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Title: The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life by Thom Hartmann ISBN: 0609807994 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88
Rating: 5
Summary: Hartmann Walks the Talk in Prophet's Way
Comment: Review: The Prophet's Way
Thom Hartmann is an individual who has changed the world by providing exciting new paradigms for understanding the psychological, neurological, and (in Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight) ecological domains of human experience. He rides the conceptual bow wave and loves to play with ideas and make his creative contribution from that place.
In Prophet's Way, he moves from his work as a conceptual iconoclastic to share his love for his spiritual guru--a German mystic named Herr Muller--and to describe the miraculous experience of being around him in their travels.
The journey Hartmann takes us on is not done to glorify his guru or promote his teachings. It is a journey that stays true to Hartmann's lifelong interest in the power of the human mind and spirit to shape reality in extraordinary ways. In Prophet's Way, the author describes how the power of love can be focused to change physical reality so as to bring things into being that were thought to be impossible.
This book took was written with heart and obvious courage. Hartmann didn't have to write about his relationship with his guru. He risked getting a lot of criticism for talking about the joy of giving up his free will in this way. But he pulls it off marvelously!
One of Hartmann's jobs for Herr Muller was to travel internationally setting up children's homes along the line of the establishment he ran in Salem, New Hampshire twenty years ago. Hartmann would often get on the plane, not sure how he would be received on the other end, because often all the details had been left to chance. But chance always seemed to come through when Herr Muller put his mind on getting a project in place for homeless kids.
Prophet's Way, gives you a sense of what it's like to live deep in the faith that if you're on the right path you don't really need to know where the path is going. You'll be taken care of. I have always found this kind of "cosmic innocence" (to quote William Blake) difficult to live. I enjoyed reading about how Thom Hartmann not only lives this philosophy but leaves the world better for it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Prophet's Way: Living Transformation through Service
Comment: This book left a strong imprint in my being. I was very moved by its true stories about the magic of living by faith and total self-giving. The author lays his life on the line again and again, and his example draws us to do the same, for the sake of a humanity and a planet glorified by the Love of God.
Not every theory and spiritual exercise in this book resonated fully for me. But there was much food for thought in the author's ideas, and much usefulness in his exercises. Most important for me however, was the living example of people making a real difference in the state of the world, by being true to their deepest convictions, and being a Light of Godly service.
The life of Herr Muller is truly an exceptional example of esoteric spirituality, combined with very practical, energetic service. Hopefully, his example will become less exceptional, as more people catch the fire of transformation that this book serves.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Powerful and Life-changing book!
Comment: I have never had so many problems doing a review before. I don't even *like* the word, "problems", usually seeing them as challenges instead. The process of reviewing this book was challenging to the point of being problematical. While part of me was energetically focused on this very personal dilemma, part of me was asking, "Why?", seeking the meanings beneath the surface of the obstacles occurring and recurring at annoying and increasingly quick intervals.
This reached a crisis point during an interminably long sleepless night. This morning I realized that most of what I've been encountering is because this book is one of the most important I have ever read; that it is both life-changing and life-challenging -- and how in the world can I do it justice in a few bytes of a review?
I still don't know. All I can do is urge you to read this book. At worst, you will be entertained by a wonderful and inspiring story; at best, and more likely, it will change your life.
In the beginning, Thom Hartmann talks about the physical mountainside path in Bavaria that his mentor, Herr Muller, calls his "prophet's way". He then invites us to walk along with him as he shares his own journey along this path that began in his early years and continues to this day. "The Prophet's Way" is the story of one man's personal journey toward self-actualization, yet it also takes on the shape and form of "every-(wo)man's journey" as its message speaks strongly and with beautiful simplicity to the very heart and soul and spirit of who we are and what we are here to accomplish.
Thom Hartmann talks about many things that we have all heard before, yet they are presented in a more in-depth and personal way. There are also many things he shares that are juxta-positioned in a way that we can't help but see and experience them differently.
To isolate just one example of the former, there were two 'basics' that underscore a great deal of the author's personal experiences, and ! that we can all relate to. One is that the underlying need for each being on this planet is for love; the other is that the underlying drive for each being on this planet is to find and fulfill their life's purpose.
This book is a testimonial of Thom Hartmann's personal search for that love, growing toward becoming that love, and thus being directed by that love toward his own life's purpose. It isn't about being perfect or living the life of a saint or being or doing anything that is outside the realm of human possibility. It's about being conscious of the small and large ways divine love manifests in our lives every day; how that loving Presence is constantly and caringly nudging us toward being more of who we really are, and doing more of what we've come to do.
Of the latter, (seeing things differently), the author's sharing in the chapter called "Living on the Edge" and how he presents fractals helped me to not only see my life differently, but also to identify ways for living my life with more positive influence. There are strong generating energies available to us through creating and maintaining an "edge" in our lives, and Thom Hartmann talks about this in relation to his own life as well as offering ways for us to incorporate it into our lives.
Along "The Prophet's Way", we are introduced to the many characters who were leading men and women, (and sometimes the supporting cast) in Thom Hartmann's life's script. The curtain rises and falls on some of the most intriguing, powerful, empowering and inspiring cast of people I've ever encountered in one person's life. As the location changes from the United States to Europe to Jerusalem to Uganda to Bogota to India and Russia, many people's lives entwine with the author's, each with their own gifts.
Sometimes these gifts are insight, spiritual truth, and profound revelation; sometimes these gifts are deeply painful and disturbing. The one thing these many gifts have in common is that they all worked together as ca! talysts for the inner pathways that were manifesting for deeper exploration simultaneously with the author's outer journeys.
As with any experience in our lives that is life-changing, there is a challenge. Insight and inspiration are catalysts for our growth, but they cannot change our lives until we make the conscious choice to follow through. This book is exactly the same. Within it there are many techniques that will enable us to live richer, fuller, more divinely Purposeful lives. There are also true stories about miracles and synchronicities on an ongoing basis, some little ones, some big ones. There are also insights about the driving force behind the miracles and magic, and how they can become a part of our daily lives.
The catch is, the techniques only work when we do them. The divine is always present in our every day lives, but it is up to each of us to actively seek it out in order to *see* it, to activate our own inner relationship with divinity in order to Be it, to find ways every day to express that divinity in our lives in order to live it.
Where this book makes a big difference is that we are not only given techniques, but we are shown these techniques in action. Over and over again, Thom Hartmann shares examples of the alignment of conscious intent with manifestation in the world. We are allowed to see and feel how the life-changing messages in this book can have long-lasting significance in our own lives, in the lives of all those we touch, and rippling outward from there to have positive impact on the world.
One of the main points that I felt very strongly in "The Prophet's Ways" is that we don't *have* to have our lives in perfect order before we can begin to make a difference. In fact, it is probably much more likely that in our desire to make a difference, and allowing that to motivate us in our every day lives, our lives will actually *become* more "perfectly ordered".
Through the pages of Thom Hartmann's book, and the story that unfolds, the inspiratio! n shakes us loose from lethargy, generates that desire to make a difference, offers techniques for following through on our desire, and thus launches us into conscious creation of change.
There is much that is rare and singularly beautiful in this book; there is so much more that is common to all life, to the planet herself, to all the souls on it, and to the Source of everything. Through Thom Hartmann's generous sharing of his journey, we become witness to this connection, we feel part of it, we become active participants in the process of awakening to our collective missions in this life.
If one person can do, feel, know, learn, teach, experience all of this; if it is possible for one person to find the true source of love and activate that in a path of service to life on this planet, so can we all.
We are all writing our own lives' scripts and our characters may be different, the locations may be different, the terrain of our path may be different, yet what it all comes down to is that the divine source of love is equal and present in each of our lives, and each of us has our own purpose to fulfill in the expression of that divine love in our world.
"The Prophet's Way" is not only an inspiration for catalyzing our own desire to fulfill our life's purpose, but it is filled with direction signs that we can't miss .My feeling after reading this book is that fulfilling our purpose in life is no longer an "option"; it is a necessity. The world has need of each one of us Now. Today.
... Jaline
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