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 Prejudice garbage Aug 12, 2009
This obviously liberal author has little respect for those who choose to live in rural communities. Yet being a liberal spouts off information on how the people in "other" countries who live in rural communities are beautiful souls, yet decides the rural folk in his own country are idiots. The people in the authors own backyard who choose to live in southern or mid-western states are considered all infantile idiots. I've never been more disappointed by a New Age book. I have been into this genre for more than 10 years and I have never seen such prejudice liberal propaganda. I find the author so short sighted and prejudiced. The author claims your supposed soul level is under 7, if you are anything but an all-embracing liberal (except it's ok to not embrace 'country hicks' in the case of the author). The author embraces other liberal city slickers (oh that's right you have to live in a BIG city in order to be enlightened) so small town liberals are grouped with the other 'hicks'. According to the author; conservatives are all lower progressed souls - whether they live in a big city (level 5 or so) or in a rural community (level 1-4). (I guess so much for the hermits and the Shaolin monks who live outside of society or those who leave society in order to find enlightenment). Does anyone else see the dichotomy in the author's logic? He says "agree with me and you must be a soul level 7 or higher".
I gained nothing at all spiritual from this book. It was merely liberal ideologies wrapped up in some sort of cover that the author was "divinely inspired" to know all this crap and unfortunately share it with us.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Interesting guide for spiritual development and understanding your life path Jun 24, 2009
This book shares the lessons provided by a medium's spiritual guides, giving insight into the archetypal issues people are working through and the way our perspective shifts as we evolve through many lifetimes and experiences. There are lots of personal stories and examples shared by the author to illustrate how these issues appear in people's lives. The book claims that there are 2 basic types of guides - astral guides and causal guides - with causal guides providing a higher perspective than the less advanced spirits from the astral level. I'm inclined to think that oversimplifies the spectrum of consciousnesses that one may interact with in non-physical reality. There's also a somewhat arbitrary system presented of quantifying the level of progression of souls according to their perspective and the way they view life, on a 1 to 10 type scale. It's useful in some ways but presents an overly linear attempt to explain how Souls evolve in their incarnational path. Other than these particular critiques I found the guidance, the "instruction" offered by Anslie's guides to be rather good and enlightening. This book will be very helpful for many people who are seeking to understand their lives and expand their perspective regarding spirituality.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Life Fulfillment Jun 22, 2009
Ainsley Macleod very nicely puts together a book about achieving your personal destiny. He calls it The Instruction. The book involves sensing meaningful coincidences in your life and using them to your best advantage. There is always a silver lining in every cloud. This is a good read for anyone trying to find meaning and purpose in their life,and is not particularly fixed to any one religion. I recommend it to anyone looking for value in their life..
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Instructions, more like blueprints for living!! Jun 21, 2009
Instruction by Ainslie MacLeod.
This book caught my eye, available via Amazon's Vine program. Now had I researched it prior to seeing it here, I would have bought it anyway, as it was in the realm of what I like to read.
I must say, however some of the books that I have purchased in the past in this genre have made me cringe, either the author was trying to justify their right to be the author, or they were overcompensating in a new agey angst driven way, but this guy was quite matter-of-fact. He called himself, a skeptical-psychic, so I was intrigued.
The fundamental idea of the book is founded in the concept of reincarnation and that we have various go rounds on this world, ages, talents, etc. Our spirit guides can help us determine what point we are at and how best to fulfill this current destiny.
Being an engineer (yes I know, imagine that, an engineer into reincarnation) I really appreciated the very straight forward way this guy approached this all. He didn't try to snow me, in fact his instructions for meditation, were also very simple, very direct, no incense, no bells, no mumbo-jumbo. Maybe this does not work for you but, I think we all have our own way to approach these things and he was accounting for that.
Another thing I found quite interesting, is that the author is not trying to appeal to the reader by touting success as a financial windfall, but something truly more valuable. I can't believe the number of books that call themselves spiritual, that in fact are only concerned about financial success. If that is your interest, this book is not for you.
At the time I read this book, I had no time, nor privacy to do the exercises. However, when you read this book, you really have a clue where you fall on the ages, talents, missions, etc, even if you do not do the meditations. It is quite fascinating. I'm not saying you don't want to do the meditations, as I think they are essential, but I found, a certain sense of understanding, where I fit on the spectrum as I read.
I plan to sit down and do each and every exercise, now that I have finished reading the book. It will provide me, with if nothing else the introspection of examining my life and my goals and where this all fits in. It is a very personal journey and I don't intend to share that here. But, I have to say having completely read the book, the fact that I intend to go back and wander through it again, shows that it provides more than mere entertainment.
If you want to know more about YOU and this life fits in with your overall plan, give this book a whirl, you could end up being the person you were destined to.
It is a simple book to follow, with so much to offer and if nothing else will give you some framework for understanding who you are and where to go from here.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Interactive Advice Jun 19, 2009
I'm sort of a self-help magazine junky. I love the "Advice, Etc." columns in O magazine and all the different psychological/spiritual advice in Body & Soul and Prevention and magazines of that ilk. I like little snippets of information and advice that I can store away in my brain. I especially enjoy it when something in one of those articles really forces me to change the way I look at a situation. It changes my perspective on life and some of the things I've read stay with me forever.
This book satisfies that habit. It's full of little pieces of useful, sensitive advice. As others have mentioned, this book is probably not for hardened realists that like scientific evidence. There is a lot of discussion about spiritual guides and intention and souls. I don't necessarily subscribe to that line of thinking but I certainly think there's a lot of useful and enlightening information to be found within it.
I did enjoy quizzes and exercises- it allows the book to become more like a class/interactive experience than just something to read and try to remember.
This is a book you can pick up and flip through randomly, or you can sit and read it straight through. Regardless of how you chose to approach it, there are inspiring things to be found within "The Instruction"'s pages.
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