Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d

by Candace B. Pert, Nancy Marriott (contributor)

Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d is Candace Pert’s response to the questions she’s been asked in her worldwide travels ever since the publication of her book Molecules of Emotion, and her appearance in the film What the Bleep Do We Know?! She discovered that, at the end of the day, all people really want to know is how to feel good. Within these pages, Dr. Pert shares the answers she’s found, both in the biomedical laboratory of mainstream science and in the laboratory of her own evolving life. Her amazing journey documents how mind, body, and spirit cannot be separated; and that we’re hard-wired for bliss, which is both physical and divine. Feeling good and feeling God, she believes, are one and the same. From beginning to end, this book takes us on an entertaining romp through the many bodymind avenues, separating the woo-woo from real science and pointing the way toward using new paradigm therapies, detoxing our food and environment, forgiving and healing our relationships, understanding depression, staying young, and creating the reality we want to experience. Consciousness, mind, emotions, and God are all factored into the mix, resulting in a lot of beneficial advice and self-development insights that will empower us toward health, well-being, and feeling . . . Go(o)d.

Genres: Psychology, Health, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Audiobook

302 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2006

Reviews

[Famous · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book picks up where Molecules... left off. The style of the writing for the personal aspects of the books make me nearly cross-eyed at times - too self-referential and full of too many details like "then we pulled out the recording device to record the conversation about the things i will tell you about next." just not interesting or contributing to anything beyond words on the page. The juicy stuff that is reason to read this book would actually fit onto about 35 pages. But what a 35 pages they are!! Worth the other stuff. Pert's further research and decade of reflection on the info in Molecules... is deeply satisfying. She takes some very bold steps linking biochemical activity with consciousness and our ability to know the spiritual. Whether you agree with her or not in the end, this book is bound to contribute to your ruminations on spirit.

[Lucia · Rating 2 out of 5]

The bottom line is the usual: eat whole foods, don't eat "unnatural" stuff, chemical sweeteners and trans fats can literally kill you, exercise every day, meditate, forgive, have a positive attitude. What I like about Candace Pert is that she is an honest-to-g*d scientist, so she backs up all her assertions, even her crazy-ass assertions, with science. *Real* science, though often on or past the bleeding edge of what's accepted by your primary care doc.

But. Included here is waay too much of her own story and the story of how the book came about. Ugh. I skimmed all of that. Also, it treads dangerously on the edge of the "if you're still sick you must not be positive enough, you must not want health badly enough, you apparently haven't let go of grudges and past trauma, etc." territory. Oooo, Candace, don't go there!

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has some neat points... interesting new age ideas from a well-noted scientist on the body-mind connection. However, I found it difficult to get over the fact that the author thought so highly of herself. Yes, she is obviously super intelligent and has done some great things (discovered a possible cure for AIDS?). But I would have been able to think of her as even more great if she didn't keep rubbing it in my face. As far as the God connection - it was mentioned here and there, but I didn't think it was enough to make it part of the title. The title in general was a poor choice. This was the author's path to feeling Go(o)d, not necessarily anyone else's. I suppose it helps when you're buddies with Deepak Chopra et. al. and can receive random therapies (that would cost the average Joe a mint) when you run into them at the different conferences you attend every week. Apparently I'm not feeling very good...

[treehugger · Rating 4 out of 5]

The audiobook version of this title is really neat - it's a live lecture that Dr. Pert gave to an audience in NYC, and then an in-depth interview delving into the heavier points in this book between the author and a woman with the most amazing voice ;).

Dr. Pert is doing what I hope I can do in my career, although her path is benchtop science, and I'd like mine to be more patient-care oriented than lab oriented. I just LOVE that she's bringing the scientific community in a VERY scientifically valid way in the realms of spirituality, bliss, feeling good, and natural health.

Anyone who liked the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know" would enjoy this audiobook. Now, I haven't read the book book, so review readers beware, I can't speak for the writing style of the book, only it's content, as was discussed in the audio version.

[Jaime Rush · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the way Pert wrapped the science and spiritual together. Sometimes there was more information/narrative than I felt I needed, but overall it was enjoyable and enlightening.

[Julie McNelis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book for the author's authenticity, candor and exploration of a wide range of topics that effect the human spirit. For an author who has published hundreds of scientific articles, her writing is very approachable and very human. This book inspired me to take better care of my life, and empowered me to look into how so many areas of life are interconnected into the web of my feeling "good." Dr. Pert's compilation of resources to other books and scientific contributors in the areas of holistic health is a blessing to us all - a skilled researcher took the time to share with us what she has discovered. Very kind of her, indeed.

[Stephanie Weaver · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating look at the further work of Dr. Candace Pert, pioneer in neuropeptide research. She also bridged the gap between real science and New Age teachings for many years. Sadly, Dr. Pert died in 2011. This book has bit too much, "and then my friend and I sat down to write another chapter" in it, but it's still an interesting read.

[Peregrine 12 · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was okay, but not what I'd expected. I liked the scientific aspect of it, but the writing style became a bit wearing. It seemed like the actual text was longer than it should have been.

I read this book to learn more about the topics touched upon in the film 'What the Bleep Do We Know?', mainly the functioning of neuropeptides in our perceptions of reality. This topic was covered in the first third of the book. The next two thirds dealt with the author's efforts to get an AIDS-treatment drug patented, her personal experiences with psychic and 'alternative' medicines, and her psychological and family history. Strangely, much of the book dealt with her actual writing of the book and her friendship with the co-author.

I think the author is a brilliant research scientist and probably a very nice person. By the second half of the book, though, I was skimming paragraphs to get to the end.

[MaryKim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want everyone I know to read this...and I'm using my teacher voice now to see that you do!!! this book is fundamentally important for everyone's education....explains much of what's new in science and how science is finally coming around to see energy as part of the intelligent consciousness we all are part of...very empowering

[Clare · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having appreciated The Molecules of Emotion and Pert's appearance in What the Bleep, I anticipated this book with enthusiasm. I met Nancy, her co-author, in Santa Barbara many years ago, so feel a real connection. The "chatty" conversational style isn't my favourite but it worked well enough to get the message across. Reading this alongside Joe Dispenza's latest is a real eye-opener!

[Yassy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had some great ideas.... However, the book was more of an autobiography than a analysis of advances in neuroscience in the mind-body arena. I found it really slow going, wading through all the personal recollections and anecdotes to get to the science of it all - which was what I really wanted from the book.

[Lynn O'Neill · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this book and the idea of the mind-body. A must for anyone interested in healing. Also, take a look at the film "What the bleep do we know" - the author is also in this film.

[Lucienne]

in dutch: Je Go(e)d voelen

[Wolfie]

Candace but her heart and soul into this healing book. It is easy reading and will help with healing your emotional self.

[Selah · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book was given to me as a gift, so it is outside of my norm. The author is rather annoying for the first thirty or so pages of the book, which reads like a personal commercial for herself and her supposed AIDS cure. She finally starts trying to stitch together random bits of research to support her belief that there is a body-wide system of instantaneous ability to change our emotions, bodily functions, nervous system, brain activity, and immune system, which in turn affects our perception and interaction with reality and other people. She believes that by understanding this connection, and using it for our advantage (such as eating healthy, resolving trauma, healing relationships and self-esteem, and thinking/feeling positively that we can improve our health, our lives (by changing our reality and using the law of attraction), and the lives of everyone around us (even the planet itself).

Some of these ideas are explained using very briefly mentioned scientific research to help "prove" her points. And these "meaty" parts of the book are scattered through her ongoing self-commercialization and more "proof" based on things going on in her personal life (which reads more like a diary blog for more than half the book). I would have liked more science and even more in depth explanation of complex ideas that she presents but fails to explain, and less self-aggrandizement and self-effacement turmoil to wade through.

In the end, this is another "name it and claim it," "Course in Miracles," "The Secret/Law of Attraction," new-age mysticism attempting to wear a lab coat. For most people in this world, these are not theories they have the privilege or luxury to believe in. They've lived hard, traumatic, poverty-stricken, and illness-ladened lives, and these ideas come across as blaming the victim for failure to think, feel, wish, and meditate/pray correctly. There are better science leaning books than this, and better new-age books than this, and much better biographies/blogs than this covering the same material.

[Richard Gonzor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspiring and educative

Balance of intuition and science bringing those to unity. A bridge between science and God. I recommend absolutely and thank you very much for this book 🙏🤗

[Joanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It brought together lots of my learnings of metaphysical things into one place, written by a scientist!

[lena · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't even finish. Got to chapter 4 and haven't been able to continue. Doesn't really talk about God, but more of New Age beliefs. Just didn't catch my interest.