How to Successfully Skew Reality
After a brief visit to the hospital following a sever psychotic breakdown, I realized that what we may consider "reality" may be only an illusion.
Does hard work always get results? If you are attractive, is it easier? Does G-d really care about us?
These questions and more are issues that I tackle and try to present in a more palatable perspective than the one we have now.
My goal: To redefine "free will"!
This a beautiful and enjoyable book. For anyone looking for how to live and why to live that way, I recommend this book.
The book is written in two parts. In the first part Shayna builds a strong case for the need to see a better world and to treat each other with kindness and respect. She builds on her personal experience and outlines the pitfalls that so many of us face when trying to live the way she proposes.
The second part of her book has some new ideas but also treads on the familiar ground of Quantum physics and its tie to New Thought. However, she guides us in a new way about the evolution of mankind and how that has influenced the way we think.
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Saying Just the Right Thing at Just the Right Time
As Abrams points out herself 'one sentence in a book that hits you in the right place can be the exact thing you needed to hear at exactly the right time that made enough sense to you that something all of the sudden clicks. That is the “click” everyone who has written a book on this subject hopes for.' If this book didn't click for you, remember it might be saying something in just the right way to provide insight for another reader at just the right point in time that they needed to hear it. I would strongly recommend to the author that she speak to groups about her experience. I'm certain she will, both with this book and in person, say just the right thing at just the right time. Read my full review of this book which will be posted soon at:
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response to comments from deadgoodread
Thank you for taking time and reading and reviewing my book - even though it was kind of harsh.
I just wanted to clarify my point, because I do believe that you missed it. This book was not supposed to be read as a biography and if that is how you read it, I apologize that my writing did not make that clear. This book was written because I did make certain choices in life, good and bad, and I have come to some concrete conclusions about life (for myself) and I wanted to share them because they have helped me see life in a better perspective - despite typical hardships that people everywhere have (including myself).
I, by no means, meant to convey a pitiful life to anyone and to try and muster up sympathy from my readers. Au contraire..... I only wanted to try and logically explain why G-d, or the "Life Force of the Universe" is the only thing that we really have to believe in. I contend that everything else in life is an illusion. You may not agree with me, and I don't expect you to. As a matter of fact, I believe that I insisted many times throughout the book not to take my word as fact but as mere opinion. I do encourage the reader to take responsibility for themselves and consider what I am saying, but each person has a unique life and purpose and my words would have to be adjusted to each reader individually. As I say near the beginning of the book, each person is unique and there is absolutely no way that every person can see life in the exact same way.
But my book was not a biography. This I can assure you.
Again, I am sorry that you did not enjoy the read, but, if you try and skew your perspective just slightly, you might find some very comforting words within my book. This was my intention. Not to talk about my stupid, boring life. You would be right if that was what the book was about.
Teenage Truth and Lies
The synopsis of this book really grabbed my attention. It suggested sophisticated writing and complexity even. I am sorry to say that by the time I got to the part of the second husband giving the lady a hard time, I was bored...
Up to this point I found her style completely inauthentic as she painted herself as being the product of a series of life events in adult-hood. Her liturgy of life events evoked no compassion in me because it was devoid of any sense of who she was. I understand that it is this very condition which probably was key to her breakdown and goes back way beyond the drug taking and rubbish relationships.
In spite of my intensifying boredom, I stuck with her however. The subsequent psychotic episode, sadly was predictable. It is plain that this woman merely lacked confidence and plainly continues to, as her style lurches between simplistic descriptions of events and more intense ‘analysis’ of her subsequent breakdown. Never the twain could meet... Perhaps inevitable in a breakdown. If so, then this needs to be put into context of an informed explanation based on some research to show some understanding of herself and would allow the reader some breathing space from the intensity of her foisting her experiences on you.
Without some elaboration of the meaning of the events and circumstances this young lady found herself in, we are left alone with her, which is frankly not a place many readers will want to be for too long...
If this is harsh, I will at this point declare my own position on anyone who is not entirely honest with their audience: “you are on your own if it all goes tits up and you are obviously smart enough to seek some answers before that happens”. This woman was, but sadly sought ‘easy’ options.
The consequences of her breakdown were probably dreadful for her. If so, she needs to revisit her past once more with some real passion and feeling and make us want to root for her. I am sorry to say I was left cold.
“My goal is to open your mind she says as she has begun to launch into forcing religious and ill-formed justifications for her adherence to the significance of reading theology succeeded in doing the opposite. I am sorry to say that this book needs to be re-written with a specific reader in mind. An identifiable person, because this lady succeeds in satisfying nobody when she preaches to all as if we are stunted teenagers in need of spiritual enlightenment.
Give me a break, lady, I’m bailing early before I damage my lap top in irritation or punish myself for putting myself through this any further.
I am too long in the tooth to go along with hippy trippy moral and cultural relativism... The road to nowhere is paved with women who are stoned to death for family sleights and politics!
Perhaps it's the political vacuum around her theorising which makes it an unreal reading experience....