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101 Ways to Avoid Reincarnation: Or, Getting It Right the First Time

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This author starts out through the forest of New Age philosophies by giving us a test! Yes, you're going to be tested on how you lived your life! That's what reincarnation is really all about. What grade are YOU going to get when you sign-out?

Hester Mundis is determined to teach us all that she knows. Believe me, Hester knows it all! From Astral Plane Reservations thru Karma, Karma, Karma Chameleons to Creative Visualizations for All Occasions to Holistic Housekeeping - that's one of my favorites!

From Entertaining Negatives and Other New Age Gaffes to Why Good things Happen to Bad People to We Are All Food to Utterly Divine Divinations to I Ching, You Ching, We All Ching to Atlantis on $5 a Day & so much more!

Remember, this is humor & Hester Mundis is quite serious about her humor! She's given us a healthy dose of hilarity, good for a 101 laughs at ourselves, our expectations & the crazy way we scurry around hoping to find heaven before we get there!

This is one funny book! The author does a real send-up of all that New Age stuff, so if you're a believer, this isn't the book for you. It's just plain good fun, with every page loaded with laugh outloud lines. I've read this book several times and some of the sayings that stick in my mind are, "I Ching, You Ching, We all Ching" and "Channeling for Dollars." The book cover quotes Joan Rivers as saying that Hester Mundis is one of the funniest women writing today. I have to agree. She's hysterical and every time I read it I find new gems. The best!

This book makes you laugh out loud just reading the cover. There is no reason to read it word for word, just open to any page and prepare to be amused. You may not actually avoid another incarnation, but this book does make this one more pleasant.

This book pokes lighthearted fun at various New-Age practices. Of course, to fully appreciate the humor you have to have a decent knowledge of New-Age stuff AND a sense of humor, which sad to say, can be a rare combination in my experience. The book starts off with a multiple-choice quiz to test your New-Age knowledge/potential. Some of the questions include "You think ESP is a) Something women have before their periods, b) a high-performance motor oil, or c) a natural potentiality", and "You think the Astral Plane is a) faster than the Concorde, b) an outer-space woodworking tool, or c) a soul-service rest area".

The "101 ways" are simply 101 one-page or two-page humorous commentaries that cover 101 different topics you find among New-Age practices: karma, reflexology, diets, crystal healing, past-life regression, the zodiac, koans, teas, mantras, incense, astral projection...you name it. You can either read the book from beginning to end, or read one chapter a day, or just flip randomly to any topic.

Although some of the humor is dated (e.g. references to VCRs, certain celebrities, top 40 songs, etc.) I still give this 4 stars for simply being one of the most comprehensive (let alone one of the only) humor books on New-Age. I just read a copy for the first time in some 20 years, and it still makes me laugh. I haven't read "In Search of the New Age" by Christopher S. Kilham, but I'm curious to see how it compares.