Category: Book Reviews
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The Fountainhead of My Inspiration
On the surface level of the storyline, it is a book about how an artist, an architect, chose to stay true to his art and his work, no matter how hard it could get and how many shortcuts were offered. On a deeper level, it was quite philosophical. The author, Ayn Rand, was considered a…
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A Love Story Unlike Any Other
Alexander Formos wrote his new book Eurydice in Love with great courage, honesty, and soulful clarity. Currently, I’m only on chapter III but I am enjoying his bold and unbelievable story-telling style through the pages. Reading the book provides a perfect little break in my office after seeing my clients and before heading home.
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Dearest Anne
First published in 1947 and then translated into more than seventy languages, Anne Frank’s diary has been known worldwide for many decades. We all have heard of it. But honestly, I never felt compelled to read it, imagining there might be more hype and political importance than an actual good book.
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Many Blessings Will Come
Over a month ago, my third book was released. It’s been a ride, and I have enjoyed every step of the creation of the book that I can now hold in my hands. I’ve never had a child, but my three books feel like my three children. They are not series. They each stand alone…
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Does Being a Grown-up Mean Maturity?
Have you seen the 2016 English-language French-produced computer animated movie The Little Prince yet? – A Little Girl meets an eccentric old Aviator who tells her a fantastic tale about a young prince… I enjoyed the movie, almost as much as the original classic tale. The new movie stays true to the original message of…
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Strange Terrain in the Endless Frontier of the Mind
My curiosity of the phenomenon of multiple personalities, “exorcism” and thought form release led me to this book. Ralph Allison, a psychiatrist starting practicing in 1972, a pioneer treating multiple personality disorder patients and a daring soul, wrote this quite interesting case history book. Can you imagine a middle class, crew-cut, straight, Board-certified psychiatrist conducts…
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Book Review: Love Has Forgotten No One
You are perfect. The world is perfect. The ideas about you and the world may not be perfect. Undo the ideas, and you see the perfection. Extend your love into the world that isn’t there.
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Freedom in Pain
The sensation of pain is simply a signal to tell us some important information. Like a red light on a car dashboard telling us the fuel level is low. We can, of course, do something to disconnect the light signal so it stops, but that can be dangerous if the car is running on the…
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An Advanced Self-Hypnosis Book
Self-Hypnotism was the first hypnotism book I ever bought, during a library book sale some years ago. At that time, I didn’t know anything more than anyone else about hypnotism. I just saw the cover, intrigued by the title, and bought it, 25 cents. The book was published many years ago (first edition in 1964?)…
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Book Review: The Unquiet Dead
I just finished reading Dr. Edith Fiore’s fascinating clinical case book The Unquiet Dead: A Psychologist Treats Spirit Possession, which was first published in 1987. The foreword is by Raymond A. Moody, Jr. M.D. This was really a frontier book of this kind, I mean, spirit depossession by a psychologist not a “psychic”! – It’s…