Soul Wisdom: Practical Soul Treasures to Transform Your Life (Soul Power)

Being an intuitive, I admit having high expectations for this book and its teachings. The chanting and repetition did not resonate with me. It is difficult to continue to work with something if it's not working back for you and I did not have success with this method. Perhaps others will; it's hard to make a call one way or another. The theories and teachings are very good; the CD was well done. That said, I think this can be an effective method if this works for you, but that's an individual judgment call.

As far as I am concerned, there's more than one way to skin a cat. A particular concept either resonates with you or it doesn't. Although all of the concepts in this book are valid, Dr. Zhi Gang Sha's book does not resonate with me.

I am a firm believer in spirituality and in creating your own destiny. I believe in spiritual soul searching, personal transformation and in many concepts and ideas that would be considered "New Age."

The issues I have with this book are two fold. The first being that I find it to be an uncomfortable read. I get the distinct impression that it's been written in Chinese and then translated into English because the writing feels disjointed and I find the Dr's diction very hard to follow.

The second issue I have with the book is the Dr's special "names" for each of his ideas/methods/concepts that are capitalized and constantly repeated throughout the book. Soul Software, Divine Download, Soul Transplant, Soul Tapping, Soul Dance, Soul Joy, Soul Movement, Soul Language, Soul Light Century, Soul Light Era and Soul World. I find it annoying that he had to place these labels on things that are already fairly well known under more common names such as: creative visualization, energy tapping, Reiki, chakra balancing, yoga, chanting, etc.

The book is about directing energy both inward and outward, it's about listening, focusing, and being aware of oneself. The material is valid, and some may feel that it's well written, but even though I already resonate with many of these things, I just can't feel connected to the way that the Dr. speaks about them.

I have read a variety of books in the spirituality realm and something about this author doesn't strike me as authentic. I have read many reviews here and the most disturbing are the ones that give little detail as they blindly praise this author's divinity and wisdom.

I was concerned when I opened the book and it explained how it would do what no other book could do, offering "Divine Downloads"--why do so few reviewers mention these?--and you have to purchase each book in the series to get his complete list of divine downloads.

Dr. Sha also referred to Jesus teaching "the way" in his opening statement. The Tao means "The Way" and it predated Jesus Christ by 500 years. He gave credit to the wrong teacher.

I wondered, as I read through Chapter 1, if the repetitive nature of this book is meant to teach first-timers to the spirituality realm. He stresses the importance and benefits of his way of teaching once and then "in other words" for what seems like the bulk of this book.

Here's the thing that I find most uncomfortable: You don't have to sell spirituality. No one has the perfect way that you can only find in his book, or shall I say "series" of books. There are many ways to reach forgiveness, peace, harmony and love. This teaching gives me an uncomfortable feeling of exclusivity. In fact, I wondered why a book about the soul, as written by Sha, was not published by Hay House--a very inclusive, "try everything that works for you"-type of company. After reading the focus and tone, I realize why Hay House might have passed on this manuscript.

I became skeptical early on, but I tried to keep an open mind and give his lessons a try. I only got as far as "Soul Language" when he gave me a number to chant over and over, but I don't know what the number means--it's a secret and he promised to sell that secret to me in another book later on.

"Master Sha" allowed me to call on his soul as I performed my Divine Download, as long as I paid him the common courtesy of returning it when I was done. Perhaps this is an Eastern practice I have never heard of, but it felt too much to me like asking the Priest to bless my relationship with God. The way I believe, I never needed the priest to communicate with God and I don't need Master Sha to "be with me" as I meditate and find peace and wisdom from within.

I feel duped by the five-star reviews and the lack of information here posted on Amazon. I bought this book because of its previous best-seller status and the quantity of high reviews, but I agree with a previous review: something's off about the system here. I would go so far as to say that Team Sha posted more than half of the reviews to promote his "teachings."

The only reason I gave this book a second star is because, as you lead into the soul transformations that only Sha has the rights to, he offers practical advice in generalized terms about suffering, forgiveness and unconditional love and gratitude. That is the core of spirituality.

The world is in need of and has a desire for a spiritual movement, unfortunately I feel that this "soul series" is cashing in on the market. You can find wonderful, inclusive lessons from Hay House Publishers. I recommend Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Jerry and Esther Hicks--to name a few from that camp.

If you don't want Hay House, try Martha Beck, who writes wonderful books about finding your soul's purpose and following your destiny.

I don't disagree with very much in this book. I'm pretty New Agey, but I was often bored and irritated when reading this book. It is repetitive to the point of being tortuous. I also did not like the way the book took on the tone of those prosperity gospel preachers. It seemed at times to promise the world, including material goods, and I was not comfortable with that. In fact, it had the feel of an infomercial that went on and on. Still, there are some good ideas in here--it'll just take lots of weeding to get to them.

I was drawn to this book immediately, although when it arrived I couldn't fathom what had made me pick it!

Once I opened the book and started reading though I was blown away. What I mean is this -- within hours of picking up the book things started coming into focus in my life in a way that I hadn't expected.

Here's an example: Shortly after reading the introduction and the first chapter I took a nap. During my nap I experienced the most profound dreams - that guides and loved ones were surrounding me and showing the way to healing for my clients, the earth and all those that I come in contat with. (Note, there were no untoward substances in my body at the time, and while I consider myself a spiritual person and one who dreams frequently - this was highly out of character!)

I even woke up and told several people about the dream. Instead of laughing or pooh-poohing what I had to say, they seemed interested and open. (Again, if you knew these people like I know these people this was out of character)

Dr. Sha clearly has infused this book with healing and wisdom and I'm feeling lighter, clearer and more capable of providing service to my clients and my fellow humans as a result of reading this profound book.

The words itself are pretty dense however when I stop struggling with each word and trying to force myself to "get it" and rather just read and let the words sit in my super-conscious things all fall into place.

If you are ready to accept responsibility for changing your world - I highly recommend you not only purchase this book now, but you read it as soon as it arrives!

Peggie Arvidson
http://awakenyoursoul.wordpress.com
http://www.intuitiveevolution.com