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the best source on starting and running a successful chiropractic
office that I have read yet. Whenever I hire a new associate,
they read this book first, before they do anything else. Everyone
that I interview and every student that interns at my office is
recommended that they read this book. Every other practice
management book I have read is full of "fluff". Ivan breaks it
down to "brass tacks" and gives you the meat and potatoes. The
only negative comment I have is that I did not have this book
when I started my practice!
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The protagonist, Ivan Osokin, is someone with whom most of us can empathize with. He's someone who would like another chance to live his life again so that he can make use of opportunities he wasted. He is blessed when he finds a magician who can exactly do this - send him back in time with the memories of the "future". He finds himself being a schoolboy again and at a critical path of his life. The strange thing being - now its difficult for him to believe any of it. His memory of "future" starts fading slowly and he finds that the inertia of fate is not easy to get rid of. He's taking the same decisions that he took the last time. His "memory" reduces to a plain deja vu and he's left wondering whether any of it was really true.
Giving away more will destroy the pleasure of reading.
Ouspensky's insights will leave you spellbound till the end. I just wish I had read it a few years earlier.
The form of the book is a novel; the protagonist is beset by difficulties that he feels somehow responsible for, but, that he cannot understand. Like all of us? As the story unfolds, we see that this novel is unlike any other, as it examines the protagonist's role in the minutest details of events, and shows how these events contribute to the inevitablity of what seem on the surface to be chance or uncontollable outcomes.
One lesson I drew from the book is to try to 'look deeply' at things. There is the reality that our concious mind registers and that changes moment to moment, and there are currents of meaning that are constant and don't change, but that are not recognized for what they are and are not acknowledged by our concious mind. However, our unconcious mind is fully aware of these currents, and their reality is more substantial than the concious reality. Does that make any sense? Probably not. Be assured that 'Osokin' is an interesting tale, not pyschobabble like my attempted explication.
Ouspensky was a follower of Gurjeiff, and there are still Gurjeiff groups that meet to discuss his thoughts. My last boss at a tech firm was a leader of such a group! I found out from him that Gurjeiff-ans think that the movie "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray is in the spirit of "Osokin". I agree. The setups are the same, a day, or a life, to live over, however, what follows is entirely different.
Ouspensky manages to combine real human feeling and longings with fantasy and dreams.
Enjoy!
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You must read this book. Then, give copies as gifts to everyone you love.
An only child, his mother dying when he is six years old, Doig is raised by his father, Charlie, who works various jobs, sheepherding, haying, moving from place to place, and for a while leasing a small ranch of his own, his son in tow. Charlie is a hard-working man, with a big heart and tender love for his son. Concerned by a turn of bad health, he is reconciled to his mother-in-law, who did not approve of her daughter's marriage to him, and the three of them become a family that remains together until Charlie's death at age 70.
The book captures and preserves in detail a way of life that has almost vanished from America. Doig tells of growing up in wide open spaces among livestock and wildlife, learning from his father the skills of making a living off the land and surviving against the odds. He attends small town schools, spending the winters in rented rooms, seeing his father and grandmother only on weekends. Much of his time spent with adults or alone, he grows up more quickly than his peers and learns to love solitude.
At 300+ pages, this is not a long book, but it's no page-turner. You find yourself reading it slowly, relishing the rich prose style that captures the poetry in this landscape of mountains, valleys, and plains, as well as the people, with their personal quirks, habits, ways of talking, and often eccentric behavior. In fact, the book reads much like a novel, full of stories, colorful characters, humor, pathos, suspense, and adventures. The vividness of Doig's writing reflects his training as a journalist, and I suspect that he may have been influenced more than a little by the novels of Thomas Wolfe. I recommend "This House of Sky" to anyone with an interest in the West, nature writing, books about growing up, family sagas, ranching and rural life. As a companion volume, I recommend Wallace Stegner's "Wolf Willow," about his boyhood in southwestern Saskatchewan.
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Bob has encrypted the actual 'date of text.' In fact, within the Apocryphon are the architectural plans to the Ark of Noah, the Leaning Tower of Pizza (hold the anchovies), the Great Wall of China, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and the electrical schematics for the Univac, the Cadillac, and the Rayovac--- all encrypted. Not to mention a fascinating 'Table of Elements' containing over 92 undiscovered elements and a killer Betty Cronkyte chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Bob knows, and perhaps with some basic instruction and years of grueling practice, you too could know. Keep in mind that the Apocryphon doubles as both a CPRRPMWPM and an MFCCOICSOIC manual. Having the knowledge, as Bob warns, is half the battle. Knowing just what to do with having the knowing of every aspect of everything and everything in-between everything in and of itself is besides the point. However, despite these dichotomic delemmic conundrums one must insist the practice itself is beyond the ability of even the most skilled novice. Therefore Bob suggests that perhaps the reading of the Apocryphon backward could produce more or less understanding of the meaninglessness of the attempt not to do so.
Using the Apocryphon I have gained enlightenment and understand that, had I not pursued these truths, I would have undoubtedly overcome. Thank you Bob for being there, even when I did not need you, and thank you also for your wisdom and arrogance.
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In his much-too-late debut, "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor," Bruce spins together a loose but always compelling narrative detailing his long journey through the jungle and many outlying swamps of show business. Bruce describes how he hit the "big time" in high-school-pal-turned-cult-horror-film-director Sam Raimi's low budget phenomenon "Evil Dead".
He tells about how he came to land roles in tv's "Hercules" and "Xena: Warrior Princess." Bruce has been in many a bad movie along the way, but he's come through it all with his humor and sense of priority refreshingly intact.
This is a great book for fans of Bruce, but I also recommend it to anyone who gets a kick out of Hollywood, or just anyone who enjoys a well-told story. I found myself repeatedly quoting bits and pieces of this book to friends as I was reading it. If you're looking for a book to bring along to the pool this summer, this is it.
For those of you who don't know, Bruce Campbell is a B Movie (Low budget, Super-8 films)actor who has had mega sucess as the hero Ash in the Evil Dead films. In the begining of the book he talks about his childhood (most all bios do that but this one was hilarious), his minor sucess in Super-8 films, his other minor sucesses in the Evil Dead films, and hit and miss performances in a A movie world.
He also landed roles on Hercules and Xena from time to time, also he directed Herc episodes too. You see, in his own words, "This is not a memoir about what I said to So-And-So at the Beverly Hills hotel. It's also not about an actors "meteoric" rise or tragic fall..."
It's just a walk into Bruce Campbell's life.
Memorable Quote: Do you want to be famous, or do you want to be an actor? They are two completly different things.
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The variety of writing styles and points of view made this an interesting and entertaining read. Also, being a busy professional, I liked the short articles so I could pick the book up and read a little.
I would highly recommend this book for business professionals and those looking to build support in their life.