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G**L
For me, the most healing book I have read.
What can I say in description of a book that has had more healing impact in my life than any I have read in a lifetime of 62 years? As a lifetime professional counselor, I have read and studied many books focused on the prospect of healing, but Robert Schwartz's Your Soul's Plan brought the events of my life more into focus than any I have read. I say this, not only as a healer, but also as a Vietnam Veteran, ex-helicopter ambulance pilot with a lifetime of challenge to overcome my own legacy of suffering.Arranged in a series of case histories, tied together by the theme that there is an overarching life plan, planned pre-birth at a soul-level, we are made aware of how our own lives can fit the pattern he describes. With almost a hundred reviews here, I'll not go into repetition of the details so well described already. There are some things I would like to add.For those of a skeptical scientific or conventional religious bent, the gentle narrative approach of Schwartz's writing will help you explore ideas that may seem unfamiliar or threatening to you. The consistencies in his discoveries that support his theme are particularly interesting. In my line of work, we might say that - while this may not be "good science" at this point, his discoveries have clinical validity when explored at the level he follows. My own life experiences and observations allow me to be open to the validity of psychic investigation, when it is genuine. Schwartz seems to have put together a good team of psychics to pursue his study. Obviously, it is difficult to establish validation, except on a personal level - but each of us ultimately can only establish truth on a personal level. Consensus and belief about truth can only take us so far.What I find fascinating is how Schwartz is able to attain consistencies in details about each case he studies, when going from one psychic to another, without communication between the psychics. When one psychic reading of a person corroborates another of the same person, often elaborating or picking up where the other left off, even a skeptic would be hard-put to deny the significance! Such consistency in detail cannot just be made up! Beyond the attribution of clinical validity, where the person recognizes the healing/illuminating effect in his/her life, we now begin to approach the groundwork for scientific study.Most of all, though, is the warmth and gentle compassion that Schwartz brings through in his work - done in a way that opens the reader to one of the most powerful insights we could have: that a Higher Power endlessly works through us, in total love and compassion, with an endless agenda to help us grow through the endless adventure we call life. Beyond being helpless victims of fate, we need only take responsibility for finding meaning in our experiences and for our endless God-given potential.Granville Angell, author of The God-Shaped Hole - A Story of Comfort for The Child in All of Us
J**Y
The role of hardship in teaching lessons of great value
Robert Schwartz has done a thorough job illustrating the value of hardship in improving the character of both our temporary and more permanent self.. He documents the lessons learned by those who have suffered through severe physical illness, those who have parented severely handicapped children, those who have suffered drug addiction, the grief stricken, those who have suffered debilitating accidents. These are not the mundane lessons about how to fight depression or use a wheel chair or find a rewarding job despite handicaps. These are the lessons of a deeper, more lasting nature: developing a greater capacity to love, to emphathize with others, to have faith, patience, compassion. I emphasize this aspect of the book because it offers a lot even to those who might be skeptical of concepts such as a soul's pre-planning a life or even the notion of reincarnation itself. This book encourages everyone to learn these lessons that hardship offers, regardless of their religious or spiritual beliefs. I personally found great comfort in reading of the possibility that my loved one who has recently passed might have embraced the suffering that we both endured during a long-term illness. She might have even intended this suffering as a way of teaching us compassion and love. I hope and pray that is so. But even if it isn't, it is irrefutably the case that I learned a depth of love, empathy, and commitment that I do not think I could have learned any other way. That is to my benefit, to hers, and to everyone else's whose lives we touch now and forever. Do not let the hardships of life go to waste by neglecting to learn the larger lessons that life has to offer, no matter what the case may be regarding the afterlife. Reading this book will help you do that. For that reason, I sincerely hope that no one will let their personal beliefs regarding matters of religion stand in the way of learning these lessons that depend upon nothing more than our paying attention to them as they occur. i thank Robert Schwartz for doing such an excellent job and most sincerely recommend this book to everyone, because there is no one who does not suffer. Do not waste your suffering on mere suffering.
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