Nigel

Incomplete recording

Revisado: 11-18-22

I have sent this back because I was too irritated by the recording. I liked the narrator. Unfortunately, at intervals of about forty seconds there was a chunk of missing sound of unknown duration. The break in the story created and the trying to work out what the meaning actually was was just too frustrating. This is a basic quality control problem. It should not have made it through into a customer experience in this way. Pretty disappointing.

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Extraordinary!

Revisado: 10-20-22

I have heard this book referred to literally dozens of times. Unfortunately, I allowed its age to delay my listening to it. I skipped the account of life in the concentration camps in the first and longest chapter on the expectation that it would contain ghosts that would be hard to expunge once I had allowed them into my soul. Having now listened to the other two (core) chapters, I am seriously wishing that I had listened to the book two, three, four decades ago. Its reframing of the origins of Meaning is simple, deft and profound. It is odd that all of the references to its content thati have heard before have failed to transmit the same message to me. The core message is actually just a few sentences long. Still, rather than deliver those here and hash it up, I want to reflect, absorb and synthesise more carefully.

Thankyou to Audible for this remarkably valuable collection of critical insights. I suspect I shall be grateful for ever.

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Simple, profound, gentle, beautiful

Revisado: 09-22-22

This is profound wisdom written without any trace of presumption. You often hear grumpy reviewers recommend getting hard copy of a book because of some shortcoming in the audio version. This is a sublime counter example: hearing the author’s extraordinary insights into Meaning expressed in the sensitive humility of her own voice was a real privilege. I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in the roots of Meaning that are so pivotal to a life well lived. Awesome listening and learning - thankyou to everyone and everything that delivered this experience into my world - 🌼

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Masterful synthesis

Revisado: 08-04-22

Azarian delivers a truly grand sweep from the Big Bang through the end of time. He focuses on the phase of greatest interest to us: the origins of Life to the present day. Having been a Second Law junkie for forty years, I was instantly grabbed by the central role of entropy, free energy and engagement of natural selection in the book’s many propositions. I loved the consistent building of the framework. The completely untestable nature of the propositions in the last sections of the book did not detract (too much) from my deep satisfaction from having invested the time in listening to the whole book. It is a masterful synthesis and I heartily recommend it.

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Timely update on the uric acid story

Revisado: 03-08-22

Perlmutter pulls together a helpful synthesis of the significant recent advances in understanding of impacts of uric acid in health uncovered by research groups around the world. Teams associated with Rick Johnson and Robert Lustig have been torch bearers, each coalescing important ideas. Perlmutter has made this work accessible to a wider audience, putting it into a framework for self improvement that many will aspire to.

Peter Ganim’s delivery was clear and well paced. Unfortunately, the tone was sickly sweet and it was all I could do to get through to the end.

The first part of the book that laid out the theoretical framework was well structured. Googling the recommended supplements, there were heaps of high quality articles online that supported the advice as sound. The practical part of the book felt less valuable, setting out reasonably standard advice available through multiple other books over the past few years.

Overall, the book was a helpful summary providing strong justification for seeking to manage one’s uric acid levels through nutrition, exercise and supplements. Definitely worth a listen.

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Truly awesome overview of this important topic

Revisado: 04-03-21

In this sweeping review, Jason Fung treats the reader to an in depth exploration of three paradigms of cancer. In each case, he characterises the paradigm, its origins, its evolution and its contribution to current practice. The content is conceptually rewarding, diving headlong into many proverbial rabbit holes and, by virtue of his careful and accessible explanations, helps the reader emerge triumphant with the rabbit.

The one area that was dealt with more lightly than I had hoped for was the opportunity for using diet and nutrition as a tool for limiting cancer risk. Perhaps this is being kept in hand for a future book. If so, I will be first in line to load it onto my phone.

Thankyou Jason for the huge amount of work that you have invested in making these insights available to interested lay readers

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Exquisite

Revisado: 01-28-21

Goodness - this book is exquisite. Absolutely full to the brim with conceptual insight and frameworks for artistic and spiritual understanding, it is a portal to the most important leaps that help every artist free themselves from the humdrum. I will go straight into a second listen with more note taking - suffice to say that the beauty of Stephen's prose has generated multiple goosebump moments on my walks by the sea this past week. The concentration of wisdom in this achingly sensitive and perceptive volume is a gift for which I shall always be grateful. It makes sense of so many facets of the artistic and spiritual journey. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou....

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Not much on kinesiology in here

Revisado: 08-02-19

I was hoping that the book would explain the core concepts and techniques involved in kinesiology. Remarkably, about 90% of the book was not about either of these. Instead, it was a laundry list of related junior high school content on a host of vaguely related health and human physiology content. The content was not clearly structured. The English was liberally supplemented with fluff and littered with grammatical errors. My experience of this book: a disappointing waste of the time spent on listening to it.

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Wisdom in unusual abundance and simplicity

Revisado: 03-19-19

Over the past seven years, hundreds of authors have accompanied me on my morning and evening walks. Many have wowed me with amazing insights. Still, as each book draws to a close, I recognise that my world has changed only incrementally. Not so with Philip Sherherd's Radical Wholeness.

Radical Wholeness is a thesis on the origins of wisdom. No - make that Wisdom. No - make that WISDOM.

Shepherd delivers a beautiful, simple conceptual framework. Being delivered in words, it can only be conceptual. Yet it is the most compelling exposition I have encountered for how to outgrow the constraints of living a conceptualised life. Love to escape your current frustrations and step into a world of ineffable beauty? A world to which you belong? Long to address a gnawing sense of incompleteness within your being? Need a radically new approach to avoiding wider ecological disaster? Or finding more meaning in your relationships with anyone and everyone? Shepherd's approach is relevant to all Life's challenges. And it is simple.

Shepherd delivers a compassionate, gentle manifesto. The lyrical beauty of his expression may make the hairs on your forearms stand to attention. Or that may be a side effect of the incisive simplicity of his gentle message. Or those hairs may have lost their enthusiasm and responsiveness to intrinsic beauty. But I would challenge anyone to read this book and not be profoundly altered by its beautiful insights into Life and what it means to be fully human.

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Rich with insights

Revisado: 02-23-19

A book full of gems for the practising artist.

A compassionate, informed and wise look at the artist's way of being.

I warmly recommend this book as a valuable investment of time and attention to everyone interested in the world of making art.

Emphatic narrator's performance.

Congratulations to all involved in delivering this book to Audible :-)

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