- Paperback: 231 pages
- Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher (July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0874778417
- ISBN-13: 978-0874778410
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 18.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,239,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A guide to transcending belief systems that enslave the mind and spirit offers advice for breaking free of self-imposed limitations.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With so many spiritual self-help books out these days whose titles use words like "soul," "angels," "God," and "heaven" it is a welcome relief to come across one with a title like "Shaving the Inside of Your Skull." Mel Ash's Zen approach steadfastly avoids dogma, and even insists that
the reader not believe anything in the book. Yes, that's the point!! This book is a call for personal action to help readers find what their own spiritual selves may be. No coffee-sipping, Sunday morning comfort zone of cozy reflection here. Instead, you get "razors," (ouch!) -- suggestions for ACTION to try out on yourself. Caution: some may seem simple and even silly, but until you TRY them, you'll never realize what they might do to transform you. So go ahead,and take a chance on getting up and DOING something after reading Ash's essays. Create an invisible friend who writes you a letter (I did, without much expectation, but got an unsettling yet helpful result). Go to a graveyard, lie down, and imagine yourself decaying as you seek communion with departed souls. Bow to your microwave oven and other inanimate objects to learn an "attitude of gratitude." And... would you... could you... BURN one of your most prized possessions to better understand what you are without it? This book is wonderful because it does not work unless YOU work on it. Ash gives readers ideas to jolt their consciousness, and eggs them on to ACT, ACT, ACT.
If you're tired of self-help books which simply
prescribe "new" beliefs, or tell you more about the author's own vision of God, then pick up this book with an adventuresome spirit. As one of the many wise quotes which appear in the book's margins asserts, we should be more distrustful of those who say they have found the truth, and instead trust those, like ourselves, who are seeking the truth. And if we ever stop seeking, thinking that we have come to find the end of our spiritual journey, then we have killed our souls.
Thanks Mel, for getting me off my duff and taking chances on finding my own path to salvation.
the reader not believe anything in the book. Yes, that's the point!! This book is a call for personal action to help readers find what their own spiritual selves may be. No coffee-sipping, Sunday morning comfort zone of cozy reflection here. Instead, you get "razors," (ouch!) -- suggestions for ACTION to try out on yourself. Caution: some may seem simple and even silly, but until you TRY them, you'll never realize what they might do to transform you. So go ahead,and take a chance on getting up and DOING something after reading Ash's essays. Create an invisible friend who writes you a letter (I did, without much expectation, but got an unsettling yet helpful result). Go to a graveyard, lie down, and imagine yourself decaying as you seek communion with departed souls. Bow to your microwave oven and other inanimate objects to learn an "attitude of gratitude." And... would you... could you... BURN one of your most prized possessions to better understand what you are without it? This book is wonderful because it does not work unless YOU work on it. Ash gives readers ideas to jolt their consciousness, and eggs them on to ACT, ACT, ACT.
If you're tired of self-help books which simply
prescribe "new" beliefs, or tell you more about the author's own vision of God, then pick up this book with an adventuresome spirit. As one of the many wise quotes which appear in the book's margins asserts, we should be more distrustful of those who say they have found the truth, and instead trust those, like ourselves, who are seeking the truth. And if we ever stop seeking, thinking that we have come to find the end of our spiritual journey, then we have killed our souls.
Thanks Mel, for getting me off my duff and taking chances on finding my own path to salvation.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
That this book will change your life is virtually a certainty. I read it over a long period awhile ago (or 9/10 of it--I plan to finish soon), and when I was reading it I felt the best and freest I've ever felt.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm not finished with it yet, but Mel Ash once again is helping to change my journey and help me back to myself. Escpecially with his insight into recovery and Zen, this is a goldmine. I strongly suggest it to really get rid of all those old negative tapes that bring so many down all the time. Thanks, Mel.
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