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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Read this book if you've given up Jun 27, 2006
By Jeffrey Backstrom
I read a lot of books about Waking Down In Mutuality before this one came along. Most of that time I was really thirsty to "get it". I thought I could somehow deduce the formula for this awakening that Saniel and Linda Bonder have been helping people break through to. Then I read "The Second Birth". What I got was that I'm not going to figure it out. AND that awakening isn't something that needs to be figured out.
This is a book of stories. Each is unique. Each is told in the words of the person who lived it. Some are lifelong seekers; some are not. Some are spiritual teachers themselves. One drives a truck. One runs a bar. They tell their own stories, and it becomes clear that coming into this new state of Being, so radically different that it's experienced as a sort of new birth, is accessible to regular folks. What they have to show us is that we can "awaken" just as we are, with all our human shortcomings and baggage, without having mentally threaded the eye of the needle. The effect on me personally was to chip a big hunk out of that block of cosmic distrust I have carried around for years, the notion that I can never have the deep connection I really want, that I'm condemned to fall short, that "awakening" or "enlightenment" is out of reach to all but some chosen few.
Whether you are just starting to notice that there may be something more to life, or have been seeking for decades and getting a bit discouraged, this book has some things to tell you that you won't often hear.
Besides, it's fun to read.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Very unique look at what enlightenment might mean... Jan 15, 2007
By Daniel Sperry
This is a remarkable book! It covers an amazing gamut of experiences that have a very authentic flavor - and it is very surprising because the folks who have shared their experience of awakening bring up the full range of human impulses, not just the sublime but the ordinary as well. I was impressed with the variety and depth of the stories - they are all very different, but if there is a general theme it might be that for each one the transformation is very real, often poignant, and large in their lives. I think the book lives up to it's name and it was an inspiration to me to explore this particular path further. I highly recommend it.
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 overestimating Nov 10, 2006
By Ioannis Tzivanakis
The book contains valuable information for all those who are on the path of truth.
Nevertheless, the verbal descriptions of the contributors are inflated, i.e. the depth of the spiritual labels they use are not fully covered from the experiences they describe.
Nevertheless again, it's a valuable book.
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