The Burden Bearer and The Feeler Gift

by James Wood

"The Burden Bearer and Feeler Gift: Highly Sensitive People" breaks down the burden bearing and feeler gift into eleven ways that these gifted people sense the spiritual environment around them, four major areas that they pick up, investigates six people in the Bible with this gift, give a overview of the gift, how to cleanse the gift, how to walk in it comfortably with wisdom and understanding, delves into some pitfalls with the gift, how to recognize the gift in others, and some dynamics that happen between this gift and other gifts. It communicates to right and left brain styles of learning, by using pictorial analogies and also technical dynamics with experiential examples to put it all into practical application.

This book gives a practical way of understanding this calling, so that the reader can easily apply all their individual gifts to a framework, so they can see how their spiritual gifts are working together. Even though each person is different, they can begin to lay out the blueprint of their spirit and understand all the dynamics that are going on. This book is a must read for those with the gift and for the people who love them.

220 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 8, 2015

About the author

James Douglas Graham Wood is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. He is currently Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University (a part-time position) and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.
Wood advocates an aesthetic approach to literature, rather than more ideologically-driven trends in academic literary criticism.
Wood is noted for coining the genre term hysterical realism, which he uses to denote the contemporary conception of the "big, ambitious novel" that pursues vitality "at all costs." Hysterical realism describes novels that are characterized by chronic length, manic characters, frenzied action, and frequent digressions on topics secondary to the story.

Reviews

[Makayla · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was an alright book. The grammar was horrible to the point that I don't even think he ran the rough draft through spell check much less had an editor look over it (there was literally a part in the book that said "quote scripture and #" because he forgot to go back and put where the verse he was quoting was found). I feel like I'm being super generous giving it 3 stars because on top of horrible spelling and grammar, I didn't understand a good many of his analogies and also a good 30 pages of the book are just him regurgitating bible verses that didn't even feel relevant to what he was saying like 30% of the time. But there were a couple handfuls of nuggets/confirmations that I was able to pull from it like how he says that the gifts we have are where we'll be most attacked (which I knew already but I had never heard someone else say it before). All in all, I probably wouldn't recommend this book to other people just because it seems that so little care was taken into putting this book together and his analogies made no sense at times so I wouldn't want to possibly direct them to false teaching lol. Also, he kept referring to the mentors in his life as "watchmen" but I don't remember him ever saying what he meant when he says "watchmen" so the whole book everytime I saw that, I wasn't 100% sure what he was talking about. Idk, different things like that. It was just a little wack honestly lol

However I will say that I think I was able to take things from it that helped my other giftings in the feeler/prophetic/discerning/healing areas. Definitely take this book with a grain of salt if you read it but honestly the good stuff in this book you could probably find in a Shawn Bolz book or any other book that covers these areas without having to trudge through the bad analogies and questionably sound Biblical comparisons.

[Lynette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Right on Time

This is the most helpful book that explains the full faculties of my gift. It examines in detail everything that God has me going through and my faults ,the dangers when its unredeemed,the exhaustion and the true nature of what its like to be blessed with this gift. I can finally direct those around me who don't understand what I'm trying to say about what I go through 24/7 to this book. Thank God for you writing this for people like us. I am so grateful.