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Title: The Awakening West: Conversations With Today's New Western Spiritual Leaders by Lynn Marie Lumiere, John Lumiere-Winns, John Lumiere-Wins ISBN: 1-59233-010-X Publisher: Fair Winds Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Uncritical rapture
Comment: What prevents me to appreciate this book is the servile base flattery which is penetrating all over the pages. Each and every teacher is praised by the authors in a complete uncritical way. This makes the interviews monotonous, and the portrayed persons somewhat unpleseant since everybody seems to accept this keen servility and praise. Furthermore: the authors's questions and remarks, printed in full lenght, which makes readings boring, give a "me too"-impression: "Me too, I've had deep insights, me too, I've already found wisdom, me too"...
I recommend the very honest and captivatingly written book by Paula Marvelly: partly the same teachers but a very different quality. After reading it gets clearer whom of the teachers one would like to listen to and whom not. This makes it far more interesting and helpful than "Awakening in the West": Easily available via the British Amazon site.
Rating: 2
Summary: Huge Disappointment
Comment: As someone who has been on a spiritual quest for a number of years now, I looked forward with great anticipation to this book hoping for new insights and practical wisdom from today's new western spiritual leaders. Unfortunately, I was to come away disappointed.
The Lumiere's book suffers from one major problem: it's boring. Little more than a litany of interviews with various spiritual gurus, it quickly took on a bland sameness that failed to either enlighten or educate; imagine locating twenty people who all share essentially the same outlook on life and then ask each the same dozen or so powder-puff questions and you get an idea of what I'm talking about. Had the Lumiere's been a bit more objective and even skeptical in their approach, it might have made for a more lively discussion. As it was, their obvious adulation for the people they interview ensures that nothing of great interest was ever likely to be said.
Not that the people being interviewed have much to offer by way of practical advice on pursuing one's spiritual quest in any case. They don't seem to live in any world I'm familiar with, and so their responses to the Lumeire's questions are more confusing and mind-numbing than helpful (obviously evidence of my own lack of spiritual maturity no doubt.) They remind me of krishnas at the airport who give out flowers and books to harried passengers: they're obviously happy in a distant sort of way, but incapable of translating that joy to the unwashed masses. In effect, they're too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good.
Additionally, I have no idea who any of these people are. Despite five years of reading on the subject of spirituality, I've never come across a single one of these folks, yet these are the new western spiritual leaders? Why no Deepak Chopra or Neale Donald Walsch or Gary Zukov or somebody someone might have heard of? I'm afraid that despite their best intentions, if these are America's spiritual leaders (who suspiciously seem to conglomerate in the San Francisco area) then spirituality in this country will remain something only for the fringes of society, much as it has for the last forty years.
And this is a shame, for the world is clamoring for spirituality and spiritual leaders to guide them. This book could have given them that, but instead it proved to be little more than another rehash of Buddhism. What a pity.
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Title: Dialogues With Emerging Spiritual Teachers by John W. Parker ISBN: 097036590X Publisher: Sagewood Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Passionate Presence: Experiencing the Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness by Catherine Ingram ISBN: 1592400027 Publisher: Gotham Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle ISBN: 157731400X Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Invitation to Awaken: Embracing Our Natural State of Presence by Tony Parsons ISBN: 187801921X Publisher: InnerDirections Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts From the Teachings of Adyashanti by Adyashanti ISBN: 0971703604 Publisher: Open Gate Sangha Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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