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roma9062's review
4.0
I noticed that I’ve read a lot of self-help books this year. This is one of the better ones.
There are two key features of this book that I think make it unique from anything else you’ll read on the topic: the forthrightness of his questions/exercises and the ideological framework used to explain the ideas.
This man doesn’t really waste time in getting to the hard-hitting questions that make you really get to the bottom of your sufferings and that is SO MUCH APPRECIATED. The best part, though, is that the questions feel kind/loving in their delivery rather than targeted. You can sense that this man really just wants to share his knowledge to help.
That said, the 4 factor framework he used to organize the ideas was great but something that takes getting used to. As he notes, these are the teaches of ancient traditions of Peruvian shamans so the ‘labels’ might not jive with hardcore westerners. Nonetheless, they are incredibly effective at communicating not just an idea but a feeling.
I would recommend this to few simply due to the audacity of being the book represents and the word choice for the labels as both could be major turn-offs for some.
There are two key features of this book that I think make it unique from anything else you’ll read on the topic: the forthrightness of his questions/exercises and the ideological framework used to explain the ideas.
This man doesn’t really waste time in getting to the hard-hitting questions that make you really get to the bottom of your sufferings and that is SO MUCH APPRECIATED. The best part, though, is that the questions feel kind/loving in their delivery rather than targeted. You can sense that this man really just wants to share his knowledge to help.
That said, the 4 factor framework he used to organize the ideas was great but something that takes getting used to. As he notes, these are the teaches of ancient traditions of Peruvian shamans so the ‘labels’ might not jive with hardcore westerners. Nonetheless, they are incredibly effective at communicating not just an idea but a feeling.
I would recommend this to few simply due to the audacity of being the book represents and the word choice for the labels as both could be major turn-offs for some.
clairewords's review against another edition
5.0
After having already read a few of his books, and in particular [b:The Four Insights: Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers|1767080|The Four Insights Wisdom, Power, and Grace of the Earthkeepers|Alberto Villoldo|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328860569l/1767080._SY75_.jpg|324157] which is excellent, I immediately turned to this to be my daily morning read during this period of confinement we are currently in and what a Godsend.
It may help to already be familiar or acquainted with the four levels of perception within shamanic philosophy, but perhaps not. Being already familiar with that way of seeing, this book beautifully expands it further into ways of dreaming, levels of consciousness, levels of courage, of beauty.
It shows us how we are all living within our own stories and that they can either stay stuck in the past and put on repeat, or we can rewrite them and courageously dream a better version of ourselves and of our future.
Holding on to old stories creates imprints in our energetic body or LEF (luminous energy field) even after the facts and circumstances change, those resentments and bad feelings create energetic cords that tie us to the players in the drama, which is why we then get triggered so easily.
Alberto Villoldo uses illuminating metaphors to help s see our situations from a different perspective and provides suggestions for how to change. Understanding our own tendencies is the first step, rewriting a better narrative of our lives follows. Learning to sever unwelcome ties and clear karmic baggage, all the better.
Seeing our lives as river with a accumulation of silt and how to clear it is liberating, decoding the symbols and metaphors of our dreams, where our subconscious solutions lie, tipping us off to what our conscious mind resists recognising.
Especially now, we are all being forced to confront what lies within us, the build up of silt that requires clearing, so the crystalline waters of our lives can flow more easily.
We are not in control of where the river flows, only of how clean we keep its waters.
I think I may have to go back to chapter one and read it again, to be sure the message sinks in, I think that might help the waters flow clean.
It may help to already be familiar or acquainted with the four levels of perception within shamanic philosophy, but perhaps not. Being already familiar with that way of seeing, this book beautifully expands it further into ways of dreaming, levels of consciousness, levels of courage, of beauty.
It shows us how we are all living within our own stories and that they can either stay stuck in the past and put on repeat, or we can rewrite them and courageously dream a better version of ourselves and of our future.
Our situation may be a difficult one, but it's only a nightmare if we choose to make that our reality. By taking the facts and writing a new story with them, we can script a different experience of reality.
Holding on to old stories creates imprints in our energetic body or LEF (luminous energy field) even after the facts and circumstances change, those resentments and bad feelings create energetic cords that tie us to the players in the drama, which is why we then get triggered so easily.
Alberto Villoldo uses illuminating metaphors to help s see our situations from a different perspective and provides suggestions for how to change. Understanding our own tendencies is the first step, rewriting a better narrative of our lives follows. Learning to sever unwelcome ties and clear karmic baggage, all the better.
Seeing our lives as river with a accumulation of silt and how to clear it is liberating, decoding the symbols and metaphors of our dreams, where our subconscious solutions lie, tipping us off to what our conscious mind resists recognising.
We fight the current, yet we never clean the river.
Especially now, we are all being forced to confront what lies within us, the build up of silt that requires clearing, so the crystalline waters of our lives can flow more easily.
When you start pouring beauty into your river, you'll find that the waters are becoming clearer every day. To practice beauty, you must give up the ugly stories in which someone is a victim and someone else is the perpetrator. practicing beauty means recognising what is pure and of value in every situation and in every person.
We are not in control of where the river flows, only of how clean we keep its waters.
I think I may have to go back to chapter one and read it again, to be sure the message sinks in, I think that might help the waters flow clean.
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