Sunday, March 15, 2020

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

(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.

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