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Review: by Shelley Germeaux, Kirkland, WA, column writer for Daytrippin Magazine.

Just as you would need an instruction book for learning any skill like accounting or building a bookcase, Intuition Magic de-mystifies the psychic world and provides nice, down-to-earth guidelines for developing our intuitive side. Linda Keen makes it clear that you do not have to be a gifted shaman to consider yourself intuitive or psychic. Far from being remote, she befriends us by sharing her own initial doubts and lack of confidence at the beginning of her own psychic journey, something which most of us feel. She then describes her successes and challenges at an intuition school with brevity,generously sharing what she learned there. Her advice on "grounding energy", i.e, staying connected to the physical world while expanding the spiritual, to maintain a healthy balance of energy, is vital to anyone beginning their own spiritual journey. She also gives great perspective on how to establish "psychic boundaries" in order to maintain neeeded independence from other people's emotions and energies. Her ideas on developing psychic vision, ability to read auras and actually do healings are, again, very easy to understand, very readable. Her advice on receiving past life information is excellent, suggesting, first of all, that it is easier than we think and gives basic techniques. She reminds us to narrow our search to only those past life experiences that will help us clear old negative energies that keep us locked in unhealthy emotional patterns. All in all, the reader makes the transition from thinking they could nevr be psychic, to realizing we are all intuitive. We just have to wake it up with a little excercise and practice, with some healthy groundrules to remain focused and keep our feet on the ground. In this way, any fears one might have in beginning this process are dispelled, and our God-given, natural intuitive sense can be reclaimed. The book is small enough to fit in a purse, easy to read anywhere, very handy, with a beautiful cover. Highly recommended as we begin a new century when so many people are awakening their spiritual selves.

Imagine that you get up one morning to discover you've tapped a rich vein of the collective consciousness and can now visit friends or favorite heroes who've passed over to the other side. In this book, Linda Keen gives us a taste of how that might be. She takes us with her on a remarkable journey into seldom visited regions of human experience. Here she meets the legendary John Lennon and finds herself immediately engaged in one of the most astonishing dialogues of her life. Through this lively, entertaining narrative we share the humor, loves, reflections, joys, and regrets -- the very heart and soul -- of this most beloved and controversial Beatle.

After the first few pages you'll be so deeply engrossed with the world you see through John Lennon's eyes, you'll forget to ask the obvious question: "Is this real? Has this writer actually pushed beyond the limits of everyday reality and entered another dimension?" The simple truth is that it ceases to matter whether this is fiction or a metaphysical breakthrough.

Linda Keen's prose reads like the most engaging novel, with a perspective that is convincingly positive, loving and respectful. She offers new appreciation for John's complexity and compassion, as well as for the flawed humanness and passions that perhaps helped make his music so great. The book pays homage to him--as a musical genius, as a father, as a husband, as a person who deeply loved life and was commited to world harmony. Every page celebrates his profound messages of peace, his belief in humanity's divine nature, and his own reverence for the magic of the creative spirit.

Hal Zina Bennett is the author of more than twenty-eight successful books on intuition, creativity, spiritual development, and healing. His most recent book is a novel: Spirit Circle -- A Story of Adventure and Shamanic Revelation. His book, Zuni Fetishes, tells how to connect with animal energies for addressing everyday issues of personal and spiritual development in modern life. Lens of Perception unlocks the secrets of human perception and tells of his own spiritual awakening.