I was going through my e-mails the other day and I received a contact message through our website that said, “I’d like to send you the PDF of my book, “I Don’t Want to be Your Guru, But I Have Something to Say.” The signature at the bottom said that this message was sent by Joyce Shafer Life Coach and Author.

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Although I have never met Joyce, something in the title of the book resonated with me and said I should read it. 

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The title immediately gave me the thought about the Omen of the Ashram that I describe on our website, where early on in my journey, I gain the insight and realize that people are looking for the lifestyle, learning programs and support offered in the Ashram in India, they just don’t want to have to follow a certain Guru. I often use a similar phrase when telling people about our resorts.

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 I sent back a message to Joyce to say that I would love to read her book, and also asked her where she was based, and how she had found me.  

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Joyce sent me the PDF copy of the book, telling me that she is based in New York, and had found me by Google Search! 

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 As soon as I received the book, I knew that I had to read it right away. I put on some music (John Denver –The Rocky Mountain Collection actually – another story), and sat down to read the book.

 Well, I certainly was not expecting the emotion that it raised within me. After only a couple of pages my eyes welled up with tears. Not sad tears, but tears of realization, a feeling that I resonated with the thoughts and words expressed in this book, that I was reliving or reviewing an old text or acknowledging a previous experience.

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 I read from cover to cover, without a break, and thoroughly enjoyed it. This book is incredibly well written, thought provoking, in a none-threatening way, instructive...and so very insightful. I must say I believe in and share the insights expressed in this book.

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 Interestingly, many of the messages, sayings, portrayals in the book are those I also have gained and been using over the last few years since starting my own personal Journey. As an example, we consider Sanctuary Resorts a vehicle to support our Journey. Also some of the “teachings”; were similar to those that were shared with me on the Avatar course that I took where I created the concept of Sanctuary Resorts. In addition it appears to incorporate and relate to elements of the concept of our Universal Extranet.

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 When I started my Journey, I read  “Celestine Prophecy”; and “Many Lives, Many Masters”, and since several works by Paulo Coehlo that have provided some insights for me at different points along the path of my journey, however I felt this was an even more powerful sharing of “the message”;. A sort of synthesis of these teachings.

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 The book is not big and can be read and re-read easily. If you read nothing else today, buy and download a copy of this book. I believe it will be one of the most profound readings you will experience.

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ENJOY!