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The Instruction Manual for Receiving God

by Jason Shulman



      Jason Shulman’s latest effort, The Instruction Manual for Receiving God, has a deceptive title. If you are looking for a how-to book on meditation or prayer in a specific spiritual path, this book won’t give it to you. However, it does offer a means to experience God that is deceptively simple. The book contains 108 Seed Passages and a brief commentary about each of them. They are only one to two pages in length, but are so pithy you might spend years in contemplation of just one of them. Seed Passages are bits of wisdom that can help us unlock secret doors about ourselves. When we know ourselves better, we come closer to enlightenment and to God.

There are also little exercises slipped into the commentaries to help us understand the passage better.

Shulman suggests reading one passage each day or perhaps once a week and spend time living with the wisdom it contains. He encourages readers to read them as they choose, either from the first to the last or opening the book randomly and reading. "Chance is the way God likes to mix and mingle with us," Shulman writes, "and since God is always present, we always have the possibility of bumping into something that speaks to exactly where we are at that moment."

Unlike Shulman’s previous book, Kabbalistic Healing: A Path To An Awakened Soul, this one is much more accessible to the general reader of spiritual writing. The concepts may be big, but the understanding is personal and requires not a brilliant mind but a searching heart. Because of that, The Instruction Manual for Receiving God is a great contemplative tool for nearly any spiritual path.

The Book

Sounds True
October 2006
Hardcover
1591795192
Adult Non-fiction, spiritual/inspirational
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The Reviewer

Janie Franz
Reviewed 2006
NOTE: Reviewer Janie Franz is the author of Freelance Writing: It’s a Business, Stupid!, Relaxation Techniques for Children, Relaxation Techniques for Adults; Co-author of The Ultimate Wedding Reception Book and The Ultimate Wedding Ceremony Book. Coming Soon: The Ultimate Wedding Workbook, Get Rich on Love, and Sacred Breath (a sound recording of relaxation meditations).
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