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Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century

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This review is partially in response to the negative review Carol received called "A Different Approach" by K. Miller, to whom I mean no offense, but I, too, am speaking from an LDS perspective, and have to express that I had an entirely different experience with Carol's book. I felt like it opened the channels from heaven to me personally again. I'd been frustrated for some time with prayer, and don't know how many times I'd earnestly prayed to know God's will for me, and popped open the scriptures only to find my eyes fall upon one of the many verses with the theme, "Ask and ye shall receive." I felt like I was asking all the time and trying to have faith and be righteous. But I was not getting what I wanted-and the things I was asking for were things I know God would want me to have-ability to pay off debts, obtain a more fitting home for our family, reliable transportation, ability to create a savings and the other safety precautions we are counseled to take. Now I look back at it, and I can see the "ask in faith, nothing doubting" has a lot to do with Carol's term of "vibrations." All my years of very little success in asking and receiving have boiled down to the fact that I would ask, and then remain in a low vibration-hoping the best I could for a good outcome, but then still having a great deal of fear in me that it would not come. Carol has taught me how to change this. I had been in a depression because of this lack of ....communion, I guess you could say. My depression actually served me well as I noticed an immediate lift in spirits as I read her book-I consumed it in one day. I had no reservation about trying the affirmations, the tapping, and the energy circles, because I was willing to try any good thing. They have worked so well. I deal easily with my depressive tendencies now, and have been at a much higher vibration or state of peace and joy ever since. What's more, I'm experiencing having my prayers answered, and much quicker than ever before. I really do pray in faith now-I know it works. Who ever said that when we are being righteous and trying to follow Christ that our desires WOULDN'T match God's desires for us? Who ever said we HAD to suffer to be righteous? It is true that God can turn any suffering for our good, and true that we came here to understand opposition. But once you have been in a dark room, and then enter into a light room, do you keep having to go back to the dark room to know what darkness is? We can understand opposition, and that doesn't mean we have to continue experiencing it for the rest of our lives! We don't have to be poor and suffer to be righteous. Remember Alma 32:14-16-Blessed are they who are compelled to be humble, but MORE blessed are they do not need to be compelled. God uses suffering to bring about repentant and righteous people, no doubt, but he did not say that is the ONLY way.

K. Miller stated that the book misleads people into thinking all we have to do is be positive and we can have anything we want, and that Carol's approach was "simplistic." Must we make it complicated? The Gospel is very simple-it's when we don't follow it that it gets complicated. What we need to do is be like God, and we will have what we want. Miller's whole argument inferred that having what you want isn't God's will! What happened to "Men are that they might have joy"? I think the more we seek to be like God and do his will, the more we desire things that are for the benefit of ourselves and others, and this brings us joy. We get what we want. Miller also states "She makes it seems like God wants people to have everything come to them from ease and no effort." Well, I can't agree with the no effort part. I don't know about you, but learning to live in a high vibration takes me plenty of effort-staying happy and joyful takes a lot of thought control at first-constant effort. Luckily, we are creatures of habit, and that can become our advantage. But of course God wants things to come from ease. He stated, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light"! The very definition of easy is "free from worry, anxiety, trouble, or pain" and "without struggle." In no way is this book anti-Christ. It brought me more understanding and love for Christ than I'd felt in some time. What it does is pull us out of the illusion that life is happening to us, God is inflicting us, and we just have to suffer through it until we die and finally experience joy. I know to an extent, I used to think similar to the ways expressed in Miller's review. It was very depressing. Carol's book reminded me that we have been given choice, so much more choice that I'd ever truly conceived of before. Embrace it! But most importantly, talk to God about it! He has given each of us the ability to know good from evil. Matt. 7:20 "By their fruits ye shall know them."

Lastly, about angels. I would suggest a Topical Guide search of the scriptures, and you will find some amazing things about angels. To say we do not have charge over angels is not doctrinally correct. D&C 107:20-it's one of the first keys of the Aaronic Priesthood. And again, Miller states, "angels do God's bidding, not hers." Why must there be a contradiction here? Do you not think it is possible to be in harmony with God's will? That when you feel joy about something you want, perhaps it is because God wants that for you too? True, a few times in the scriptures, there is a differentiation made-God's will, and not mine, be done. But I think it is a mistake to infer that that means, therefore our wills must be different than God's at all times. True, he has the greater picture, and infinite wisdom about our lives, but that doesn't mean we can't learn to live in joy and match our wills to his. I want that, don't you want that? Isn't that precisely our ultimate goal? Did we think it HAD to be painful, and had to consist of us learning to not want? There is a lot of fallacy in things that are passed along that are not supported by scripture, just by tradition, and the idea that our life must be continual suffering in order to be righteous is one of them. Another is that we must be poor to be righteous. I've been poor, thinking it was all part of the process of being righteous, and it didn't give me joy. It gave me STRESS! It gave my family stress and frustration-not peace. Remember Jacob 2:17-19-it says "rich" like unto you. Not that we all learn to be poor together, but rich. The fact is that we can do so much more to help people when have the means. Trust yourself! Trust that you are good and you will be righteous when you can do more than just get by as well! Our thoughts are powerful. How did God make the world? I don't think it involved a pick ax! "As a man thinketh, so is he." I know a lot of Carol's information is new to us-but test it out, use the Spirit, seek for truth. If we do not, we are not much different than those who chose tradition over truth. God has promised there is more to receive as soon as we are ready for it. New and different than we are used to doesn't mean it must be wrong. I, for one, am thrilled that so many people have loved Carol's work, and are ready for more knowledge. I definitely recommend it!

I came upon Carol's book by means of a close friend who recommended and ask me to review it. I have been working in the mental health field for over 12 years within the psychotheraphy & psych rehab institutions, so you may ask what was my take on it? The concept of living in a state of joy & the creating wealth were totally new to me...well I happen to be a sunnyside up type of person with a history of turning a negative situation into a positive one by all means possible. I am in possession of a compassionate heart and willingness to assist in helping others with their burdens. I have seen so much misery, abuse and suffering that my heart has ached to the point of becoming physically ill by those emotional chaos. What I am saying is I needed healing for healers and the remembering wholeness book provides powerful insight on how to heal ourselves. It also brings about what we call "triggers" which are uncomfortable emotions that may elicit anger, doubt, denial or related negative emotions...it was easier when we were able to blame our parents, people who abused us or circumstances beyond our control...rather than owning the feeling and realizing that we are powerful creators and have indeed managed to create unpleasent experiences or relationships with others that are in continuos disharmony. The tools provided by Carol in her book are priceless and divinely inspired. I use the book religiously in my private practice while helping others who seek holistic healing and manage to own their personal power. The teaching aids presented can only assist you when you apply them and allow yourself the freedom to let go of who you used to be to become who you rather be. I wish you all success and goodwill on your healing journey. Lotus Taina, NJ state Official Liaision for the United Confederation of The Taino People (American Indian Arawak/ Carib/ Taino)

"Remembering Wholeness" is one of those books in which I found myself constantly making underlines and wanting to carry it around me everyday.

K. Miller's review to me would indicate a total lack of understanding and appreciation of the Law of Attraction. The principles that Carol writes about are all based upon Universal Laws that go back years and years and years and which virtually all successful people embrace whether they realize it or not. In fact, these laws are supported by scripture, although I won't get into specific theological annotations in this review. The reality, however, is that most successful people are pretty vocal about "conceive it, believe it, achieve it." These laws and principles that Carol writes about work, because they work. They are time-tested and have worked throughout the ages. At the same time, as simple as these principles are, they can be very complicated to understand if one is not ready or open to receive the message. I can only say that the book has helped me tremedously in my business and personal life and that the laws she writes about obviously have worked for Carol. I would challenge anyone to read the book and try implementing the exercises. It will open up a whole new vista of thinking and opportunity -- but only if you're ready!

I have lived under the cultural experience that I am here in this life to be tested. What I feel that has been taught and excepted is during these test, no matter how hard they are, I am suppose to endure the test and learn from the experience. Regardless if this is true or not, the tests generally are time of sorrow, pity, despair, anger, depression, bitterness towards God, ect. These feelings have created a conflict within myself, because what I read, is that this life is a time to prove God that I am obedient to Him. And then it is stated, that this life is about experiencing joy. So if we are here to have joyful experiences as we follow God's commands, why is it that I feel picked on, thrown down, I have no control over what I want, that I am expected to deal with life's randomness, overwhelmed with life's responsibilities, and feel like a failure because I can not live up to the expected standard of success. Remembering Wholeness has unlocked a storage of information that has been a belief deep within myself, but I did not know how to use it. Applying what I have "unlocked" or learned has allowed me to experience what God wants for us....JOY!

I love the outdoors. I relate to life through using analogies with the outdoors. This is my current analogy of life:
Life is like a white water rafting/kayaking trip. I believe we have a river (course) that is ours to complete in life (Carol calls it our contract with God). During this course we enjoy the beautiful moments of flat, calm water. There is beautiful scenery, social moments with friends and family, a feeling of control, and life moves slowly so that we can suck it in and enjoy it. But then off in the distance there is a disturbing sound of turbulent water. In this part of life's analogy we are floating down life's course with out a paddle. So when we hear the roar of rapids, panic sets in. And if you have ever experienced the power of rapids, you will understand why a random course without a paddle will scare the bageebees out of you. So against our wishes we enter the rapids getting knocked around, and maybe even thrown out of the boat and have to float down independently. Until this experience is over there are feelings of fear, sorrow, pity, despair, anger, depression, bitterness towards God, ect. Then the rapids end, we climb back in the boat, get our composer, and hesitantly enjoy the next calm part of life awaiting the next rapid. Then reality sets it, " there is no way I am going to survive this river experience."
Then we look down to the side of our boat and see a paddle(s) floating by. We forgot that we had dropped the paddle(s) in the river when we first put in. Courageously we pick up the tool that is going to make our river experience more enjoyable. We then hear the next roar of rapids, and react with a huge smile on our face because we are prepared. We still go down the rapids and getting tossed around, we may even roll upside down, but this time we use the paddle to roll right back up and take control our course. We then shout as loud as we can, WOO-HOO!!! For now there is JOY in our experience and we know that we can fulfill our life's course.

Remembering Wholeness has brought to my awareness that the paddle is floating right beside me and that all I have to do is pick it up and apply what's shared in the book. Thank You.

This book moved me to a whole new level of understanding personal responsibility. It definitely raised the stakes in the game of life and empowered/challenged me more than most of the other self-help books I have encountered. The book contains 50 short chapters that are succinct and easy to read. Each chapter contains gems - you don't have to plow through 200+ pages to get a few good kernals. Carol's insights and experience are refreshing and timely. It is truly a handbook for thriving and is based on the premise that we are whole, not dysfuctional. Right from the start it is a cut above most of what is out there. An ocean of fresh air!

I have been an avid reader and collector of self-help literature for well over 20 years as well as being a trained practitioner of NLP and Hypnosis. In fact, I constantly, if not obsessively, have sought out anything that I hoped might help me create the breakthroughs in my life that I had literally prayed for. On one hand I was often desperate to make these changes while on the other hand I found myself extremely resistant to letting the information in these books work for me. By the time Carol Tuttle's "Remembering Wholeness" was recommended to me by a friend I had got to the point where I was buying these books pretty much out of habit, having long since given up any real hope that I would find the "magic pill" I was looking for. So, it was with much skepticism that I began to read the first chapters of her book. At first I wasn't overly impressed. There were a few "warm fuzzy's" and useful insights, but basically, I had the feeling that I had read this all before in one form or another. Yet somewhere, about half way through the book, as I was reading one of the chapters about "angels" I began to notice the beginnings of deep spiritual shifts that were unique in my experience. I was no longer hoping or just believing that I MIGHT be able to create the changes that I wanted for my life, I had instead, achieved a totally unexpected state of "positive expectation" where I knew and now know that I will achieve the life I've dreamed of. Carol Tuttle's humble little volume has done more for me in one reading than any hundred of the other books in my library have been able to accomplish for me in 20 years. This is one powerful lady.

Carol makes a lot of great statements and gives good advice in this book. She has a positive way of looking at the world. However, and this is a BIG however, she makes some absoloutley offensive and totally erroneous claims about the pre-Earth life and abuse in the book.

In several instances in the book, she includes stories wherein people claimed to have made "deals" in the pre-Earth life to sexually abuse and harm each other. The most salient example of this idea she is a story of a woman who was sexually abused by her father. The woman had not been terribly close with her father due to the abuse. However, as her father lay dying, she found the stregnth to forgive him. With Carol's guidance, the abuse victim had a dream in which she saw her and her father in the pre-Earth life. In the scene, she is begging her father to sexually abuse her on Earth so that she can learn how to "forgive" while she is here. Her father reluctantly agreed to sexually abuse his own daughter in the pre-Earth life. This and numerous examples similar to it are how Carol suggests that people agreed to harm and sexually abuse one another before they came to Earth.

That idea is offensive on many levels. For one, it can give an abuser the notion that the person they abuse gave them permission to be abused before they came to Earth. Every abuse counselour and spiritual counselour, including some rather important men in Salt Lake City, hold fast to the truth that no abuse victim chooses or allows the abuse to occur. Two, it claims that God allowed his children to broker heinous sins and crimes against one another in the pre-Earth life.

In another anectote in the book the "Little Spirit" askes God to provide a way for him to learn forgiveness while he's on Earth. In that instance God himself asks for a volunteer who would be willing to harm and abuse he Little Spirit. Another spirit stands and volunteers to harm the Little Spirit in the presence of God. The notion that God brokered sin and abuse in the pre-Earth life is contrary in every way to the gospel and modern revelation.

This is a book that has many good ideas and teachings. Unfortunately, those good things are mixed in with dangerous and perverse ideas about the gospel of Jesus Christ and salvation. A carful reader will be left gasping and horrified at the claims about abuse in the book.

I read Carols book a year ago and it has changed my life and many others. I recommended the book to a friend who was going through rehabilitation from drugs and the tools Carol gave her reminded her of her self worth and the potential we all have. It has changed my Mother in laws life as well. She has lost a lot of weight and she was able to manifest the perfect job right down to the tiniest detail.
I ask my angels for help all the time and they always help me. I use energy circles and the EFT tapping and so many other things Carol has introduced to me. I make the income I want and consciously create my reality. She has so much to offer us, not only from this book but from her website and the C.D.'s I ordered from her. I totally recommend you read this book and see what else she has to offer us on her self titled website.

Regards,
Suzee (Las Vegas)

I read with regret that K. Miller's review was deleted. I read her review and thought she made some valid points. It didn't seem vindictive or a personal attack to me. Can't we have differing opinions?

I read "Remember Wholeness", enjoyed it and re-learned many things that I've felt were true throughout my adult life. I thought Carol's book hit the mark on many issues regarding how our beliefs (faith)create our life. However there are some questions I have asked myself: What kind of people would we be if God granted us everything we asked for? Do we in fact know what is best for us in the long run? What about the scriptures refering to the value of trials as learning experiences? What about God giving us experiences that teach us through adversity? Do angels really turn all of our traffic lights green?

I think this book has valuable insight on how to operate in life with a higher spiritual awarness but how do we get to that higher spiritual awareness?

To the author Carol Tuttle--Remembering Wholeness--...I finished reading your book--I'm not the type of person to comment--but I just have to. Your book was just amazing!--Wonderfully written and truly written with spiritual guidance by not only your own angel, but by many, many, other angels who you are intended to help. One of the best books I've ever read (and I read alot). Never in my life would I have thought to inquire about RET but now I'm very interested. I am definately going to look for other books & products you have authored--Signed, a newly inspired reader in Arizona.