A deeply personal, persuasive account of discovering hidden spiritual and mental potential, though not for the uninitiated.
A guide to getting in touch with the astral self and navigating out-of-body experiences with an autobiographical, Christian focus.
Describing himself as an “out-of-body traveler and explorer,” Hunt’s debut work details the distinctions between the physical world and “one governed by our thoughts and subject to our beliefs and emotions.” The book comprises four sections, beginning with a comprehensive rundown of the attributes of the spiritual self and its capabilities, supported by a brief background of scholarship surrounding out-of-body experiences and some of the author’s personal experiences with the phenomenon. The book then explores the unique abilities of the astral body, including communicating with the divine, relating to others more deeply, bringing about changes in the physical realm (particularly relating to weather and illness), exploring past lives, and even summoning visions of the past and future. From there, the focus shifts to an examination of the hostile forces that the author believes are working against humanity’s spiritual growth, among them the ghosts, demons, and extraterrestrials, which the power of God reveals to be nefarious illusions of mankind. The book includes various approaches to bringing together the physical and metaphysical selves, establishing links between the astral self and Scripture, and outlining concrete approaches to “inducing a trance state, where the physical body is asleep and the mind is awake”). Largely drawn from personal experience, Hunt’s book will appeal to readers interested in exploring the intersections of New-Age spirituality and Christianity and is bolstered by an enthusiastic, descriptive writing style (“In that love, I sensed a presence, another being, another entity; this presence had entered along with the rush of love that now infused my consciousness, as though my consciousness was a house, my home, and I was now entertaining an unexpected visitor”). The second half of the book feels somewhat underdeveloped; these sections are noticeably shorter. Even so, the numerous and intricately detailed accounts of astral exploration and past-life experiences (transcending race, gender, and historical period) are sure to engage those with a comprehensive base of prior knowledge on the subject, though they may prove a bit too otherworldly for some.
A deeply personal, persuasive account of discovering hidden spiritual and mental potential, though not for the uninitiated.Pub Date: N/A
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Publisher: Dog Ear Publisher
Review Posted Online: Jan. 12, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
Well-told and admonitory.
Young-rags-to-mature-riches memoir by broker and motivational speaker Gardner.
Born and raised in the Milwaukee ghetto, the author pulled himself up from considerable disadvantage. He was fatherless, and his adored mother wasn’t always around; once, as a child, he spied her at a family funeral accompanied by a prison guard. When beautiful, evanescent Moms was there, Chris also had to deal with Freddie “I ain’t your goddamn daddy!” Triplett, one of the meanest stepfathers in recent literature. Chris did “the dozens” with the homies, boosted a bit and in the course of youthful adventure was raped. His heroes were Miles Davis, James Brown and Muhammad Ali. Meanwhile, at the behest of Moms, he developed a fondness for reading. He joined the Navy and became a medic (preparing badass Marines for proctology), and a proficient lab technician. Moving up in San Francisco, married and then divorced, he sold medical supplies. He was recruited as a trainee at Dean Witter just around the time he became a homeless single father. All his belongings in a shopping cart, Gardner sometimes slept with his young son at the office (apparently undiscovered by the night cleaning crew). The two also frequently bedded down in a public restroom. After Gardner’s talents were finally appreciated by the firm of Bear Stearns, his American Dream became real. He got the cool duds, hot car and fine ladies so coveted from afar back in the day. He even had a meeting with Nelson Mandela. Through it all, he remained a prideful parent. His own no-daddy blues are gone now.
Well-told and admonitory.Pub Date: June 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-06-074486-3
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Amistad/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2006
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