It is about time someone wrote about synchronicity and flow in clear, lucid language, that can be used by anyone. The authors use great, funny (and sometimes) exhilirating examples of individuals who experience flow and synchronicity in day-to-day life. What is neat is that these examples come from their own research and interviews with "FlowMasters." In comparison to other books I have read on the topic (Jung, Csikszentmihalyi, Jaworksi), this is the most accessible. The exercises are an added bonus. You could create your own spiritual retreat using this book.

I have read many books on the topic of synchronicity, from Jung to the latest business guru who claims to have hit the jackpot of "flow," but this book gives practical, real-life exercises to bring the true "power" of flow into your life. And the book offers real stories from people who have harnessed the power! The authors really must have done a lot of research in gathering all these personal accounts!

What I loved most about this book was its hands-on approach to unleashing the flow in your own life. After clearly explaining the intellectual underpinnings of their concept, the authors gently guide the reader with exercises and techniques that begin simply and grow in involvement as you move along. It's a great way to bring spiritual order and connectedness to your life, even if you don't think you can. I recommend it highly for anyone looking to transform their inner and outer worlds.

The book may be good. I don't know but these people have obviously written their own testimonials. How do the readers happen to know how many have been sold etc.

My in-laws had been putting off estate planning, which would put the family business at jeopardy at their death. The first chapter gives examples of what happens without planning, and after reading it, they started the process of a living trust and most importantly finished it!
The book also showed my husband and I why we needed a living trust to protect our young son (so he would not inherit wealth, without strings, at a naive 18), and why my widowed sister needed a trust to protect her children receiving an inheritance if she died after remarriage -- without a trust her inheritance would go to husband #2, and not her children.
The book helps.

this book really stunk don't get it

The book needs more actual stories and less hypothesizing about the meaning of the few stories that are included.

The author invests a lot of words and time trying to persuade readers that there is life after life. I'd suspect that the people who read this book aren't questioning the eternality of life - but would like to hear more about the "death bed visions."

It's an okay book but it needs more meat and substance. It reads more like a book that was written 20 years ago, when the interest in angels and spiritual beings was just beginning. And it's written in very simple and conversational language. It reads like a letter from a friend who's met some interesting people who had death bed visions. The scope and circle of the experiences is quite limited and it's a little too simple for my tastes.

Yes, I believe we're in the company of angels and spiritual beings and I believe there is life after life. I want to know more about what these people saw and heard and felt. I wanted more case studies and personal stories. The author seems to spend a lot of time and words convincing us of the reality of the spiritual realm of existence.

It's an okay book and I'd recommend it, if you have time to read several books. But along these lines - I'd more highly recommend "Hello From Heaven." That book seems more powerful and well-written and researched than "One Last Hug Before I Go."

This was an excellent book. Very easy to follow and very interesting. I wish she would write another. A must read regarding Death Bed Visions.

This book provides far more than just research. There are some very intriguing parallels to all the documented cases.

This book is written in a way that it maintains the interest of the existing "Believer" and captures the interest of the curious and perhaps skeptic. Every reader can relate to some witnessed event in this book. Perhaps not aware of what may have taking place at the time....now enlightened.

I found this refreshingly real and hard to put down Especially in comparison to other popular books about the afterlife that had a commercial edge and were almost trying to "sell" a belief.

Dr. Carla has an impressive fan club of people like myself that respect her for her Spiritual insight and general wisdom of well being. I actually reccommend all of her books. She's pretty multi-tasked!

Thom Hartmann is probably my all-time favorite writer on the subject of ADD. I am a 36 year old woman who was diagnosed with ADD 3 years ago. Mr. Hartmann's book, 'ADD, A Different Perception', has probably had more of a positive effect on me than anything else I've read on the subject. His positive views on ADD as a unique but misunderstood form of brain wiring have caused me to view myself in a much more positive light.

However, that being said, I've also done a bit of research on NLP, and I've found that empirical, scientific evidence for some of the ideas it espouses is lacking.

First, I rather doubt that humans can be so neatly grouped by their thinking in one primary sensory 'mode' (i.e., visual, auditory, kinesthetic etc.), being the complex creatures that we truly are. If you have read the book, then you probably took the test that summarizes the primary sensory mode in which you experience the world. I tried some of the exercises in the book, but only found one of them to be applicable to my own situation. The rest of them were decidely not very useful for me.

Not to say that this book won't resonate positively with the great majority of ADD people who read it, but I personally found 'ADD, A Different Perception' to be far more insightful and less time-consuming to get something out of, and it remains for me the best book ever written on the subject of ADD.

This book offers practical exercises that will change the way
educators look at ADD as well as how they work with their
students. The suggestions and exercises in the book were helpful, not
only to my ADD students but to all my students. It offers a healing
peaceful way to relate to and assist students in the classroom. Wish I
had read it years ago. The class met each new exercise with a real
sense of adventure and discovery, taking the the exercises home to
share with their parents. Soon parents were involved and asking
questions. It was wonderful! ...

This is very well written and thought provoking book. Thom Hartmann really helps his readers to think. This book is full of great suggestions and ideas to help live a more positive ADD life. This book helps the reader to change his or her whole thinking process.

If you are just learning about ADD I strongly suggest that you read at least one of Thom Hartman's books. This man really understands ADD.

This book is about a boy named Billy Baggs who lives in a rural part of the town. To put it mildly, he lives on a farm, and rides 2 hours each day to school. Billy's latest problem is the pitcher on the Town Team. Actually, it's the fact that King likes the same girl Billy likes. After King and Billy get in a fight, the Coach of the baseball team comes up with a way to solve the boys' problem. Or so he thought. I think that Will Weaver did an excellent job on this book. The characters are all very real, and have real problems that could exist in real life. The solution to the boys' problem was creative, but I do think that the strike between the parents was a little ridiculous. The setting could be anywhere and apply to anyone, and I applaud Mr. Weaver on that.

I thought this was a well written novel. I thought I was going to read about baseball, but it seemed that the whole book was based on the life of two young men that had problems with their fathers. It was a pleasent surprise because I can relate with King kenwood. When I have sport activities my father is always yelling at the offical even when the offical is wright. I commend King on how he could make the change from town life to country life. I was disappointed in the fact that Billy and Suzy were starting to get in a relationship and then they hardly even talked to each other. I think the coach is the one that kept the boys friendship alive. If it wasn't for him the boys never would have lived after their fight so they could show their fathers how they were hurting their lives. I think anybody would love this book because it has a little about baseball, but it is mainly about the relationship between father and son.

great stuff! a buch of baseball action, sex, and a big battle in the bulpen.

This edition does NOT include a CD. Based on other reviews, I had assumed that I would receive a CD with fillable legal forms.

It is unfortunate that "a reader" from Davis CA bought the version of this book that does not come with a CD. There are two editions of this title; one comes with a CD with the forms and one does NOT come with a CD. The edition without the CD is, obviously, cheaper. If you click on the "Editions: all editions" tab in the listing of any book on Amazon.com, you can determine exactly which version of a title you want.

This book had all the basiscs written in non lawyer talk. Forms and examples were clear. Recommended for any one having a need to do a basic will on a weekend day. Read the entire book in a short period of time as some material and examples can be skipped over.

I have had it up to here with self-help books that prescribe various numbers of steps for curing the many ailments of humankind. There are so many books of this kind out there that customers have become conditioned to snap up anything to do with "Steps". It's an interesting juxtaposition: A book about freedom that takes advantage of brand recognition (a form of slavery?) to attract buyers. It makes one wonder - is this book really about freedom or is it just another product in the vast tidal wave of mediocre self-help books? While Gerry Spence is adept at lecturing us on the virtues of freedom and independence, it's interesting to note that he himself is not free enough nor independent enough to come up a more imaginitive title for this book. But that would just confuse the book's intended audience, thereby reducing sales, much to the disappointment of Mr. Spence, his publishers, and their bankers. But enough ranting. I really must get back to the book. I only have two more steps to go, just two steps to Freedom...

This is, indeed,the most influencial book I have ever read! It is very powerful; and do you know why? Simply because it is the truth. Do you want to hear the truth? Well, read this book!!!
Thank you Gerry Spence for letting your heart and your soul pour out when writing this book: As a reader, I could truly see inside your heart and could see exact situations happening in my life just in another form. I especially like the chapter: " withholding permission to lose." When things are not going right for some reason in my life, I think it boils down to that chapter.
I am reading the book for the second time; and I always keep it handy. It is, indeed, "An Owner's Manual for Life." You will not regret buying this book.

Gerry Spence is indeed the spokesperson for the new Republican. For someone who began as a bleeding heart liberal, his Wyoming breeding showed through and the heart of the west took over. "Leave us alone!", he cries, "Let us live our lives the way we want to. In the freedom of our land and our hearts and with our souls loosened to the zephyr of truth!"

Look past his courtroom rhetoric speaking to the skeptic. Hard words when he calls you SLAVE. Look past his way of skipping off to the far side so that a compromise is what he really means. When he calls you slave and you deny it, he knows that in your heart you will compromise by allowing that you carry chains. Look beyond this lawyer like tactic and you will find a true gem teaching you to let go. Let your western spirit take you where your life should have gone from the beginning. After reading this book, I nodded and told my boss I would have quit him cold if we already didn't have the ideal relationship Gerry talks about as his hope for the future worker. Read this and quit! Then fire the governor in your state!

As I said before, this book is very misunderstood. People likes to use it to support their own ideas about "brainwashing" and "mind control", and sometimes they forget and old-age word that describes well the same thing without any "mind control theory": fanaticism. But there is no fanaticism without fanatics who want to believe, just believe and nothing more. People who need a simplistic vision of the world, some attention and love and will do anything for that. They just want to be guided, no matter whether by Hitler or Jesus.

There are people who join the cults and leave spontaneously a few years later. It's a fact. It's just a step in their spiritual journey. But there are also some of them who prefer to say that the years spent in the cult were the result of very effective "brainwashing"/"mind control" techniques, which turned them into some kind of religious zombie. They say they were not responsible for what they did, for what they believed, and that all the guilt should go to the cult leader. But, if this were true, how could all the others leave the cult without deep traumas, deprogramming etc.? If the author, Robert Jay Lifton himself, did recognize that physical coercion was a key-point to his totalist model and that no one of his samples did not really adhere to the Communists ideas (i.e., the Chinese program was a failure), what else is to be said? And even if Lifton had discovered that brainwashing exists (and he did not), why 99% of the other scientists who investigated the issue have not detected it in the cult dynamics? What "mind control science" is this that is essentially based on just one book with an inconclusive research and some few late sensationalists "researchers" (e.g. Singer, Hassan) whose methods and theories are not recognized by the scientific community? Is this science or a modern myth with a pseudo-scientific support?

If you like Psychology and is interested in the cult issue, read this book. It's an important work. But read it entirely, whithout pre-judgements, and compare with other scientific works about "mind control". It is worth the effort.

Lifton provides content and commentary regarding attempts by the People's Republic of China to 're-educate' Westerners and citizens according to Communist ideology. Actual contents of his one-on-one interviews are particularly useful, as are Lifton's evaluations of the effects and causes of 're-education'.

Lifton's principal shortcoming is the overarching psychotherapeutic interpretations, which sometimes stretch the imagination.

Lifton's book is often misunderstood and misrepresented as a polemic against 'brainwashing' and religious 'cultism'. 'Brainwashing' usually means the hypnotic manipulation of one's thoughts forcing someone to change their beliefs counter to their awareness or conscious will; Lifton denies emphatically that this happened in China or that it can happen. It appears that many who cite his work (and some of the reviewers here) have never read the book, other than through excerpts and summaries.

Lifton himself admits that 'brainwashing' is a misnomer; he denies that 're-education' was effective or that it converted people against their will. Furthermore, he argues that the principal difference between Chinese methods of thought-reform and normal, usual persuasion is the Chinese use of physical violence and imprisonment.

Lifton never intended for his book to be used by the anti-cult industry to attack religious non-orthodoxy and constitutionally guaranteed religious expression.

This book has created a lot of controversies envolving new religious movements. Although it describes a research made with POWs e somes Chinese intellectuals, it has been frequently used attacks against some new religious movements.

The concept "brainwashing" first came into public use during the Korean War in the 1950s as an explanation for why a few American GIs defected to the Communists. The two most authoritative studies of the Korean War defections (and this book was one of them) concluded that "brainwashing" was an inappropriate concept to account for this renunciation of U.S. citizenship. When several new religious came into high profile during the youth counter-culture of the 1960s and 70s the concept "brainwashing" was again employed as a culturally acceptable explanation to account for the fact that some idealistic "flower children" came under the influence of "cult" leaders. A quarter-of-a-century of scholarly research on why people join new religions has come to essentially the same conclusion as the Korean War studies -- "brainwashing" is not a viable concept to describe the dynamics of affiliation with new religions. Defenders of "brainwashing" have used other concepts like "mind control" and "thought reform," but they have failed to produce a scholarly literature to support their claims. Thus, whatever euphemisms may be employed, the basic conclusion against the brainwashing thesis is not altered. Still, the mass media continues to report claims of "brainwashing" as if the alleged phenomenon were real. And, as a result, the concept "brainwashing" sustains considerable currency in popular culture. It is, to be sure, a powerful metaphor. "Brainwashing" communicates disapproval of influence by persons, or groups, the user of the term considers to be illegitimate. If you want to understand the origins of the concept, read Lifton's work. Just take care to not get caught by the "cult mind control" rhetoric.

then manages to suck the life out of them. Each story takes a facinating idea, but then leaves it in neutral. The title story is a prime example of this, after the first 25 pages I became frustrated with the fact that his story and ideas had progressed no further. I had to start that story five times before I could finally read it through to the end, and the experence was not worth it.

Back in college in the late 60's I remember talking with a philosophy professor about Roman Polanski's early film "Repulsion." He said that it helped him to understand that when some of the mad and troubled people he worked with (no, not his philosophy students) said that they saw monsters outside, hiding behind the trees, they really did see monsters. Will Self's book of short stories provides such revelations. Epiphanies of the absurd. Each page turns over a rock under which mental illness is spawning--slowly and quietly and inexorably. The title story is as slow a descent into societal madness as I've ever taken. You get infected somewhere along the way but you're not sure where. Like touching a doorknob that's been contaminated with lunacy. The next thing you know, you sneeze, and when you look up you see a monster peering at you from behind a tree. Will Self is an accomplished stylist with a following of both avid fans and vocal detractors. Read "The Quantity Theory of Insanity" and you'll be one or the other.

Will Self is, hands down, one of the most creative authors of our time - this is indisputable. He is an incredible writer in terms of form and style and unlike so many contemporary authors has an impressive breadth of themes and ideas that speak to modern life with an amazing tone. If you read anything by Self, read this, and then read How the Dead Live.

This book is great. Kathy has had a very interesting life. But these "eight lessons that will change your life", really didn't change mine. I really didn't expect them to, going into this,lol. It is worth the money, though!

3 stars (for false advertisement,lol)

Kathy stated that her father always advised her to under promise and over deliver. That is exactly what Kathy does in her book, Powerful Inspiration. It's broken down into eight simple lesson. While the lessons themselves are nothing new, a gentle reminder from someone as beautiful as Kathy, makes them more interesting. The book is a quick read, and the message will defintely go over well with individuals of the Christian faith. Kathy adds credibility to the book, by providing personal examples from her own life as a supermodel, mother and entrepeneur.

Kathy Ireland has taken a launch from a beautiful face to a busy wife and mom and a savvy business woman. She gives us wisdom from learned exeriences in a truthful and spiritual delivery. While she has gained stardom through her work and career, she has stayed grounded, real and true to her faith. While many celebrities are hung up on their money, popularity and success, KI continues to share her love, generosity and faith with the world. I am proud to see a young American woman with the poise, dignity and wisdom that Kathy Ireland posseses. Read her book. You will see how hard she has worked to make this world a better place.