Diets are fine in theory but they very quickly run headlong into human nature. In fact, if you plan on using a diet to lose weight permanently, then every day, for the rest of your life, will be a diet day. In reality, it’s almost impossible to stick to a diet for more than a few weeks or months. It’s not a question of willpower, but one of biology.

‘ One ordinary day at work, she had a routine exchange with a colleague who suffered from a spinal deformity that left him unable to walk. Suddenly, without any conscious thought, Nikolic was compelled to place her hands on the colleagues shoulders. ” I seemed to be controlled by a force other than that of my rational brain,” and unable to take her hands away, she relates. After several minutes, she removed her hands and the man, amazingly, rose from his wheelchair. Dazed and in shock, he muttered repeatedly, “I can walk. I can walk. “

“This biography has been an incredible story that was quite worth reading into. I was truly taken aback by most of Edgar’s accomplishments and still dropped my jaw on a number of the incredible ones. This has easily been the most believable and least questionable book about a practicing psychic I’ve read.” Although this book is quite a few years old, it is still one of the best, most renowned biographies on Edgar Cayce to date.

A Mindful Way is based on the Five Mindfulness Trainings, specific practices established by the Buddha to help people live more peacefully. They include compassion and non-violence, defeating oppression, conscious sexuality, mindful speech and listening, and mindful consumption. These trainings are the essence of the book, the basis of living a life mindfully.

“This book was written from so far outside the box, you would need a telescope to actually find it… that is if the box didn’t come back to smack you in the face every half hour or so. That’s right. The most common obstacle in understanding and valuing this book, in my opinion, is keeping yourself from falling back into the world of a comforting yet possibly false reality. “

I grew up in a happy place embraced by some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet. Rural British Columbia, with its lush pines poking at the azure sky, and shimmering lakes played host to endless adventures throughout my childhood. Yet at the age of ten, I read a book so scary, it rattled my idyllic world and changed my life forever.

As the wise women, curanderas, shamans, and healers of their tribes, each Grandmother brought to the council new visions and prophecies for humanity, their tribes’ rich and varied sources of wisdom, and each tribe’s unique and secret teachings for living within the Divine Order of all things. Their International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers met with other wise women elders – Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Carol Mosely Braun, Wilma Mankiller, Tenzin Palmo and H.H. Sai Ma, among others – whose insightful contributions are also included in this book.

Waking the Global Heart is part history, part myth, part ecology and more. Judith explores where we’ve come from and where we are now in order to better understand where we are going. Her approach is based on Western history and values but only because as she says, those are the very values that pose the greatest threat to the world. As the author points out, we need to explore the underlying assumptions and beliefs that have led us to this critical stage.

All in all the Biology of Belief is one of the more informative and interesting books I’ve read. Biology coupling with Quantum physics could just be the beginning of a very enlightened society. Quantum Biology coupling with some intense and positive beliefs could take that same enlightened society and cause them to change the world and everyone, thing in it. It would be in violation of every moral fiber in my body not to recommend this book to others.