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Recovery of the Sacred

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This book, more then any other I had ever read, provided me with the encouragement and hope that true spirituality actually existed and could be directly experienced. Reading this book and then acting upon it led me on the greatest journey of my life. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to cut through the myths of spirituality and get to what is real.

Reclaiming the Soul, Lessons in Soul Awareness is a remarkable story of the process of one soul rediscovering itself. Within Carlos Warter's life story we can see both the familiar and the inspiring. His search for his true self and his place in this world can instigate or remind us of our own journey. I heartily reccomend it to anyone currently embracing their own journey of soul awareness.

a highly inspiring narration by physician and spiritual teacher will lead you to higher states of undertanding of who is who in the current medical/spiritual marketplace.Dr Warter has definitely done his home work and comes from a comprehensive understanding of the processes of spirituality and medicine

This book may profess to be from the soul, but it is straight from the EGO. I mean the big EGO,the author uses adjectives like a kid in a candy store to describe his insights like gum drops of love. In fact, if you do a search on the author, you will discover that he was recently extradicted from a villa in South America to Hawaii for $1million dollar fraud indictment from the FBI. He bilked the Medicare Healthcare system for supposely caring for the elderly. He must of found a different sacred path.... or did he reveal early in life this path of deceit and personal greed? Book is good for starting a warm fire.

I don't write reviews often and in this case I feel a need to offer some details. First, I have read a LOT of books over the years about spiritual journeys of one form or other. This book is a journey more than a self help book. It doesn't give a lot of guidance and the underlying heart of things and the brief overview perspectives are what this is useful for. If you are looking for more details about each event, then probably better to look elsewhere.

It is a book he wrote about experiences he had and his interpretations of them. It is not something I would consider to be the end all be all on spiritual reality and in many ways I disagree with his conclusions and perceptions of what occurred and why. However, many stories are beautiful, moving and parallel experiences I have read about in other's experiences.

I felt like aspects of his thought process were new. Stories were useful in considering things I have read elsewhere. A lot of heart came through the writing which for me is sometimes what I seek most when looking for nourishment from a book like this. It is an international journey and multi-spiritual path journey. He covers Christianity, Sufism, some South American shamanism, Buddhism and a variety of new age perspectives. He doesn't go particularly in depth in any one arena, but the spirit of the people he encounters and the intuitive process through which he navigated his path was for me where the inspiration lay. I felt like I got to briefly meet many of the people he met and hear their ideas and share in the magic of their personalities. I liked it as a conditioning experience in that regard.

If you like this book, you may want to look at 'The Gospel of Ramakrishna' by M which is mostly Hindu based, but has a lot of other influences and just general mysticism. Also, the book 'The Inspired Heart' by Jerry Wennstrom is another great read and you can find videos of him speaking about his journey on youtube. (The basic story is there, but the book is still worth a read for other details and thought processes).

Dr. Warter's gives us his story of his life. Giving away all your worldly possessions is not an exceptional rule. You either give everything away;or you do not. I follow Maslow's idea that one has to have each of his needs meet before he can fulfill his other needs, but I also believe that this hierarchy extends to needeing to experience each of those phases of life in order to fulfill them. Hence the reason that people who have to struggle the most in life, often have the closest relationship with God. We can not find spirituality by seeking it, for it seeks us. Looking in a monastery for sacred reality is like searching in a mirror for a different reflection; see yourself reflected in everything and find sacred reality in it.

This is just a personal story, almost autobiography-as he would like it to be. Somewhat interesting as factual/or fictional? writing, but not at all self-help. Great editor.