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What Wags the World: Tales of Conscious Awakening Kindle Edition

by Miriam Knight (Editor), Julie Clayton (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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What Wags the World: Tales of Conscious Awakening is a topical and compelling collection of conscious awakening stories from more than 30 authors and filmmakers. Each contributor describes life-changing experiences that resulted in extraordinary transformation within their own life, and realizations of an interconnected and multidimensional universe. Their understanding of the world and how it works has been so profoundly changed that they feel compelled to share their story and pass on the gifts of wisdom, insight, and compassion they have gained.
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Julie Clayton is editor of NY Times bestsellers and award-winning books on new consciousness (sacredwriting.com), and Reviews Editor for New Consciousness Review. Miriam Knight is founder of New Consciousness Review (ncreview.com)— a showcase for the people, books and films inspiring personal and global transformation, and NCRadio.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00MXDAWSC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Hunt Publishing (September 26, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 26, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3396 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 191 pages
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    JULIE CLAYTON is a freelance editor of NY Times bestsellers and award-winning books that promote personal, social, and global change; a professional book reviewer; and the Reviews Editor for New Consciousness Review. She holds a master’s degree in Integral Consciousness Studies and is a PhD candidate in Metaphysical Science. As Bucky Fuller expressed, she considers herself a citizen of the world. She can be contacted at her website: www.sacredwriting.com.

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carmen Balko
5.0 out of 5 stars Love love love this amazing book
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2015
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Love love love this amazing book..It means more to me than I can put into words...!!! Knowledge indeed is Empowering and my very core
my Heart resonates with the contents..For me it is mothing less than MAGICAL....and a huge THANK YOU to everyone who put it togeather
For me there is excitement and JOY on every page... Totally Love this Book....Very Sincerly carmen (Mrs.CarmenBalko)
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Robin S Groelle
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating look at new ways of thinking about life and how to develop the greatest meaning out of the unexpected.
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2015
An interesting and insightful look at ways to adjust one's outlook. Refreshing and a great introduction to wakefulness. This book helps to open the door to new ways of perception and some of the experts in the field.
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Steven Morrison
3.0 out of 5 stars It is the purchaser of this book who is being waged.
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2015
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The main problem with this book is that it concerns individuals who tend to be new age and expect to become enlightened. If I had read the book before, rather than just listening to the author on the radio, I would never have purchased it. I can recommend a book by Sam Harris called: Waking Up - A guide to spirituality without religion.
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Diane H. Wilson
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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2015
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Once I started reading could not put it down. Purchased more copies as gifts!
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Pamela Kelly
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Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2014
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I bought this for my son who loves it
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Tracy Houston
5.0 out of 5 stars Love the book!
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2015
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Cynthia Sue Larson
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Primer for the Rising Tide of Consciousness
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2014
It's been said "a rising tide lifts all boats," and that's the uplifting sense I got while reading Miriam Knight and Julie Clayton's marvelous anthology of inspirational short autobiographical essays. This is the perfect book for anyone experiencing or contemplating experiencing life-changing transformations in their lives, who is feeling somewhat skeptical. Healthy skepticism is a wonderful tool for rational comprehension, and while it's perfectly natural to balk at some of the more extraordinary experiences reported by those interviewed in this book, their established qualifications as scientists, medical doctors, and well-respected professionals bolster their credibility.

I loved reading about Dr. Larry Dossey's knowledge of medical events before they unfolded in spontaneously precognitive dreams, and how he struggled to make sense of how he could possibly be accessing information that "violated common sense and every ounce of my medical training." Receipt of such non-local information challenged Dossey to make sense of these experiences, and inspired him to study and write about nonlocal mind.

I loved physicist Peter Russell's insight that "the people who were really interested in consciousness were the people who looked at consciousness firsthand." As a lifelong meditator, Russell recognized the unique insights possible on a personal level that spiritual adepts, yogis, and mystics knew, and that somehow evaded attempts by neurologists with electrodes placed near peoples' brains to know what is really going on. Russell noticed that "all the problems we were facing--from personal to social to ecological problems--all come back to human consciousness one way or another." Thanks to his personal meditative practice, Russell know understands that consciousness is always there, is the one thing none of us can doubt, and appears to be the true nature of the universe.

Many other authors including: Anita Moorjani, Cyndi Dale, Bernie Siegel, Gregg Braden, Eva Herr, Foster Gamble, Georgina Cannon, Jack Rourke, Julia Assante, Kingsley Dennis, Meg Blackburn Losey, Penney Peirce, Paul Chappell and Paul Von Ward share their personal stories, messages, and insights in this delightful book. Since each chapter is just a few pages long, this book is a quick read, like a Reader's Digest of Conscious Experiences designed for easy reading on the bus or train, at the beach, or in a waiting room.

At the dawn of this new Quantum Age when the word "consciousness" is increasingly becoming more popular, if not better understood, "What Wags the World" is a welcome beacon of light held by dozens of those who encourage us to dip our toes into the water of mindful awareness. Jump right in, the water's fine!
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Frederick Glaysher
5.0 out of 5 stars ​A New Consciousness on this Planet
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2014
As a young poet I read George B. Leonard's book The Transformation: A Guide to the Inevitable Changes in Humankind, in 1972, when it first came out. He was the vice-president of the Esalen Institute and one of the most articulate and far-sighted persons in the then emerging human potential movement on the West Coast. It's not an exaggeration to say I devoured his book, reading and rereading it. Unfortunately, Leonard's book has perhaps somewhat fallen off the map, but it still speaks insightfully to the core problems of today, the need for a new sense of human consciousness on this planet.

Following Leonard's citations, I branched into Alan Watts, Carlos Castenada, Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Kuhn, Quantum Mechanics, and ever more into his general openness to the East and to new conceptions of what is human, all of which I found myself still grappling with more than thirty-five years later, when I wrote my epic poem, The Parliament of Poets, partly set on the moon and in various civilizations around the world. Leonard sums up The Transformation when he writes, "The time is overdue for the emergence of a new vision of human and social destiny and being." We are now in the full flood of that time.

In a new book that carries on, in some ways, in the tradition of George Leonard, What Wags the World: Tales of Conscious Awakening (Softcover and ebook, ISBN: 978-1782796053. O-Books, 2014. 190 pages. $14.95) http://www.whatwagstheworld.com/ is an exciting introduction to the work of many of the leading writers and thinkers in the new consciousness revolution, with an Introduction by Ervin Laszlo, long recognized as one of the most thoughtful and perceptive voices of the consciousness movement. Laszlo writes that many people are increasingly experiencing and awakening to a shift in consciousness, to "a subtle sense that we have lost touch with ourselves, and with the world," and that "we are in a race with time." "We either make it together, or we may not make it at all." Laszlo's urgency about our human plight runs throughout all of the forty conveniently short accounts in What Wags the World, each of only three or four pages, organized around three simple questions:

* 1) My Tale, or was there a particular event or experience that was a turning point in your life?
* 2) My Insight, or what insight did you have as a result?
* 3) My Message, or what message would you like to leave with the reader?

These simple but effective questions take the reader into the heart of the experience of each person and keeps the focus on what's essential to their often life-changing experience and life-long journey, offering the reader the fruit of their experience and its implications for themselves and others. Each personal account then ends with a brief Bio, with helpful suggestions for further reading and exploration, including links to web sites and social networking.

Miriam Knight, one of the two editors, explains the purpose of What Wags the World, as "What's it all about? What is the purpose of my life?" The accounts relate the "dramatic experiences" of many different people, with New Thought or New Age outlook, though not always, and their "sense of connection to something greater, a mysterious or mystical source of which they feel a part. People give it many different names: source, spirit, great mystery, the Tao, God." Their experiences transcend "conventional religion," with consciousness "radically shifted."

The stories range from people who had catastrophic accidents, loss of a job, severe illnesses, near death experiences, Dark Nights of the Soul, visions of diverse kinds, psychic and otherwise, sometimes dramatic and not-so-dramatic experiences that changed the course of their lives.

Julie Clayton, the other editor, further explains the scope of the book:

"In this Age of Conscious Evolution humankind is striving into wakefulness: the time has come for each of us to expand the nature of his or her own consciousness to include a more profound--and humane--version of reality. The contributors to this collection of transformative tales demonstrate that such conscious expansion is already occurring more commonly than is generally acknowledged, and that there is no singular or `right' path for this awakening."

To highlight a few exciting and suggestive contributors, I would emphasize Ervin Laszlo's Introduction, Kingsley L. Dennis, the peace studies of Paul K. Chappell, Peter Russell, Gregg Braden, the three medical doctors who have meticulously studied Near Death experiences, and others. No matter what the reader's own temperament might be, there are many interesting contributors from whom one might learn a great deal.

In The Transformation, George Leonard has a very choice quotation from the astronaut Neil Armstrong, from a dinner party conversation his daughter had had once with the first man to walk on the moon, looking back at Mother Earth, words I have remembered and reflected on for decades and try to honor in my epic poem, like a story around a campfire:

"I want to tell you one thing. When I first looked back and saw the earth there in space, something happened to me." And then, in a lower more intense voice, "I'll never be the same."

Such experiences of "I'll never be the same" constitute the bedrock of what it means to be human, and What Wags the World gives it to the reader, life after life, exploring it, widening the reader's consciousness and deepening the possibilities of our own self-understanding as a species on this planet, suggesting who we are and ways to save ourselves during this time of ongoing global crisis and transformation.

Frederick Glaysher
Author of The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem (2012) and The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays (2014).
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TomD
4.0 out of 5 stars Worth a read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2015
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An interesting book with a series of case studies / individual stories which made it easy to read.
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