I like this book. Other people say what they say. I like reviews that mention similar books, at least books on the same path, so I do that. The real test of a book, for me, is do the techniques work? The answer here is yes. Some people write books to promote their inperson trainings, and their books are incomplete. This book is complete enough that you can apply it right away. Other books that support this book include The Physics of Miracles: Tapping in to the Field of Consciousness Potential, Redneck Shaman, The Future Is Yours: Do Something About It!, Lost Secrets of Ancient Hawaiian Huna, Volume 1, ThetaHealing, and House of Shattering Light: Life as an American Indian Mystic. There is a Sufi story about moths, and the only moth that really understands the candle is the one who gives himself totally to the light, and the light gives itself to him. This applies to shamanic work. Shamanic techniques work from the larger self, especially in service to others. Shamanism means working with the subconscious, and at times superconscious minds. It cannot be apprehended by the conscious mind, the ego. Without service, many things just don't work, or work only slightly. Whispers of the Ancients: Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time gives you some idea of how very different native storytelling is. One very good white man book on what indigenous life is like is Journey to the Ancestral Self: The Native Lifeway Guide to Living in Harmony With Earth Mother, Book 1 (Bk.1), Book 1 (Bk.1), Book 1 (Bk.1). These are very good basic books, to getting out of the box of White Man culture, into the much more fascinating 7 worlds of the spiritual traveller. Wong Kiew Kit's books on Chi Kung show how ideas like this survive in Chinese culture. Western culture is lost in the literal, and won't look at the deeper meanings of its stories. Neville Goddard has ideas on this, as one example among many. So does Max Freedom Long The Secret Science Behind Miracles If there was a Popular Energy magazine comparable for these ideas to what Popular Mechanics does for working with machines, this book would be among the top 5. I've used techniques similar to some of these for some years, to keep the office I work in more pleasant, and they work. I learned several more in this book. It takes a lot to abstract out ideas like this from indigenous cultures, which are so very different, and translate them into WhiteMan terms, however Dr. King does this very well. One could wish that all books on this subject were as effective, and well written.