Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More (Your Coach in a Box) by Joe Vitale, Ihaleakaia Hew Len
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Book Summary Author: Ihaleakaia Hew Len, Joe Vitale Reader: Authors Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Format: Audiobook, Unabridged Published: 2008-05-06 ISBN: 1596591668 Publisher: Your Coach in a Box |
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Book Reviews of the Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More (Your Coach in a Box)
Customer Review: I HAVE SOME ISSUES WITH THIS BOOK
Summary: 2 Stars
This was my first introduction to Joe Vitale. I had been waiting rather impatiently for this book, because I had hoped it would give me some more information about Ho'oponopono. It was a disappointment on a number of fronts. I have 5 specific issues:
1. Perhaps if I had been acquainted with Joe's story and his writings prior to this book I might have felt differently, but I just couldn't get excited about the man, his journey, or his story. I wanted to, but I just couldn't get there. Bad storytelling.
2. Joe tells us nothing in this book about Ho'oponopono that can't be found easily (and for free) on the Ho'oponopono website. Nothing. I had hoped that Joe and Dr. Hew Len had gotten together to write a manual about the whole process. Not so. Joe mentions at one point that he has made a commitment not to share certain aspects of the training. Good for him for honoring that. I just had expected something more in-depth.
3. In the course of his story, Joe manages to plug each and every one of his products right down to their respective web pages. Only he doesn't weave it skillfully into the story - each time, it comes across as a jarring sales pitch, like one of those product placements in a movie where the guy drinks a Coke out of the can and has to hold it in an unnatural manner so that you can be sure to see the label.
4. Joe relates a conversation he had with Dr. Hew Len wherein Dr. Hew Len talks about having a conversation with chairs in a meeting room. Joe relates it as though Dr. Hew Len has said these things to him. In fact, the entire vignette was lifted VERBATIM from an interview between Cat Saunders and Dr. Hew Len that had been published in the Seattle Times in September of 1997 ("100% Responsibility and the Possibility ?of a Hot Fudge Sundae: Cat Saunders gets the scoop on Haleakala Hew Len"). It made me question how much of the "friendship" between Joe and Dr. Hew Len was invented for literary license.
5. Joe mentions his sister, telling us of her woes, and then tells us that now that her problems have been brought into the reader's life we now must "clean" his sister's problems using Ho'oponopono. Cheesy. Very cheesy. Not to mention self-serving.
I am glad that Joe has brought this important philosophy to a wider audience. I am also concerned about the pairing of this deeply personal spiritual path with "Mr. Manifestation." Based on everything I've read about it (prior to this book) it's meant to heal souls, not to manifest expensive cars. I hope that message comes across, and I hope Joe stays true to that as he uses it in his workshops.