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Radical Wholeness

By: Philip Shepherd, Jeff Brown, Grover Gardner
Narrated by: Philip Shepherd
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There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives - peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us, because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us.

In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are persuaded to separate from the body and live in the head. Disconnected from the body's intelligence, we also disconnect from the wholeness of the present. This schism within us is the primary source of stress not just in our personal lives, but for the systems of the planet.

Drawing from neuroscience, anthropology, physics, the arts, myth, personal stories, and his experiences helping people around the world to experience wholeness, Philip Shepherd illuminates what true wholeness means and offers practices designed to help listeners soften into the intelligence of the body. Radical Wholeness is a call to action: to recover wholeness and experience a new way of being.

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Everything about this book was extraordinary!

I enjoyed every minute of listening to Phillips’s voice. His care and concern for us and this subject is evident in all of the varied aspects of ‘voice’.

And the message: That we’re thinking with a portion of our beings rather than thinking with our entire beings.

Philip begins with an examination of what is modern day culture for many of us: “presently consumer based, patrifocal, reductionistic, technologically driven, information-obsessed, and individualistic.”

How our culture effects us: “of all the lessons we learn in the public school system, the primary one is to subdue the energies of the body and maximize the facility of the head for manipulating verbal and symbolic information”

And a great deal of research of several native peoples who possess more than ‘5’ senses and think from a place deep within their bodies.

I’ll listen again. Philip included exercises and meditations for bringing our entire being into our thought processes, a gift I will always appreciate!

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An insightful and intelligent book

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to live with a greater sense of presence and embrace wholeness. Shepherd integrates and synthesizes knowledge from anthropology, philosophy, history, and science in his exploration of embodied presence.

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Incredible!

No exaggeration: This book blew my mind within the first chapter. I read a lot of books on spirituality and psychology, and most of them offer information that is lovely but not all that unique or surprising. This book provided a truly unique perspective, with insights from anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality all combined with neurophysiology, to describe wholeness in its true form.

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My kind of Woo-Woo

Loved it. I would call this book a kind of practical mysticism, and I think Philip Shepherd articulates very well a persistent disconnect we moderns have to a sense of wholeness.

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WHAT NOW PHILIP??

Can you believe I stumbled on this book in my sleep?? My first time leaving my audiobook on and falling asleep so it automatically played another book included in the membership that was in the same category of books I read. So when I woke up I was LEGIT NERVOUS because I couldn’t believe my mind was being stimulated as I slept. So that day I decided to see what my mind was up to all night. Radical wholeness has been quite an experience. I find myself thinking about getting more reading done and there is an uneasiness that I battle with. ‘WHAT NOW PHILIP??’ best describes the guilt that comes over me from having an intimately understanding of the many ways we disconnect and contribute to it. But by the time he brings me full circle into the present my guilt transforms into gratitude. I am grateful for this work and it’s wisdom. I have the universe to thank for delivering it to me personally.

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Paradigm shifting

Explains so much about our dysfunctional society and ways of being. Practical methods of finding one's wholeness.

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Inspiring & Illuminating!

From his tone to his insights, Philip Shepherd really delivers some incredible knowledge that provided me a new perspective on why people are so apathetic, self-centered and destructive—in the most calming manner.

This book had a profound effect on me and made me commit to pursuing radical wholeness in my life, at all costs!

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This is the best book. Period.

This is also the most genuine, sincere, peaceful, grounding, comforting, inspiring, and all together beautiful narration of a book I have ever experienced. I recommend it to every single soul.

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Great philosophical read on wholeness

I love pretty much most of Philip’s stories and thoughts.

Would love to hear more practical advice to cultivate wholeness in our lives.

Maybe more is covered in the subsequent book?

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Great for those seeking more intuition

Love the way the words flow together.
The teachings around intuition are irreplaceable by anything else I’ve ever read.

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