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Get Involved in Healing the Spirit/Matter Split, January 24, 2006
This review is from: Healing the Spirit Matter Split
Saniel Bonder speaks with direct authority about "Healing the Spirit/Matter Split" in his book, so aptly titled that. His expertise comes from a myriad of sources. His lessons learned in radical new age transformational realms have taught him to speak candidly about the most astonishing insights of modern enlightened minds.
His direct connection to enlightenment has manifested in many talks, workshops, retreats and an ever-widening spiral of friends involved in a technique that they say is "An invitation to Waking Down in Mutuality and Fulfilling Your Divinely Human Destiny".
What the heck does anyone think "mutuality" is anyway? We've heard people speak of "the feeling's mutual" and "mutual savings" and "mutual admiration society" and "mutually beneficial"--but what does "MUTUALITY" have to do with "healing the spirit/matter split"-- and what is that anyhow?
"When Matter Becomes As Real, Divine, And important as Spirit--To You" pretty much answers that succinctly--and those are just the title words in the Forward of this book. This book blew away any doubts I had as to how commonplace "enlightenment" is these days. In fact, SANIEL REVEALS IN HIS BOOK how many variations there are. Instead of all paths leading up the same mountain as recanted by many for centuries, Saniel boldly declares there are indeed many mountains with many different paths.
But what ties them all together is the mutuality part. In this book, Saniel describes the wake up into real enlightenment as waking to our body, our mind, and our heart. The mutuality that begins with these aspects of our self, leads also to the mutuality in our relationships with others. Saniel describes the simple process, pointing out the often-overlooked importance of the essentials--unity and integration.
This includes accepting that we have a shadow and not forgetting we stand in the light to cast it. Not forgetting the light of unity when we deal with the shadow side of our self--or when we deal with others in relationship. Leading, as Saniel says in his book, to the realization that "The relations between awakening and awakened bodies become a synergistic force field."
Saniel also reveals in this book the "six step recognition yoga" he and his friends developed to deal with the "stuff' that comes up in relationships. This is amazingly clear and practical information about "how to" apply enlightenment to our relationships in a manner that builds a solid foundation for true mutuality in them.
In his view, Saniel declares "Our purpose for being alive is...to get here ever so much more profoundly than we ever have been before." And he insists that all of us must fully connect in unity now at this evolutionary and historic moment on Earth. Saniel speaks as a visionary personal growth facilitator who has inspired thousands with his message, and he has received International recognition as a voice of the enlightened collective human mind. He defines the "Core Mystery" as "the engine of human evolution" and he shows in this book how that applies to all our daily lives--no matter how enlightened we think we are.
Healing the Spirit/Matter Split is a fascinating book and I highly recommend it. In fact, I would go so far as to say it should be mandatory for enlightenment 101. Enlightenment with mutuality is the way to save our Planet and establish heaven on Earth according to Saniel; and after reading his book I tend to agree with him. This book contains information about how to do all this; information gathered from over a dozen years in the lives of over dozens of people exploring practical applications for establishing mutuality in our everyday relationships.
Saniel Bonder defines mutuality in Healing the Spirit/Matter Split so well, you will feel it indelibly tattooed on your third eye. Listen, all I can say is--check out this awesome quote from his book, then buy the book and read it for more such delightful tidbits--Here's the quote: "So, people discover the wide-open "Wild West" of learning how to live plugged in continuously to the evolutionary power of the universe right in our own hearts--while really encountering, making room for, and cooperating with others who are doing the same thing--that's mutuality!"
Now do your self, your planet, and your universe a favor--buy it and read it!
Roger Lothamer http://cashdharma.blogspot.com/
A.K.A. Neriah Lothamer http://www.neriahlothamer.com/
Author of Dancing in the Shadow of Tyranny, An Activist's Guide to Inner Disarmament
Co-author of Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves; The Power of Change Within to Change The World
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Not for newcomers, August 15, 2011
This review is from: Healing the Spirit Matter Split
I bought this book because I read that Saniel's work is so valuable. Reading the book was not very insightful. The simple reason is that the book is written on a very abstract level.
The book may help people who have experienced Saniel's work. For a "non-adept", it has not much to offer beside that it tells you how great it is to be awakened, that everyone can reach that and how (much) Saniel's work helps reaching that. But how to start, what to do or not to do, stories, illustrations, and experiences of others etc. are completely missing.
At the end of the book (page 103), Saniel claims that his book presents "a truly esoteric or 'hidden' teaching. ... it's esoteric because one can shout it from the rooftops in the simplest possible langauge ... and people still won't 'get it' until they suddenly can and do." Honestly, this is not true. The teaching is "hidden" because the text is too abstract. It has only a single example (page 30ff). The main text consists of two interviews and doesn't seem to be written to introduce ideas to a broader public. The interviews are answers to questions that people may have who are familiar with his work already. I read it but I couldn't appreciate it as I learned not much. It was too abstract for me - even though with a Master in Philosophy and an interdisciplinary PhD I do not mind abstract thinking at all.
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