There is no doubt the the New Age movement is a group to be reckoned with. Last year my wife and I were invited to attend an event, and I was amazed at the turnout. Oh, this was no rave, everyone was dressed in their very best, and expensive jewelry was everywhere. As I recall Jan and I left at half time, there were too many Om’s for my liking.
Mantra’s are fine, and I love the Sitar, it is one of the most alluring musical instruments ever invented. The problem I had was that event had a certain falseness about it. The Yogurt and Yoga group (Y&Y) were dressed in their Sunday best, but was it real? Were the Y&Y just trying to out do their friends?
With all this in the back of my mind I tackled The Power Of Soul by Dr. Zhi Gang Sha.
It certainly is true that medical miracles happen, cancer can go into remission for no apparent reason, and certainly not due to any chemo or other drugs. I do however have some doubts that endlessly chanting:
Soul of my liver orders my liver to heal
will have the desired effect. However, it is also true that there is a preponderance of anecdotal data that shows that having a positive attitude does seem to have some effects on the healing process.
My wife and I are currently watching a close family member die from cancer, and unfortunately mantras are not the answer!
Now, that is not to say that what Dr. Zhi Gang Sha is preaching quackery, and I certainly would not wish to do that. I am sure that The Power Of Soul will fit nicely on the bookshelves of the Y&Y crowd.
I walked away from this book with a less than happy disposition. Almost every chapter contained the useful information that we should find a quiet space and recite:
Lu Lu Lu La Li
Lu Lu Lu La La Li
Lu La Lu La Li Lu La
Lu La Li Lu La
Lu La Li Lu La
Oh, and you have to do this endlessly!
Now, that said, there are a few redeeming features in The Power Of The Soul, I guess we could call them specks of gold in a mud bath. When Dr. Sha is not offering the ‘Lu Lu’ advice he does actually make some sense, even though it is common sense. Conflict is bad, I know, I live in it daily as the editor of this site. Conflict comes out of walls, it oozes its way. The best way to deal with it though is to talk it through rather than keep it bottled up till you explode.
I was talking to a fellow book reviewer a while back, specifically how to handle an author who’s book you did not particularly enjoy, the answer was a good one, and I am going to use it here. Reviewers have very different criteria, and just because I didn’t like it, it does not mean that you will not. In fact there are over a hundred short reviews of this book on Amazon and the vast majority are positive.
You can get your copy of The Power Of Soul from Amazon.
Simon Barrett
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackeven the “Y&Y crowd” should beware Dr Sha….the most recent postings on the wired article blog: http://blog.wired.com/articlecomment/2007/04/dr_sha_a_healer.html
and the other forums it links to – tell the story more than can be said here.
eg here is my review:
It is with mixed feelings that I write this- The world DOES need a soul movement – and Dr. Sha’s teachings are based on some basic truths and provide empowering tools that can provide benefit…
But, I’m just not sure it needs the ultra-organized commercialized dogma of the Dr.Sha “Mission”:
First of all, similar to his previous books, don’t be duped by the “best seller” status or 5 star ratings:
1) members of the Mission contribute thousands of dollars in lieu of ‘blessings’ from Master Sha as a part of a ‘book campaign’ – these funds are used directly by Master Sha’s institute to internally buy books from retailers 2 or 3 at a time to falsely and unethically stage the book’s popularity (Google “Dr Sha book campaign” if you don’t believe me)
2) members of the Mission are urged to write positive reviews about Master Sha’s books, and get discounts for it…thus all the prosaic 5 star reviews.
It’s not really that they want to sell lots of books – they want to attract more members to the Mission- i.e. to join the Sunday Blessings and the Retreats….which is where the real money is made. It’s not that unlike this story: google “Did dirty tricks create a best-seller”
Sure, the members deeply believe that they are promoting truth (indeed, other religions have done much worse in the name of God)…but personally, I don’t find these methods to be all that ‘saintly’(it might even be karmic)… if there are real truths in the book and the Mission it would sell itself on its own merit like most best sellers do.
And what ‘services’ does Master Sha offer at his blessings and retreats? Well, Master Sha believes that he is a “Channel” of the Divine, and he (and only he) has been given special powers. So he (and only he) can offer you- via the “Dr Sha dot com” channel (check it out for yourself):
- Divine Protection against every imaginable hazard
- clear your Karma for $2000. just like that – no followup or practice or nothing…even Dr, Sha calls it a “short cut”
- Transplants for diseased organs
- Body Soul Transplant for $5000 (not explicitly listed in the web site, but it is a prerequisite, among others, to be come a Master Teacher Healer)
- Etc.
(actually, you can usually get the blessings for less because there is always a last minute special to appeal to the “shoppers”)
What is a Body Soul Transplant? You current soul leaves you and a new soul (a saint) chooses you. Its sad that some people are so down they feel they need a brand new soul….and I guess all the poor folks have little chance at becoming a saint…how exclusive.
By the way, for the higher services, you aren’t told the cost of these until you apply first, in which Dr. Sha receives Divine guidance in whether he should accept you. Imagine trying to say no after the Divine supposedly accepted you (but of course, these are “priceless treasures”).
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg…the later chapters of his books speak of the higher Soul Transformations etc. The “highest” downloads for the ‘chosen’ ones are offered only at the “invitation only” retreats (i.e. for those who have ‘passed’ the previous courses)…
Dr Sha’s Sunday blessings are as follows:
He offers a free blessing (download). Then his top assistants (the “professionals” on “dr sha dot com” who have gone through the full Soul transformation and have received all the highest downloads so that their souls reside in their highest chakra and they can see with their third eye- paid for either with $ or Universal Service™ to the Mission) describe what they saw. Then all the people who have registered get their downloads. That’s it.
Yes, the downloads might feel empowering, but inevitably you are left wanting more…if the top assistants can really see with their third eye, wouldn’t you want that too? Well you can get there by getting the downloads, becoming indoctrinated through the courses and practice practice practice (the practice e.g. chanting, empowering statements etc can make you feel good) – till you believe it (or some would say become deluded?)
So inevitably, most are drawn to take the courses and to become a Universal Servant (requires you to volunteer time to the non-profit Institute that does all the ‘work’ – whereas payments go to Dr Zhi Gang Sha LLC.). The courses all link together and coax you higher and higher, with the light at the end of the tunnel that eventually you might be able to charge for your services, like the “Professionals” on the web site – it’s the classic pyramid marketing scheme.
But here is the hard part for me: people DO feel better… faith in the empowerments can help heal. But any one will feel better if they spend time getting out of their thinking brain and doing some chanting, setting good intentions, and having faith that they are empowered to make choices to make their lives better. And the collective energy at (any) group retreats is very powerful and healing. Why not rejoice in that – it might be the piece some people really need…
But when that collective energy at the retreat is highest, and people are feeling their best, that is when Dr. Sha ‘suggests’ that his downloads can make you even better….which is made so easily done by sticking your personal barcode on a form (& voila, your credit card is charged). It’s so effective that retreat registrants have to sign a legal disclaimer saying that all though the downloads are ‘priceless’, they must spend ‘within their means”. From my experience, few of the faithful do, unless you call credit card bills and liquidation of savings as ‘within your means”. (many retreat attendees spend 10’s of thousands)
Seems like Dr. Sha is selling water to people standing in a river. It’s a shame that our consumerist society thinks we can ‘buy’ everything. Its part of the reason we need a true soul movement.
Members of the Mission have made a huge leap of faith to jump on these tracks. But the light at the end of the tunnel might just be an oncoming train. After investing so much, it might take an even bigger leap of faith to get off…
I have attended one of Dr. Sha’s healing sessions (not a retreat) and didn’t find it unethical. He is using an alernative method of Chinese medicine for healing in conjunction with Reiki treatments. The latter is now being used in some hospitals with good results. The reason some people cannot go forward with the levels toward enlightenment is because of the amount of karma debt they carry from this lifetime and past lives. The person has to go through their challenges and tests to learn their lessons. Money doesn’t buy everything.
Karmic debt is mentioned in the Bible via the Book of Life: Malachi 3:16-18.
As to the cost of Reiki treatment at the various levels it has always been expensive especially with the higher levels, though some practitioners do have reasonably priced sessions of $20 or less. Dr. Sha charges these high prices because he is a Grand Master in Reiki. Now I have not paid Dr. Sha’s high prices, nor do I intend to because there isn’t any need to. I will go to an alternative Reiki practitioner if need be. Besides, in the Bible ‘laying on of hands’ is well documented for blessing, healing, transferring one’s guilt, etc. As for those with limited funds, Dr. Sha does offer ‘free healing’ every Tuesday and some other days, which is the method I use. So it doesn’t have to be expensive, though the journey may take longer.
As for the chanting, this has to do with eastern meditation practices which have been around for the last 5,000 years. This certainly precludes any methodology from modern science or psychology. Although I’m Christian, I find it offensive when anyone mocks the practices of other religions or beliefs. In this case, you are mocking the Divine and that’s dangerous ground to be on.
As for opening the ‘third eye’ Dr. Sha is not the only person able to do this for others. Anyone can do it themselves with various methods, all of which work.
The soul transplants mentioned, as far as I can ascertain, relate to the different areas of the body which fall under Chinese medical tradition and the different chakras within the body. They are not the identity soul of the person, but others within. I admit that this took a bit of getting used to, but as I have chronic pain in certain joints and to be relieved of that pain through chanting whereas our modern painkillers do nothing for me. Don’t knock the procedure if you haven’t had to deal with horrendous pain day after day and then find something that seems a bit strange to actually work. This is like healing yourself, just as Jesus Christ says.
If a person wants to heal and be a servant of the Divine, they don’t have to join Dr. Sha’s organization. They just go out and do it. The Divine will help that person if requested to do so.
Until 8 years ago, Western medicine was my primary healing modality. Doctors were experts. Then I got sick. They didn’t have answers. After many tests, several Western doctors and complementary medicine practitioners, I was finally diagnosed: ulcer, leaky gut, food allergies and Crohn’s disease, which is an autoimmune disease. Western medicine offered me two options: 1) take 3-4 prescriptions/day, including steriods and 2) remove parts of my intestines. CAM practitioners changed my diet and take 60 pills/day (enzymes and supplements to rebuild my system). I took that route. No steriods or surgery.
A friend recommended Dr. Sha. Reluctantly, I went to see him and was astonished at how much better I felt. I didn’t understand what he did, but for the first time in years, I felt better.
I had made some progress with the complementary medicine, but it wasn’t until I started to do Dr. Sha’s techniques that my health really turned around. At first, I balked at chanting for 3 hours. Who has the time? I had the time. I couldn’t work. All I could do was lie on the couch. I couldn’t even eat. My entire digestive system was shot – I couldn’t absorb or digest food. I decided to give it a try and see what happened. At first, it was difficult, then it just became routine. Slowly my energy increased. I could actually run one errand per day. Soon, I was attending all of Dr. Sha’s events.
One morning after about three months of chanting, I suddenly felt the pain and burning in my large intestine go, disappear. Ever the skeptic, I remember thinking “it will be back. It always comes back!” Two weeks later, the pain in the area around my waist vanished. I poked and poked. No pain. “It will come back.” Two weeks, later, the burning in my stomach stopped. “No problem, they will find it in the tests next week.”
I was scheduled for a couple of procedures where they put cameras down your esophagus and take pics and biopsies. My gastroenterologist could not find anything. He was baffled. “What happened to your ulcer? Where did it go? Don’t worry, we took extra biopsies to get to the bottom of this.” Nothing showed up except a lot of inflammation and bacteria. The ulcer, leaky gut and Crohn’s were gone.
Not only was my MD astonished, but so was my naturopath. He kept asking me what I was doing because of how quickly I had recovered.
I’m not a scientist so I can’t offer clinical data. I’m just someone who got sick and found Dr. Sha’s methods to be very effective. Yes, they are unconventional, but they work. They have been used for thousands of years in China.
I first heard of Dr. and Master Sha through the ‘Power Healing’ Book back in September 2005. I had frozen shoulder for a couple of years and was advised to seek western medical advice. I have tried Chinese medicine and Acupuncture treatments without any success. The physiotherapist treatments aggravated the frozen shoulder and I had to suffer 24/7 pain and discomfort. Instead of making it better, the treatments were making make it worse, much worse. After 3 treatments, I stopped going altogether. The pain was too much and each treatment appeared to make it worse.
To cut the long story short, there was a copy of Master Sha’s “Power Healing” book sitting on my husband’s study table. It has been sitting there for about a year and he said he wanted to return it to the friend who lends it to him. I told him to wait for a while and let me look through it first. In the end, we kept it for another year. I was impressed by the simple techniques in this book especially the sacred mantra “3396815″. I followed and applied some of the techniques to heal my frozen shoulder. It took some time but gradually I could feel the pain subsiding. All in all it took about a year to become 90% healed and it didn’t cost me anything. Needless to say, I couldn’t wait to personally meet Master Sha after that. The opportunity arose 2 and 1/2 years later (April 2008) and I am honored and proud to say that I am now a student of Master Sha. My frozen shoulder is a thing of the past – 100% healed.
My recommendation – try it, if you don’t, you will never know whether it work for you or not. My love and blessings to you all.
Throughout the ages when something new and revolutionary comes along, the minds of humans do not always understand and can be negative about it. Humans believed that the world used to be flat. The sun revolved around the earth. People laughed at Albert Einstein. Many did not support or appreciate famous artists until long after their deaths.
Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha’s divine soul healing system works. I was healed of obsessive-compulsive disorder and a thyroid condition – both of which have no cures in Western Medicine. I honor Western Medicine. It helped me a lot. However, I still suffered greatly from the side effects of medication and my conditions every day of my life.
I have been healed through Master Sha’s system. I received Divine Blessings and Divine Soul Mind Body Transplants. I did a lot of practice to self-heal myself. Within one year, I was completely healed of OCD. Within one and a half years, I was completely healed of my thyroid condition. I was supposed to be on medication for both of these the rest of my life. I have been off of medication conditions for both of these since 2005. I was even approved for the normal health insurance coverage advertised rate as of February 2009!
Because of all of these miracles, I became a Soul Healer and Teacher of Master Sha. I am honored to now say I am one of his Worldwide Representatives helping others to heal and transform their suffering and challenges into healing and love.
If you do not go to the gym and expect to look great after one workout session, you should not put those expectations on this system either. If you do not go to the doctor and expect everything to be healed after one visit, you should not put those expectations on this system either.
I know this system works. I am a living testament. It could work for many people. All you have to do is have an open heart and mind and try. Give it a chance. You could be amazed at the results.
The Power of Soul has many practices that anyone can do. Just open the book and do the practice to heal your life challenge. Health, Business, relationship, Emotions, mental anguish, rejuvenation, vitality. Whatever the problem, you could practice and see how it works. This is self healing as a gift from a gracious and generous Master. The practice should be done every day for 3-5 minuets. It will be worth the effort. When you prove to yourself that soul over min and matter works, you can share it with others. You can heal other people and/or show them how to heal themselves. For the price of the book, it is Master Sha’s gift to you. Blessings.
Aloha, I live in Hawaii which is geographically the most isolated place on earth. Nice thing about it , besides the weather, is it is a place where one can clear your mind , and heal yourself. This is simlpy the power of getting in touch with one’s soul with no distractions. This experience is what lead me to the clarity of Dr and Master Zhi Gang Sha’s wisdom. The Soul is in charge. Your soul is in charge. In his book Soul Mind Body Medicine, he teaches us simple practices to heal rejuvenated prolong and transform all aspects of our life. He gives you a “Hawaiian” vacation for your mind and lets the sun shine in to your soul. How wonderful to clear yourself of mindsets, attitudes and beliefs that block you from being One all there is. Aloha, in its true meaning!
The Power of Soul book by Dr. Zhi Gan Sha
A book worth your time to read and learn
This book is very useful for self-healing at all aspect of life. It has practical self-healing techniques to clear physical, mental, emotional, financial, relationship blockages and many others. For example, I find chapter 10 – Soul transformation of Relationships – is very helpful to transform one’s relationship with spouse, children, co-workers, bosses etc by using the healing techniques to clear negative energies wrap around the relationship. This way we can communicate in a most efficient manner in order to move our life forward with love peace and harmony. As a physician and life coach consoler I highly recommend everyone to try it and see how your life transfoms.
I am so grateful to the healing techniques of Master Sha. I have received so many benefits from his healing techniques. I love the different healing techniques that I have learned because they always bring me great peace. Whenever, I am faced with challenges, I apply the healing techniques that I have learned. The healing techniques help me to cope with my challenges and I feel that I can face them. Since, applying Master Sha’s healing techniques, I feel healthier and happier. What I love about his healing techniques, is that they can be used in combination with any healing modality. Thank you.
Dr. Sha saved the lives of three of my family members by miracle healing blessings. The Divine works through Dr. Sha and can work through you too by following the simple soul power healing techniques that he teaches in his Soul Wisdom book. I am grateful to have Dr. Sha stand up and teach that everyone has the power to heal themselves and give us the tools to do so.
I have suffered from arthritis pain in my fingers and hands, on and off for 26 years. A few months ago, all the fingers of my left hand were hurting. They had been hurting for hours; in fact, since the previous evening. I was reading Master Sha’s book, “The Power of Soul”, where he describes a self-healing method called the Soul Order.
Coming from a corporate and very conservative background, I was very skeptical as I thought, this sounds like it would be too good to be true.
I had nothing to lose by trying it. After applying the Soul Order technique as described in the book, the pain in my fingers disappeared completely, within about two minutes. And unlike the prescription painkillers that I have, there are absolutely no side effects.
That was several months ago, and the arthritis pain has not returned to my fingers! My skeptical mind would not have believed it if I had not experienced this firsthand.
I thank Master Sha for sharing his empowering self-healing techniques and abundant other wisdom with us in “The Power of Soul”.
Subsequent to my use of the Soul Order self-healing technique from “The Power of Soul”, as described in my earlier comment above, I had the opportunity to use it again. One morning I awoke to the sensation of pain in my entire lower jaw, including my teeth and gums. I applied the Soul Order technique that Dr. Sha describes in “The Power of Soul”. Within about 20 seconds, the pain subsided significantly. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst pain, the pain went from an 8 to a 1. After another minute of applying the technique, the pain was completely gone. I thought, “Wow!” Once again, my skeptical mind would never have believed it if I had not experienced it firsthand. I thank Dr. Sha for sharing such powerful self-healing techniques with his readers.
The Power of Soul has wonderful wisdom and powerful, easy to use and effective techniques. I personally have benefited from them, and I know many, many people who have benefited. If you want to know if the pear is sweet, taste it; if you want to know if The Power of Soul works, try it. Enjoy!!!!
The Power of Soul teach us that our being consist of several ‘bodies’ with different frequency. The spiritual body has the highest frequency, the energy body is at intermediate frequency and the physical body has the lowest frequency. It teach us that our spiritual body is a network of spirits or souls. Our energy body is a network of energy channels, meridians, acupuncture points and energy centres. Our physical matter body is a network of organs and systems, e.g. nerve system, blood circulation system, digestive system. Many people know that energy healing works because its higher frequency controls and corrects the lower frequency of matter. But that is not enough because you have not used your highest frequency yet. Therefore, if you also use your soul to heal the effect will be amazing.
The wisdom and practices taught in The Power of Soul are very simple and very effective. I have used the methods suggested and have been amazed at how well they work and how quickly I have gotten results.
I am especially appreciative of the chapter on Soul Orders and the section on Soul Conferences. These two practices can be used in any setting. The complete practicality of the practices is also very appealing. They are well suited to a busy life style because it is possible to benefit from the practices in a matter of minutes!
Nobody is asking: wouldn’t be easy for Master Sha to promote his western medicine training. None of us think what amount of money is the western medicine using and the amount of human life is using for experiments. So sad the pictures of sick children used for donations and all that “fight” for cancer and all the incurable diseases comparing with Master’s Sha chanting and LU LA LI taking you in a place where no medicine have power (only contraindications take that for your pain an destroy your liver) your Soul.
Like everything else, Bible and even the scientific discoveries we interpret from political correctness, money point of view and how many people we can count on for so called success rate!
How many doctors say: today is free healing for humanity. We need lawyers in order to uncover the mistakes done in the hospitals.
We have such expensive Education systems in so called civilized countries and forget that there are women giving birth without any medicine. We blame the Sun on the sky for our diseases!
In the Power of Soul we are thought to regain our Soul and birth right! For that, as a society we are not prepared! We have to rethink medicine, law and education and that is doing Master Sha navigating through all the mistakes our minds did. And is much cheaper! And more powerful! Laughing is more healing and we forgot to enjoy ourselves! We need movies and pop corn and a lot of garbage to enjoy life!
We are afraid and resistant to change and we like to spend our life being right!
The mind has a specific role and place – as the helper through logic that gets us around and about the daily world – to make the rational decisions that hopefully ease our physical existence. Yet in our day-to-day lives there’s something missing in all that. We need to know who we are, and this has everything to do with our connection to the Divine. So how do we find that out?
The Power of Soul by Master and Dr Zhi Gang Sha teaches us that we are now living in the Soul Light Era; the soul is in charge. If we need guidance, if we need healing, if we need hope, we can ask our soul. Our soul contains untapped wisdom; this includes knowing about our connection with God at the deepest gut level. Realizing in the core of our being that we have this Divine connection changes everything about our daily existence. In a heartbeat, grief turns to gratitude and despair turns to devotion. All of a sudden, we feel a sense of freedom we thought we never had.
The Power of Soul shines light on a landscape darkened by the past. Our thoughts, aspirations and dreams could only hope to illuminate this vista and give real meaning to our journey. Yet through this book, through soul connection, we finally get to see the road ahead, and it’s truly a sight for sore eyes.
I highly recommend The Power of Soul to everyone.
I believe that it’s good to own both the hardcover and audio versions of “The Power of Soul. However, if I had to pick only one, I would choose the audio version.
Listening to Dr. Sha’s powerful voice, is a healing in itself, really made the book come alive for me. I find that, being able to listen to the healing affirmations for the books’ many practices, very helpful. You can just play the CD on and follow along with Dr. Sha. You can learn these practices easily and quickly by listening to Dr. Sha repeat these practices over and over.
I have read almost all of Dr. Sha’s books, and, out of all of the books in the Soul Power series, “The Power of Soul” is a major authority. The book is a compilation of much of the soul wisdom, knowledge and practices in his previous books. In this book, Dr. Sha shares many sacred, profound ancient soul secrets from his life study with us.
This book will be a great read for those who is seeking the truth and guidance on the soul. It is written in simple style and prose and the message is clear. Highly recommended.
I used to try hard to explain what was new to me, but later I found it could block me to learn more. Many new things can’t be understood with only “old” knowledge.
After I learned from Master Sha, I started to release the mindsets and do more practice.
The book THe Power of Soul is such a book that is full of practical techniques and it encourages the reader to follow the instructions and do the practice.
One day, suddently I realized what Peter the Apostle said – Pray without ceasing. Praying is the practice. I spent lots of time to try to convince myself the stories in Bible are real. Now I don’t do that any more.
Master Sha and mamy his students have created many miricles right in front of my eyes. They are no different to the Bible stories.
Also I realized using logical mind to understand the spiritual world is not a fast or correct way to me. What I need is to gain spiritual abilities and then to make great process.
Master Sha shares so many techniques. What I need to do is to practice. Practice without ceasing.
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