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Intuitive Power: Your Natural Resource
Join Caroline Myss, a renowned intuitive practitioner and teacher in this live lecture 4 CD set on how to tap in to your intuition for health, healing, and life guidance.
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First published November 1, 2004
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Caroline Myss
172 books1,034 followersCaroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
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August 1, 2023
Amen!!!! Everyone can benefit from this one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
October 21, 2021
Not my favorite. She has some good things to say that I feel I already knew. but mostly I didn't like the sound of her critical voice or her humor which I didn't find all that funny. I was caught up in judgement and found I had to work hard to listen to the content for the presenter. I know she's famous, but really, it was just my own experience.
March 15, 2019
I love listening to Carolyn! Good information… I think I would get more from some of these having read a couple of her books.
August 25, 2023
This came to me at the perfect time and included an activation code for me. Eternally grateful to Caroline for her invitation to be bold.
October 17, 2007
here's another book i "read" on my way to work. . .audiobooks are quite handy. i went to the library intending to get "self-help" books, and somehow (accidentally?) came away with books on "spirituality." i wouldn't have picked up a book on spirituality on my own, but you know what the new-agers say about coincidences. . .that there are none.
what i liked: her outlook focused on healthy self-esteem, connection to others, not being afraid of your own intuition/compass/internal power/etc.
what i didn't like: she didn't read her book, she talked about it. while that might have been fine, she kept going off topic to tell stories. the stories were interesting, but it was hard to follow the "linear" (as if!) progression of her topics. also, she assumed a certain base belief system that i attribute to "new age" spirituality. i found her speaking persona to be very likable and her ideas to be interesting. however, i'm not in the spiritual community she was speaking to, so i wasn't always in tune with some of her base assumptions about her audience.
what i liked: her outlook focused on healthy self-esteem, connection to others, not being afraid of your own intuition/compass/internal power/etc.
what i didn't like: she didn't read her book, she talked about it. while that might have been fine, she kept going off topic to tell stories. the stories were interesting, but it was hard to follow the "linear" (as if!) progression of her topics. also, she assumed a certain base belief system that i attribute to "new age" spirituality. i found her speaking persona to be very likable and her ideas to be interesting. however, i'm not in the spiritual community she was speaking to, so i wasn't always in tune with some of her base assumptions about her audience.
December 16, 2022
I was highly entertained by this audiobook book. Because I choose to listen to books with a clear head, everything she said was fresh. I did learn a few things that were new to me or validated something I believe.
I recommend this book.
I recommend this book.
January 20, 2014
As always, Caroline Myss' books are insightful and encouraging to do the inner work necessary to learn and grow as a soul-spirit. While many people may gravitate to this book seeking 'intuitive power', perhaps more as an ego-feather of accomplishment or superiority, Caroline sternly warns of this abuse of a gift, really, of learning to listen to your own inner voice.
August 10, 2014
Information comes to us when we need it. This book on intuition comes to me as I am exploring my intuition. Myss has a way of delivering information in small digestible chunks. It is challenging to act on our intuition because of the judgements of those we live. Myss challenges us to act on our intuition. Great read.
November 22, 2017
Caroline Myss seeks to increase your intuitive powers in this book.
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