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Beyond the Twelve Steps: Roadmap to a New Life By Lynn Grabhorn ( Hampton Roads Publishing )
Release Date: 2001-05-01
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What will it take for us to stop living dreary lives? What will it take for us to fill the deep ache and longing we all have for that elusive "something more"? In a courageous departure from the traditional twelve step views of spirituality, Lynn takes our hungry souls on a life-changing journey to the kingdom within, laying out a path of startling new concepts to reconnect us with our own divinity. For years, Lynn Grabhorn was a passionate student of thought and our divine relation to Self. Raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, she moved to California in 1963, the same year she joined A.A. In her own words: "Our inner beings are crying out for us to remember who and what we really are, because the call is out-big time-for us to wake up. All it takes is a deep desire, and anyone can make this journey with ease."
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 Made up facts
Contains quite a few made up things that would make good analogies, but are presented as facts. Many of these claims aren't sepcifically attributed to any source, although the book has a "further reading" list of about 50 books. The author goes so far as to try to explain in detail how all these things work. For example, the soul is explained to be residing in a cavity near the heart. It explains that the soul passes messages back and forth from the brain via the central nervous system. This essentially means that anyone paralyzed from the neck down has no soul, according to the author. Overall, I found some useful information in the book, though most of it wasn't and it one needs to wade through "facts" to find what's actually useful.
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 Disjointed, badly written book. ( catizzy )
I was interested in a different perspective on the 12-Step program, which has been used for (besides alcoholism), cluttering, drug addiction, and weight control, among other conditions.
This book was so badly written, I couldn't finish it. Glad I borrowed it from the library.
Also, I generally don't make a habit of reading the "Acknowledgments" chapter in books, but in this one I did. Be forwarned: the author was apparently a fan of Seth, Ramtha, Zarathustra, Mafu, and Rajni--all various "beings" who are "channeled" by various and sundry individuals--if they are not your cup of tea, this book has nothing for you.
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 A Change Your Life Book ( norgekirst )
I have read thousands of books in my forty years on this earth and this one helped me to change my life. I have been in program for many years enjoying a "Normal" life. However, one experience that had evaded me was "Extraordinary". Thanks to this unbelievable information written with love, hope and reality, I learned to take responsiblity for the life I had created. I was able to then learn step by step to give up the life I no longer wanted and live the life of a women with a divine nature. I just wanted to let you know that I have never felt so alive. I have never lived with such abundance, and I will thank you someday when I am on my own book tour. Remember who you are. Remember you changed my life. There is something I say every morning and evening that you gave to me. "I willingly release all thoughts, beliefs, people, places and things that no longer lovingly serve me and I choose LOVE, JOY, ABUNDANCE, ADVENTURE, PROSPERITY, BEAUTY AND BEING A WORLDWIDE BEST SELLING AUTHOR, SO BE IT! With Love, K.H. Kennedy
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A wonderful book
If you have done the 12 Steps and find yourself asking yourself "okay, now what?" then this book will help you. All we are ever looking for in sex, drugs, alcohol, food, etc, is God -- our own inner Beingness which is always whole, complete and perfect. The step after the twelve steps (call it the thirteenth step, perhaps) is to wake up to who and what we are. The twelve steps are a ladder we use to raise our awareness to the point where we can realize that what we have been seeking "out there" and trying to fulfill through our addiction, was really just a running away from the tremendously beautiful and loving being that we are. Use this book as an opportunity to stop running away -- to stop telling yourself the lie that you are something other than perfection in your very being. We are not our minds, nor our bodies, nor our feelings. How can we be sure? Because we can witness them. If we can witness something, how can it be us? It can't be. So, the question becomes, "Who am I?" The answer is what you have been looking for all along. A note to the person who left the not so nice comments (the reader from Longmeadow, MA USA): Your comment was rude, not loving, and not supportive. If you want to help her (which you seem to proclaim), then simply love her -- which means accept her exactly as she is -- 100% without trying to change or control her. Try not to be so hard on yourself because you are taking it out on others. If you slipped up, would you really want others to treat you in such a judgemental and demeaning way or would you want them to be loving and truthful with you? Character bashing is never necessary nor helpful -- that only helps grow our own ego. Anyway, a great book, which I highly recommend. If you've done the twelve steps and have managed to remain sober, then now make the decision to be who you were always destined to be -- your perfect, Divine Self. You are beautiful. If you don't feel like it, then drop the "disapproval stick" that you walk around with whacking yourself with all the time -- and start approving of yourself, completely. That's all you need to do. If you approved of yourself 100%, you'd be There, with a capital "T". What's there not to love?
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The Author's Latest Book Negates This One
How unfortunate that Grabhorn's latest book, Dear God! What's Happening To Us? negates any positive messages or information from THIS book.In her latest, she admits to "drinking again after four decades of sobriety" and, worse, she blames it all on a group she calls "The Others". Where's the Self-Responsibility? Where's the Trust in the HIGHER Power? Too bad. It's a shame she's choosing to self-destruct her writing career. Hopefully, enough bad reviews of her newest book will get her to (once again) seek the help she needs with her alcoholism.
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