The Reconnection by Eric Pearl Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Reconnection
Book Review: Books with marks in them a pet peeve
Summary: 4 Stars
This book was listed as in good condition and it was not ragged, however it is marked in. For the price I'll deal with it but I do not like books that have been highlighted, marked in or pages turned down. Would rather spend the money on a newer book. Don't know if there is a way for the seller to put that info. I do not hold any grudges against seller because it is TRUE, book is in good condition.Book Review: Caution...
Summary: 1 Stars
Hello?
Dr. Pearl said in his book that he works with an entity. His entity channelled messages to him through 50 of his chiropractic patients. He said that 49 of them never channelled before, and they were always taken by surprise. To quote Dr. Pearl, some of them were so unnerved by the experience that they never returned to his office. This suggests that the entity isn't averse to invading and using unsuspecting people for its purposes. When a person entrusts their body to a chiropractor and, as per his book, the patient gets their head thrown back by an unseen force, their eyes rolled into their sockets, and their vocal chords taken over without their conscious consent, I suggest this isn't Love operating in Its highest form, and in fact he seems teamed up with something entirely unacceptable and dangerous.
Also, Dr. Pearl showed lack of respect for the ways of other healing practices. It's one thing to share one's perspectives; it's another to ridicule others. He doesn't talk like a loving person. He seems full of ego!
I noticed other problems with Dr. Pearl's perspectives and the energies he promotes, but if only for the reasons stated above, I'd not only NOT go to his seminars, I'd cross the street when I saw him coming and hope he didn't notice me.
Book Review: Coming down to earth
Summary: 3 Stars
When I began reading this book, I too was carried away by Eric Pearl's exuberance and passion. His book is heady stuff. Pearl is very funny, and he is even more persuasive, making some very astute observations of the human condition. The first part of the book - which is largely autobiographical - on the whole resonated well with me, and for this, I could have given 4 stars.
As for the latter part, where Pearl begins to interpret his experiences from his own personal point of view, this was where I came down to earth somewhat. I began to question his constant assertions that his healing method is supreme. Has he tested out all the others he dismisses so readily? I doubt it. How can you understand the essence of qigong, for example, without really practising it - a whole-of-life approach that requires the same kind of paradigm shift that Pearl claims for his own method. What is more, I have seen - even personally experienced - healings that have had none of the drama of his method, but which were just as remarkable.
Healing is universal. In Roger Jahnke's "The Healer Within" you will find an account of a young woman lying badly injured in a hospital bed, who quietly and unobtrusively healed her torn liver and spleen over forty-eight hours while waiting to be fit for surgery. (How? You'll need to read the book, but I can say here that she'd had no previous training or healing experience.) The point is that no one has the definitive answer to healing; neither does any one method take precedence over all others. (Were Pearl's objections really about the methods, or the way they are sometimes misused?) It is interesting to note that Christ used a wide variety of healing methods. Surely then, how we heal will remain a highly individual experience - no matter how spiritually advanced we become.
To anyone who despairs that they can only acquire the gift of healing through hands-on contact with Eric Pearl himself, I would quote a Buddhist aphorism, "You have come here to find what you already have."
Book Review: Did Buddha or Jesus charge for their healings?
Summary: 3 Stars
Pearl claims in his book that anyone can do the healing he does, because his healing "technique" consists of no more than: 1) an intention to heal another person; and 2) the ability to "get out of the way" mentally and emotionally and let God do the healing.
If this is true, why does Pearl indulge in the media hoopla and high fees? It raises a question: Is Pearl a true believer who seeks to be a conduit for healing -- who seeks merely to share his gift with others? Or is he a salesman who is mostly furthering his own financial wellbeing? If it is the former, it should be enough for the reader to read the book and put its principles into practice. No need for Pearl to give special seminars in exotic, tax-deductible locations.
It is a given that most healers (one thinks of Edgar Cayce or Harry Edwards) ask only for minor fees or donations -- if they ask for anything at all -- because they know that the karma a person racks up by exploiting people's illnesses and suffering is huge. That is why true healers, who know they have been given a gift for free, do not pander to media circuses. Jesus taught the multitudes on the hills and the Buddha taught students under the Bodhi tree for free.
Book Review: Doing Healing Work & Accepting Money For it
Summary: 3 Stars
Doing Healing Work & Accepting Money For it
I don't see why so many people have a problem with a person charging for the healing work and teaching that they do. Just because the healer may say the energy comes from God, Christ, the Universe, or whatever, doesn't mean they have to give it away for free if they don't want to. And I don't care if that's what Jesus, Buddha or Edgar Cayce did, it doesn't mean you have to. Living with some material comfort usually requires money. We give something of value in exchange for the value want to receive. Money is one way of doing this in or society.
I don't look at it as wrong or right it just is the way we have set the perceived rules of operation up. Often people do not place high value on that which is free and attaching a price to a thing makes people make a decision about what they consider important and what their priorities are. We spend money on things we perceive as desirable or valuable. It is not the only way to get what we want, but it is what we are most accustomed to. If we want something bad enough we tend to find a way to get the money so we can buy it.
Spirituality and money are not at odds with one another. I think the more spiritually aware you are the easier it should be for you to create money for yourself if that's what you want. The more spiritually aware you become I would think you'd be able to see more ways to achieve something (whether it is attracting it directly to you, or coming up with an idea to get it, or discovering the right people to meet and talk to to get it, or attracting ("bumping into" the right people) and they give it to you).
If Eric cares about having money and uses his gifts and knowledge to get money while at the same time helping people, what's wrong with that? I'd only have a problem with a gifted healer (or any healer for that matter) who doesn't think he/she deserves to have prosperity in various forms. If the healer doesn't want it, that's something entirely different. That somehow you are more spiritual if you are poor is part of that guilt and shame we were taught around money.
You can be very spiritual and poor or very spiritual and rich. I think if you are very good at using your spiritual energy, and believe you are deserving of all sorts of prosperity, you should not be poor (in terms of what you consider poor).
Money allows you more freedom to do what you want. It is not the only way, just A way.