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If there’s any one book that has completely changed my life it would be this one. I recommend this to anyone just starting out on the journey to feeling free from the burden of our lives. I cannot speak highly enough about this book!
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DID NOT FINISH: 9%

I’ve tried this multiple times but struggle to get past the first few chapters. Not sure why.

Great fun, since the author is insane. My favourite part is when he walks into a restaurant and psychically manifests butter without speaking a word. Or, as I suspect it would have appeared to us plebes on a lower consciousness level, the waiter brings over some free bread & butter for the table...

Other ‘useful’ tidbits are that poison ivy and fumigation gas can’t affect you if you don’t believe in them (but beware the bad bioenergy of fluorescent lights); and driving without your glasses is a good idea, since “most vision is merely escapism”, “only about five percent of our vision is necessary” (and anyway, if you do it for 6 weeks your vision will recover by magic). I don’t think I’ll be trying those experiments at home!
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What starts out as Mindfulness for the American Mom quickly turns utterly bizarre. The crowning jewel comes near the end, where the author suggests you should throw away your glasses and just go for a ride. Let go of your emotional need to see obstacles and pedestrians, he says. If you keep this up for six weeks and don't end up dead or in prison, your vision will heal completely.
Also the author has apparently managed to break up a gang fight using a beam of energy beaming from his chest. Good for him.
Mindfulness is a simple and useful concept; it doesn't have to be drowned in bullshit.