She claims she "can smell clutter in a person's aura". She calls palm reading an "extraordinary skill". People actually believe that the things that happened in your house before you bought it will probably also happen to you, such as divorce, or bankruptcy?! (page 8) People actually believe that by clearing my clutter today, I am not only helping my children, or future children, but that it can actually "work back down the spiral of time to help your ancestors retrospectively?" (page 44) WHAT?! At one point she claims credit for healing a heroin addict. But this book was so extremely out-there that I got the feeling the author may be psychotic. I also usually give authors the benefit of the doubt, and in this case I really wanted to because I know virtually nothing about Feng Shui. I am not easily offended, and usually take things with a grain of salt.
I am removing it from the pile beside my bed, to help declutter the house.
Thank you blogging for books for sending me this book. Ebay, anyone? I think I need inspiration/motivation from inside myself rather than from inside the pages of a book. The toy mechanical tiger that was my father's has memories for me from his stories, but they not only never met him, but never heard me tell the stories. I want to cut down on our possessions mostly because I know it would make my husband happy, and to save my children from having to decide what to do with it all. It's not a sin to treasure memories, and sometimes objects help keep the heart whole, or help a wounded one heal. What would really help me is a book that told me how to separate memories from objects, or how to detach myself from the joy those memories bring me of loved ones now gone, or times now past. I found the author to be a bit patronizing, as well. If my house catches on fire, it's not the universe biting me in the behind for my clutter, though it would be a misfortune. It means that I'm an avid reader and read a lot of books, though (now) keep only a smidgeon of what I read. Books by my bed don't mean that my primary relationship is with books rather than people. It did, a little, but I also found a lot in it that made me more irritated at the author than inspired. I've been on a purge of the "stuff" in our home for a while now, and hoped this book would encourage me to go forth with renewed energy.
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