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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Paid for itself a thousand times over, 31 Jul 2001
This book is my foundation work on intuition. It has rewarded my investment more than a thousand times over in money alone, and the insight and practical advice I have received through these intuitive exercises in other areas of my life have been worth as much again. This book differs markedly from many other books about intuition by simplifying and demystifying the whole subject. While so many other books will have you carrying out lengthy efforts of "tuning in" and receiving impressions to no particular purpose, this book gets you started right away dealing with issues of practical importance in your own life. After a couple of short introductory chapters, explaining how it works and what you will need, the exercises begin almost immediately. As the book progresses, you will formulate three burning questions of your own and carry out a series of exercises to refine and provide insight into them. The book contains 26 such exercises in all, every one different, and all carried out "blind", that is to say without knowing which question you are answering. Some of the author's own questions are thrown in, so you really never can guess the question you are dealing with. This is not the kind of book you can simply dip into or read for interest alone. You are forced to carry out the exercises as you reach each one before moving on in the text. This may be off-putting to some, but following the rules will reward you with much practical experience by the end of the book, and most likely some genuinely useful answers to a few of your own questions. Added to this, the book is full of examples from the author's students, so you get plenty of insight and encouragement from the efforts of other novices. If you are serious about putting intuition to practical use in your life, then this is the book to get. In fact, it may be the only book you will ever need on the subject.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A long overdue look at the place of intuition in modern life but, 23 Jul 2008
the author "over eggs the pudding" with strong hints about her own and others pyschic abilities. However, the exercises included in the book are interesting explorations of how the human mind works and I believe the author probably has an unusual/greater intuitive understanding of this than most. Although her perspective is more practical & new age, than scientific or medical. She has recognised that most of us living in the modern world routinely suppress or ignore our intuitive feelings - and her recognition that this is almost always a mistake might be profound. The basic principle of the book is that we should learn to trust and develop our intuition. Her explanation that intuition is our body's way of expressing a sort of subconscious summary of many inputs from our senses, of which there are too many for us to process consciously, rings true. Don't dismiss this book out of hand, it provides some interesting & perhaps unique insights & ideas. Although the exercise-based format become a little tedious after a while, it does provide a practical demonstration of what the author has written.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Rather chewy and a little difficult to swallow!, 28 Jun 2009
I have read all the major books in this genre, and this is really the last of the bunch I had bought to read. Thankfully I left this until almost last, otherwise I may have been put off dipping my toes in this particular pool of thought and practice.
There's nothing especially dreadful about this book, and as other reviewers have said, I wanted to like this book, I really did. That established, it has to be said that this book is DULL, very, very dull. and for the most part not an engaging or enthralling type of read at all. I compare it Hicks', Losier, Klauser et al. and they are altogether much better reads. Much more engaging, much more meat on the bone and ultimately more satisfying and more rewarding.
The whole layout and feel of this book is not quite there, it's not quite professional and doesn't quite hit the mark. I found it cumbersome, and the exercises dull and lethargic. Whereas with other books in this genre I found I couldn't put the book down, here i found I couldn't pick the book up! And here I must confess that after about two years of owning it, I haven't finished it entirely and it's got put in a drawer to make room for newer stuff on my shelves. Surely any book worth its cover price would never be subjected to such indignant treatment, but alas here, it must succumb.
I know this may be irrelevant, but a couple of things I didn't like included the (copyrighted) foreword by Demi Moore (that alone speaks volumes) and also the grimacing photo of Day on the cover. She is actually a beautiful woman, so why on earth she chose the scowling middle-aged Manhattan frump-ike photo for the cover is beyond me! - I am missing something here? Anyway, with her grimacing at me ever time I laid the book on my desk, I felt loathed to pick it up!
The cynic amongst you might deride and say with an all-knowing tone in your voice, that I have missed the point, that it is I who have missed the opportunity presented here, in the words of Macaulay Culkin., "I don't think so!" All-in-all, if you are into this genre, I suggest you dig a little harder and check out some of the longer selling and altogether more enjoyable reads.
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