Book review… Awaken the Giant Within

Jul 09, 2017 Book Review…, Features / Columnists

Book: The World Awaits Your Greatness: A Guide to Inspired Living
Author: Melissa Salmon
Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby

The World awaits your Greatness is compellingly instructive. Its driving, consistent theme

The book cover of The World Awaits Your Greatness

summons the best in humanity. We are sparks of divinity, destined for wondrous accomplishments, if only we knew. Melissa Salmon fuses positive thinking and New Age philosophy, creating a distinct genre of consciousness studies.
In the vein of Jane Roberts who channeled a spirit entity named Seth, Salmon avers that we create our own reality. Moreover, she contends that knowledge of life’s cyclical patterns is essential. No doubt, Providence can be cold and inimical, but we are ever cautioned to remain steadfast, unwavering in resilience. Down we can be, but never out.
Salmon adopts an anthemic approach in her delivery. Her counsel is proverbial and repetitive, almost mantra-like. Steeped in the esoteric sciences, she well understands the power of affirmations. The mind will bend, defer to our command. Within us is a divine spark, a vestige of God that ignites greatness, she argues. A spirit of optimism bleeds through every line and we faithfully embrace her energy.
Salmon’s work is ontological in depth and scope. A famous philosopher once remarked: “Man Know Thyself.”
Salmon extends that narrative, offering a compass, a roadmap to realize our fullest potential.
She pens, “One must first comprehensively understand themselves, completely; how you function, your likes, dislikes, your character, culture and your fundamental beliefs, so that you will be able to identify when something is adverse to you as a whole… as human beings we are constantly evolving, thus learning new things about ourselves on a daily basis…”
Her counsel is incisive and markedly indelible. “After all when we take our last breath we should be able to say that we lived on our terms, the way we intended it.”
She seals her argument with the provocative enquiry, “What will your legacy be?”
Clearly, Salmon culls from the best of Taoism, introducing the concept of Yin and Yang. Yes, there is duality in all things. Nature regenerates itself after the most egregious of disasters. Homeostasis emerges from periods of imbalance and uncertainty. It’s the Law.
Indeed, there is that bright light, always, at the end of the tunnel.
Ultimately, life is precious. “I urge you to view life as a positive gift, for the Universe rewards the gracious, Salmon teaches.
She adds, “In trying to decipher the labyrinth of the World, remember that there is balance that exists in our Universe; so that where there is good there is evil, there are highs where there are lows and where there is failure there too is success…”
And upholding the ideals of Confucianism, Salmon promotes social ethics, and responsibility to self and society. “Work in an upstanding way, in a way that your work ethic has a voice for itself. I urge you to labour within the guidelines of the law; do not get entangled in practices of dishonesty.”
Salmon inveighs against entitlements and undue expectations, warning that “we have to put in the hard work to achieve our desired goals.” She touts patience as a quintessential attribute to success.
The subconscious, she says, if not plagued by mental illness, can serve as an inerrant teacher, a supreme guide that ignites intuition. “God wants the best for you,” she assures us. “Always follow that inner voice, the voice which gives reason even when it is difficult for you to see. You can never go wrong when you listen to your intuition, the guiding of the Almighty one.”
An avowed philosopher, Salmon summons the far-reaching powers of the mind, body and spirit to create life, health and happiness. Note here her ingenious use of the number three, the mystic number that represents wisdom, metaphysical perfection and completion. Salmon never fails to recount the significance of this arcane teaching.
Salmon is grounded in her beliefs, and her wisdom surely belies her young age. But we need not be surprised. Is it not written that out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou has ordained wisdom?
In these doleful times, there is always that voice that beckons us to stillness; a voice that rouses dormant abilities, a voice that spurs self-actualization. Salmon could just be that voice.

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The World Awaits Your Greatness: A guide to Inspired Living by Melissa Salmon
ISBN: 978-976-95806-8-8
Available on Amazon
Rating: Recommended

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