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The Sculptor In The Sky
"You can not have a life, you can not lose a life... You are life. It is you who hold the power to decide yourself back onto the path you intended...the path of welcoming and becoming your own bliss." The Sculptor In The Sky, the new book by spiritual catalyst, Teal Scott takes you on a journey of rediscovery of the universe of god and of yourself. This extraordinary book challenges us to reconnect with the eternal essence of our being and to expand our ideas about the reality we live in It is a must have for the curious, the wanting and the ready. A provocative guide to answering the questions that every person asks at some point in their life.
151 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 4, 2011
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Teal Swan
19 books584 followersTeal Swan is a personal transformation revolutionary. She was born with a range of extrasensory abilities and is a survivor of severe childhood abuse. Today she uses her gifts as well as her own harrowing life experience to inspire millions of people towards authenticity, freedom, and joy and teaching people how to transform their emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual pain.
The result when people are restored to wholeness is that the world will be restored to wholeness. Teal Swan's teachings invite people to step fully into their authenticity, knowing that this will bring about the positive change that we want to see in the world.
The result when people are restored to wholeness is that the world will be restored to wholeness. Teal Swan's teachings invite people to step fully into their authenticity, knowing that this will bring about the positive change that we want to see in the world.
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March 16, 2015
Although some of the ideas that she's trying to convey are interesting food for thought, the writing is so tedious and repetitive that it just kills it! Reading it was really a chore, something I had to force myself to do because I was actually interested in some of her ideas. Basically, the main idea of the book is that you are responsible for your life and body and should you want to change something start looking within yourself (your beliefs, thoughts, actions). It makes sense.
However, the writing is awful. It manages to go in cicles and be absolutely dreary - as if a non-native English speaker tried to write it (but failed). Didn't she have an editor? Her Youtube videos are the same, but I supposed her book would be more professional.
As a quick comparison - I'm now reading 'The biology of belief' which is full of medical and scientific terms and explanations and its writing is so much clearer. No need re-reading whole passages just to get the point.
However, the writing is awful. It manages to go in cicles and be absolutely dreary - as if a non-native English speaker tried to write it (but failed). Didn't she have an editor? Her Youtube videos are the same, but I supposed her book would be more professional.
As a quick comparison - I'm now reading 'The biology of belief' which is full of medical and scientific terms and explanations and its writing is so much clearer. No need re-reading whole passages just to get the point.
August 21, 2014
In a matter of a few hours I read this book and the words wrapped around my soul like a sherpa blanket. All matters of experience, no distance itself can limit an existence within the mind. Very journal-like. A book to read and read again and again.
March 3, 2016
I started this book a couple of years back. I still haven't finished it but, I would have to say this book is packed full of awesome information. It wasn't a book that I could read chapter after chapter, I needed time to think during & after each chapter. It definitely makes you analyze curtain aspects of your life. The chapters were so heavy & dense with info that it took me awhile to process all the info Teal was giving. Some parts were a little bit redundant.
November 3, 2013
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand life, themselves and others better.
October 13, 2015
Opened My Eyes
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this book is the author, Teal Swan. A Youtube personality, a mystic, a teacher, a psychic, a healer, and an writer, all facets that are somewhat irrelevant when you read her bio and discover that she was, against her will, part of a cult.
After doing a little bit of research on Teal Swan, you will not only see that she is a survivor, but also that she has the courage to live her life with dignity and speak up. Thanks to her I now know that there are many cults that operate in the western states, with many leaders that impose their will on weak subjects. It is modern day slavery, in other words...
The book itself is a bit disjointed. It does share lots of information and analysis, but I feel it is a collection of essays (?) rather than a book with a theme. It is still worth exploring though, even if the dynamics are not there. Teal Swan writes about God, freewill, emotions, health, meditation, just a little bit about everything. It is definitively important to receive this information, and very good advice to follow her on Youtube.
This is one of those books where the information is more important than the way in which it is delivered. Teal Swan is a female voice that needs to be heard and I hope she becomes a leader in the world of healing and spirituality.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this book is the author, Teal Swan. A Youtube personality, a mystic, a teacher, a psychic, a healer, and an writer, all facets that are somewhat irrelevant when you read her bio and discover that she was, against her will, part of a cult.
After doing a little bit of research on Teal Swan, you will not only see that she is a survivor, but also that she has the courage to live her life with dignity and speak up. Thanks to her I now know that there are many cults that operate in the western states, with many leaders that impose their will on weak subjects. It is modern day slavery, in other words...
The book itself is a bit disjointed. It does share lots of information and analysis, but I feel it is a collection of essays (?) rather than a book with a theme. It is still worth exploring though, even if the dynamics are not there. Teal Swan writes about God, freewill, emotions, health, meditation, just a little bit about everything. It is definitively important to receive this information, and very good advice to follow her on Youtube.
This is one of those books where the information is more important than the way in which it is delivered. Teal Swan is a female voice that needs to be heard and I hope she becomes a leader in the world of healing and spirituality.
August 30, 2016
It's a book that will be read and re-read. My life has changed tremendously with the exercises. I've used it to enhance my daily journal writing. I will keep it as a huge resource. Anyone who experienced trauma (that would be ALL of us) of any sort, can benefit from this book. It's perfect for a book club or discussion group.
November 9, 2014
Probably one of the best books I've ever read about spirituality but goes even deeper than that. I don't agree with every explanation of reality in this book but I was surprised at how close it did reflect my own understanding. This book always gives instructions and steps you can take to raise your consciousness and also to learn to love yourself and discover a oneness between yourself and the universe. I can feel this book was written with great love and devotion and whether you are not super open minded to more "New age" type beliefs this book at the least gives you a guide to better understand yourself, why you make decisions you do, and allow you to understand what priorities in your life are important.
August 3, 2015
I quite enjoy Teal Swan's perspective. I believe in her, I believe that she has the strength of personality and character to sit long, thinking agonizingly over the feelings which arise within her without dismissing their discomforts. I believe her when she speaks of the "Source consciousness" of extra dimensions-- what the mathematical scientific community refers to as, "anti-matter" or "Nth energy". I believe her when she recommends that wheresoever you place your thoughts, where you train your thoughts to be, will necessarily give rise to these thoughts forefront within your person-matrix. I believe Teal Swan when she writes about the things which interest her enough to publish a book.
I like Teal Swan. I like this book.
I like Teal Swan. I like this book.
March 21, 2017
Great book to understand the perspective on how universe works.
June 20, 2019
Went down a TS youtube rabbit hole, and her books are just as addictive. Her perspective is a philosophical and hyper-logical, without dismissing emotionality.
Some gems:
- If you light a candle with another candle, is it the same flame? The answer is both yes and no. Are you life? You are not the same yet you are not different.
- Anger has a higher energetic vibration the sadness, pessimism is higher than anger, optimism is higher than pessimism.
- Change is directed by where you place your attention
- Happiness that is contingent upon outside circumstances is not happiness (yes!)
- Make a list of your positive physical attributes, positive spiritual attributes, social assets, and things you're currently doing you're proud of. The key is for the positive feeling to come from you vs an external reaction or judgment.
- what is in best interest of the self is always in the best interest of the whole. self-focus is not to be confused w/ narcissism- it's compassion-filled.
- Truth can be subjective (society/strict) or objective (personal, created by the self)
Some gems:
- If you light a candle with another candle, is it the same flame? The answer is both yes and no. Are you life? You are not the same yet you are not different.
- Anger has a higher energetic vibration the sadness, pessimism is higher than anger, optimism is higher than pessimism.
- Change is directed by where you place your attention
- Happiness that is contingent upon outside circumstances is not happiness (yes!)
- Make a list of your positive physical attributes, positive spiritual attributes, social assets, and things you're currently doing you're proud of. The key is for the positive feeling to come from you vs an external reaction or judgment.
- what is in best interest of the self is always in the best interest of the whole. self-focus is not to be confused w/ narcissism- it's compassion-filled.
- Truth can be subjective (society/strict) or objective (personal, created by the self)
July 3, 2022
⚜️highlights⚜️
‘the entire purpose of physical life and the physical dimension in general is to help Source know itself by becoming exactly what it is we dream up for it to coexist with our wanting.'
'nothing worth doing is hard to do. Inspiration is your higher self calling you forward toward action, and when your higher self is initiating an action, it is effortless.'
'Worth is defined as the quality that renders something desirable, useful, or of quality. But the question is, to whom is something desirable, useful, or of quality?'
'It is hard to do nothing, especially in this physical world that is addicted to the drug of action. You think that when you are not doing something, you are wasting your time. But your time exists for the sole reason for you to be, not for you to do. The fertile ground for inspired action is to first be.'
'If you remove yourself far enough from the limited point of view of pain, you will see that at the root of all things that are negative in this world is the physical fact that we are all nothing but the victims of victims. Remove yourself even farther than that, and you will see that there is no such thing as a victim. Victimhood is just a prison of illusion restricted to physical life—and forgiveness is the way out of it.'
'Therefore, the only hand you can ever shake is your own. The only street you can walk on is yours. The only thing you can ever love is yourself. You meet yourself in everything you see. Your life is a liberated existence the second that you know it is. Your joy, will, and wants can never be separate from those of Source, because you are Source, and Source is you. There is no sculptor in the sky designing your life for you, because the sculptor in the sky is you.'
‘the entire purpose of physical life and the physical dimension in general is to help Source know itself by becoming exactly what it is we dream up for it to coexist with our wanting.'
'nothing worth doing is hard to do. Inspiration is your higher self calling you forward toward action, and when your higher self is initiating an action, it is effortless.'
'Worth is defined as the quality that renders something desirable, useful, or of quality. But the question is, to whom is something desirable, useful, or of quality?'
'It is hard to do nothing, especially in this physical world that is addicted to the drug of action. You think that when you are not doing something, you are wasting your time. But your time exists for the sole reason for you to be, not for you to do. The fertile ground for inspired action is to first be.'
'If you remove yourself far enough from the limited point of view of pain, you will see that at the root of all things that are negative in this world is the physical fact that we are all nothing but the victims of victims. Remove yourself even farther than that, and you will see that there is no such thing as a victim. Victimhood is just a prison of illusion restricted to physical life—and forgiveness is the way out of it.'
'Therefore, the only hand you can ever shake is your own. The only street you can walk on is yours. The only thing you can ever love is yourself. You meet yourself in everything you see. Your life is a liberated existence the second that you know it is. Your joy, will, and wants can never be separate from those of Source, because you are Source, and Source is you. There is no sculptor in the sky designing your life for you, because the sculptor in the sky is you.'
November 29, 2015
Teal Scott doesn't write anything that I didn't already know in this book. The techniques and beliefs that she shares in this book have been part of my spiritual practice for many years and are quite ancient. It's because it's a subject that I'm well acquainted with, that I'm pleasantly surprised that I really enjoyed reading The Sculptor in the Sky.
Teal approaches the subjects in the book void of any religious jargon, or belief. Her language is accessible and she's really good at capturing and keeping the reader's attention. One of the drawbacks of this sort of subject has always been that the authors use really complicated terms or demand a lot of lifestyle changes from the readers (which isn't necessary) and this can overwhelm or bore.
Teal kept it short and sweet, and got to the point really quickly, which I admire her for. I think it's also easier to keep up with what she means if you listen to her videos on YT where it is that she does most of the explaining.
Teal approaches the subjects in the book void of any religious jargon, or belief. Her language is accessible and she's really good at capturing and keeping the reader's attention. One of the drawbacks of this sort of subject has always been that the authors use really complicated terms or demand a lot of lifestyle changes from the readers (which isn't necessary) and this can overwhelm or bore.
Teal kept it short and sweet, and got to the point really quickly, which I admire her for. I think it's also easier to keep up with what she means if you listen to her videos on YT where it is that she does most of the explaining.
April 13, 2015
Empowering!
Ancient and eternal knowledge delivered by a great teacher. Drunvalo said that indigo child's by their only presence in this world are helping. I believe he is right. Teal is awesome.
Ancient and eternal knowledge delivered by a great teacher. Drunvalo said that indigo child's by their only presence in this world are helping. I believe he is right. Teal is awesome.
August 12, 2015
I LOVE TEAL. When I first started watching her videos and reading her book, I thought, YES! She has solidified and made sense of so many of my thoughts, feelings and emotions. This is an amazing book, and I recommend it to everyone.
October 2, 2013
Excellent tool on my spiritual journey from a dynamic author.
November 4, 2013
A book as beautiful as teal but has similarity with esther hicks
January 29, 2017
Just beautiful
Reading this book was just a joy. If you are in the search of your true self, this book will help you a lot. Thank you Teal for doing this.
Reading this book was just a joy. If you are in the search of your true self, this book will help you a lot. Thank you Teal for doing this.
August 2, 2021
re-read: 17 july 2021
Still great!
Still great!
August 20, 2024
This book has raised my awareness, and understanding of the world significantly. I am able to look at the bigger picture way more clearly now, and develop my own theories surrounding it. It also helps to watch Teal’s videos alongside this. I kinda want to go onto other teacher’s now, but I am not sure if they will touch these darker sides of humanity, and they seem so important to integrate.
I love her theories on magic, the afterlife, ghosts. They seem to make so much sense on an emotional level that I don’t care if it’s factual on the physical. I mean these things aren’t supposed to be physical in the first place. This puts them into emotion, thought category, and properly addresses them in a way that makes sense for feelings.
This made me along with her other material to really embrace whatever comes, and forgive whatever forms it takes. People are all parts of us, and if we don’t heal others then we are not truly healed because we are other people. We are both good, and bad - embracing that authenticity leads to a life of integrity.
I love the discussions of death, and its role as change here. It led me to brainstorming lots of different personal universes with tons of different laws that do not apply to this one.
I love this.
I love her theories on magic, the afterlife, ghosts. They seem to make so much sense on an emotional level that I don’t care if it’s factual on the physical. I mean these things aren’t supposed to be physical in the first place. This puts them into emotion, thought category, and properly addresses them in a way that makes sense for feelings.
This made me along with her other material to really embrace whatever comes, and forgive whatever forms it takes. People are all parts of us, and if we don’t heal others then we are not truly healed because we are other people. We are both good, and bad - embracing that authenticity leads to a life of integrity.
I love the discussions of death, and its role as change here. It led me to brainstorming lots of different personal universes with tons of different laws that do not apply to this one.
I love this.
May 1, 2025
"When you feel bad due to focus on something you dislike about yourself or someone else, you are using that thing as your excuse to disallow Source and therefore love to come into your life as it naturally would without the prevention of it. You are, in that moment, saying that your love is conditioned upon that external thing changing before you can feel love—which couldn’t be further from the truth. No suffering is ever about another person. It is always the result of the relationship with yourself. You can never get anything else other than external relationships that are in exact energetic vibrational resonance with the internal relationship you have with yourself."
"No achievement could ever fill the void where self-love should be. No one else could ever love someone enough to compensate for their own lack of self-love. To get love, you must give it. You cannot give it if you do not give it to yourself."
November 27, 2019
We live in certain scientific materialistic times. Psychology teaches us 'to feel good'. Materialistic psychology sees 'feeling good' as a reward for certain behaviour.
This book proposes not only there is more than materialism, but that the spiritual is in fact cause for the physical.
True or not, it builds not an empty 'because you like to feel good' or 'it is the effect of dopamine' type of excuse or cause, but it builds itself a whole metaphysics as to why feeling good is important.
It has a chapter on negativity too.
And I believe philosophy needs to implicitly provide mental health, and what is more reasuring than to hear one deserves one's desires?
Not only that, the book provides reasoning for positive focus.
Believe what you want, but I felt better reading this book.
This book proposes not only there is more than materialism, but that the spiritual is in fact cause for the physical.
True or not, it builds not an empty 'because you like to feel good' or 'it is the effect of dopamine' type of excuse or cause, but it builds itself a whole metaphysics as to why feeling good is important.
It has a chapter on negativity too.
And I believe philosophy needs to implicitly provide mental health, and what is more reasuring than to hear one deserves one's desires?
Not only that, the book provides reasoning for positive focus.
Believe what you want, but I felt better reading this book.
March 27, 2018
What a wonderful book. Teal has packed it with deep spiritual understanding and advice for our lives. Throughout my life I have read many spiritual books, but few have hit the nail on the head so well as The Sculptor in the Sky. I will be copies for all of my friends.
Thank you Teal for your knowledge and understanding.
Lynn K. Russell
Author of The Wonder of You: What the Near-Death Experience Tells You about Yourself
Thank you Teal for your knowledge and understanding.
Lynn K. Russell
Author of The Wonder of You: What the Near-Death Experience Tells You about Yourself
December 21, 2022
Teal Swan is one of the best YouTubers of all time. No media personality is without the controversy but the "haters" had to force their supposed grievances so hard it came off as desperate and pushy. Teal's books much like her channel help you put things in perspective and re-think and re-imagine the world around you in constructive ways!
I stan.
I stan.
June 10, 2018
Manual for humanity
This book answered so many questions in regards to the self. This will be a book I would like to pass on to my kids. It is great for the the spiritual but not religious camp. Great addition to her YouTube channel.
This book answered so many questions in regards to the self. This will be a book I would like to pass on to my kids. It is great for the the spiritual but not religious camp. Great addition to her YouTube channel.
May 22, 2019
I think this is both Teal Swan's first book she wrote and first one you should read since it's a quick, digestible, but densely nutritious overview of her advice & perspective. Easy to read in one sitting. Couldn't put it down, which isn't usually how I feel about spiritual/self help books. (Usually I have to take breaks.) Check out her videos first though! I am reading all her books after eating up the YouTube videos.
February 10, 2020
I felt the truth of the message as I read each word!
The message in this book was filled with great love! I felt my vibration rising with every chapter I read.
The message in this book was filled with great love! I felt my vibration rising with every chapter I read.
March 20, 2020
Comforting - is the word that sums up my impression of this book
July 17, 2020
Magnificent in every way.
August 13, 2020
Sculptor in the sky offers a shortcut to what you need to know about spirituality. You gotta read it with your heart to understand the concepts thoroughly!
March 28, 2022
Just amazing.
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