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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