Book Description
In this remarkable book, William Buhlman, author of the bestselling Adventures Beyond the Body, offers the reader a comprehensive guidebook to understanding and exploring the fascinating phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Learn how you can:
- Explore your true spiritual self and attain profound transformation in your awareness and knowledge of the universe.
- Gain life-changing benefits as you break free from mental and physical limitations
- Contact departed loved ones using OBEs to move beyond the current limited understanding of death.
Filled with engrossing stories based on the testimonies of people from all over the world, and offering forty new, easy-to-understand techniques, The Secret of the Soul will prepare human beings everywhere for the next major leap in the evolution of consciousness.
Customer Reviews:
Absolute Must-Read Book for Anyone Wishing to Gain More Understanding!!.......2007-10-17
The book, The Secret of the Soul by William Buhlman, is the second book in his series on out-of-body experiences that explains how we can facilitate the understanding of our true nature as a spiritual being within a physical body. This book uses the `real-life' testimonies and experiences of survey participants from all over the world to show that out-of-body travel is not a rare, exceptional practice, but one that is recurrent and routine for those who seek to learn more about it.
In a clear, straightforward manner, he offers the benefits of out-of-body exploration, such as self-healing, past-life revelations, and the transformative shifts in consciousness that can occur. He gives easy to understand descriptions of numerous techniques for initiating out-of- body exploration. He shares with us his beliefs on the similarities of `extraterrestrial encounters' and out-of-body situations and what his version of an `ideal death' would be.
To quote from the book, "The real frontier for humanity is the exploration of consciousness and the nonphysical dimensions that exist just beyond our vision. As we evolve, we will move beyond our current obsession with matter and join the multidimensional community of consciousness. Until we do, we will continue as primitive outsiders who stare into the sky and wonder about our place in the universe." For those who wish to learn more about themselves and our place in the universe, this is a must-read book!
As he states, our spiritual evolution is our responsibility and it takes courage to be a spiritual explorer "to step beyond our physical limits and the prevailing norms of our society and culture". I highly recommend reading this book as it will help you gain that courage to step outside any limiting beliefs and know that you are not alone in your quest for the truth!
Loved it!!!.......2007-07-24
William Buhlman's books are the bomb diggity! I absolutely loved Secret of the Soul and Adventures Beyond the Body. Very well laid out books, easy to read and understand; and best of all, they contain personal experiences from people all over the world. By far the two best books I have read on the subject! Well done Bill!
A Fascinating and Wide-Ranging Exploration of the Out of Body Experience.......2006-11-07
I've read a large number of books on Astral Projection and this one was completely different for its range of topics. The author sent out a survey and received first-hand accounts from 16,000 people who have had various degrees of out-of-body experiences from accidental to controlled, from enjoyable to unwelcome. Buhlman lets the stories speak for themselves, and categorizes the experiences by subject: meetings and messages beyond the body, childhood OBEs, combat- and trauma-induced experiences and transformational experiences. Buhlman also discusses what can be expected from an OBE and what benefits there are.
Chapter 6 was unique in the entire literature of OBEs: could alien abductions be unexpected out-of-body experiences? Buhlman does a masterful job of analyzing the reported experiences of alien abductees and drawing parallels to the sensations of OBEs.
His "Brief History" of OBEs is an eye-opening re-examination of descriptions of the mystical experience, synthesizing historical and biblical accounts from the Egyptians through the Greeks and Tibetans, to the Christian and Sufi mystics, including Swedenborg, Yogis, Aborigines, Native Americans and Shamans. It's all too brief, serving to point the way for the reader to research further, but does argue for the ubiquitous OBE in our religions and spiritual paths.
Chapter 8, "A New Vision of Death and Dying," is another unique feature of this book in the Astral Travel library. OBEs are not dealt with as simply enjoyable anomalies in consciousness, but as life-changing spiritual experiences demanding a transformation of our definition of reality.
The "Art and Practice" section of the book deals specifically with the sensations the practitioner will feel when attempting to leave the body. The trance state is discussed, and the all-important vibrational phenomena are revisited throughout the book until they are pretty much memorized. Very few other books on Astral Projection are so detailed in their descriptions of what you can expect to feel when trying to leave the body. They may tell you what to imagine or visualize, but then you do the practices and then feel/see/hear things and wonder if you're on the right track. For example, the paralysis and vibrations that frighten many people are the very signals of an imminent OBE!
Many different visualizations are offered, and readers can choose the ones that appeal to them, or the ones that they find easiest to work with: climbing, floating, rocking, rotating, rotating, and so on.
Other techniques that may aid the reader in leaving the body are discussed briefly, from drumming and medicinal plants to meditation and brain-wave technology. A chapter on trouble-shooting is very helpful for those experiencing fear or distractions.
Like anything, Astral Projection can be learned through practice. No book can guarantee an OBE; that depends on your motivation and power of concentration, not to mention your ability to persevere through failure and learn from your mistakes. But "Secret of the Soul" is a wide-ranging and fascinating read even for earth-bound souls.
Both book and CD was fantastic !!!.......2006-09-10
This book is one of the best OBE books. You looking for OBE techniques ? You can found more than 20 in this book !!! You looking for protection techniques while OBE ? O yes, you can found them here. How about to guide some one whose dying ? You can found it here too. About similarity OBE with Alien's abduction ? Yup, it's here too....
I also will review CD version of this book. It's contains 4 CD : 1. The Christos Technique (you can find it from other OBE books). 2. The Energy Body Technique (similar with Denning-Philips and Crowleys.. transfer your consciousness to astral body). 3. The Rope Technique (read Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce !). 4. The Shaman / Bird Technique (you can find it in Adventures Beyond the Body..the best, number one.. OBE book!). If you like practice with guiding.. this is for you. The sound (background) strong enough to direct your mind to non physical realms.
Just OK.......2006-02-27
I enjoyed Buhlman's first book more than this one. At times, the information really drags.
Book Description
'Ken Robinson writes brilliantly about the different ways in which creativity is undervalued and ignored in Western culture and especially in our educational systems.' JOHN CLEESE
'Out of Our Minds explains why being creative in today's world is a vital necessity. This is a book not to be missed. Read and rejoice.' KEN BLANCHARD
'If ever there was a time when creativity was necessary for the survival and growth of any organization, it is now. This book, more than any other I know, provides important insights on how leaders can evoke and sustain those creative juices.' WARREN BENNIS
Customer Reviews:
Worth taking the time to take in.......2007-09-21
I found this book transformational. Well-argued and clearly expressed, it seems to me that the ideas are founded in many years of teaching, rather than of academic publishing experience. Nonetheless each point is supported by interesting references to research. As an educator, this books makes perfect sense to me in its friendly yet uncompromising reframing of the assumptions underlying much of the received wisdom about our own, and our institutions' approach to creativity. It offers a useful guide to creating more inspiring and at the same time disciplined education that will be of greater relevance to ours, and our childrens', futures.
A wonderful book by a great mind.......2007-04-13
I heard Ken Robinson speak on a C-Span program and was quite taken by his mastery of the topic of education and sociology, so I bought one of his books Out of Our Minds... is terrific, and it is no wonder huge corporations seek this man's advice on a myriad of issues. I am in education, and the book is a relevant and informative addition to my reference library.
Essential Reading for Teachers!.......2007-01-10
'Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative' by Ken Robinson is one of the 'must read' books for modern classroom teachers. Robinson challenges many of the widely held beliefs and processes of education found in the majority of western countries. In a time of rapidly changing social and educational climates, the ideas that are raised in this book allows teachers to consider the real purpose of educating students for a modern society.
Keep it short, Sir Ken.......2006-11-28
After reading the book, I had a hard time remembering why I had thought it would be great, so I looked again at Sir Ken Robinson's recent and popular lecture at [search "Sir Ken Robinson on TED Talks"]. Now I remember -- he's an entertaining speaker, with some pretty good points about the genius of children and how we school it out of them. But the book, well, it's subtitled "Learning to Be Creative" but that really only comes in the last chapter, and his recommendations seem very conservative. He spends much too much time before that--building up his case--and that case is watered down by being second-hand. If you want to know about what schooling is doing and why, read Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society. If you're really interested in the physiological basis of non-academic intelligence, read Goleman's Emotional Intelligence (which Sir Ken quotes, but better the original). In short, the book, though it's just 200 pages, is simply too long.
I did find one memorable point: that many people miss the chance for creativity because they're not trying in the field that's natural to them. The idea that, in order to be creative, find your medium, whether it be in the "traditional" arts such as painting or dance, or in any other occupation. Whatever is closest to your heart.
What education really needs.......2006-11-05
While Robinson perhaps uses more words than necessary to make his point, I found this book refreshing because it gets to the heart of the failures in our education system that few others seem to see. The focus of education reform today is on testing to verify that all students learn certain basic facts, e.g. no child left behind. There is some merit to the new attention paid to accountability for outcomes. However, as Robinson clearly points out, the real issue is that we are not helping our students to understand and leverage their own unique talents, and we are not preparing them to deal collaboratively with a world where there are few black and white answers. Until we as a society properly identify the problem, any solutions that emerge are guaranteed to fall short--no matter how well intentioned. I found the book to be short on guidance about solutions and approaches that can address the core issues, but at least it gets the problem in front of anyone who reads it.
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When you witness a small child haul off and smack another child unprovoked, the theory of innate morality seems to lose all validity. Moral education has always been the domain of religion, and Linda Kavelin Popov has culled 52 universal virtues from the world's religions, one for each week of the year. The resulting Family Values Guide is a workbook for the moral education of children that transcends differences of religion or culture. Each week, the book suggests, a family should gather to discuss a different virtue from the book, such as love, generosity, or patience, and the parents then emphasize the virtue for the following days, capitalizing on appropriate moments for education. Contrary to some pop psychology authors, Popov insists that reasonable boundaries be established and maintained for children and that appropriate punishment be meted out when boundaries are crossed. Psychotherapist and president of the Family Values Project, Popov sees the language of values as the key to recognizing their importance in social interaction, and encourages parents to add other values to their own list.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful, not just for Baha'i children!!.......2006-11-03
This book is absolutely wonderful ~ just what Baha'u'llah encourages us to be, and the virtues are beautifully explained and great examples are given!! Very clear to understand & practice. Every family should have this book, hands down. Of course, there are more than 52 virtues we all should learn & practice, but in this format, we can read and practice one virtue per week for a year. We make it a game & share our experiences throughout the week. :) It's been incredibly helpful not only to my daughter in giving her the tools to be a kind, loving, compassionate & confident individual, but also successful in any situation life will throw at her. NOT to mention ~ it's been invaluable to me, showing and teaching me virtues I needed to work on so I can be a better example for my daughter as well. Being a parent, there is no greater responsibility than talking the talk, and *walking the walk*!! LOVE IT!!
extremely helpful.......2006-03-19
I got this book because of a recommendation from a friend. She taught pre school, and when she applied "the virtues" to her class, she said that it was like a miracle.
Personally, my children are older, 10,11,12. I have also had awesome results so far! I have learned to see many situations differently, and it has worked! Each time I have had an opportunity to call my kids to a virtue, calmness reigns. When we argue, calling them to the particular virtue that is needed at that time makes sense to children. It also allows them to be in control of the results. I believe that I will be using this book until they are grown.
This is a must get book!.......2006-02-09
This book has taught us how to brake the cycle of shame & blame and then shown us a loving/just way to work with kids to change behavior. It has worked on myself just as much as my daughter and she loves to read or do the virtues picks. I can't express how much this has helped us! We all love the book.Have an open mind and do it for a month you will see results right away.
The very best parenting book and the only one you'll need.......2005-10-23
I came across this book in Australia 9 years ago and inmediately bought one. I still use it today. It is the only "parenting" book that I've found truly useful. It is relevant for children from as young as 3 till adult. Indeed, much of it gives fruit for thought for us parents as individuals as well. It is a wonderful tool for developing ethics and integrity, learning about virtues and values, your own and others' and what are universal virtues. I cannot recommend this book more strongly, not only because of its content, but also because it is fun and empowering to do.
a very valuable contribution.......2004-02-29
What is the most important gift we can give our child during the few short years parents exercise major influence? Could it be that giving them a strong moral and ethical framework is the most important task we face? The voices are few, but they are growing - voices that say that ethics is the missing link in the world today. Voices that say that virtues need to be taught to our children in schools. Voices expressed in such books as "The Quiet revolution; Encouraging Positive Values in our Children" where we are told about a revolution in education that is taking place in the Oxford Education Authority in the UK, based on positive concepts such as honesty, truthfulness, respect, happiness, peace, responsibility and love. During the school year children are exposed to 22 similar concepts because the headmaster sees values as the foundation of education, of the healthy development of the child and indeed of the strength of the national community.
Religions identify more that 300 virtues as the basis of their teachings, but the author of "The Family Virtues Guide" has limited herself to a more manageable 52 - one for each week of the year - and reading this book was like a breath of fresh air in a smoke-filled room. Compiled by the Virtues Project, an international organization dedicated to inspiring spiritual growth in young and old alike, this multicultural, interfaith handbook has been prepared for all those who wish to turn these 52 virtues into reality by providing us with simple strategies which we can readily incorporate into our daily life and thus take advantage of those quickly passing teachable moments. All religions have their own version of the Golden Rule - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Likewise virtues are the silver thread running through all humanity's sacred literature, the traditions of indigenous peoples, all religions, faiths and cultures. Virtues are the qualities of the soul.
We should be concerned about virtues, not only because virtuous people are good people - it goes deeper than that. In each of us there is a deep spiritual need, a yearning of the soul which is often misinterpreted as physical or material neediness. How many of us believe that if only we had more popularity, money, love, power or a better job, we would be happy? Yet when we try to fill this longing by something physical or material - something outside ourselves - we remain unsatisfied. We need to connect to our spiritual self, some would say connect with God, to feel that we are a complete, whole person. The author likens a child to an acorn with the potential to grow into a great oak - born with all the virtues waiting to grow. But just as a tree requires the right environment to grow, so virtues in a child need tender loving care to develop. In today's world of latchkey children, it is easy to believe that if we satisfy our child's physical needs we are being good parents. But a child needs more and this book helps us to understand and implement part of what is missing. This book should be read by all thoughtful, loving parents who want their child to develop into the oak tree that is their potential.
The introduction tells us what we can expect from this book: "The Guide is a how-to manual for applying virtues in everyday life, for supporting each other to set spiritual goals. It is a guide to a simple language of spirituality - the virtues themselves. Some call it the language of the heart." Each virtue begins with a small inspirational quotation from the holy book of one of the world's religions and has an explanation of its meaning, why and how we should practice it and how we measure success in implementing it. The concept is well thought through, well presented and easy to follow.
Parents are the child's first teacher, yet most of us become parents with little training and prior preparation for such easily overlooked areas as teaching virtues. Very quickly children are launched into the world of television, materialism and advertising where they are exposed to values representing the opposite of ethics, integrity and love. For those who feel that endowing our children with virtues is important, "The Family Virtues Guide" is a very valuable contribution.
Book Description
Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in Central Africa, provides a new view of those early European explorers and their encounters with Africans. Out of Our Minds shows explorers were far from rational--often meeting their hosts in extraordinary states influenced by opiates, alcohol, sex, fever, fatigue, and violence. Johannes Fabian presents fascinating and little-known source material, and points to its implications for our understanding of the beginnings of modern colonization. At the same time, he makes an important contribution to current debates about the intellectual origins and nature of anthropological inquiry.
Drawing on travel accounts--most of them Belgian and German--published between 1878 and the start of World War I, Fabian describes encounters between European travelers and the Africans they met. He argues that the loss of control experienced by these early travelers actually served to enhance cross-cultural understanding, allowing the foreigners to make sense of strange facts and customs. Fabian's provocative findings contribute to a critique of narrowly scientific or rationalistic visions of ethnography, illuminating the relationship between travel and intercultural understanding, as well as between imperialism and ethnographic knowledge.
Customer Reviews:
Farcical and saddening.......2001-01-01
Fabian works industriously to get behind the "Indiana Jones"-type figures who opened Africa up to European enterprise. His general thesis is obvious if correct: that explorers were not the rational beings who used scientific reason to conquer the wild African landscape and the wilder Africans. They were scared, drunk, pompous, open to seduction, tied to creature comforts ... . They resemble the late 20th-century American who cannot imagine living without civilization. What makes the book entertaining is the encyclopedia of sensual experiences that Fabian offers: how they saw, herd, felt Africa, how they interacted with people and the world, how they established their authority and leadership. Fabian thereby produces an extensive and detailed image of the personalities of explorers as they worked their way across Africa. Perhaps the most amusing image is of heavy phonographs and bottles of wine carried along jungle paths that they followed rather than discovered and the extent they relied on native Africans as guides, porters and interpreters to learn about the "dark" continent. Some sense of Central African exploration might help, but it is by no means necessary.
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This book illustrates how time travel will be discovered in one thousand years and documents how these futuristic humans have traveled bask in time to interract with us throughout history and are here with us today. Many self-hypnosis exercises are provided, including fifth dimension travel and teleportation, to train the reader to contact these time travelers and travel in time themself.
Customer Reviews:
Just OK.......2002-04-21
I believe that UFOs are time machines from the future, and that's why I got this book. I like that the spiritual side of UFO encounters is discussed (though I'm not one of those new-age people you run into, I do believe in reincarnation), but I don't like how little information there is or the lack of evidence for some of his claims (like the bit about the various planes of existence; I think he's been playing too much Dungeons & Dragons). If you want a good book on the subject, get Visitors From Time by Marc Davenport. That's one of my favorite books.
Decent but Tahchee Chronicles is better........2002-02-28
Bruce Goldberg occassionally attempts to hint around that he himself is a time traveller. But, if that were the case he would have known that his book would be considered somewhat even. Not up to the level of stuff like his own Past Lives/future Lives. If you REALLY want to read a well written book on history's interaction with aliens you may want to check out the remarkable Tahchee Chronicles.
Possible answers from the Fifth Dimension.......2001-08-07
I am only about 3/5's of the way through the book, but wanted to comment on it. It is a very thought provoking concept. I am interested in the possibility of reincarnation, etc. and want to learn what pieces fit the larger puzzle of our lives. The chapter about Quantum physics is something I have no knowledge about, but understand the concept.
I just read a couple chapters at a time and then let what I read sink in to see what, if anything it means to me. Then my friends(who are also reading the book) compare notes about what we have or have not learned.
I am very intriqued with what I have read. (my thoughts) are the book is about "The Good, The Bad and The Informed" I would strongly recommend this book for any one who is on a quest for answers as to what we are about and where we may be going in this life.
Realmente Impresionate!.......1999-05-15
Si queres saber como se abduce, o sea como se chupan a las personas, para llevarlas a otros mundos, lee este libro. Fantastico, vas a quedar impresionado(da).
I want my money BACK!.......1999-05-06
I want my money BACK! Do I have to tell you more about this "book". I'm soooooooooo disapointed...
Book Description
African American women have commonly been portrayed as "pillars" of their communities -- resilient mothers, sisters, wives, and grandmothers who remain steadfast in the face of all adversities. While these portrayals imply that African American women have few psychological problems, the scientific literature and demographic data present a different picture. They reveal that African American women are at increased risk for psychological distress because of factors that disproportionately affect them, including lower incomes, greater poverty and unemployment, unmarried motherhood, racism, and poor physical health. Yet at the same time, rates of mental illness are low. This invaluable book is the first comprehensive examination of the contradictions between the strengths and vulnerabilities of this population. Using the contexts of race, gender, and social class, In and Out of Our Right Minds challenges the traditional notions of mental health and mental illness as they apply to African American women.
Customer Reviews:
We Need To Go Out of our Minds.......2006-07-07
I purchased this book used, and have only just gotten to reading it, and find it mind-blowing. My wife is particularly enthralled with it as it revitalizes her feminist backbone, something that needs to be done around the country during Bush jr's reign. This book is giving her ideas of possibility in reclaiming humanity, with beginning where it all starts: with women taking the reins and making this world right. We are all one; we need to accept each other and stop the violence against women worldwide. We must end war and violence in general in order to attain peace. Sonia is radical in that she recognizes the failures of patriarchy and speaks truth to power. Her thinking is sublime. Wholly recommend this book to awaken the giant that is Woman.
A primer for younger feminists.......2003-12-10
Sonia Johnson has written several books, but this is my favorite. She seems incredibly naive, especially in the beginning of her story, and a lot of the things she says, younger feminists will probably yawn and say, "Yeah? No kidding!". But Sonia has a passion for what she believes that really makes me want to re-investigate my own beliefs and feelings.
She is definitely not the same person now that she was when she wrote "Going Out of Our Minds!" The last I heard about her, she was living in New Mexico, with some very unusual philosophies that included 1 - Sex is patriarchal, hierarchical, and harmful, even between women, 2 - She "divorced" her children when they turned 18, and believes that humans should be like other animals and not have anything to do with their young once they can care for themselves, 3 - She has nothing whatsoever to do with men.
I love to read the way her mind works, but all of her new philosophies - I can't go there... She is definitely an intriguing, fascinating woman, and it would do all women good to read her books. Even if you can't go "all the way" with her. Anyone heard anything from Sonia lately? Has she dropped off the face of the earth?
Customer Reviews:
So smart it hurts!.......2000-11-28
Aimee, Craig, and Edwina have written the seminal text on anti-intellectualism in American schools, giving anti-intellectualism a comprehensive treatment. They address the issue of schooling in a postindustrial society (Ch. 5, The Intellectual Potential of Schooling), and posit serious possibilities for school reformation (Ch. 6, Rethinking the Potential of Schooling). These people, educators themselves, care. Listen to them.
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In and Out of Our Own Way
Manufacturer: PD Publishing
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Since retiring from medical practice, Ben and Jock together have blended an in-depth approach to self-development aimed at integration of the individual in body, mind and spirit, emphasizing responsibility for the self in health, relationships and lifestyle. In their twenty-five years of professional association together, they have worked with people around the globe. Most of their approach has been derived from their intense investigation of their own relationship, as well as their experiences with their clients. They are founders of PD seminars at Haven By-the-Sea, a residential educational centre in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, on Canada's west coast.
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The diversity of the members of the Transylvania Writers' Alliance is reflected in the writings included in this book. Poems startle, prose excites, and the human experience is illuminated. The reader will meet mountain folk, international travelers and those who struggle with the everyday. From the woman who is sensuously stirred by a symphony to an encounter along the Seine, from the magical world of the Koi to the imagined world of a science fiction saga, from a South Carolina sea coast to a cemetery of the War Between the States, these stories provide a panoply of the fruits of creative voices. The writers take pride in producing this book, a tribute to the time and place in which they live.
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