23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Finding a voice for the spirit within, November 23, 2007
This review is from: Beyond the Secret: Spiritual Power and the Law of Attraction (Paperback)
This is a very spiritual book, a look at the power of attraction from the aspect of the communication of your spirit within with your ego. If you are of a specific religious faith, you might feel this is grazing on your set beliefs, but it is possible to look at the book within the bounds of your own system if you rename some of the concepts.
Having said that, the part of the book that really appealed to me was a chapter on tapping into feelings. Sometimes, it's your mental state that creates the possibility of something happening. This may be the initial step missing when you set out to accomplish something. The author lists eight feelings: sorrow, anger, joy, jealousy, being overwhelmed, fear, happiness and confusion. There is a short explanation of what might be holding you back in each of these feelings, for example, sorrow might be a need to release something that is holding you back.
Where this book differs from a lot of the "Law of Attraction" books is a clear path to deal with those feelings to clear the way to plan what you wish to accomplish. If you've been reading books in this subject "Beyond the Secret" may be more comprehensible and actionable than many of the other books on the topic.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really Great Book!!! 5-Stars!!!, December 23, 2007
This review is from: Beyond the Secret: Spiritual Power and the Law of Attraction (Paperback)
I couldn't disagree with the some of the other reviews on here more. I also found that one of reviewer here really distorted a lot of what the author had to say. It's more like she just skimmed the book and I wonder if she even really read it or just started reacting and then skipped the real message here. I felt the author expressed in a number of places that we can go ahead and have the things we want just don't play the "See Me" ego game in doing so. Plus, as I read this book I didn't get the impression at all that the author was saying money was bad for you. In fact, she said in many places go ahead and have a billion dollars even if your motivation is to use it in service. And when she writes about the Law of Service and the Law of Sacrifice she says how it should be a joyful giving, not a guilt based one. But, if people already feel guilty about how they are spending and consuming, then nothing will stop them from feeling it. Certainly not this book. As they have shown they will only react, get upset, and feel even worse. But, if you want to rethink things and consider how the law of attraction can be used in a more spiritual way, then this book is for you!
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24 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Spoken like a true believer in the guilt based religions., April 22, 2008
This review is from: Beyond the Secret: Spiritual Power and the Law of Attraction (Paperback)
Thank you Lisa Love for writing this book, without which I could not fully appreciate the works of Esther and Jerry Hicks. I gave it a two star only because of the potential of the unread portion, although I'll never know.
The first reviewer was very gentle her choice of phrases: . . ."you might feel this is grazing on your set beliefs. . ." Boy is that an understatement in my case.
I do believe that feeling your way to abundance, whether material or spiritual, is the fundamental principal behind manifesting your desires. Focusing on the positive side of everything no matter what is going on around you is key to this. I also think that a natural result of becoming a more positive person will make you more compassionate, loving and spiritual and you will naturally help others more by being that way.
What left me cold in the very first chapter are the contradictions made by the author.
EXERPT: Spirit encompasses everything that is! Everything lives within it and is a part of it. It has been called "God," "Allah," "The Force," and a multitude of other names. Essentially you are Spirit, and Spirit is you!
That said, the author goes on to make this statement only two pages later:
"Remember the law of attraction is neutral. Though you can use it to get whatever you wish for, it doesn't always give you what Spirit wishes for you."
WHAT!?!
Spirit is me and I am spirit right? So, if this is true, (and I firmly believe that it is) it is not even possible for Spirit to desire something that I myself do not desire and vice versa. In fact, spirit can not even distinguish between the reality that I imagine and the reality that I am living so how can it make choices for me? Spirit is not something outside of me that controls me and tells me what I should and should not desire or how it should be used. The job of "Spirit" is to respond to the thoughts I am thinking and make that my reality.
The word "ego" is also referred to quite a bit and the author goes on to discuss her belief that we are hear to serve others and that those with money have a moral obligation to take care of those who don't. But, if I am the creator of my world and I have money because I manifested it in my life than would it not also be true that those who do not have money have manifested that reality into their lives? My having money, a place to live, and other nice things is not depriving someone else of the opportunity to manifest those things in their life. Seems to me our obligation would be to teach them how but then again that would be forcing our beliefs on someone else.
The author is right about the law of attraction being neutral. You will manifest that which you focus upon the most and if your focus is on the lack of something rather than the abundance of it then you will continue to manifest the lack of it until you change the way you think about it.
Besides the multitude of tangents the author seems to go off on, I found it difficult to get past her own personal bias toward those who have manifested material abundance, good looking spouses (as she puts it, but isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder?), expensive cars, and houses on the beach in their lives. She did talk about being jilted by a lover who chose a woman of means over her. WOW! That explains a few things right there!
I don't imagine there are many people in this world who never think about having any of those things and what's wrong with it? Money brings freedom and having it is not depriving someone else of it. It does not mean that people who have it lead irresponsible or lackluster lives nor does it mean that we should all go live as monks in order to curb the ego from wanting it! Anyone who thinks money isn't important in this world is kidding themselves.
I found the book "Ask and It Is Given" by Jerry and Esther Hicks a far more compassionate read.
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