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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
I always love Dr Joe Dispenza’a work, life changing stuff! Highly recommend it!
This book is half genius half snake oil and they're all intermixed and becomes hard to separate as the book goes on. The snake oil sounds scientific and the genius bits sound like total hippy talk of love and peace. Let me elaborate.
The snake oil bits - quantum physics, genetics, and universal consciousness. If you don't have a firm grasp on science and thinking from first principles, this book can easily convince you that if you think really hard, you can get whatever you want. But if you don't get it, then it just means you haven't really concentrated on impression that desire to the world. Basically a no-true-Scotsman fallacy.
The genius bits - well, they sound like snake oil: love is the "unlimited source of power within you and around you." It is this greater consciousness that people call God. Honestly talk to this greater consciousness.
I read this and, had I not read several other credible books on therapy, trauma-related, and meditation books, I would have deleted this book at once. But it made a lot of sense to me in a non-scammy way. In the book "The Body Keeps the Score," it details how traumatic memories are stored in the body and we remember those memories by acting them out. A really helpful exercise is to picture yourself in that traumatic event (in a safe environment and with techniques to keep emotions from overwhelming you, all of which are detailed in the book) and imagine your current self giving your past self the love and care that your past self needed. If God is unconditional love is that infinite source of power and God is in you, then your love for your past self is that power. I'm reading what I just wrote and I can see it probably won't make that much sense to anyone who hasn't experienced it first hand. But as an atheist who has only every known about this love attributed to God, I find this connection like a little bang going off in my head. When people say religions of the world are roads that lead to the same place, I can finally put an emotion to that idea.
Anyway, this book mentions how if you put your mind to it, you can upgrade your mind and be a better person and neurologically speaking that holds up. Repetition of thought and intention does change your neuro wiring and is the basis of meditation. The Illuminating Mind talks about this at length. However, extending that intention to some how guide the universe or have the universe figure out how to give you what you want because of "quantum mechanics" magic is pure snake oil.
The snake oil bits - quantum physics, genetics, and universal consciousness. If you don't have a firm grasp on science and thinking from first principles, this book can easily convince you that if you think really hard, you can get whatever you want. But if you don't get it, then it just means you haven't really concentrated on impression that desire to the world. Basically a no-true-Scotsman fallacy.
The genius bits - well, they sound like snake oil: love is the "unlimited source of power within you and around you." It is this greater consciousness that people call God. Honestly talk to this greater consciousness.
I read this and, had I not read several other credible books on therapy, trauma-related, and meditation books, I would have deleted this book at once. But it made a lot of sense to me in a non-scammy way. In the book "The Body Keeps the Score," it details how traumatic memories are stored in the body and we remember those memories by acting them out. A really helpful exercise is to picture yourself in that traumatic event (in a safe environment and with techniques to keep emotions from overwhelming you, all of which are detailed in the book) and imagine your current self giving your past self the love and care that your past self needed. If God is unconditional love is that infinite source of power and God is in you, then your love for your past self is that power. I'm reading what I just wrote and I can see it probably won't make that much sense to anyone who hasn't experienced it first hand. But as an atheist who has only every known about this love attributed to God, I find this connection like a little bang going off in my head. When people say religions of the world are roads that lead to the same place, I can finally put an emotion to that idea.
Anyway, this book mentions how if you put your mind to it, you can upgrade your mind and be a better person and neurologically speaking that holds up. Repetition of thought and intention does change your neuro wiring and is the basis of meditation. The Illuminating Mind talks about this at length. However, extending that intention to some how guide the universe or have the universe figure out how to give you what you want because of "quantum mechanics" magic is pure snake oil.
i don't mind a non scientific book, a book based in speculation, a book based on anecdotes, I support non Western methodologies and forms of knowledge and believe they are valuable and should have more support and acceptance
but y'all
I paused this audiobook so many times to scream at the horrendous science and like this guy saying theories like fact, theories that don't follow and being like it follows from research like oh my god
i am desperate
but y'all
I paused this audiobook so many times to scream at the horrendous science and like this guy saying theories like fact, theories that don't follow and being like it follows from research like oh my god
i am desperate
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
To be honest, doen't feel to well-founded. He metions sources and studys but if you look into these they're not as conclusive as Dispenza suggests or just one study with dozens on the other side which had other results. It was an okay read but not the best method out there. I'd rather recomend MBCT-based authors.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Must read book! This inspired me to get back into meditating. Definitely reading all of Dr. Joe Dispenza's books because this one was packed with so much wisdom.
informative
slow-paced
Nothing profound but good shit nonetheless
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3/5 Stars
This book covers everything from how your brain functions to how you might transform yourself into a more divine version of yourself. It made me more thankful and positive, which is obviously a good thing. However, his claims are the only thing that put me off. He claims, among other things, that a man who meditated regularly was able to get rid of the warts on his arms. He looked all around his bed, but he was unable to locate the warts. In response to his question about the location of his warts, Dispenza says that they are now lost in quantum reality. This was kinda hard for me to believe. There are other claims that are too good to be true in addition to this one.
This book covers everything from how your brain functions to how you might transform yourself into a more divine version of yourself. It made me more thankful and positive, which is obviously a good thing. However, his claims are the only thing that put me off. He claims, among other things, that a man who meditated regularly was able to get rid of the warts on his arms. He looked all around his bed, but he was unable to locate the warts. In response to his question about the location of his warts, Dispenza says that they are now lost in quantum reality. This was kinda hard for me to believe. There are other claims that are too good to be true in addition to this one.