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A review by emilyrainsford
Beyond Past Lives: What Parallel Realities Can Teach Us about Relationships, Healing, and Transformation by Mira Kelley, Wayne W. Dyer
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3.0
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.