Review: WHO AM I?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
When reading a book of this capacity, I will first read the introduction and then go to the last chapter of the book for a sneak preview of the conclusions where the subject is taking me. When I determine this then I can focus in on the text of the book and apply it accordingly. This tends to tie the middle into the beginning and project it to the end for better understanding.Well, Okay, I must say that my sneak preview procedure was promptly set back when the last Chapter titled "YOU" asks the question "WHO AM I".  Okay, this is the same question that I would be asking at the beginning of chapter one. What have I gained in setting a course of direction in which the text can flow?An explanation is then offered: "YOU ARE the sum total of the experiences of your Spirit + Soul + Mind + Thoughts + Emotions + Body; each being an aspect of you living in a parallel dimension of reality."Now I finally have a definition to work on.  But - - this is short lived when the wind is taken right back out of my sales with the statement: "YET YOU ARE NOT." Tricky! I am right back where I started, If "I Am Not",then, Who Am I?  A blob laying on the sea shore waiting to grow arms, legs and a brain so I can learn to walk and stumble though this thing called life?I discovered that this book is full of definitions of Who I Am. There are facts upon facts of well researched material that speaks with authority of Who We Are.  As the author describes it, "It is the culmination of years of ardent pursuit through study, experience and experimentation, leading to access of alternate states of consciousness - - -."The reader will find parts that are confusing, lacking understanding, But yet there are truths that when one stops to consider, the confusion suddenly becomes understanding.We all readily live in the physical as this is our immediate experience.  At the same time most have forgotten the spiritual which the book points out that we really are.  We are Spirit First and the Physical second.  To place our physical before our spiritual will make life more difficult as it denies who we really are.I enjoyed the quote in Chapter 17: "Truth is simple, people complicate it. The method does not fail, people do. Knowing is no substitute for doing; Knowing is a step forward, doing gets you there"I could only read short portions of the book at one time.  Thoughts would send me into deeper thinking as to how it all applies. In these intervals of thought I would conclude that the text offers me a fresh perspective for my adventure called life. In instances I had to put on hold some of my beliefs in order to understand the concept the author is offering.  It is not that my beliefs then became disbelief but that they were amended through this overall, sweeping work of spirituality.The book is 5 star quality because of the research and the effort to compile it into something beneficial to the reader.  At any price, this is a good book to have in your library to refer to time and again for encouragement in your life journey.  It is a great work in Spirituality in that it will aid you in understanding your deeper self; through the spiritual presence of your existence and how this can alter your approach to your physical adventure.Enjoy your read as I did.