Recently I’ve read several significant books, and would like to pass them along for your summer reading consideration.
Fiction—
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
This is a very unusual work—feeling a lot like non-fiction, about a 14 year old girl who deals with the complexities of life and tragedy. Through events, she ends up living with a family of bee keepers in the South. It is filled with warmth, poignancy, and insight about life. I read it on my vacation and had a hard time putting it down.
Non-Fiction—
The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D
As a researcher, Lipton was steeped in the left brain idea about science and how the body works. Through an amazing intuitive awakening, he was able to do research on memory held within cells—not DNA—that affects the body and is the underpinning of the subconscious mind. This work reads like fiction and shows the importance of our thoughts and how they affect current and future health.
Same Soul, Many Bodies by Brian Weiss, M.D.
This inspiring work by the author of Many Lives, Many Masters, left my mind reeling with questions and a desire to connect the dots within my own lifetimes. As a traditional M.D. who ventured into hypnosis to help his psychiatric patients, Weiss stumbled upon past life regression, and to his amazement, found that the healing potential of integrating past with present led to remarkable recoveries without drugs. In this book, he expands into future lives as well—with remarkable results. This book is hard to put down, and I’m going to read it again to get what I missed the first time.
Dr. Weiss also has CD’s available to guide an individual into meditation, relaxation and hypnosis sessions.
The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard
This book makes you think, makes you mad, and makes you question previous assumptions about life. It references A Course In Miracles and was a result of an encounter with two guides who materialized in the author’s living room unannounced over a period of nine years to bring him a series of lessons about the origin and purpose of life. The results are revolutionary and require an open mind. I don’t necessarily agree with everything in the book, but it has been a catalyst to observing life from a different perspective.. If you are willing to shake up reality, this is a good summer read.
