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Title: The Call: Discovering Why You Are Here by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 0-06-001194-7 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Call: Discovering Why You Are Here
Comment: Stunned by two negative reviews, I feel compelled to add my thoughts about this book--a book which I have heavily highligthted and found to be thoroughly honest. The author deals with the not-so-easy aspects of the spiritual journey with a direct 21st century awareness, using her own life as example. Anyone on a genuine spiritual journey of their own will understand what she means when she writes: "Create a gap in your story and sit within the gap, sit in the emptiness of not knowing who or what you are until an awareness of your essential nature fills you." This is one more book to add to my library of hundreds of volumes of spiritual literature, many of which I gathered while in seminary working towards a master's degree in Spritual Direction. Along with The Cloud of Unknowing, works by the Desert Fathers, Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, Evelyn Underhill, Joseph Campbell and others I add Oriah Mountain Dreamer for speaking bravely to our time and, more specifically, to my life.
Rating: 1
Summary: A waste of time and money
Comment: I've read quite a lot of esoteric, spiritual literature and have usually managed to glean something useful from most of it. This is the exception and seems to be a case of some pseudo-guru making easy money out of a 'spiritual' nom-de-plume. There is no real insight into what exactly 'the Call' might be, just a lot of mystical mumbo-jumbo of the vaguest kind.
For example:
"What comes and goes is our ability to hear it [the 'Call'], our willingness to let go of what we think we are so we can open ourselves to hearing that which calls us back to what we always have been. When we open to this constant call, we remember why we are here and allow this knowledge to create a new and fluid story colored with that knowledge and never mistaken for all of who we are".
Got that? Isn't that a gem? And there's a lot more where that came from. In fact the whole book is a stunning example of how to say absolutely nothing of use, repeatedly, in as many words as humanly possible.
Don't waste your money. If I could get mine back, I would. I begrudge every penny I spent on this vague and boring tosh.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing to say the least
Comment: I read the first two books by the same author "The Invitation" and "The Dance" and very much enjoyed them. I had been looking forward to the this book but when I read it I must say I was completely disappointed!!! The first two books had encouraged one to look within oneself for answers but this I found deeply religious as it encouraged worship of a god which does not resonate with me at all.
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Title: The Dance: Moving to the Rhythms of Your True Self by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 0062516930 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 0062515845 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Your Heart's Prayer: Following the Thread of Desire into a Deeper Life by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 1564559823 Publisher: Sounds True Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion by Dawna Markova ISBN: 1573241016 Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Opening The Invitation : The Poem That Has Touched Lives Around the World by Oriah Mountain Dreamer ISBN: 0060593229 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 27 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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