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Awakening – Book Review

Note: I received a free copy of this e-book through Booktasters in return for an honest review.

While the preface of the book talked about the Author’s painful journey, which led her to the spiritual awakening, the book was completely different than what you would expect from a Spiritual book. Oftentimes, humans resort to spirituality either by practice or being pushed to extremes, and we find solace. The Author of this book was under extreme circumstances when she had the spiritual “Awakening.” This book is partly an autobiography of her journey to spirituality and mostly convinces us about the extraordinary humans she encountered. Let’s delve deeper into the book, shall we?

Author: Jin Lan Cera Language: English No. of Pages: 188 Format: eBook Genre: Spiritual/Religion

One fine day, the Author who was based out of US gets a call from her brother in China about their Mother who suffered an injury, this was during the COVID and the Author after so much of struggles got her passport to China to visit her aged parents. Unfortunately, her father was hospitalized for a small issue, but due to medical negligence, she lost her father. During the painful times of her father’s hospital days and after the passing away of her father, she explores spirituality from being an Athiest.

The painful story of her father’s experience was heart-wrenching, and her finding solace in god or religion was understandable. I wish the Author continued her autobiographical journey of spiritual awakening. Instead, the Author was convincing readers to believe in Qi Gong, finger reading, and spiritual guides to help humans find aliens.

Usually, such ideas would be presented in a much more interesting way and would want us to believe in all those things the authors say, but in spite of attaching so many links as proofs, they never came across as authentic because instead of organically presenting these ideas, the Author was convincing us to believe these theories which felt forced and most of the links were either blog posts or some other sources which weren’t working.

The narration was all over the place; it was propagandist in many parts, and it was pseudo-science in the rest of the parts, especially about healing the broken Chicken legs within minutes was an extraordinary claim, but we need more than videos as proof, we need more evidence, we need extraordinary proofs for these claims to be believable.

If you’re someone who is fascinated by these ideas, this book is for you. Some fascinating things are mentioned, and you might like to dig deeper into these ideas. Otherwise, it was an excruciatingly painful read for me, and I ditched the book at the 125th page and couldn’t go further.

Until next time, Ciao 🙂

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