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The Deal: a Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness Free FREE THE DEAL: A GUIDE TO RADICAL AND COMPLETE FORGIVENESS PDF Richard Smoley | 176 pages | 12 Mar 2015 | Tarcher/Putnam,US | 9780399172137 | English | New York, United States Books by Colin Tipping | 10 ideas | radical forgiveness, forgiveness, books Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — The Deal by Richard Smoley. If you perform the one simple but vital forgiveness exercise in The Dealyou will forgive and be forgiven. You will be free. You will enter a new phase of life. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. 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This can be do to many factors, not the least of which is the perverse good feelings we can get from unforgiveness which The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness book calls, "the thrill of righteousness. This may be an attempt to curtail all the possible objections to such a controversial topic as forgiveness. Unfortunately, humans are myopic being addicted to drama and conflict. Overall, I thought this was a great read that tackles a VERY underrated and underappreciated topic in our world today. Apr 09, Anthony rated it The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness it. The deal is a book about forgiveness that is very simple, the deal is that you decide to forgive all grievances against you and in turn ask for and receive complete forgiveness yourself. The author walks through this simple deal as a brief mediation exercise. It is basically the line from the Lord's prayer "forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. The author cites Christianity as well as Buddhism a lot, but the book cagily avoids being religious per se. The The deal is a book about forgiveness that is very simple, the deal is that you decide to forgive all grievances against you and in turn ask for and receive complete forgiveness yourself. The appeal of the deal is it's simplicity. It's as if the deal is so simple it isn't long enough to warrant a book, and the second half feels like padding unfortunately. Jan 07, AnnetteW rated it really liked it. Richard Smoley is always a pleasure to read as he is down to earth and realistic about human nature. I have read the book and will shortly undertake the Deal, hopefully it will work and I will gain lasting benefit from it. Feb 07, Annija rated it really liked it. Dec 26, Heather Manheim rated it really liked it. Interesting book with some great exercises for forgiving people and letting go of past hurts. I found it very helpful, with clear ideas and thoughts. 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The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness by Richard Smoley Richard Smoley is an author and philosopher focusing on the world's mystical and esoteric teachings, particularly those of Western civilization. Smoley was born in Waterbury, Connecticutin He attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, and took a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in classics at Harvard University in Smoley went on to Oxford Universitywhere The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgivenesshe The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness a second bachelor's degree from the Honour School of Literae Humaniores in philosophy and classical literature. He received his M. Smoley moved to San Francisco in In he began working for California Farmer magazine, the state's leading agricultural publication, and became managing editor in Smoley helped broaden the magazine's coverage to include controversial topics such as organic farming, and the California Farmer helped bring organic farming into the agricultural mainstream. In the s and s Smoley continued his spiritual investigations, working with Tibetan Buddhism, the teachings of G. Gurdjieffand A Course in Miracles. He was also a member of the board of directors of the now-defunct San Francisco Miracles Foundation, an organization sponsoring the work of A Course in Miracles. After four years of writing for Gnosis and a brief stint as managing editor, he came on board as editor in November In his eight years as editor of Gnosisthe magazine published issues on subjects as diverse as GnosticismFreemasonryG. Gurdjieff, the spirituality of Russia, The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness psychedelics in spirituality. Smoley's interest in the Kabbalah influenced the magazine's coverage of that tradition. Inlargely for financial reasons [ citation needed ]Gnosis ceased publication. Smoley moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as guest editor for Leonardothe journal of the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology, and subsequently to western Massachusetts, where he served as managing editor for the Anthroposophic Press later renamed SteinerBooks in Great Barrington. He briefly taught philosophy on an adjunct basis at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In Smoley began to work as acquisitions editor for Quest Books, the publishing arm of the Theosophical Society in America. Inhe became editor of Questthe journal of the Theosophical Society in America. He continues to hold both positions today. Smoley is a consulting editor to Parabola. He has served as guest editor of Science of Mind magazine, and works as a consultant for the New Century Edition of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, sponsored by the Swedenborg Foundation in West Chester, Pennsylvania. In Smoley was elected to the board of directors of the Swedenborg Foundation. Smoley's publishing career began when he was an undergraduate at Harvard. He served as managing editor of The Harvard Advocatethe university's literary magazine, in He also edited First Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate,a selection from the magazine that included undergraduate writings by figures such as T. EliotWallace Stevense. The collection included a foreword by the novelist Norman Mailer and a preface by the translator Robert Fitzgerald. A revised edition was issued by Quest Books inand an audio version was released by Audible. Gustav Niebuhr, writing in the New York Timescharacterized the book as "a new wide-ranging book about alternative spiritual paths. An audio version read by the author was released by Berkshire Media Artists in In his introduction, Smoley says he was inspired to write this book because there were at that point no good introductions to the mystical and esoteric traditions of Christianity, a situation he attempted to remedy. The book contains new translations of Nostradamus's key prophecies, as well as an evaluation of his work and of prophecy in general. A second edition of this work appeared in In this book Smoley traces the history of Gnostic The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness other esoteric currents of Western civilization — including ManichaeismCatharismthe Rosicrucian legacy, Freemasonry, Kabbalah, and Theosophy. It also explores how these currents have shaped modern trends and thinkers ranging from William Blake to Jung, and, in more recent times, Philip K.
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