An overlong, incoherent self-help work.
Debut author Haber’s spiritual discourse suggests positive thinking as a remedy for the world’s degradation.
In this book, the author aims to address why there’s so much evil in the world and what can be done about it. Many of her ideas, she says, are taken from a collection of spiritual books that contain “messages brought forth by a Spirit named Joseph through a medium.” According to Joseph, she says, the human race existed as angels, deeply connected to God, but eventually, the offspring of these angelic beings manipulated energy fields and vibrations, changing the Earth’s molecular structure and “plunging this world into darkness.” The solution to our predicament, the author repeatedly states, is positive thinking: “Believe in a peaceful, harmonious world….Our thoughts can and will manipulate vibrations….Let’s alter the current energy...by infusing it with positive light.” The book also covers other topics, such as why “the world is aching,” due to pesticides, pollution, and other factors; why “spirituality,” as Haber defines it, is superior to religiosity; and how physical ailments can be cured by spiritual means, including spiritual “surgery” that the author claims can expel tumors. Haber discourages materialism, fear, hatred, and doubt while advocating meditation, unity, forgiveness, compassion, and gratitude. Throughout the book, the author holds fast to her unorthodox views, and her unapologetic tone may pique the interest of readers. However, her book appears to be aimed squarely at the like-minded, ignoring those readers who may have different perspectives. Often, the writing traffics in hollow clichés (“Change starts with you, and me”), overlong paragraphs, and abstract, convoluted phrases that are difficult to comprehend (“Creation is being described as a process of individuation through division and multiplication within itself”). The book’s stance on positive thinking, meanwhile, is superficial and vague, and it doesn’t give readers enough solid advice to put it to effective use.
An overlong, incoherent self-help work.Pub Date: Oct. 19, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9994947-0-7
Page Count: 298
Publisher: DreamWorks Publishing
Review Posted Online: Nov. 2, 2020
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
BOOK REVIEW
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
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
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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