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Title: Magic of the Senses: A Guide for Personal Enrichment by Jean Champagne ISBN: 0-7414-0311-0 Publisher: Buy Books on the Web Com Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A New Day
Comment: It is with great pleasure to read Mr. Champagne's book on the senses.

Often my day begins and ends without a single reflective thought of my body movements, the aesthetics, smells, sounds, and tastes. This book has brought the reflectiveness back.

No longer will I awake in the morning, open my eyes, stretch, yawn, and taste that first cup of coffee without awe!

Thank you for bringing the intimate being of self back to me.

Rating: 5
Summary: a meaningful study of our basic sensory connection to life
Comment: I felt guilty. The day spread out before me had none of the time consumptions of its predecessors--no conferences, meetings, appointments. I would for a change be deliberately desultory among my dog-eared books and see again in their permanence lines I knew by memory from, say, Emily Dickinson

A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides [movement]

It goads me like the goblin bee
That will not state its sting [touch]

To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need[smell]

I taste a liquor never brewed
From tankards scooped in pearl [taste]

I heard a fly buzz when I died.
The stillness in the room
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm [sound]

I like a look of agony
Because I know it's true [sight]

It was then that I realized how much I was responding to the magic of the senses, to use the title of a new work by Jean Champagne delivered only the day before.

What Mr. Champagne has done is to explain each of the six senses in immediately understandable terms drawn from the latest scientific investigations and illustrated by quotations from pertinent authority. These he then follows by exercises and demonstrations the reader will be eager to apply. The inclusion of blank pages inducing personal augmentation of what has been learned is an ingenious encouragement to make the study of the book all the more meaningful.

Particularly useful are the references to further information on each topic via the internet and a generous bibliography.

Reading Mr. Champagne's thoroughly researched and fascinating book made me all the more cognizant of the basic principle it states, that "To be conscious is to be always involved in a sensory activity," and I found that my day had been redeemed after all.