Help Yourself!
by Carlos I. Gutiérrez
Gotham Books


"We have returned to this world to recreate ourselves as spiritual beings."

This book is a combination of basic spiritual and psychological insights and includes twenty-nine chapters, a list of spiritual definitions, and a soul prayer/mantra for the ending. The principles examine how to follow one’s passion while living life in a spiritual manner through increasing the soul’s higher consciousness. Listening to one’s soul’s inspiration by using intuition for guidance and understanding one’s spiritual truth helps a person along the path. The chapters include topics such as friendships and relationships, sex, love, the law of attraction, family, the soul, spirit, reincarnation, meditation, beingness (such as optimism, gratitude, and happiness), chakras, and dreams. It also focuses on living in the present moment.

The author's book explores numerous topics with significant information. It often utilizes bullet points to note key ideas on basic spiritual principles. The strongest chapter is “Our Spiritual Emotions,” and the spiritual definitions at the end of the book are helpful. The text gives healthy practices for coping. Also, the author’s examples from his own life of spiritual experiences, such as seeing auras and ghosts, having a UFO encounter, seeing his children’s souls, and hearing the inner voices of his spirit guides, offer the reader a real-life experience of the numinous. However, the book sometimes takes very difficult concepts and makes basic generalizations into concrete black-and-white definitions, which can be confusing. An example from the book is poverty. While on a higher plane, there is no poverty, and there is abundance in the world, many still experience poverty in everyday existence. Yet overall, this book provides a basic introduction to the subject matter that readers may find helpful.

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