Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 366 pages
- Published by: For Dummies
- Edition: 2nd Edition January 22, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0470191422
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470191422
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Spirituality for Dummies (Paperback)
If you go in for Neale Donald Walsch and Deepak Chopra, this will be up your alley. The author assumes that her audience is in need only of affirmation, no matter what spiritual traditions have to be butchered to deliver it. As long as it feels good, nevermind what is actually true. Well, I can't take it. I had written a long critical review, but it comes down to this: this book is generally trite and superficial. To be fair, it isn't all bad, but why lay down 22 American dollars for it when there are much, much better books waiting unread to enrich you? Let me give some recommendations of good books about spirituality that won't numb your brain: 1. David Cortesi's "Secular Wholeness" 2. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Taoism" 3. Olivier Clement's "The Roots of Christian Mysticism" 4. Stephen Huyler's "Meeting God: The Elements of Hindu Devotion" 5. Ursula Goodenough's "The Sacred Depths of Nature" 6. Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" 7. Sharon Salzberg's "Lovingkindness" 8. James Thornton's "Field Guide to the Soul" Something there will warm your heart, or turn your world upside down. It comes with a CD, which was fair. But again there's great music out there: Washington Phillips, The Golden Gate Quartet, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Vas, Alabama Sacred Harp, Mary Youngblood, Byzantine chant, Russian Orthodox chant, Gregorian chant, or the Music of Islam series. More than the recordings that come with this book, I guarantee that something there will blow your boat off the dock. I hope this review enables people to find something more edifying and truthful than they would've found otherwise.
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