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Truly a remarkable book., August 23, 2004
This review is from: Positive Spin (Paperback)
"Positive Spin" is an extraordinarily powerful, provocative and incisive examination of the negative forces that conspire, informally and otherwise, to create a subordinate populace mired by passivity and inaction and receptive to the blandishments of creature comforts as shallow substitutes for true happiness. Using copious amounts of academic research, along with numerous cultural references and the author's own considerable expertise and impressive understanding of how and why people think, "Positive Spin" brings readers to an inescapable "Pogo-esque" conclusion: in examining our own unhappiness and disaffection, we have met the enemy -- and it is us.
However, "Positive Spin" also provides inspiration and hope. It marshalls academia, along with the author's own incredible wit, common sense, and compassion, to encourage and show readers how to regain control over the quality and direction of their lives, and to achieve interpersonal growth and true happiness through spirituality. With "Positive Spin," Dr. Lapp provides a gentle but no-nonsense prescription for achieving self-betterment and establishing deep, lasting connections with others. This truly is a remarkable book.
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Required Reading for the Socially Conscious and Self Aware, April 12, 2004
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This may well be one of the most eye-opening and important books to arrive since the Aquarian Conspiracy. If you are interested in gaining a broader perspective of current world events and what they might mean for you personally as well as for our society, you owe it to yourself to read this book.
Though I have been a huge fan of Dr. Lapp's writing for many year's, I believe that with the completion of "Positive Spin" she has turned a very real corner and raised the bar both personally and professionally. I suspect she will now join the ranks of her contemporaries such as Marianne Williamson, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Stephan Covey as a best selling author of books that are at once personally meaningful and at the same time helping to bring about a transformation of our world.
In "Positive Spin" Dr. Janet Lapp has successfully compiled the evidence that proves what we have all suspected for some time. As a world renowned researcher and clinical psychologist, she examines many of today's most disturbing headlines and social trends balanced against the experience of world history and a psychology of personal and global transformation
Her writing is so authoritative and her arguments so compelling you may find yourself shouting, "That's right. That's absolutely right!" out loud as you read. Dr. Lapp expertly demonstrates how a trend of personal complacency and our mechanistic institutions of government and media are unwittingly working in unison to our mutual detriment and creating ever escalating unseen dangers.
More than simply alerting us to the problem that even now is reaching a point of both personal and global political crisis, Dr. Lapp helps us to move beyond apathy, fear, disgust and cynicism by challenging each reader to recognize their own part in the problem and their potential role in any number of very real solutions.
This landmark work by this seasoned and proven author will quickly join the ranks of Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" as a clarion call reminding each of us that the only thing evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing.
I believe that the most appropriate choice any socially responsible individual could make would be to read this book, decide upon its value for themselves, and then share it with as many of their family, friends and colleagues as possible so that they can do the same. That simple act alone may produce just the ripple effect that is necessary to move ourselves and our world in the right direction.
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