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Now let’s return to our earlier
question:
“If You Could Create Just
One Thing
For
Yourself That You Could Keep
Forever,
What Would You
Create?”
If your answer is, “I would
create my own Spiritual
Awakening,” then please
accept Complete I
Am:
10 Steps to Divine
Connection
Without
Distraction as
our gift to you!
We wish you endless Joy and
Clear
Focus
for the rest of your
days!
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Our Rating System
We rate
the spiritual resources reviewed on this
site according to the following 5
criteria:
Quality and Amount of Material
Practicality
Understandability
Technical Simplicity / Clean
Transaction
Divine Connection without
Distraction
Most
of the criteria we’re using for these
reviews are fairly objective and easily
measured, but some are not. Below are
descriptions of each of the five
criteria:
Quality and Amount of
Materials: We
live in a world where anybody with a computer
can write a book and self-publish it or create
a spiritual development resource and put it
online. There are no gate-keepers anymore, and
that means that some pretty shoddy writing
makes it into print and some low quality audio
and video can become part of an online
offering. We have examined these factors for
you in advance and have rated each of the
resources reviewed here as to the quality of
the writing and the production values of any
audio and/or video material in
them.
It is
also the case that some of the resources
offer more hours of material than others.
In this assessment, the resource doesn’t
score higher or lower depending upon the
number of hours of listening, viewing or
reading it offers. Rather it is rated on
its hours of material relative to its
cost. For example, if one of the more
expensive resources offered fewer hours
of content than the less expensive
resources, it would get downgraded in
this assessment.
Practicality: It’s
just not enough for a resource to present
information that’s “correct;” it has to be
relevant, meaningful and useful too. If a
resource reviewed was highly theoretical or
just too complex for most people to apply to
their lives, we might still include a review of
it if it had some other very redeeming feature.
However, we’d want to be very up-front with you
about the highly theoretical nature of the
material.
Resources
score highest in this category if they
include lots of examples of how the
resource or the concepts in it can be
applied to everyday living. However, we
have found in some instances that we’ve
sometimes initially given a resource a
fairly high practicality score only to
realize later that the material didn’t
really stick with us for very long. If
this is the case, a resource will
sometimes end up downgraded in this
assessment. On the other hand, if we find
ourselves recalling and applying the
material again and again, the resource
gets a very high practicality
score.
Understandability: While
this is pretty self-explanatory, it has some
nuances too. Some resources will be fairly
fundamental and others will begin with an
assumption that you’ve got some level of
background in what they’re teaching. A resource
will not be upgraded or downgraded depending on
the level of development that it assumes in its
users. Instead this assessment will be based on
the degree to which concepts and ideas and
their applications are explained clearly. If
there are leaps in logic, or unreasonable
assumptions made, the resource is
downgraded.
Technical Simplicity/Clean
Transaction: This
score takes into consideration everything from
the experience of reading the copy on the
resource creator’s web site, to the ease of
ordering, paying and downloading and to
whether placing an order gets you
automatically signed up for anything you might
not want.
In
internet marketing, there’s something
called “forced conversion” which refers
to situations where you give your credit
card to pay for something small, like
postage and handling, and then you
unwittingly sign up for automatic
replenishment of a product you may or may
not want. Credit card companies do this
with their various identity theft
protection products. You opt in to
something that charges your credit card a
fee every month and you’re able to
“cancel it at any time.” They can call it
a free service because technically it is,
but if you don’t take
action, you get charged again and
again.
Forced conversions REALLY bug
usand you
won’t find any resources with undisclosed or
obscured forced conversions in them on this
review site.
Divine Connection without
Distraction: Of
course, this is the ranking that matters most.
What’s the use of pursuing anything related
to spiritual development if you’re just going
to end up in mental and emotional distraction
and not get a felt experience of your Inner
Divinity? Within the reviews, this score will
usually be short-handed as “Divine
Connection.”
While
it’s true that someone really focused on
Divine Connection can have a felt
experience of his or her Inner Divinity
while studying literally
anything, there are certain
bodies of work that help keep people
pointed toward the Divine, and others
that offer so much that is
off that subject, that they
can lead the less focused among us into a
quagmire of intellectual and emotional
distraction.
As
you look at the resource score, we would
caution you not to just look
at the score that each resource got in
this category. Read what it says in
the review about its Connection
vs. Distraction score too, because it’s
never really a black-and-white decision.
Since anything can be used to facilitate
Divine Connection and anything can become
a source of distraction, the explanations
of our Connection vs. Distraction scores
for each resource are more informative
than the actual scores they’ve
received.
The
spiritual resources we’ve selected all
have something to offer spiritual seekers
who are looking for Divine Connection
without
Distraction.
Whether
you’re looking for a resource that gives
you a general spiritual overview, helps
you clear your mental and emotional
debris, or is just a basic course in
conscious creation, you’re likely to find
what you’re looking for here. And more
importantly, you’ll be meeting these
resources in a context that ensures that
you won’t get bogged down in distraction
while you’re learning how to get
connected and stay
connected!
You
may decide that one of the
resources is just right for you, but
we’ve also made suggestions about some
very effective
combinations.
We invite you now to
commit to just three things in your
research:
1)
Keep an open mind,
2)
Trust your gut, and
3)
Do only what feels good to you.
And remember - It’s all about Divine
Connection
without Distraction!!
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