A Still, Small Voice: A Psychic's Guide to Awakening Intuition
by Echo Bodine
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Author: Echo BodineEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06-09
ISBN: 1577311361
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: New World Library
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Book Review: A Little More Fluff than Substance
Summary: 3 Stars
Echo Bodine is a medium based out of Bloomington, Minnesota, and many of her sentiments have a strong, no-nonsense Midwestern flavor. She started off as a radio psychic who spoke about her experiences with spirits to an avid listening audience who could then call in and ask about their own departed loved ones. As she has branched out into print medium, she has added a number of readers to her already-sizable listening audience.
Like her other works, A Still, Small Voice is very simplistically written and relatively short. While the book's lay-out attempts to disguise this fact, it's fairly clear that Bodine is a speaker much more than she is a writer. There is the very distinct feel that these books are ghost-written, and occasionally that detracts from the content.
My main criticisms of this book are as follows:
* Although A Still, Small Voice bills itself as a guide to awakening and developing intuition, Bodine fails to provide any real exercises for her readers.
* A Still, Small Voice relies almost completely on anecdotal material to "teach," reading more like an inspirational memoir than a guidebook.
* Bodine never addresses the theories or principals behind psychic experience, except to say that all intuition comes from God. Readers are encouraged to rely on spirit guides for their actual instruction, thus encouraging them to feel somewhat out of control of their own powers.
* Bodine places a very strong emphasis on God, directly stating that psychic experiences are merely instances of God talking to the experiencer. While her faith is admirable, such a strongly religious approach alienates a large number of readers for whom God is less important than the mechanics of the experience itself.
While A Still, Small Voice contains many interesting stories about Bodine's experiences with her own psychic gifts, on the whole, it teaches very little practical material that readers can use on their own. The emphasis on God, while laudable in its own way, undermines the stated purpose of the book, as Bodine repeatedly implies that the real mechanics of psychic experience boil down to little more than being "moved by the spirit." In the end, the book reads like a piece of inspirational cotton-candy, fluffy and sweet but lacking substance.
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