Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, Gabrielle Bernstein

from here

(February 27) Was inspired to read this by a Goop Instagram post. From that and even the introductory pages, I could tell that this was going to totally align with Abraham-Hicks -- Bernstein mentions them by name as teachers right off the bat.

By the end of the book, I would have to say that not only does it align with Abraham-Hicks -- it's basically a workbook for using them. Bernstein breaks everything down into the simplest elements for spoon-feeding and provides totally humdrum examples for illustration, so it's a bit different from Esther Hicks's narrative, which can be a bit lofty and metaphorical. Also different is her recommendation always to be ceding control to the universe, which Abraham-Hicks never does... they never talk about "control" at all.

For a while, I wanted to buy a copy of the book (true sign I am feeling reverential about something I'm reading), but in the end I thought it was a little too dubious with the praying (there are a lot of prayers) and ceding control.

The Light Between Us, Laura Lynne Jackson

AMTK (Andrew Mazorol and Tynan Kerr), Seance, 2012

(February 25) With one day left before it was due, I sampled the first page... and it was so gripping that I dropped everything else then and there and read it cover to cover.

It was not hard to finish in one day: these were amazing stories. First of all, CLEARLY the Other Side and "bonds of light" exist... all the experiences this woman, and her many medium friends and acquaintances, relate cannot be just coincidences and wishful projections. Something's going on.

Some of the stories of reunions with loved ones on the Other Side are absolutely heart-wrenching... I was sobbing over the stories of the father, the son, and the belt, the girl and the kitten... the whale! ...the bee! 

The oddness mixed in with the touchingness in each story makes it all so convincing.

Jackson has a nice narrative style but a strange habit that I noticed: she always gives the height of the men when she describes them, usually precisely. If they are not at least six feet tall, though, she won't bother with precision (or will merely say "he was not tall"). Women are almost always described as "pretty" within the first two words of a description. The funniest quirk!

I should have read this ahead of Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe -- I would have been less underwhelmed.