Review: Advice on effecting global change on a cellular level
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2012
This is a book written in a way that can be easily digested by a very wide audience and holds, in my opinion, some very valuable (though not new) insights on how effecting positive change within yourself can have the power to affect society on a global level.  That said, don't pick up this book expecting to read detailed information on the world-ending prophecies of 2012.  Though there is some non-detailed information regarding the end-prophecies discussed in the Zohar there is only passing relevancy between that and the book's main subject matter.The message of the book in and of itself is a very good one, and in addition to being very clear as to why positive change is good, the author also provides very specific and intelligent methodologies that the individual may utilize to better effect the advice of the book.That said, the Zohar is a rather controversial book on mystical Juddaism - it's original authorship still under much and deserved debate - and Berg's writing seems overly enthusiastic to my eyes to "selling" the wisdoms within the Zohar.  His words shout "read the Zohar", much like certain Christians would suggest that reading the Bible in and of itself will make one a better person - not because you understand the messages within, but simply because you read from it:  do so, and as if by osmosis, you somehow become improved.Because of this seeming underlying agenda of the author, the book seemed less genuine than I would otherwise have felt it to be.  I was disappointed by that, but if you can overlook that side agenda, the message within is a good one, no matter your particular faith or your particular belief (or lack thereof) in the words of the Zohar.