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shriti_sunshine's review against another edition
3.0
3.2/5
At the heart of it, WITIH is jut another self-help book. Any such book is good or bad, based off how much you related to it and what parts of it you would be carrying forward with you. Though I was intrigued by the book title, insight-wise it didn't offer anything that I haven't read or heard before.
In her own way, the author does offer up a new perspective on life after a near-death experience; which I absolutely adored. My biggest takeaway from this book will be the 'Questions to Ask Yourself' section, which has been thoughtfully included towards the end of every chapter. I found that the questions can be great journal prompts for days when my emotions are running high.
Recommended for people who trust that there is a power Greater than any of us, regardless of the Faith that we follow.
At the heart of it, WITIH is jut another self-help book. Any such book is good or bad, based off how much you related to it and what parts of it you would be carrying forward with you. Though I was intrigued by the book title, insight-wise it didn't offer anything that I haven't read or heard before.
In her own way, the author does offer up a new perspective on life after a near-death experience; which I absolutely adored. My biggest takeaway from this book will be the 'Questions to Ask Yourself' section, which has been thoughtfully included towards the end of every chapter. I found that the questions can be great journal prompts for days when my emotions are running high.
Recommended for people who trust that there is a power Greater than any of us, regardless of the Faith that we follow.
beatrice_k's review against another edition
4.0
This can get very woo-woo and it’s hard to take it seriously or want to continue reading through these moments (which are sometimes transcribed conversations between speaker and listener where the “lesson” is repeated, verbatim, by the listener). But when you think the book will fail you or get simple, Anita complicates the narrative and encourages you to think bigger.
I loved how every chapter ended with an activity or something to think about or consider. “If this is true, then what else could be true?”
Recommended reading for: those grieving, those going through “difficult moments,” and those looking to clue back into their true selves or to find it.
Not for everyone (and what is?) but if you’re curious, read along and just keep reading. It might surprise you. I’m grateful for it and I hope to keep checking back into it and the lessons learned.
I loved how every chapter ended with an activity or something to think about or consider. “If this is true, then what else could be true?”
Recommended reading for: those grieving, those going through “difficult moments,” and those looking to clue back into their true selves or to find it.
Not for everyone (and what is?) but if you’re curious, read along and just keep reading. It might surprise you. I’m grateful for it and I hope to keep checking back into it and the lessons learned.
valeribanana's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
in2reading's review against another edition
3.0
I was very touched by the author's first book - Dying to Be Me. This well intentioned follow up attempts to answer the many questions that people have about the author's near death experience and how it changed her world view. I found it occasionally illuminating but it didn't affect me the way her first book did.
breeoxd's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I will say, I’m not remotely religious and I don’t buy into NDE’s. For that reason I’ve never read the authors previous book, Dying to Be Me. Took a chance on this based on the subtitle and I’m very glad I did. After reading Reading each chapter based on a cultural myth, Mooranji suggests real life practices to move you towards greater empathy and self love. It’s easy to extrapolate these practices out to a more forgiving and healthier world view, and a healthier world population. A bit idealistic of course, but her suggestions cover everything from racism, sexism, and the brutal hold of religious indoctrination, albeit imperfectly (looking at you, ableism passages) to toxic positivity. I was pretty surprised at how she challenges these ideas in what I presumed to be a religious work. Overall I think I will reread this when I need to feel centered and just a bit less miserable about the state of the world :)
Content Warnings
Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Sexual assault
clairewords's review against another edition
5.0
Anita Moorjani wrote her first book [b:Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing|12291050|Dying to Be Me My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing|Anita Moorjani|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1344735606s/12291050.jpg|17267641] after being tracked down by the late Wayne Dyer, who'd come across her story on the internet and wanted to know more about what she had experienced on the day she had been expected to die but miraculously returned from stage four cancer to heal totally and live.
Prior to Wayne Dyer's intervention and guidance Anita hadn't really wanted to share her story anymore after she came under the intense focus of doctors and the medical community all trying to understand the science behind how she recovered - because it wasn't attributed to any medical intervention and defied all medical logic. She found these engagements emotionally stressful, and energetically draining - all she could really tell them was what she had felt and experienced - something not one of those medical experts had ever experienced themselves, yet despite the proof her her living self in front of them, they seemed to not want to accept it, because they had no paradigm within which to explain it. So she stopped sharing the story and refused all further invitations.
She wrote one description of what happened to her and posted it with just her first name on the internet and went back to her life. Some long time after, a friend asked her to speak at an event for people interested in healing and she explained again the reasons why she had to say no. Within those reasons, lay the very essence of what this friend wanted her to share with the group and with a little persuasion, albeit reluctantly, she agreed. She went to the event and was surprised at the difference in the reception, a very different group of people and energy, those who had some inkling of what she had experienced and were open and eager to hear about it without judgement. The day after she opened up to this welcoming group Wayne Dyer's assistant contacted her and that became the beginning of her sharing her story more widely and led to the publication of that first book mentioned above.
I haven't read her first book, I came across her after listening to a one hour conversation between her and [a:Colette Baron-Reid|51573|Colette Baron-Reid|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1294959700p2/51573.jpg] (one of my favourite intuitives to listen to). Colette has a book coming out at the end of September [b:Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility|28956893|Uncharted The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility|Colette Baron-Reid|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1455173601s/28956893.jpg|49182566] which I've pre-ordered and can't wait to read and in the lead up to her publication, she recorded 12 conversations with very interesting and enlightened people working in the spiritual/quantum physics world, in a 'real and raw' series of unplanned conversations. After listening to Anita Moorjani talk, I decided to get this, her new book, What if This is Heaven to read more about how what had happened to her had changed her life in this second phase - after the focus on her NDE (near death experience) had cooled and how the things she learned have continued to manifest and inform her life today.
And it's brilliant - it reads like just the beginning of the gifts she has been given in terms of insights into how reality really is and how she is called to respond to them, because the reality is that she is back living in the material world, where we perceive little of the other dimensions that exist but aren't able to be perceived with the 5 senses of the physical self - and our 6th sense, intuition (or as some call it - the 1st sense) while well developed at birth and during childhood has often by adulthood been drowned out by culture, system, society, parental direction, media, politics, Fear + noise.
The most significant truth she experienced in that state between life and death was the connectedness of everything and everyone and the great power of unconditional love, a phrase that is often used and little understood, but one that by the end of this book, we understand better than ever and in particular the importance of first applying it to ourselves, before we are ever able to apply it to others.
Here she takes just a few of what she calls myths and offers an alternative truth through first describing her own experience or an encounter she has had with someone which highlighted that truth. The myths, which we have learned or been conditioned by in our society/culture/family that she explores are:
'You get what you deserve.'
'Loving Yourself is Selfish.'
'Real Love Means Anything Goes.'
'I'm not OK, You're Not Ok.'
'It's Just a Coincidence.'
'We Pay for Our Sins at Death.'
'Spiritual People Don't Have Egos.'
'Women Are the Weaker Sex'
'We Must Always Be Positive.'
Ultimately, she is a woman who doesn't set out or even believe she is here to inspire, she is following her heart and attempting to live an authentic life and through sharing her story and the things she has learned, does inspire people and help make us see things we feel intuitively but may not practise in our lives.
Highly recommended.
Prior to Wayne Dyer's intervention and guidance Anita hadn't really wanted to share her story anymore after she came under the intense focus of doctors and the medical community all trying to understand the science behind how she recovered - because it wasn't attributed to any medical intervention and defied all medical logic. She found these engagements emotionally stressful, and energetically draining - all she could really tell them was what she had felt and experienced - something not one of those medical experts had ever experienced themselves, yet despite the proof her her living self in front of them, they seemed to not want to accept it, because they had no paradigm within which to explain it. So she stopped sharing the story and refused all further invitations.
She wrote one description of what happened to her and posted it with just her first name on the internet and went back to her life. Some long time after, a friend asked her to speak at an event for people interested in healing and she explained again the reasons why she had to say no. Within those reasons, lay the very essence of what this friend wanted her to share with the group and with a little persuasion, albeit reluctantly, she agreed. She went to the event and was surprised at the difference in the reception, a very different group of people and energy, those who had some inkling of what she had experienced and were open and eager to hear about it without judgement. The day after she opened up to this welcoming group Wayne Dyer's assistant contacted her and that became the beginning of her sharing her story more widely and led to the publication of that first book mentioned above.
I haven't read her first book, I came across her after listening to a one hour conversation between her and [a:Colette Baron-Reid|51573|Colette Baron-Reid|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1294959700p2/51573.jpg] (one of my favourite intuitives to listen to). Colette has a book coming out at the end of September [b:Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility|28956893|Uncharted The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility|Colette Baron-Reid|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1455173601s/28956893.jpg|49182566] which I've pre-ordered and can't wait to read and in the lead up to her publication, she recorded 12 conversations with very interesting and enlightened people working in the spiritual/quantum physics world, in a 'real and raw' series of unplanned conversations. After listening to Anita Moorjani talk, I decided to get this, her new book, What if This is Heaven to read more about how what had happened to her had changed her life in this second phase - after the focus on her NDE (near death experience) had cooled and how the things she learned have continued to manifest and inform her life today.
And it's brilliant - it reads like just the beginning of the gifts she has been given in terms of insights into how reality really is and how she is called to respond to them, because the reality is that she is back living in the material world, where we perceive little of the other dimensions that exist but aren't able to be perceived with the 5 senses of the physical self - and our 6th sense, intuition (or as some call it - the 1st sense) while well developed at birth and during childhood has often by adulthood been drowned out by culture, system, society, parental direction, media, politics, Fear + noise.
The most significant truth she experienced in that state between life and death was the connectedness of everything and everyone and the great power of unconditional love, a phrase that is often used and little understood, but one that by the end of this book, we understand better than ever and in particular the importance of first applying it to ourselves, before we are ever able to apply it to others.
You can't love another unconditionally until you love yourself unconditionally, and when you truly do that achieve that, you will never allow anyone to use you or abuse you.
Here she takes just a few of what she calls myths and offers an alternative truth through first describing her own experience or an encounter she has had with someone which highlighted that truth. The myths, which we have learned or been conditioned by in our society/culture/family that she explores are:
Ultimately, she is a woman who doesn't set out or even believe she is here to inspire, she is following her heart and attempting to live an authentic life and through sharing her story and the things she has learned, does inspire people and help make us see things we feel intuitively but may not practise in our lives.
Authentic unconditional love means wanting for another what that person wants for themselves and allowing that person to be who they truly are - even if it requires setting them free - instead of expecting them to change to fit our ideas of who we want them to be.
Highly recommended.
enbyreads's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
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