Brain States

At the back cover of this book there are such glowing reviews such as "Sensational book ... pivotal work ... provocative reading ...", but this book contains barely any thoughts that originate from the writer of this book. It is essentially a compillation of excerpts from books and techniques that have been around for a very long time - like Image Streaming Technique from The Einstein Factor by Win Wenger, Microcosmic Orbit from Awakening Healing Light of Tao by Mantak Chia, bits and pieces from NLP Techniques - mainly dealing with submodalities) and the work of Richard Bandler, bits and pieces from Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber, etc.In the foreword to this book the author writes "I would write this book on weekends, late at night, and sometimes sandwiched between clients. I wrote parts at 30,000 feet on cross country plane flights" - and that's exactly how this book reads.There are many other books that present works of other people, and that this book doesn't seem to have any original thoughts coming from the author (except few insights he got from his dog) wouldn't be a problem - the problem is that the book has no flow to it and every few sentences, as the author seems to change his state of mind, you are thrown into another direction, never sure if you're coming or going.Since the book is entitled "Brain States", I have actually expected that that is what is book is going to be about, but there is only one chapter with 9 pages that deals directly with brain states.Every once in a while, the author uses metaphors which I'm not sure how helpful they are in helping the reader to understand the main point. For example, to help the reader better understand neurons, he compares them to amoebas, and concludes that amoebas and neurons are not animals, but very few animals can live without them. I don't know if that was supposed to be funny or insightful, but there are books that much better explain neuroanatomy, that few pages at the beginning of this book.It seems that the author has attempted to present here so many different techniques from different traditions and modalities and which may be helpful in alleviating problems or boosting performance that practically none of them are adequately explained.The choice of books from which the excerpts for this book are taken is good and the reader would derive much greater benefit by reading those books. In that respect, I believe the 6 pages of the Appendix C with Resources to be the most valuable part of this book.

This book gives an overview of the brain and techniques that can be used to enhance it. I have always liked neurolinguistic programming, NLP and this book has a chapter describing it. People are geared towards visual – seeing, auditory – hearing, kinesthetic – physical sensation, olfactory – smell and gustatory – taste. We usually communicate, along one of those lines. I see where you're coming from. I hear you. It touches my heart.This line of question smell. Those questions leave a bad taste in my mouth. We express ourselves in those kinds of ways. Other techniques center on increasing performance, self-healing, lucid dreaming and others.I like this book for people who haven't spent a great deal of time reading on the subject. If you read a lot about the brain, techniques and various states of it ;you probably will just find the book to be OK.

Unfortunately having purchased this book "used", the previous owner wrote many (critical) notes in the margins which really detracted from my enjoyment of the book. I think it should be mandatory to note if there are remarks written in a book if purchasing used so the buyer is notified ahead of time. However, the book and it's content were excellent.

Kenyon's writing style is accessible to the layperson withouhg talking down to his reader

I recommend it very much, you learn much about yourself, and how to evolve your conscience. It'difficult, but very interesting

I love my Book.AA+Thank you 🙏

I am fascinated with the information in this book. I got my order on time and I know I got a very good price. Great deal!

Contains some really great Breathing Techniques for altering Brain States. Also some very powerful meditation techniques. Great stories as well. What a G.

Just awesome !!! Tom Kenyon is just extraordinary ! I have several of his CDs also and they are my favorites !

Very interesting stuff. A must read book!