A multi-denominational game plan for making dreams come true.
A mystical guide to creating the realities you want.
“No matter what name you call the Higher Power—God, Allah, Yahweh, Brahman, the Universe, the Almighty, or Source—it doesn’t change the truth of who YOU are,” writes Waugh at the opening of his book about the vibrational possibilities of the universe. “You are created in the image of that very power.” Building on this assertion, the author asserts that all people can achieve a “frequency” that will allow them to manifest their dreams in reality. When you expect more from yourself, he claims, your actions begin to conform to your expectations, and Waugh cites relevant passages from various texts to underscore his contention that all faiths share a basic understanding that the Divine responds to anything analogous to prayer. “You do not wait to become,” he writes; “you expect to become, and in doing so, you embody the prophecy.” His central argument is that through this connection with the nebulous Divine, believers can attune themselves to supernatural frequencies that will give them what they desire. “The deeper we look into neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics, the clearer it becomes: your thoughts are not just fleeting impulses. They are the first ingredients in your reality,” Waugh states. Drawing on writers like Joyce Meyer, Maya Angelou, and Iyanla Vanzant, Waugh takes readers through various strategies to increase the odds in their favor, advocating practices like meditation or journaling in addition to pondering those ancient writings. Long-time readers of this kind of mystical literature will find all of this very familiar, although they’ll likely appreciate Waugh’s candid phrasing and lively delivery. Those same readers will probably be buoyed by his contention that “You are not separate from the Divine … you are an extension of it.”
A multi-denominational game plan for making dreams come true.Pub Date: Sept. 10, 2025
ISBN: 9798999706904
Page Count: 500
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: Nov. 5, 2025
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
A conversational, pleasurable look into McConaughey’s life and thought.
All right, all right, all right: The affable, laconic actor delivers a combination of memoir and self-help book.
“This is an approach book,” writes McConaughey, adding that it contains “philosophies that can be objectively understood, and if you choose, subjectively adopted, by either changing your reality, or changing how you see it. This is a playbook, based on adventures in my life.” Some of those philosophies come in the form of apothegms: “When you can design your own weather, blow in the breeze”; “Simplify, focus, conserve to liberate.” Others come in the form of sometimes rambling stories that never take the shortest route from point A to point B, as when he recounts a dream-spurred, challenging visit to the Malian musician Ali Farka Touré, who offered a significant lesson in how disagreement can be expressed politely and without rancor. Fans of McConaughey will enjoy his memories—which line up squarely with other accounts in Melissa Maerz’s recent oral history, Alright, Alright, Alright—of his debut in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, to which he contributed not just that signature phrase, but also a kind of too-cool-for-school hipness that dissolves a bit upon realizing that he’s an older guy on the prowl for teenage girls. McConaughey’s prep to settle into the role of Wooderson involved inhabiting the mind of a dude who digs cars, rock ’n’ roll, and “chicks,” and he ran with it, reminding readers that the film originally had only three scripted scenes for his character. The lesson: “Do one thing well, then another. Once, then once more.” It’s clear that the author is a thoughtful man, even an intellectual of sorts, though without the earnestness of Ethan Hawke or James Franco. Though some of the sentiments are greeting card–ish, this book is entertaining and full of good lessons.
A conversational, pleasurable look into McConaughey’s life and thought.Pub Date: Oct. 20, 2020
ISBN: 978-0-593-13913-4
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Crown
Review Posted Online: Oct. 27, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2020
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