Harmonic Wealth CD [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

James Arthur Ray (Author, Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 8, 2008

Are you ready to transform your current thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions? <p>Are you ready to shatter the illusion that it's not "spiritual" to want a fit body or financial wealth?<p>Are you ready to create outrageous results in every single area of your life?<p>You're in the right place.<p><em>Harmonic Wealth</em> will propel you to where you want to go. This practical, results-based book will help you to push beyond your self-imposed limitations and show you how to get past all the reasons you think you can't have what you want.<p>Struggling to know what you want? That doesn't mean you're not perfect, it just means you're ready for a shift. And that's exactly why you picked up this book.<p>The result of more than twenty years of study and practical application by World Thought Leader and featured expert for <em>The</em> <em>Secret</em>, James Ray's <em>Harmonic Wealth</em> is based on extensive study of ancient wisdom traditions, cutting-edge findings in quantum physics and other scientific fields, not to mention years of hands-on, hard-won experience. Let this sought-after teacher show you what he's discovered about the secrets of attracting more than you've ever thought possible. <p>Learn how to:<p>Heighten your creativity, intelligence,<p>intuition, and mental functioning.<p>Deepen your personal relationships and ramp up<p>your ability to attract the people you want in your life.<p>Achieve financial freedom.<p>Maximize your health and energy, and amplify<p>your physical strength.<p>Free yourself from unconscious limitations.<p>Vanquish the fears that have kept you stuck,<p>kept you from knowing and owning that you deserve the best.<p>If you've been having trouble with the Law of Attraction, you'll quickly learn the missing keys. <em>Harmonic Wealth</em> will reveal the formula for success in the Five Pillars: financial, relational, mental, physical, and spiritual. You'll see why having anything less than success in all of Five Pillars will never bring you true wealth, and you'll learn how to go 3 for 3 . . . how to have your thoughts, feelings, and actions working together in complete alignment. With these factors firing together, you'll create everything you desire and deserve.<p><em>Harmonic Wealth</em> encourages you to get real and get creative about how to achieve your goals . . . and then walks you step by step through the blueprint for their attainment. Stop playing it safe. Stop living in fear. Start living in harmony right <em>now</em>, and know that everything you want is within your reach.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

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"I love this book. James Ray pulls no punches. He tells it straight, the way it is. In Harmonic Wealth he tells you exactly what you need to do to create the life you want. His writing style is just like his workshops?clear and powerful but entertaining. I highly recommend it." ?Jack Canfield, co-author, The Success Principles and Chicken Soup for the Soul series

About the Author

James Arthur Ray has worked as consultant to global corporations such as Coca-Cola and IBM. Called 'The Rock Star of Personal Transformation' by the press, James has devoted over two decades to studying the thoughts and actions of those who create wealth in every area of their life.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Hyperion; Abridged edition (April 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401388914
• ISBN-13: 978-1401388911
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (187 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #991,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As a self-made millionaire and business owner, James is one of few spiritual teachers who has achieved top honors in the business world and has thrived as an entrepreneur for over 16 years. His background in behavioral sciences and entrepreneurship, coupled with his avid spiritual quest, gives him a unique and powerful ability to address life issues from an integrated and comprehensive level.

Recently recognized in the San Diego Business Journal as one of the fastest-growing entrepreneurial businesses in the area, James Ray International is a multi-million dollar business specializing in teaching individuals how to create wealth in all areas of their life: financially, relationally, intellectually, physically and spiritually.

Prior to his entrepreneurial success, James had a flourishing corporate career, during which he spent over five years as one of AT&T's top sales managers, four years as a personal and business growth expert with AT&T School of Business, and four years working with best-selling author Stephen Covey.

Mr. Ray has studied and been exposed to a wide diversity of teachings and teachers - from traditional college and the business schools of AT&T to the ancient cultures of Peru and Egypt and the jungles of the Amazon. As a result, he has the unique ability to blend the mystical and practical into a usable and easy-to-access formula.

Because of his comprehensive background, James considers himself a "practical mystic." His Journey of Power curriculum is the fusion of wealth-building principles and success strategies, as well as the teachings of all great spiritual traditions, mystery schools, and esoteric studies that James has experienced and assimilated over the last twenty-five years.

When he is not on retreat learning from his spiritual mentors, James conducts more than 150 days of public appearances and seminars each year. As a coach and teacher, James has helped hundreds of individuals and organizations create harmony and wealth in all areas of their business and life.

Customer Reviews

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192 of 202 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Man on a Journey, April 8, 2008

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Dave Carpenter "Peak Performance Scholar" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want (Hardcover)

I wanted to like this latest book by James Arthur Ray. The author is a tireless speaker and teacher trying to lift our consciousness and that is a very, very good thing. And his contributing author, Linda Silvertsen, is someone whose writings I have previously enjoyed in Balance Magazine.

Indeed, there was much I liked about the book. Most importantly, it is a very substantive book in a world where so many books of this type are feel good, quick reads (which have their place). And, it is written in the aggressive, challenging style that the author unabashedly proclaims is his intent. As Ray says near the end in talking about reading the book: "Some of it (may have) excited you, some of it may have made you uncomfortable, some of it struck you as full of it, some of it flat out confused you. That is all good." Because of the author's challenging style, I used the book to challenge my thinking on what it takes to take one's performance to an even higher level. I enjoy a book that challenges my thinking, and this one did so.

I also liked the fact that the book is apparently designed to be well integrated into online tools that will help readers extend their insights on a variety of areas. (I say apparently as the site was not operating at the time I write this and was instead harvesting emails, and doing so with a privacy policy with an usual twist that you will want to consider carefully. "Harvesting" because after supplying my email, I did not get access to the info promised in the book, instead I was told I was now "just" on a mailing list. I very much want to believe this is just an early glitch.)

Regretfully, for me, the book had some annoying shortcomings, in addition to the online material seemingly not yet being available as promised. The author seems to pick fights that seem out of keeping with his expressed interest in peace and seemingly do little other than needlessly offend. As just one example from a handful I could give, he devotes a page to seemingly try to support the notion that the real innovators are those that either didn't go to college or did poorly in college. Could it possibly be that the author hasn't really gotten over his own self-consciousness about his education? I, for one, am grateful to the many scientists with PHD's whose research has made, and continues to make, discoveries that save lives and help us lead better lives while we are here on earth. Sure, there are well educated people that have done little with all their formal education. And, there are people who have not been extensively (formally) educated who have made great contributions to society. So why put down either end of the spectrum, especially if ones true intention is to raise the consciousness of all?

Even more troubling was the fact that I found reading the book a bit of a chore. I like to be mentally stretched by a book but I don't like to have to work unduly to be stretched. Not sure I can explain why, but at times I kept thinking the book was needlessly convoluted.

Of the fifty plus reviews I have written on Amazon, this book is -- by far -- the most challenging to rate. If you are in need for an "in your face" style wake-up (along the lines of a Dr Phil style), you will like this book and perhaps a five star rating would be in order. Fans of the author will undoubtedly like a new Ray book, although some fans will likely question how much is really fresh thinking compared to prior books. For fans of Mr. Ray, a four or five star rating is probably in order. For those who like their self-help guidance more compassionately given, I expect that a three star rating would be more the order of the day. I am going to settle on giving it a four star rating and hope the author forgives me as I am very, very grateful for what I learned by thinking through the book. With two graduate degrees, it may just be that I am too much of a lost soul to fully appreciate some of the author's strong biases; hence my four star rating.

One final thought. What I liked most about the book is that for me it read more like a tour of the world of self-help and a self-analysis of one man's search for meaning. As one who believes that all of us are on a journey and can learn from the journeys of others, I came away surmising that the author is - perhaps -- only midway through a journey that will hopefully bring him to a place of deep, personal peace wherein he can be at peace with all of us. I am saving my five star rating, for this author, for the great book I expect is still within him and will be written when he reaches that place of deep peace.

PS Pleased to see that the web site has now been changed to reflect that info is coming later thereby making it less likely someoneone will unknowingly register, as I did, and then not get access to info.

82 of 85 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Like Pages Scattered In The Wind, May 14, 2008

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William Mize (St Petersburg, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want (Hardcover)

James Arthur Ray knows his stuff. As someone familiar with his other books, I know that James can walk his talk, and is capable of being a compelling and motivating speaker. Just look up some of his videos on YouTube and you'll see that he has amazing recall and mastery of the work.
Having said this, you would expect Harmonic Wealth, his largest and most ambitious work so far, to be a veritable gold mine of information.
And you would be right, but also wrong.
Imagine if I approached you and told you that I had all the knowledge you needed to live an amazing life. It was all written down in detail, and all you had to do was read it, follow the steps and you, too, could change your life.
You'd be excited right?
You'd want that book!
Now next imagine that I take all the pages of the book and put them into a shredder. Each page cut up into thousands of pieces, like confetti after a New Years Eve party.
You'd be sad and disappointed and maybe a bit pissed, right?

That's how I feel after reading Harmonic Wealth.
It's full of great information, but it's so poorly designed, so poorly thought out, so poorly edited, that I came away sad and disheartened.
I was hoping that James would, after going into detail about each pillar, lay out some easy to find, easy to collect, concrete steps that I could take toward improving that pillar.
It just frustrates me that while I read, I keep wondering "What are you recommending?" "What worked for you?" "How can I duplicate your experience in my world?"
Like I said, a recap at the end of each chapter, and then again, at the end of each pillar of the main points to remember and concrete actions to take would make this book even more amazing.
I recommend that you do buy the book, but read it with a notepad or a stack of index cards handy to write out the action steps that James recommends for a better life.
Follow those cards, follow those notes, integrate them as habits into your life and you will change it for the better.
This is a C book from an A+ teacher.

William Mize
PWA Shamus Award Nominee
Creator of the Denton Ward and Monty Crocetti mystery series

52 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great message, wrong messenger, August 10, 2008

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D. Wenz (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want (Hardcover)

I enjoyed James Ray in The Secret so I was excited when I received the audiobook for Harmonic Wealth as a gift. My excitement quickly turned to utter annoyance. Ray tries to make his reading sound causal, but it really sounds like forced bad acting. He talks down to the listener and judges those who are not as "enlightened" as he is. He does a lot of name dropping and at one point compares himself to Bill Gates and Richard Branson! He calls himself a spiritual leader, but he behaves like a smarmy used car salesman, peddling spiritual wisdom instead of automobiles.

James Ray's "five pillars of harmonic wealth" sounds like an interesting concept, but he does a very poor job of outlining it, and is all over the place in his explanation of each pillar. There were many times when I didn't know which pillar he was actually talking about because he had been boasting about himself for so long. This book is really just an advertisement for his harmonic wealth idea, and apparently you have to give him more money to find out what it really is, as he doesn't actually tell you what to do to become as "enlightened" as he is. At one point he even tells the listener to go to his website and order his expensive mediation cds.

This book is also a vehicle for Ray to gloat about himself. He spends quite a lot of time praising himself and bragging about his own achievements. He probably should have just written an autobiography and called it "I'm Better Than You." The book would have been about half the size if he hadn't included so much useless information about himself. I'm wondering if he had to pad the book with his own gloating because he hadn't fully developed his five pillar idea or if he wasn't able to fully develop the idea because he was so wrapped up his is own narcissism.

That said, there are a few good pearls of wisdom here, but you have to wade through a lot of muck to get to them. I'm sure there are other books out there on the law of attraction that are much better and much more worthy of your money.