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Summary: Brazen, repetitive, superstitious and morally pretentious. .
Review: "How to Manage . . ." is all of the above. Though eclectic and interesting at times, one will be hard pressed to find any truly concrete and useful techniques for self-improvement in this book. Drawing from many sources, O'Reilly manages to quote highly respected and popular scientists, philosophers and religious figures only to combine their original ideas into lackluster, Christian-tainted, moralizing. Here's the main message of the book (minus all the religious/superstious [stuff]) : Sexual and other primitive impulses can control and destroy us. To the extent that we can exercise control over these impulses, we can achieve greater success, happiness and enlightenment in our lives. Though O'Reilly's candid dialogue is refreshing, many will find him to be morally arrogant and devoid of any real substance. So unless you want to read another sermon on why sex is bad bad bad (unless, of course, it's with your wife), or about how you should direct your "Chi" through energy "Chakras" in order to obtain quantum connections to hyperspace, I wouldn't recommend this one.
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Summary: Brazen, repetitive, superstitious and morally pretentious. .
Review: "How to Manage . . ." is all of the above. Though eclectic and interesting at times, one will be hard pressed to find any truly concrete and useful techniques for self-improvement in this book. Drawing from many sources, O'Reilly manages to quote highly respected and popular scientists, philosophers and religious figures only to combine their original ideas into lackluster, Christian-tainted, moralizing. Here's the main message of the book (minus all the religious/superstious [stuff]) : Sexual and other primitive impulses can control and destroy us. To the extent that we can exercise control over these impulses, we can achieve greater success, happiness and enlightenment in our lives. Though O'Reilly's candid dialogue is refreshing, many will find him to be morally arrogant and devoid of any real substance. So unless you want to read another sermon on why sex is bad bad bad (unless, of course, it's with your wife), or about how you should direct your "Chi" through energy "Chakras" in order to obtain quantum connections to hyperspace, I wouldn't recommend this one.
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Summary: Don't judge this one by its cover
Review: A life changing experience! This is a book that opened my eyes to a new reality. I was unable to put it down. It improved my marriage and my intimate life only after the first few chapters. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: For Every Man Ashamed of Being One
Review: Disclaimer: I'm Sean's brother, and read this book in manuscript. Sean is truly a remarkable individual, who combines ideas from philosophy, psychology, science and pseudo-science, like a mad chef, then serves them up as food for thought. His book is provocative and often funny, but underneath all the hyperbole, its message is a simple one. Here's my summation: * With the advent of psychiatry and twentieth century psychology, people threw out thousands of years of previous psychological insight and practice. The insights of various eastern disciplines, such as yoga, zen buddhism, and sufism, have come back into fashion via the New Age psychology movement, but the insights of two thousand five hundred years of Western philosophy have largely been ignored. * Many problems that seem intractable to modern psychology can be addressed by principles articulated clearly by Aristotle. He pointed out that virtue, which he defined as the control of the appetites by the reason, is a kind of habit. Learning what is good for you, and then developing good habits to practice it -- much as athletes practice for their sport -- and ultimately learning to like what is good for you, is the key to success and happiness. * As Freud and others pointed out, one of the most difficult appetites to control is the sexual appetite. Sean's work, which he calls "dick management" -- crude, but to the point -- focuses on how the principles of habit formation can be applied to the sexual appetites. * As a kind of cover story for what most people would consider a boring subject, Sean argues that the principles laid out by Aristotle have been supported by modern science. An understanding of the insights of multi-dimensional physics gives a way of understanding the role of the soul in our lives. We don't need this scientific framework to practice the art of dick management, but it gives us a way to talk about it that will make pop psychologists green with envy. P.S. When I read Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I was extraordinarily disappointed by Covey's failure to adequately define and describe the true role of habit formation in success. It is a fundamental idea that has gotten very little attention in the 20th century (at least outside of music and athletics), and we need to rediscover it. The principles in Sean's book can be applied to many different fields of endeavor. So even if you don't struggle with your sexual appetites, there's a lot to learn here.
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Summary: A fanstastic book. True, relevant, helpful and entertaining.
Review: I can't say enough about the power and timliness of this book. Although humorous and insightful it is also powerful and as penetrating as its subject matter. Drawing upon such diverse traditions as quantum physics and Taosim, O'Reilly is able to bridge western and eastern traditions to brilliantly conclude a better behavior for the reader. The only way I could imagine to improve the book is for it to provide an index. Even without one this book is a treasure and
is uniquely though provoking. Now is a wonderful time to read this book as O'Reilly is generous monitoring the books related website and answering readers questions. (Just do a google search for the book).
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Summary: Knowledge is power
Review: I found this to be an amazing book.Sean O'Reilly has some amazing insights into understanding the universe and how it relates to us humans.If you are truely seeking insight into yourself and the world around us, by all means read this book.The ground work has been done by the author, all you need to do is read!
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Summary: Helpful for obsessions with internet porn
Review: I loved this very enlightening, witty and erudite book. Although he tries to be impartial the author does come over as quite heterosexist and yet his basic thesis is awesome and could quite clearly be crucial in saving humanity from its basest desires. It is the first really useful book I have come across that gives clear direction about how to live with and tame the animal soul and nurture our development as humans...
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Summary: Helpful for obsessions with internet porn
Review: Just say "NO" doesn't work when it comes to newsgroups containing binary titillating eroticism. This book truly explains the flow of energy involved in seeking sexual relief through porno and masturbation. Well done, and a discovery.
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