| From the moment I first leafed through Limitless Living, I | | | | Kinser teaches from his own explorations as well as |
| knew that it would be thought-provoking and | | | | his extensive readings and studies in various spiritual |
| enlightening. This is a book about "encounters with the | | | | disciplines. He impresses me as a sincere and learned |
| Mystery;" a travelogue through spiritual mysticism and | | | | individual. While he speaks of his own devotion to the |
| the many ways in which humans can experience the | | | | teachings of Christ, he tells his readers that the |
| sacred and the divine. The author, Reverend Prentice | | | | material in the book is for people of all faiths, and even |
| Kinser III, writes from the heart. He fills this book with | | | | for seekers and skeptics. Each person can use the |
| stories, mostly from his own life, recording instances in | | | | material in his or her own way. |
| which he has felt the presence of God, received | | | | I've read numerous books on channeling, psychic |
| "unconventional guidance," and glimpsed past lives. | | | | phenomena, past life regression, and angel |
| Limitless Living is a beginner's guide to knowing oneself | | | | communication. Sometimes these books have left me |
| as a spiritual being having a human experience. Kinser, | | | | with the impression that such gifts belong only to the |
| an Episcopalian Priest, hypnotherapist and pastoral | | | | chosen few, or that these methods are a haphazard |
| counselor, provides exercises in which readers can | | | | assemblage of self-help tools, with no core component, |
| identify their own encounters with "intuitive knowing" | | | | no relation to spirituality. It's refreshing to read a book |
| and trust that this guidance is not just wishful thinking. | | | | that gets it right, and Limitless Living does. This is one |
| The author teaches strategies for accessing spiritual | | | | of the few books that approach non-worldly subjects |
| guidance and communication. He gives methods to | | | | from a mainstream, Christian perspective blended with |
| "test the spirits" so that readers can determine | | | | intellectual curiosity. This is one that a) offers readers |
| whether the communication and revelations they | | | | simple tools to "test" the safety of efficacy of such |
| receive are "of God" and true. | | | | experiences and b) cautions readers to approach such |
| Kinser suggests several practices for finding one's | | | | activities with spiritual shielding, and if one has a |
| own spiritual pathway: journaling, meditation, prayer, and | | | | foundation of religious understanding, from that |
| Tai-Chi. He tells us that these methods can lead us to | | | | standpoint. |
| Love and Light, to an expanded knowledge of the true | | | | On a personal note, the beautifully-written book has |
| self, to an experience of God, and to a deepening and | | | | helped me to validate a few unusual experiences in |
| reaffirming of our life purpose and direction. He speaks | | | | my own life-what I believe were spiritual events and |
| of guardian angels and departed souls, mantras, | | | | encounters. I also feel encouraged to resume the |
| chakras, mindfulness, mind-body healing, energy | | | | journaling that I discarded many years ago. This book |
| cleansing and near-death experiences. He tells of | | | | directs attention to the holy dimensions of events we |
| conversations with ascended masters and of past life | | | | often dismiss as mere coincidence, hallucination, or |
| recall. With respect to Native American traditions of | | | | fluke. Limitless Living reminds us that there are many |
| shamanism, he relates his own vision quest, and the | | | | pathways to knowing the essence of life, the soul, and |
| discovery of his power animal. | | | | the infinite. |