Karma has fascinated me for decades now (yikes, I’m getting old), so the offer to get a review copy of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati’s new book ‘The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns that Bind You‘ came as a welcome surprise. Unfortunately, the book isn’t as much about karma as you’d think. The [...]
Best books about spiritual development and personal growth
Reviewing books about spiritual growth that don’t gloss over the hard parts in life, yet offer hope and a way to deal with them.
Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening is the first book by Andrew Cohen that I’ve read. His name precedes him of course: both on the good and the not-so-good. But I’ll let the book stand on it’s own two feet. Let’s start with the style: Andrew Cohen really is a great writer. The words [...]
Don’t we all love quotes books? There’s a reason quotes websites are so popular. Richard Singer has come out with a book in which he first gathers inspiring quotes on ‘living in the now’ and then comments on them, showing how you can transform your life by living those quotes. That really could be the [...]
What do you get when you combine a dancer, with a spiritual teacher and a poet? A remarkably real set of poems that go to the heart of what it is to live and breathe and change. Again and again. Not that there’s an ‘again’ to change. This is a book of poetry in which [...]
How does one introduce one of the spiritual classics of the 20th century? It’s in fact hard to imagine that it was written IN the 20th century, instead of being ages old. Khalil Gibran was, before he wrote ‘The Prophet’, mostly a romantic. His poems breath an unreal romanticism that has little to do with [...]
Confession time: though I review a lot of spiritual books, it’s rare to find one that I absolutely rave about. In fact, in many cases I just glance through the book, form a general impression, write down a few quotes and that’s it. Book review done. Sometimes a book comes just at the right time [...]
The five stages of the soul transformation process This book will be an inspiration to anybody who has had a troublesome life. To anybody who is dealing with major issues that make you feel like you’re losing it. Michael Mirdad has a very simple message: You’re not going crazy… you’re just waking up! In his [...]