Victoria Moran

Mispronunciations!

Revisado: 05-19-23

This is an excellent book but the reader can't pronounce often used terms aspirant, covetousness, Patanjali. So irritating!

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Eureka!

Revisado: 12-22-22

Finally: a cleaning and organizing person who speaks my language. I have read all the other books and some of them were good. Others were just intimidating. This one has actually made a lasting difference. My life is different, and seriously better, because of listening to this book and others by the author.

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Perhaps the most important part of the 20th century

Revisado: 08-06-21

I had already read this classic but hearing Ben Kingsley read it gives it a whole new dimension. In any case, both on paper and on Audible this is a life-changing read. I only wish it were 10 times longer so I could just keep listening. If you are torn or confused about religion, science, and what on earth we’re all doing here, listen to this glorious story with an open mind. You’ll be very glad you did.

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Experiment

Revisado: 09-08-19

ek-spair-a-ment. I can’t stand to listen to this man continually say ek-spir-a-ment.

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Refreshing

Revisado: 06-12-19

I listened back to back to both this book and Warringtons Sober Curious and found them in chanting and thought-provoking. It is good to know that the Now Age is thriving.

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The worst narrator I have ever heard

Revisado: 01-04-19

This is a wonderful book. I have read it. But this audio is the most wretched experience I have ever had with an audiobook. Whoever Leanne Thompson is, she does not believe in doing any homework. This woman did not look up any of the medical words that she is supposed to be reading in this book. She mispronounces everything so horrifically that if it didn’t make me want to jump out of my skin, it would actually be funny. “Sky-Attica” is a good one. I have so much respect for author Anthony William, and the reader chosen for his first audible book, Medical Medium, was excellent. This one I could stand for a mere 25 minutes.

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I wish I’d read this 30 years ago

Revisado: 08-01-18

I heard adults talk about this book when I was a child, but I had no idea how transformational it would be. I am so taken with the simple concepts of active kindness and respect for others that I’ve learned listening, I am going to take the formal course this winter. This one is a life-changer.

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The Auntie Mame of yoga!

Revisado: 10-09-17

I absolutely loved this book but I wish I had read it instead of listening to it. As intrigued as I was by its subject, the narrator butchered so many names and places that my enjoyment was somewhat diminished. This book talks about a woman whose life cycled through theosophy and yoga in India and around the world. Part of why I love it so much is that I’ve done some of that same exploring, living at the Theosophical Society’s American headquarters in my youth and traveling to India to Sai Baba’s, ashram, also detailed in this fascinating biography. I am perplexed as to why someone charged with reading a book on this subject matter for Audible would not do her homework and find out how to pronounce the names and places she would be saying time and again throughout the process. For me to hear repeated mispronunciations of words such as chela and ashram and anthroposophist, places such as Tamil Nadu, and names such as Vivikananda and Sivananda and countless others was like fingernails on a blackboard in a book that I otherwise loved to pieces. My irritation was such that I made it sort of character exercise to just keep listening. Despite its being rife with mispronunciations, however, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in yoga or simply in living a dazzling life. And frankly, unless you are familiar with yogic terms and 20th century spirituality, the mispronunciations probably will not bother you at all.

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