Meditation and Dreamwork

[Tyciol]

I bought this book at Coles, and have read most of the exercises in it. Despite what's on the cover, she slowly edges into several other things you might not fully expect.

She deals with chakras, and begins working with them almost immediately in the meditation section, after encouraging simple meditation topics and good guidelines to accessorizing meditation by sounds/scents/crystals/whatever.

There is a HUGE section on guides, and I really didn't like this. First off, even though she says they're optional, the last section of the book, 'putting it all together', depends on them a LOT, as well as a lot of chakra work.

She says to trust all spirits and guides, that all guides are good, and to never question them, as even a potato farmer who never experimented with psychic abilities in his life will have greater powers than we to help ourselves.

All in all, the 'spiritual guides' section makes her seem pretty stupid to me. I don't know, apparently a lot of people around here swear by spirits, but I have to see it and feel it and hear it to believe it. I want Independence, not reliance on spirits.

If I meet a spirit, I'm just as likely going to want to try fighting it or enslaving it than to ask it nicely to guide me around. If a guide can't kick my ass or deal with me in an insightful manner that causes me to drop my attack, I don't see what I can learn from it.

[in'lakech]

Hey, I actually have this book. I never read it though. I think my mother bought it years ago to read it, and I some how ended up having it. I'm going to read it, and try some of the techniques. Since I'm completely new to all this, hopefully I'll have a lot of success.

Thanks for the review.