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THE FOUR AGREEMENTSa book review


The information below is from Wikipedia. We had a conversation last week about the Four Agreements and here is the missing information. 

Don Miguel Ángel Ruiz (born 1952), better known as Don Miguel Ruiz, is a Mexican author of New Age spiritualist and neoshamanistic texts. His teaching is significantly influenced by the work of Carlos Castaneda.

His most famous and influential work, The Four Agreements, was published in 1997 and has sold around 4 million copies It was featured on the Oprah television show, and advocates personal freedom from agreements and beliefs that we have made with ourselves and others that are creating limitation and unhappiness in our lives. Ultimately, it is about finding one's own integrity, self-love, and peace by way of absolving oneself from responsibility for the woes of others. The Four Agreements are:

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word.
2. Don't Take Anything Personally.
3. Don't Make Assumptions.
4. Always Do Your Best.

Ruiz also wrote a companion book to The Four Agreements. He then wrote several other books, including The Voice of Knowledge, Prayers, and The Mastery of Love.

Ruiz has subsequently released a sequel, The Fifth Agreement, which adds a further agreement:

5. Be skeptical, but learn to listen.

In Mary Carroll Nelson's Beyond Fear, he discusses some of his beliefs through a series of interviews, including his belief in the legend of Atlantis; his belief that the sun entered its sixth age on January 11, 1992, which should lead to a new age for humanity; and his belief in the spiritual power of the pyramid of the sun at Teotihuacan. He can speak English. He often lectures and leads retreats in the United States. Many of his students are American. In 2002 he suffered a massive heart attack, and spent nine weeks in a coma, but recovered although he was in pain for the next 8 years.

He has handed the Eagle-Knight lineage over to his son Don José Luis. On October 9, 2010, Ruiz received a heart transplant at a hospital in Los Angeles, California. He was at a retreat in Wimberley, Texas, at the Lotus Ranch when he found out that a heart was available and had to charter a plane to get back to Los Angeles.

<sup>BOOK LOOKS  Two books by Bruce Lipton

BRUCE LIPTON -- THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF</sup>

<sup>Biology of Belief - Book Overview released in 2009

TITLE: The Biology of Belief
SUBTITLE: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
AUTHOR: Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
FORMAT: Hardcover
SIZE: 6” x 9”
GENRE: Science & Spirituality
PUBLICATION DATE: May, 2005
IN PRINT: Over 75,000
DISTRIBUTED BY: Hay House Inc.
PAGE COUNT 224
ISBN: 0-9759914-7-7
PRICE: $25
CONTACT: Margaret Horton 831 454 0606, sally@brucelipton.com
WEB SITE: www.beliefbooks.com, www.brucelipton.com
 
The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and that of other leading edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. The implications of this research radically change our understanding of life.

It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr. Lipton’s profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed as a major breakthrough showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.

“Bruce Lipton’s book is the definitive summary of the new biology and all it implies. It is magnificent, profound beyond words, and a delight to read. It synthesizes an encyclopedia of critical new information into a brilliant yet simple package. These pages contain a genuine revolution in thought and understanding, one so radical that it can change the world.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce author of Magical Child and Evolution’s EndPurchase 

Buy from Amazon.com
Buy from barnesnoble.com
Buy from Spirit2000.com</sup>

Spontaneous Evolution
 
By Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
from yogachicago.com website 

If looking at today’s headlines makes you wonder about the fate of our planet, here is some news that may surprise you: from an evolutionary standpoint, we are exactly where we need to be.

According to eminent biologist Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., and political philosopher Steve Bhaerman, we are surrounded by the proof that we are poised to take an incredible step forward in the growth of our species. This evolution is driven by a change in human consciousness. We are, each and all, active participants in what will amount to be the greatest of human adventures.

Join the evolution! Each of us is a powerful force in creating civilization's positive future. In Spontaneous Evolution you can learn how you can play an active role in the evolution of humanity. In the preface to the book, which follows, Bruce and Steve tell us why they wrote the book.


Hello, I’m Bruce Lipton. And I’m Steve Bhaerman.

Bruce: We welcome you to our new book, Spontaneous Evolution. In my earlier book, The Biology of Belief, the emphasis was on how our attitudes and emotions control our physiology, our biology, and our gene expression. The book focused on how personal beliefs affect our personal reality. But there is something more profound to be learned, which is that collective beliefs of a culture or society also affect our personal biology and behavior.

Society is beginning to recognize that our current collective beliefs are detrimental and that our world is in a very precarious position. So, I thought it was time to bring out a message about how the new biology and other insights in the world of science can be applied to our societal beliefs and help us address the threatening situations we currently face.

In this work, I emphasize biology, beliefs, and behavior. However, to fully understand this message, my friend Steve Bhaerman offers information regarding how social structure, politics, and economics also tie into our biology.

Steve: For the past 22 years, I’ve been doing comedy, disguised as Swami Beyondananda, the cosmic comic. Comedy is a wonderful way to tell the truth and a way to break through the mind’s defenses to get new information and perspective in under the radar.

Prior to the Swami, however, my first professional “incarnation” was in political science and social activism during the 1960s. I helped start an alternative high school in Washington, D.C., for students who had grown past traditional schooling. These were exciting times when new ideas were emerging and being tested. As I sadly observed, the most important of those tests--whether we could actually live the lofty principles we espoused--was being flunked left and right. For example, I recall meeting one individual who was a world-renowned expert on communal living. Unfortunately no one could stand to live with him.

Realizing how little I knew about how to turn the ideal into the real deal, I embarked on a 25-year journey into psychology, personal growth, meditation, and spirituality. Over the past seven years, I’ve had the itch to integrate those ideas in a book I wanted to call Healing the Body Politic. After I met Bruce, I thought we could work on the project together, and he agreed.

Bruce: In the medical world, we sometimes have a patient who is declared terminal and everyone counts her out. Then something happens, and this individual has a fundamental change in personal belief through which she expresses a spontaneous remission. One moment, she is terminal and, the next, totally free of disease. This shocks many medical practitioners, but it happens frequently, and most people are aware that the phenomenon exists.

Earth and the biosphere--and that includes us--are an integrated living system. While the system appears to be faltering, the planet itself is capable of expressing a spontaneous remission. What is needed to facilitate that remission is a fundamental change in awareness and beliefs as to who we really are. We used the spontaneous remission concept in the title of this book because we believe that science’s new insights will profoundly change civilization’s collective beliefs on the nature of life. We have woven this new science into a hopeful story of humanity’s potential future to help promote planetary healing. Spontaneous Evolution merges current scientific insights with ancient wisdom to reveal how truly powerful we are and that we can influence our own evolution.

According to conventional Darwinian theory, evolution is a very slow and gradual process, requiring millions and millions of years to manifest the evolutionary transformations of species. New scientific insights reveal that evolution actually consists of long periods of stasis, interrupted by sudden, dramatic upheavals. The upheavals are punctuations that change the course of evolution and lead to whole new forms of life.

Our civilization is presently in a state of disorganization and disintegration. We are currently in dire need of evolutionary advancement and don’t have time for a slow, gradual evolution. Interestingly, in light of the crises we face, it appears that civilization is already in the throes of a punctuation.

Steve: Perhaps the most burning question now is: Is this punctuation a question mark? An exclamation point? Or, sadly, a period? People are aware that something is happening. They have been exposed to news of diminishing natural resources, climate change, and population explosion. The doomsday clock is rapidly approaching the midnight hour, when it’s going to be more than love that comes tumbling down. Religious people are talking about the end times.

At the same time, we are also coming to realize humanity is connected. The most obvious physical demonstration is the Internet, through which we can send and receive messages around the world at the speed of light. This instantaneous communication ties together the entire global village. Everything is entangled. Everything is related.

As evidence of that, we see science climbing the proverbial mountain of knowledge only to find Buddha sitting on top. In combining Bruce’s scientific knowledge of the body with my knowledge of the body politic, we see that science’s modern discoveries and the ancient teachings of great spiritual leaders lead to the same conclusion: This is a world of relationship. Nobody gets off the bus. We’re all in this together.

Of course, along with this awesome understanding, we realize that the old ways of seeing, believing, and reasoning will not help us alleviate the current situation and step into the new. Our survival is at stake. We need a new paradigm. We need a spontaneous evolution. That is why we have written this book.

To order, call 1.800.637.5222 or 1.615.452.7077 or visit wakeuplaughing.com.

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Bruce H Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized authority in bridging science and spirit. He has been a guest speaker on dozens of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national conferences. His Web site is brucelipton.com

Steve Bhaerman is a humorist, author, and highly acclaimed keynote speaker and performer whose specialty is using mind-opening comedy to create heart-opening laughter. He’s the man behind Swami Beyondananda, and for the past 23 years has performed at conferences, conventions, spiritual centers, and for business groups. His Web site is wakeuplaughing.com.

  ^{" Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery." Buckminster Fuller}

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