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Fascinating! Kelley has a lot of gems of wisdom to teach. Definitely makes me think about life in a different way. Very enlightening read!
To reiterate what I started in the prior post about this author and her book, I found it extremely difficult to dredge through Beyond Past Lives. Especially when dealing with the given subject matter of New Age/New Thought. I found it especially insulting, not only to my sensibilities but to the trust a reader puts in a writer when they expose themselves to what it is that the writer has prepared for them between the covers. I am not familiar with Kelly's prior work but this one not only last me but through me for a loop only a dozen pages in, I hung in there until chapter 3. Her claims and findings were very hard to keep track of, and sometimes seemed implausible. In one instance she tells a story about leaving her business card between the pages of a book in the New Age section of a Barnes and Noble, and claims she acquired a client that way. She proceed to tell us how she took this man into a Past Life Regression session where he recounts a past life that took place in the 1960's. Apparently he offed himself, but no wait, in trance he's not done because he continues to recount details in a life that overlapped the one he left as a soul in the 1960s. This is where Kelly dropped the bomb that shit was about to get crazy. More like stupid. She ushers in some concept of a 'oversoul' compares it to hands, and the concurrent lives as fingers on the globe contributing to the evolution of this 'oversoul.' And you can tell she is used to a gullible audience because she suggests that you may have infact interacted with this over soul.
In short i was left unengaged, trying to figure out where she was going with this and what she was getting at, and more importantly what was the takeaway. I feel that as a reader if a writer can't draw pictures in my mind, and effect my heart with their prose, and the poetry in the way that they speak to me as the reader then I have nothing else to offer certainly not my time ans attention. The choice to take back the energy I'd invested in the form of intention when I entered this covenant with Ms. Kelly was not an easy one, but once I did further research and thought about how important my time was, it got easier.
I checked on Amazon to see what the streets was saying about this woman, like me and 3 other people actually believe this publication is trash. One girl named Bellaisa got a bit further than me says that at one point Kelly has a client who was reincarnated as a FLOWER? Yes America a flower. All I could say to my self was WTF are you serious? A flower, so with that I made the final decision to just DNF this thing. I will also be deleting it from my Amazon carousel. This was a really bad one guys run away
In short i was left unengaged, trying to figure out where she was going with this and what she was getting at, and more importantly what was the takeaway. I feel that as a reader if a writer can't draw pictures in my mind, and effect my heart with their prose, and the poetry in the way that they speak to me as the reader then I have nothing else to offer certainly not my time ans attention. The choice to take back the energy I'd invested in the form of intention when I entered this covenant with Ms. Kelly was not an easy one, but once I did further research and thought about how important my time was, it got easier.
I checked on Amazon to see what the streets was saying about this woman, like me and 3 other people actually believe this publication is trash. One girl named Bellaisa got a bit further than me says that at one point Kelly has a client who was reincarnated as a FLOWER? Yes America a flower. All I could say to my self was WTF are you serious? A flower, so with that I made the final decision to just DNF this thing. I will also be deleting it from my Amazon carousel. This was a really bad one guys run away
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There's quite a lot of interesting food for thought in this book, and some exercises that I believe can be a great springboard to personal growth. I did actually quite enjoy reading this book and contemplating the ideas presented. I did also purchase a downloadable version of her guided regression meditation and had a couple of interesting experiences, although I think it's overpriced for what it is.
The main point I struggled with in this book is that the author does not seem at all concerned with proof or substantiation. She just takes as gospel anything anyone sees in mediation as the absolute truth of the world, and if things seem to contradict, she just twists a convoluted world view to accommodate it.
Sometimes she'll describe someone coming to her for a specific issue, describe their regression experience, and then just end with something like "they certainly got a lot out of their regression". So..... did it help tangibly? Did their issue resolve?? I often felt like I wanted a bit more from the story. Plus there are certain stories that surely could be researched a little to determine whether these people visited in "past lives" ever actually existed. But the author circumvents this with a complicated idea about "parallel realities" - how convenient. So if your "past life" isn't verifiable in real life, maybe it actually existed in another possible reality. Really? Feels like a bit of a cop out to me.
I gotta be honest, I'm not really convinced that anything described in this book was anything other than visions and imagination, and the author doesn't seem at all concerned with convincing the reader otherwise. However, I do still think that these visions and subconscious messages can be extremely helpful so I'm not dismissing the idea completely. It just felt a little disingenuously presented in my opinion.
The main point I struggled with in this book is that the author does not seem at all concerned with proof or substantiation. She just takes as gospel anything anyone sees in mediation as the absolute truth of the world, and if things seem to contradict, she just twists a convoluted world view to accommodate it.
Sometimes she'll describe someone coming to her for a specific issue, describe their regression experience, and then just end with something like "they certainly got a lot out of their regression". So..... did it help tangibly? Did their issue resolve?? I often felt like I wanted a bit more from the story. Plus there are certain stories that surely could be researched a little to determine whether these people visited in "past lives" ever actually existed. But the author circumvents this with a complicated idea about "parallel realities" - how convenient. So if your "past life" isn't verifiable in real life, maybe it actually existed in another possible reality. Really? Feels like a bit of a cop out to me.
I gotta be honest, I'm not really convinced that anything described in this book was anything other than visions and imagination, and the author doesn't seem at all concerned with convincing the reader otherwise. However, I do still think that these visions and subconscious messages can be extremely helpful so I'm not dismissing the idea completely. It just felt a little disingenuously presented in my opinion.
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reflective
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