Birth: When the Spiritual and The Material Come Together

by Shari Arison

Shari Arison is one of the most influential women in the world. She is the leader of a successful business empire and one of the largest private philanthropic foundations in Israel. From growing up with her father, Ted Arison, the founder of Carnival Cruise Lines, to her acquisition of the chairmanship position of the Arison Group, Arison possesses a unique perspective on both business and spiritual growth. In Birth: When the Spiritual and the Material Come Together, Arison provides her vision for creating a new reality for the future, generated from a marriage of the spiritual and the material. She currently sees the world collapsing into a mess of personal and corporate greed--a world rampant with financial corruption, environmental negligence, and decaying social values. In Birth, she presents a compelling message that every person in the world is capable of contributing to change. Arison's account chronicles her own journeys, both spiritually and in business, that led to the repositioning of the Arison Group as an enterprise focused on balancing profit with a strong commitment to sustainability and philanthropy. She passionately advocates mutual responsibility, intimately outlining how one must first turn within him or herself and attain inner peace to work toward the larger picture of world accord. With Arison's plan for the future, every person can convert crisis into opportunity. Birth illuminates the convergence of the spiritual and the material and presents valuable insights on their crucial connection. Arison powerfully maps out a model that will enable individuals and corporations to incite change and ultimately give birth to a brighter future. I believe that Shari Arison can play a crucial role in our achieving world peace, and BIRTH is an
important first step in that journey. Her book teaches us that it is through inner peace that we can
create larger, global change. BIRTH connects the material to the spiritual, and provides a
blueprint--for both businesses and individuals alike--of a new world about to be born.
--Brian L. Weiss, M.D., author of Many Lives, Many Masters

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First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Christopher Lewis Kozoriz · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Money in itself is not sufficient, and we see this clearly today. The banks throughout the world that allowed money to be their sole guide and did not have a moral position, collapsed. The money did not save them. It ruined them." (Shari Arison, Birth, Page 144)

Billionaire Shari Arison wrote this book in 2009 during the financial crisis.

The message I got from this book is: What is reflected in our internal lives will be reflected in our external lives.

I found this book convoluted with various religion, new age and Indian philosophies. She is a Jew and claims to be of the Judaism faith; however, she mixes in the aforementioned into her philosophy. I felt like her attitude was one of I am the leader and I know better than all of you. She claims on page 176 that the Tower of Babel is a myth, then goes on explaining why people have communication problems. I found it odd that she would point to this story (which is not a myth by the way) and then use it as a foundation for her teaching on why the world has communication problems.

In respect to her businesses, she includes the Visions of about 3 of her companies. She says, "The moment the vision is written and exists and is clear, strategy and tactics can be built to reach it." (See page 97). I agree with her on this point and most of her business vision philosophies.

She inherited all her fortune from her father and I think she is a spoiled brat. I think her father would not pleased with all her mumbo jumbo of religions and eastern philosophies. She puts herself up on a pedestal as someone who can forsee things before they happen. I think she is leading people astray with her philosophies and is not "doing good".

Do not teach people to consult with chanellers and gurus. This is a bad example. Teach them to follow the Torah and the Word of God, this would be a better example and would be doing good in the world. Follow the God of the Bible. It is sad to see a woman of this much wealth and this much influence leading others astray to these false religions and philosophies.

Some business in this book, but mostly spiritual mumbo jumbo, which I don't even think she knows what she is talking about. Things she has picked by consulting with the wrong kind of people. She is leavened with the yeast of false teachers.

[Mahi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was expecting a more philosophical book, but I was more like a biography