Walking With God: How To Achieve Health, Happiness and Fulfillment Through Spiritual Healing

"Walking With God" is an inspirational book by a charismatic author, so before penning this review I've allowed seven weeks to pass since my initial reading, just to make sure my review is not tainted by excess enthusiasm. However, I'm pleased to report that the initial excitement has not worn out. In fact, "Walking With God" is a book that I take with me wherever I go, and which I'm continuously reading from cover-to-cover and absorbing more life-changing capabilities. "Walking With God" has been a blessing in my life, thanks to James Keeley's distinctive and practical system for working through both everyday challenges and major crises in a manner that creates lasting healing, inner peace, and a meaningful and fulfilling life. By way of this book, James has provoked the re-ignition of my spiritual connection. In addition, I feel myself getting clear answers to questions that had bothered me for years--and for which I could not find a satisfactory answer in any of the myriad traditions, philosophies, and modalities that I had previously explored. Thanks to James' book, I have found enormous relief from existential angst, my life of diminished expectations has transformed into boundless potential for meaning and fulfillment, and I'm on a path towards wellness and wholeness. James begins with the powerful observation that there is a fundamental difference between the people who heal from health challenges, relationship difficulties, emotional issues, and work-related struggles and those stuck in chronic patterns. The difference is that those who heal had or developed some form of spiritual connection that provided them with support, insight and guidance to work through and emerge from their situation. Sounds trite, but James doesn't end with that observation; instead, he goes on to deliver a treasury of simple techniques for creating such a connection in your own life. What makes James' book unique, transcendental, unprecedented and different from others is that his teachings are based upon and inspired by an ancient middle-Eastern belief system called Sufism, in contrast with other authors whose writing is based on Judeo-Christian thought, Eastern philosophies, or sciences such as medicine or psychology. Sufism is quite deep, and perhaps that's the reason "Walking With God" breaks through the limitations we've encountered with other, more traditional approaches. The author does not hide the fact Sufism is rooted in Islam--which made me a little wary and skeptical at first--my degree is in accounting and I was an Objectivist for many years. However, "religion" and "doctrine" are clearly absent from the book. And while many spiritual books have a tendency to get metaphysical and New Age--focusing on chakras, channeling and reincarnation--James stays quite grounded and practical, while succeeding to break the barrier between religion and spirituality in a balanced, healthy, and sensible manner. In addition to reading his book, I als

Having had the good fortune to attend several multi-day sessions with Jim, I was thrilled to see he had completed this book. The density of the wisdom he has placed into the book within 160 pages is amazing. And that is the greatest reason to buy this book. Every time I have attended sessions that he has led I have come away fullfilled and uplifted. But like his book, the density of what he puts in his sessions is so massive, it is hard to carry it all away afterwards. You learn, you grow, but still all the content, all the stories, all the insights, are impossible to retain in the fullness that they are presented. Even for me, and I am a world class notetaker. The book allows all this to be captured forever. Something I am sure I will return to again and again as I seek to find the clarity that lives within Jim. His message is so clear, so simple, and so profound you would think that it would stay clearly with you for ever. But alas, sometimes the clearest and simplest of things require the greatest practice. Having the book to return to to ensure you are really doing the work and doing it right will be invaluable to me. The other great reason to buy this book is Jim himself. He is proof that this path works. In person you learn that immediately by just watching him. Even in print, this comes through. I am indebted to him and LionHeart for changing my life. He is the youngest oldest brother I have ever had.