Sage-ing While Age-ing (Hardcover)

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Over the course of ten international bestsellers including The Camino and Out on a Limb, Shirley MacLaine has firmly established herself as a fearless, iconoclastic thinker and seeker of truth. Now, as she confronts the realities and rewards of growing older, MacLaine reflects on where her journey has taken her and the greater understanding of her own place in the universe that her experiences have brought into her life.

As she looks back across the remarkable professional and personal milestones she has experienced so far, MacLaine is able to recognize the profound power of synchronicity at work. Sage-ing While Age-ing explores a wealth of issues from health and nutrition, to spirituality, to life on other planets, to MacLaine's views about the greatest mystery of all: what happens to us after death.

Filled with her trademark wit and candor, this is a powerful, provocative book that will delight and intrigue MacLaine's legions of fans and fellow travelers everywhere.

About the Author

Shirley MacLaine, Oscar winner, three-time Emmy winner, and ten-time Golden Globe winner, has appeared in more than fifty films, has been nominated for an Academy Award six times, and received the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984. A longtime outspoken advocate for civil rights and liberties, women¹s rights, and spiritual understanding, Shirley MacLaine has sold more than 20,000,000 copies of her nine international bestsellers, which include her acclaimed work The Camino.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Atria Books (November 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416550410
• ISBN-13: 978-1416550419
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #335,568 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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214 of 219 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Amazing Adventures of Shirley MacLaine Continue!, November 2, 2007

By	Pamela Grandstaff (West Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

Shirley MacLaine is a formidable combination of bestselling author, award-winning actress, glamorous movie star, feminist role model, articulate political activist, force to be reckoned with, and a veritable "Auntie Mame" to multiple generations of spiritual explorers.

For many people, Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb (published in 1983) was their first introduction to the man known as the "sleeping prophet," Edgar Cayce. Two books about his life, "There Is a River," and "Many Mansions," enjoyed a huge surge in sales after she mentioned them in her book, and there has been a steady ripple effect, seen and unseen, ever since.

Through her writing she serves as a channel for physical, metaphysical, and spiritual information, delivered with a sense of enthusiasm, open-minded intelligence, and always a willingness to learn, discover, and evolve as a result of her quest to know more. The fact that she doesn't let criticism or ridicule stop her from reporting on controversial topics is a testament to her courage. The popularity and financial success of "The Secret," "What the Bleep?" and a myriad of other metaphysics-based endeavors owe much to her trailblazing.

Her new book, "Sage-ing While Age-ing," continues in that theme, using brave self-disclosure and intelligent insights to share her many interests - metaphysics, scientific research, ancient civilizations, UFOs, reincarnation, politics, alternative medicine, and spiritual development. Her new book is a compendium of the most recent discoveries being made and cutting edge theories being developed about the mysteries of life - what came before, what's going on now, what will follow, why we are here, and what relationships, patterns, and creative forces drive us and connect us.

In her book she explores the phenomenon of synchronicity - how it has worked for her again and again throughout her life - guiding and connecting her to the people and situations that could teach her the most. She remembers an incarnation in Atlantis, and she sees many correlations between the demise of that civilization and the questionable uses of power and technology in the world today. She also shares her many health concerns, and the alternative treatments that have helped her deal with many of the issues we all face related to aging.

Shirley's stature and reputation allow her to meet and talk with many of the finest minds doing research into the mysteries of the human body, mind, spirit, and the universe. In her book she shares personal interactions with Stephen Hawking, Gregg Braden, Dr. Michael Newton, and Dr. Larry Dossey. Her knowledge of history, science, and spiritual subjects is impressive, no doubt due to her relentlessly inquisitive nature, keen intelligence, and exclusive access to the foremost experts all over the world.

Like many people Shirley is concerned about the state of the world - spiritually, politically, and ecologically. Although she sees much to dishearten her, she still feels we have time to make the positive changes necessary to save our species and the planet we inhabit. She also believes that a great spiritual evolution is already underway, and that it may culminate in a massive shift in consciousness on December 21, 2012 - the date upon which the Mayan calendar ends.

Throughout her life Shirley MacLaine has focused her bright, inquisitive mind on channelers, psychics, mediums, UFO investigators, politicians, media personalities, quantum physicists, filmmakers, writers, fellow seekers, and storytellers - and learned something from all of them. Whether those teachers turned out to be sages or charlatans (or a little of both) she is interested, she wants to know, and she is in a position to investigate and then share what she discovers with the world.

With so much charisma, energy, and charm attracting so much attention, she could have appointed herself a guru, started a religion, and gotten rich - a temptation to which many other great communicators have succumbed throughout history. Like Edgar Cayce before her, however, she has the wisdom, integrity, and intelligence to know that she is not The Way, but is glad to serve as a bright light along the way.

Review, written by me, as it appeared in the November/December 2007 issue of "Venture Inward" magazine - reprinted with permission of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. Inc.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shirley Maclaine is right on., November 27, 2007

By	Regina Mastrogiacomo "Believer in what you ca... (Southington, CT, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Wow, what a book. Like always, Shirley talks about the things that I have believe in, for years. I love that she had the courage to say that it is Spirituality that people are looking for, not RELIGION. The book also say that God is not just for one race, but for everyone, and that you connect to God within not from outside yourself. The book also goes into UFO, and how the government is covering up the episodes of there arrival, and that there are many different space visitors visiting our planet. I like that she believe as I do, that we are from space visitors not evolution. She briefly talk about past-lives but mainly she really talks about the space people and how they are trying to stop us from killing ourselves and that all they are waiting for is for us to recognize them. However, since the government is trying very very very hard to discredit anyone who trys to tell us they are here. It is unlikely it will happen. It makes you wonder. The book is a very quick read. I read the 243 page book in three days, and as always I wish I had more to read.Sage-ing While Age-ing

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shirley does it again!, November 24, 2007

By	Lori (Texas Gulf Coast) - See all my reviews

This book brings the reader full circle from Shirley's previous books. It's perhaps the most important book she has written. She is an investigator with relentless questions and informative information. Shirley shares her research on many subjects, including UFOs, reincarnation, the Mayan calendar/the year 2012, and our future. She imparts wisdom from her many journeys and life experiences. She is a true gift and light to this world. A must read!