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Summary: Where is the focal point of life?
Review: Healer, Shaman, Hunter, Warrior, Magus, Messengeror Executor...which are you? This book reveals one woman's journey towards the ancient religions of Siberia, believed by some to be the cradle of all religion. The mountains of Belovodia have many names and may be the sacred peaks of Buddhism, Zoroastrism and many others. In these mountains Olga Kharitidi found her spiritual identity and was taught about her inner being. The author does not try to persuade you that you must believe all she says. It reports one woman's journey of the heart and allows you to decide for youself. More importantly, it tells how she has been able to blend her spiritual life with her practical life as a psychiatrist in a Siberian hospital. The blending and balance of spiritual and physical is a lesson that deserves our attention.
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Summary: Definitely one of my "top 10" favorites in spiritual books
Review: I am a serious searcher of truth. I could not put Ms. Kharitidi's book down. Now, I will be looking everywhere for books on Siberian Mysticism. What makes this so believable is the fact that she wrote this inside a very repressed Country. Her story came from her heart!!Belovodia has similarities to the fabled lands of Lemuria and Atlantis. I hope she writes a sequel. I would love to hear more about the Twin Spirit and about the Mummies connections to Belovodia etc. She has a message that is worth so much.
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Summary: My own limited opinion
Review: I found the book very intresting .I don't belive evrething that is siad but it is a diffrent piont of view.
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Summary: Interesting Read... Sometimes hard to get through
Review: I have been a little generous with four stars for this book. I would probably give it 3.5 stars, but that isn't an option. The reason being is that I think the material of the book is great! I really was intrigued by the ideas presented in the book and by Olga's spiritual transformation. But at times, I believed the setting; the desolate Siberian land, seemed to bore me a bit. I would give oneself a week to read it. It's a short book, but sometimes I needed to put it down and revisit it to fully take in the message of the book. I was especially intrigued with the idea of a Spirit Twin and Belovodia. Olga's dreams and journeys are a bit questionable, but what isn't when it is someone else's experience??? The plot of the book is as follows... Olga is a psychiatrist at a government run hospital. She happens onto a journey into the Altai mountains where she encounters a shaman and discovers some of her own shamanic powers. From there on she goes through many spiritual journies and discoveries.... finding out that she has a tremendous power of healing herself. The book is good... I would recommend it to anyone interested in reading about spirituality and the truth of life.
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Summary: Have read and re-read
Review: I have read this book three times and found that I got something different from it each time. First, the narrative of her amazing experiences was compelling and carried me along much as good novel does. I was intrigued by her willingness to recount her subjective experiences with such confidence. Many of us with paranormal experiences hesitate to expound on them so openly - risking ridicule and perhaps even ostracism - as well as the fact that we often discount our own (subjective) experiences because we lack an external "objective" validation of them. The second and third readings found me paying more attention to the lessons and wisdom and questions of people she describes - the shaman Umai, the Russian physicist, and those she meets in her subjective experience reveal interesting and widely varied perspectives.I believe you will find Olga Kharitidi fascinating as well.
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Summary: A book I could not put down
Review: I was hooked within seconds by the compelling story. As someone who has lived and worked in Russia I can vouch for the authenticity of the living conditions of ordinary Russian people.
For me this book was exciting to read like The Celestine Prophecy but it seemed that it was so much deeper. I gained deep insight into possible causes of negative human behaviour linked to trauma which damages the soul energy. The cures of deeply disturbed patients are profound and I had to smile at Olga's way of making her ancient shamanic practices acceptable to her stern Russian colleagues by describing them as experimental dissociative techniques!
A book about a medical doctor who has crossed the boundary into esoteric healing practices which could have profound implications for all people trying to understand where their negative behavior patterns come from. I would be delighted if she would visit the UK to share her experiences with likeminded people.
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Summary: among the worst of this genre
Review: If one reads between the lines, the reader will find a book put out by a major commercial publisher, written in English by a Russian (what, no translator?), with a flair for skillful narrative (several flashbacks, dreams interspersed in italics), with scores of details that will help to convince the reader of its authenticity, relying on stereotypes of life in the Soviet Union with its Gulags and dreary architecture and awful climate, and the people can't even get their own apartments to live in -- some of this may be true (unlike the story, perhaps), but it gradually becomes clear that this was written for a gullible market. "Shamanism" -- the word, the concept -- was supposed to originate in Siberia, and here's the proof, along with the location of the long-lost Shambala, and some details about the new-age evolution of humanity at large. I've read many books like this with complete gullibility, and am not embarrassed about that: I really like this genre. But this one is less likely than others to have any authenticity whatsoever.
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Summary: I'm not recomending it!
Review: Usually spiritual books should leave you with some insights which you will recognise as a connection with real life. In this book, in my honest opinion, I can not find them. Labelling it with "The new Carlos Castaneda" (his first 3 books have that) on the cover, is only a commercial trick. This book has only some entertaining stories with no penetrating power.
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