Books (April 2007)

Byron Katie, with Stephen Mitchell. Loving What Is: Four questions that can change your life, New York: Three Rivers 2002.  321 pp.   $15.95

Byron Katie came into her healing wisdom through a path of personal challenges with paranoia, uncontrollable rages, and severe depression over many years. Transcending these problems, she awoke one day utterly transformed, having found a connection with a higher power. She went on to create a healing system called, The Work.

Therapeutic dialogues with a spectrum of people, some of whom have quite severe problems, illustrate how The Work can rapidly bring about transformations. Katie has a lovely, direct, simple style of doing therapy (and writing) that cuts right to the core of issues.
(See more in IJHC, January 2007)

David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD. Power vs. Force: The hidden determinants of human behavior, Carlsbad, CA: Hay House 2002 (orig. 1995)  341 pp    Notes 13 pp     Refs 10 pp  $14.95 

David Hawkins had a spiritual opening in childhood and pursued further spiritual development throughout his life. He shares in this book ways in which we can understand levels of spiritual development; muscle testing methods for assessing degrees of development of people, books, events, etc.; group validation of these assessments; and the value of the presence of the therapist as an instrument for promoting healing.

Hawkins points out that logical, left-brain approaches to understanding the world are self-limiting. “… the logical arrangement of data serves mainly to enhance a pattern-recognition system that then becomes ‘truth.’ But nothing is ever ‘true,’ except under certain circumstances, and then only from a particular viewpoint, characteristically unstated.” (p. 28)

Hawkins strongly advocates for using intuitive assessments for measuring the value of various truths, stating that everyone can use intuition with accuracy and reliability.  (See more in IJHC, January 2007)

Greg Tamblyn. The Grand Design   www.gregtamblyn.com

DOUBLE CD SET: One disc of of helplessly funny, intelligent, live acoustic musical humor. Another disc of enlightened songs about consciousness, connection, science and spirituality.

Wonderfully entertaining , psychologically astute humor.
         (See more in IJHC, January 2007)