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• Amazon Sales Rank: #187458 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-06
• Formats: Audiobook, CD
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 9
• Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews

This is a must have.
I have to say it was one of the most powerful, memorable, truthful, and yet peaceful things I have ever gone through. It was truly life changing for me and I'm not that new to metaphysics or spirituality. I am very familiar with Caroline's other works and I have to say that this one is very different - it has a different purpose. You can tell when you listen to it that it is coming from a different place than her other books/CDs. The title "Entering the Castle: Exploring Your Mystical Experience of God" is really quite accurate. You go inside of your soul (your castle) and explore it from a viewpoint that you have never seen before. It lays out the path to overcome so many things that we have been taught here in our lives that have really hindered our growth as a people. It is time for the world to change, and this CD set (sounds kinda funny, but it's true) can do that - it can change the world. All you must do is listen to it and explore your castle.

You will learn how to go through your problems and raise your energy to soaring altitudes never before felt.

I highly recommend this - if you like Caroline's work or you don't like her work - this is a must.

Powerful Teachings Overpowering Delivery
Like many of the other reviewers, I am an avid consumer of Caroline Myss' work. I appreciate her visionary grasp on what is possible when we allow ourselves to not only touch the soul but be guided by it.

That said, I was a bit taken aback by this series and not certain how to respond them. Caroline has always been a critic of self-serving New Age beliefs and practices, but in this CD set she launches a no holds barred attack on not only those teachings, but on those who follow them. At several points she not only scolds but demands that people "Grow up!" and "Stop being a baby!". Personally, I agree with most of her assessment. I've traveled in New Age circles for quite some time, and even though I find much of it helpful, there is an infantilizing, victim-glorifying, self-serving element to many of the teachings and therapies that seem to encourage people to, as Caroline says, "lead with their wounds". However, Caroline's delivery of this message is so berating and punitive at times it's startling. In an odd way, her Dr. Laura-esque style is probably appealing to the forever "wounded" crowd, because it fits well into the "wounding" paradigm. Caroline's message on this is a powerful and necessary counterbalance to all of the materialistic fluff we're getting overloaded with due to "The Secret" and other "enlightenment and fulfillment in three easy steps" methods. It's a shame that her approach is so alienating.

However, once you dig underneath the berating words, there are real nuggets of wisdom here. This is a CD set I will turn to again and again because, as always, Caroline's insightful understanding of spiritual development rings true down to my bones. She wants to bring reverence, respect, and devotion back to spiritual development and practice and this is a laudable mission. The path she recommends is arduous and the immediate rewards few and fleeting, but what else would you expect from a journey to your soul?

I will say however, that I will think twice before signing up for one of her workshops for this. I need my spiritual counseling to be a bit more compassionate and to come from a teacher who's able to express the same level of humility she is requesting of those who seek her message.

Caroline Not Worth the Money Any More
For years I have been a huge fan of Caroline and thought she was a genius and looked forward to every new CD of hers. Over the years, I have purchased them all. But somewhere along the line, Caroline has grown very contemptuous of her own audience. She is not the kind, funny and briliant teacher anymore that wrote Anatomy of the Spirit and Energy Anatomy. Her important subject is lost among the extreme contempt she shows of people attending her lectures and the general public listening to her CDs. She is judgemental, shrill and just downright nasty now. She used to be a great teacher and you could focus on her message. But she is so critical of her audience now that the spiritual message is completely drowned out. After constant beratement, the listener is then supposed to immediately be in the mood for her meditations! The level of her hostility is startling considering the holiness of her subject matter. She trashes what she calls New Agers, while her financial success is fully rooted in the era of the New Age. She scolds us not to be judgemental at the end of the series, all the while judging her listeners the whole time! She tells us not to have the nerve to have New Age visions and to keep silent about our journey with God, yet at the end of the CD series she seems to delight in bragging about her being contacted by Theresa. Caroline needs to follow her own advice. I will not be buying any future works of Caroline and this saddens me. However, there are many other excellent spiritual teachers who don't hold the people that have made them wealthy in such distain, and I will be buying their works instead from now on. I'll also go back to Caroline's earlier works when she was a kinder, gentler person.