Wisdom Bowls: Overcoming Fear and Coming Home to Your Authentic Self By Meredith Young-Sowers 272pp. Walpole, New Hampshire: Stillpoint Publishing $15.95 (sc)
Meredith Young-Sowers's Book, Wisdom Bowls: Overcoming Fear and Coming Home to Your Authentic Self, contends that people can draw on the resources of seven "energy bowls"—wisdom, vision, joy, love, power, intimacy, abundance—for the spiritual qualities they need to "center" their lives and find peace and even physical healing. According to Young-Sower—an intuitive healer and spiritual teacher—a person is like a bowl, a physical vessel that can be filled with the Divine (Divine Breath, Divine Love, Divine Presence, Wise Counselor, and so forth). A person can access the Divine through what she describes as "Mending Your Bowl—Healing Your Life practice," Wisdom Bowls (Walpole, New Hampshire: Stillpoint Publishing, 2002), p. 37 . and thereby repair physical, emotional, and spiritual cracks and restore energy depletions, to make life better.
Some people think humankind is purely physical. Perhaps most think that humankind is a physical/mental combination, a soul/body duo, a flesh/spirit mixed-being. Still others, including Christian Scientists, think that identity is purely spiritual, think that man (used in its broadest sense, to refer to both men and women) is the idea of God, "... not a material habitation for Soul; ..." Science and Health, p. 477 .
