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E-Cubed: Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting Magic And Miracles Is Your Full-Time Gig (2014)

by Pam Grout(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1401945430 (ISBN13: 9781401945435)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Hay House, Inc.

review 1: Having previously read E-Squared, and loving the way Pam writes and her sense of humor throughout, it was a slam-dunk that I would read this follow-up. In keeping with the value of the first book, the second goes a little deeper and I enjoyed it very much. In this particular case, and it is something I've been doing lately, I buy the audio (Pam reading it) and the Kindle version and read as she reads to me.
review 2: I'm really not sure why a book of basic Improve Your Life suggestions is dressed up as some sort of cosmic insight. It offers such suggestions as 'watch less TV and go outside and be with nature' and 'pick up pennies you find on the ground and consider it good luck'.Seriously.And this isn't revelatory. Stuffy scientists in their boring labs have ac... moretually quantified that being outside in nature is good for our mental health. There are dozens of books out their just on the topic of Being Grateful, though the science on that is slimmer. 'Making your own placebo' is rarely suggested outside this book, but the science is that placebos work, even when the person taking them knows it's a placebo.So, in short, this book is about 20 pages of useful (though vague and unoriginal) suggestions, dressed up in 200 more pages of psychobabble, out-of-context quotes from scientists, quotes from life coaches and a shaman and other manifesters, and utterly unbelievable 'success' stories from the author's devotees. (I'm not saying it's untrue that some guy randomly got a $10,000 check from a catholic priest, i'm just saying that random stuff happens every day.)To go on further: of course some of the author's devotees are going to stumble into piles of money or their dream job or whatever. That happens to people every day, and some of them are bound to have read her first book. And when they do get exactly what they want, of course they're going to contact the author and recount the whole affair. What's missing, of course, is any sort of control. How many non-devotees randomly got $10,000, or their dream job, or free tickets to Hawaii? And even more relevant, how many devotees lost their house in the economic downturn, or their job, or got into a car accident that wasn't their fault? Do you think they wrote to the author to complain? If they did, do you suppose she'd include those 'failure stories' in her book? Nope.The risk in books like this is that they tell you to take credit for your own good luck, with the often unstated corollary that if good luck is your doing, bad luck must be too. If you get cancer or your dog gets run over by a car, you clearly weren't 'manifesting' hard enough. If only you'd been better at it, maybe your dog would still be alive.So absolutely go outside and take a walk instead of watching that reality show rerun. I can't really recommend offering free hugs, but slipping nice notes into books at the library or taping $5 bills to park benches will probably make you feel like you're doing good things. But when you break your toe on the dang coffee table, remember, it's because you're clumsy, not because the universe is mad at you. less

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