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Title: Essential Spirituality : The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind by Roger Walsh ISBN: 0-471-39216-2 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 21 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Spirituality
Comment: Essential Spirituality is a book that integrates across all major religions and is consistent with recent developments in cognitive psychology. The basic challenge of humanity is to find the ties that bind us together so we don't seek to blow each other apart.
Far too often institutions ranging from religions, governments, down to athletic teams, have the opposite effect. In short, this book provides a much needed antidote to devisive spiritual competition, is one of the few spiritual books that integrates us back into the real world, and serves as a reference for internal choices and practices.
Rating: 5
Summary: Changed My Life
Comment: After reading this book I changed many of my personal spiritual practices and have enrichened my life. I bought five additional copies of this book to share with fellow seekers. Dr. Walsh writes in a simple, straightforward manner that "eschews obfuscation". The exercises are easy to follow and have been helpful for my growth. I feel the book speaks to people of any religious background and is understandable to anyone from high school and above.
Rating: 2
Summary: My two cents
Comment: You really can't write a book about all the "great" wisdom traditions without making any mention of shamanism, traditional african spirituality, or any form of nature-centered practice.
This book seemed overwhelmingly Buddhist, to me. Practices focused on curbing attachments and developing "right speech and right action." Other religions were mentioned, but only so far as they agreed with Buddhism. I was hoping for a good, ballanced book on Spiritual practice, and this book disappointed me. Many of the practices within are useful, and very helpful, but Walsh coats everything with a simplistic, overly-optimistic fluffiness that makes everything sound easy. (except for the three practices which he admits are actually hard, all of which are Buddhist) There's nothing easy about exploring fear, confronting anger, or forgiving oneself. If Walsh had spoken to this, his book would have been more compassionate, more real. I might have been more open to it. As it is, I found it remarkably uninspiring.
Two stars for the effort, Roger. I will insert a disclaimer, here. If I were to write a book like this, it would probably be biased toward my own tradition (wicca), without me even realizing it. And I'm sure that some jerk would write a nasty review about me on amazon.com.
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Title: The Life We Are Given: A Long-Term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul (Inner Work Book) by George Leonard, Michael Murphy ISBN: 0874777925 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: A Theory of Everything : An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by Ken Wilber ISBN: 1570628556 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: What Really Matters : Searching for Wisdom in America by Tony Schwartz ISBN: 0553374923 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Integral Psychology : Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy by Ken Wilber ISBN: 1570625549 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 16 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: In over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life by Robert Kegan ISBN: 0674445880 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.65 |
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