The fourth dimension is marked by presence and timelessness, a feeling of lightness without worry, anger, trepidation, or other negative emotions generated by thoughts of the past or fears of the future. The guide also explains chakras, noting that the fourth one, the heart chakra, is a place where individuals will find a sense of home and truth. She examines the other chakras and their roles in the movement between dimensions. One of the most captivating features of the book is the concise lists Hershey provides to delve into such concepts as the ego versus the soul: “The ego needs purpose—the soul does not need purpose. The ego tends toward fixation—the soul is fluid.” These comparisons are particularly useful for readers attempting to identify their own traps and patterns of thinking. Another intriguing topic is essence versus personality, which the author deftly illustrates through her narrative and descriptions. Employing personal stories and a strong, compelling voice, Hershey steers readers out of anxiety and into positive change. Overall, the manual is successful at taking complex subjects and making them accessible to readers.
A short, clear exploration of the dimensions of awareness and an encouraging guide for readers seeking spiritual development.Pub Date: Sept. 8, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9973138-0-2
Page Count: 134
Publisher: Joy Journey of You
Review Posted Online: Feb. 11, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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