The Handbook of the Navigator: What is God, the Psychic Connection to Spiritual Awakening, and the Conscious Universe Paperback – December 2, 2004

Like a river this book flows . . . I first dip a toe in to see if it feels right . . . then I'm caught up in the tide . . . feeling embraced as if in the womb . . . and ready for a rebirth.As a retired teacher I had some life desires and institutionalized preconceptions.This book was given to me six years ago as a gift. What I wanted was the instant gratification of a CD producing the "right vibration" to get my "groove" back. Reluctantly I dipped in. Hum, salmon swimming upstream. Well that seemed pretty elementary. The reading difficulty was elementary.Immersing myself a little more I find Red Cells, White Cells? Ego involvement?So now I'm in the stream . . . feeling a flow . . . catching the magic of the simple concepts so adeptly presented. I am carried mid-stream. Getting an understanding that this all makes sense, I sense the depths below. No longer am I adrift! I am on a Journey. My Navigator has taken my hand. I feel the Universal Force. My connection just keeps getting bigger, more profound, more inviting, more fulfilling. Since then I have purchased several copies to give as gifts or hand out as loaners.To the abundance of reviewers who have written brilliantly about the inspirational spiritually life-changing qualities of this Handbook I give hearty Kudos. They are the ones for whom this masterpeice of a book was written. Perhaps we can join together and create a better place.

The Handbook of the Navigator is by far the most compelling book I have EVER read! I found this book at a time in my life when i needed something to free me from the burdens and mundane feeling i had in my heart. I always knew something wasn't right with how i felt, how this world seemed to be through everyone else around me. I knew there was something more but i kept looking for it in all the wrong ways....Then one day i found this book and it started to free me in so many ways and still does to this day. The layers and depth of what is written helps you understand the true essence of your "ISness". The true essence of the universe, The true essence of God. It will start to break the chains of what society has programmed you to believe and allow you to see yourself for what you truly are. The beautiful being that is truly boundless.If you are questioning reading this book all i can say is just give it a chance and see if it can do for you what it has done for me.

Firstly, this is not a how-to in any way so if that is what you are looking for this is not your book. This is an introduction to a new way of thinking about, interacting with, and looking at the universe and your “self” in every sense of the word. There are many great insights in this book and many things I have tried to put into words before that Eric has done a much better job of. It is meant to be a basic, beginner’s book for anyone who has asked, what is this odd longing I have felt my entire life that I can’t quite put my finger on? If you are not at the beginning of your journey there are still quite a few great insights but don’t expect any huge revelations, maybe look more for a few validations. It focuses heavily on the importance of meditation on the path of awakening and points out a few issues the writer perceives with traditional meditation techniques.This next part is going to sound very negative but I do not mean it in that way, I recommend this book, I just want you to have realistic expectations. The book as a whole feels extremely redundant by the end. There is a lot of filler where the writer repeats the same ideas that have been stated earlier in the book, and not in any new context. There are also quite a few painfully spelled out analogies and metaphors. There were a few pages that literally could have been one or two sentences but the writer forced them out into a full page. This becomes tedious to say the least. I understand that this book is meant for beginners but I wouldn’t expect an elementary student to be reading such material. As bad as some of this may sound I understand that in some instances Eric Pepin really just wanted to drive home the points that he was trying to make, so again, nothing I said prior has been meant negatively against the book or the writer. This is just my experience with it.Now, for the part I actually had a problem with. I understand this book is part of a series. I understand that if a writer doesn’t sell books they do not make money and we all have to eat. With that being said, the last few chapters of the book are mostly just a set up to have you talked into buying his next book, Meditation Within Eternity. I would have had no problem with him naturally leading into the next book but every couple of paragraphs start to mention his meditation techniques or his meditation system with no actual detail, just the bait on the end of the hook, and finishes out the rest of the book in that manner. It felt like a total of five pages that did not mention this out of the last forty or so pages. It felt like the writer was focused solely on sales instead of properly conveying the ideas. There would be an introduction to a piece of information and great emphasis placed on its importance immediately followed by ‘which is covered in my meditation technique”. The writer was a telemarketer before becoming an enlightened guru and I guess some worldly traits are harder to let go of than others.With all of this said, there was enough good in the book that I have purchased Meditation Within Eternity. So as harsh as some of this has sounded, there are many great perspectives and insights to pull from this book.

This book absoloutly helps readers tune in and experience an inner awakening to the universe/god/gia or whatever you feel it to be. Enriching the sixthsense will help us "Navigate" threw dimensional viewing of the world from our spirits. By awakening the inner Navigator, helps us teach and help more people and Navigating them to a better state of awareness. This book tells the reader that, by looking inside we can find a world we have been searching for with our other senses and come up way short, until now. Ask the real you. Fightcl()b quote had it correct. You are not your job, or how much money you have in the bank. Ect....Think of a happiness of when you where a very young child. This book was the begining of a change in my life that rebuilt a very special inner being that i knew exsisted but couldn't access. Really, Really, Amazing , and I'm a bit of a unmotivated crappy reader, and yes, I read this. Sit down, read this, and see where it takes you. Be an optimist. You have looked everywhere else. Give this book a real chance to unlock your mind. Audiobook is also available, enjoyed hard back better. Thank you for reading my review.....