Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze: God's Love, Not Religion, Is Opium for the New Age Masses; Why the Law of Attraction Often Fails [Paperback]

Thayer D White MA MFT (Author)

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Publication Date: June 3, 2008

This book explains why the Law of Attraction usually fails folks and shows how New Age people use God's love, meditation and prayer just as an addict uses opium. Six major book benefits: (1) It helps you separate the New Age wheat from the chaff. (2) It provides three useful tools for measuring your spiritual development. (3) It offers rankings for most popular New Age systems and teachers. (4) It helps you align with your higher self. (5) It describes about 100 traps and treadmills that ensnare most New Age folks. (6) It points out long-term paths to inner peacefulness, not quick fixes. Readers' comments- (a)Belinda Gore Phd: "An excellent travel guide for the spiritual seeker." (b)Hank Wesselman PhD: "This is a timely book that will achieve a wide readership. Thayer White is to be commended." (c)David Brazier PhD: "It helps the reader pick their way through the minefield of New Age literature and teachings now available."

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Purple Paradox Press (June 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096433755X
• ISBN-13: 978-0964337558
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,143,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Feeling content with oneself - something so many people reach for but so often fail to achieve., July 11, 2008

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Feeling content with oneself - something so many people reach for but so often fail to achieve. "Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze" is a guide for those who wish to attempt the New Age Spirituality path to contentment. Promoting how to align one's mind with the soul's desires, attain peace of mind, and warning what to avoid to prevent the creation of roadblocks in one's path, "Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze" is a deftly written guide for followers of New Age and for community library spirituality collections.

3.0 out of 5 stars A Shaker of Salt, February 15, 2011

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This review is from: Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze: God's Love, Not Religion, Is Opium for the New Age Masses; Why the Law of Attraction Often Fails (Paperback)

Just as the author urges us to take many New Age "principles" and practices with a grain of salt, so should the reader be urged to take this book with more than a few grains.

Although I am not in total disagreement with the author, he makes thinly veiled attempts, at times, to push his own agenda that can't helped but be noticed due to the, often, bitter-grapes delivery. One can only imagine that he has had to do such battle with these issues and their creators that he has become defensive and somewhat negative in the process.

In spite of what he insists on, it is possible maintain a positive outlook using some of these tools without it being used as anesthesia for challenges and reality. Extremism in any practice is detrimental. But instead of stressing this point, he offers his own opinions of what works and endorsed them almost exclusively. Strangely enough, the teachings which he fully supports (Michael Channelings, for instance) go nearly unchallenged. As a psychotherapist, it surprises me he doesn't notice this inconsistency.

I have read hundred of New Age books and have been a student of Metaphysics and New Age practices for 5 decades. Some of my best friends truly are New Age oriented psychotherapists as is this author. When he wasn't almost blindly championing the few practices he does endorse, I found myself thinking perhaps he was not so much a believer in these more liberal philosophies. Confusing, but you need to read it to understand.

Just remember to bring along a shaker of salt.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Plain Talk about A Deep Subject, November 11, 2008

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Mary E. Adair "eclectic reader" (Monahans, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Finding Your Soul in the Spirituality Maze: God's Love, Not Religion, Is Opium for the New Age Masses; Why the Law of Attraction Often Fails (Paperback)

Thayer White's explanation of his experiences and the conclusions he has reached are clearly and plainly stated. A seeker will not have to find another book to define any of his words, and they flow smoothly, giving an easy read. One feels like they have sat down and discussed spiritual thoughts with the author in person. The little 'joke' breaks between chapters are fun and thought provoking. Lots of answers here for those finding the law of attraction fickle.