Seven Steps to Oneness

When all is said and done, there is only one freedom that cannot be diminished, and only one place where its abiding peace can be found:

Your True Self is fearless, loving, and totally free. Realizing its unlimited life as your own enables you to enter a whole new world within yourself whose very ground is the unshakable strength, security, confidence, and contentment you were born to know.

During this groundbreaking audio program by best-selling author Guy Finley, you will discover, explore, and learn to work with timeless principles that will help you to empower the evolution of your soul.

Learn for yourself the great secrets of spiritual success that not only help you to make positive changes in your relationships at home, with friends, and at work -- but that will lead you to an ever-increasing and intimate relationship with the Infinite itself.

Key Lesson: If we will only work to remember that we live in a world within which there are an infinite number of stories unfolding -- all at the same time -- then we will never forget that it is our choice as to which of these stories we make our own.

Key Lesson: Hoping to communicate clearly with another person -- while pushing or clinging to our point of view -- is like inviting someone on our front porch to come into our house for a friendly conversation just after we've slammed the front door and locked it from the inside.

Key Lesson: The unexpected pleasure and power of a quiet mind is that such stillness effortlessly holds -- and realizes -- everything that moves within it without itself being moved.

Key Lesson: Allowing any fear to assure us that being frightened is a necessary first step towards winning a fearless life is like believing that if we run fast enough through a rain storm we won't get wet!

Key Lesson: Real Faith and True Freedom go hand in hand, because no one is free who lives with fear, and fear cannot live in the one who has faith.

Key Lesson: On the other side of the resistance is the flow.

Key Lesson: The great and telling power of patience, coupled with persistence, is that whoever will pay for their company throughout this journey called life cannot help but reach and realize his heart's desire.

Key Lesson: Searching for True Happiness anywhere outside of yourself is like hoping you'll be able to see the North Star by looking down at your feet!

When I listen to Guy Finley, the word "magid" comes to mind. The magid was a wandering holy man who played a huge role in the spiritual life of European Jewry. Unlike the Rabbi of a town, who more or less played the role of the spiritual leader of the town, the magid had no official position. He had no congregation and no outer authority. He was part entertainer, prophet, story teller and preacher. He taught the spiritual principles while entertaining the people at the same time. A good magid would draw huge crowds. His coming was an "event" in any town. The magid's job was to remind the people of what they already knew - to remind them of their true selves, of the things that were important in life, of how they could extricate themselves from the grim conditions which they faced in those days, and to deliver the spiritual message that the people needed to hear. The magid would make you laugh, cry and sigh. The Rabbi would teach the law and was involved in all the administrative functions of his community. But the Magid would teach the law and also entertain you. Then he would move on to the next town.

Guy Finley is the American Magid of our age. When you listen to SEVEN STEPS you are going to learn, but you're also going to laugh a lot.

SEVEN STEPS is a beautiful mix of stories, jokes and knowledge. Very folksy. Very understandable. You don't need to be a big intellectual to grasp the meanings here. This is spirituality for everyman.

His forte is the deconstruction of the false ego. Nobody does this the way he does. This is a huge, painstaking process. But this is the thread that I see in all his work. Little by little he analyzes our common (and so-called normal) reactions and shows their falsity - their non-reality. He traces our common psychology to its root - ignorance - ignorance of the True Self.

This deconstruction of the false ego - the unreal identity - is important work. For basically this is the main obstruction to higher consciousness - the main blockage to the flow of unqualified perfection in our lives. And though a person won't rid him or herself of this false identity overnight, every bit of progress made, allows more light to enter.

A worthwhile enterprise.

I may have mentioned this in other reviews, but I especially like the CD format. Very convenient. You can listen in the car or at home while doing other tasks. Also you get the unique flavor of his voice - the subtle, indefinable energy of the spoken word, that you won't get from a book.