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Book Review
The Journey: A practical guide to healing your life and setting yourself free
By Brandon Bays
Review by Mary Avant
It says in the introduction, “This is a book about freedom - freedom to live your life as you’ve always dreamed it could be.”
A lot of books claim to contain information that will set people free – free of their worries, their depressions, their ill health and their ill humors. Some deliver a bit of relief. Many are interesting intellectual examinations of “conditions” with advice on how to relieve the symptoms. They make us feel like we’ve learned something, but after the last page is turned, our lives continue just the way they were.
You won’t be so lucky with The Journey. Brandon Bays is onto something.
That “something” is a methodology that allows anyone to experience fully the energies and emotions trapped in layers in the body that trigger ill health and emotional and mental distress, and release them completely. How? Well, it takes the whole book to learn that. But here’s one of the keys: you have to feel your emotional or energy states fully. You have to be present and alive in them without thinking anything about them. No stories. No explanations. No, “I feel anxiety because….” but rather, “I feel anxiety.” Period. That’s as far as she allows the head games to go.
What happens if you are 100% present with your emotions? Read the book and find out.
An incredibly swift read, The Journey starts by relating Bays’ own healing journey. And boy did she have a ride. Imagine this: You have been in the mind/body healing arena as a coach for years. You are one of Tony Robbins top instructors no less, married to his top top instructor. You have everything invested in this identity as a mind/body healer. And over the course of a few months, a basketball-size tumor grows in your belly until one day you start to bleed internally.
So what does the mind/body healer who “knows it all” already do about this? Read the book and find out. It is nothing short of miraculous. And yet, it is not miraculous at all, because Bays, through her journey, reveals the infinite power of the body to heal once we get ourselves out of the way.
The final chapters contain step-by-step procedures on how to accomplish this ourselves doing what Bays calls “Journey Work.” There are CD’s available online, and also licensed practitioners trained in facilitating Journey Work all around the world. If you need back-up, there’s plenty available.
If you’re serious about change and healing, this book is an absolute must read. And know this: once the last page in this book is turned, your journey is just beginning.
Click here to purchase your own copy of The Journey: A Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free
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Book Review
Dusk Before the Dawn
a novel by Larry Ketchersid
Review by Mary Avant
The Mayan Long Count calendar ends in 2012 when the winter solstice sun crosses the galactic equator of the Milky Way. Modern interpretations of the Vedic Yuga doctrine place the end of the descending Kali Yuga in 2012. Michel de Nostredame, the great seer of the French Renaissance, predicted great changes around this time.
Dusk Before the Dawn, is definitely a novel that embraces the concept of global change. A layered tale set near the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Maya civilization in El Petén, Guatamala, it takes the best kind of James Bond “world ends at the hands of mad scientist” plot, and then weaves through it elements of enlightenment and environmentalism. As a result it is an action driven story, mellowed with intent and contemplation as the more enlightened protagonists work to make the best of a bad situation.
Or is it a bad situation? Yes, “nanotechnology run amok in the wrong hands” is the means of the world-ending, but the question quickly arises, “Is this really about the world ending? Or is it about the world beginning?” Unlike James Bond, where the characters are clearly the goods guys versus the bad guys, Ketchersid populates his novel, for the most part, with people of good intent (with one definite exception). Life is a complex place with infinite variables, and so is the human mind and heart. Free will is the issue here, for good or for ill. Until humanity reaches an enlightened state, who can judge the difference?
A fast, enjoyable and thought provoking read, Dusk Before the Dawn has been chosen by the first round of judges in ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards.
