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  @swandive72902 күн бұрын

  ..you are our Book Guru !

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  @tifqureshi38954 күн бұрын

  Thanks for reviewing Im a dentist and it is incredible and depressing that most dentists haven’t even heard of Weston price … Your struggles to get off carb are normal as it’s an addiction and we get a dopamine release with eating sugars Anyway agree with your review So sad that the world has gone in the other direction I suspect many people now might be “offended “ by the content but in truth he admired thrse people … anyway thank you !!

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  @calengr110 күн бұрын

  5:41 transfer of assets to USA

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  @TB-TheGoldenAgeGamer13 күн бұрын

  what you left out is that the book none dare call conspiracy is that its only based off Tragedy and Hope by carroll quigly who was the official historian for the council on foreign relations

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  @libertycoffeehouse394424 күн бұрын

  "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" is an amazing read that is coming to fruition. One thing is democracy is one of the worst forms of government. England is famous for its liberty charters which applied the law to the monarch and limited his power. Your ancestors are special. They gave a political tradition that is admired around the world. One thing else. There are two forms of capitalism. State capitalism and free market capitalism. The elite love to blame free market capitalism for the problems caused by state capitalism. Love your English accent.

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  @swandive7290Ай бұрын

  ..no excuse for boring writing

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  @swandive7290Ай бұрын

  ..YAY !...Lydia's Book review time ! Yikes ! Graham sounds like me ?..someone plagiarised my life story ! great review ! thanks !

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183Ай бұрын

  Lol, glad you liked the review, it is a great book - weird though!

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  @swandive7290Ай бұрын

  @@lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 thanx for the tip !..love yr reviews piffy lively ! contagious

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  @kmal163 ай бұрын

  Always a pleasure to visit your channel. I couldn't agree more with you. I read this book quite a while back, and like you tried a few of the exercises, but to be honest much of the ideas presented, aside from the intrinsic value of our emotions in the living context, are quite incomplete and truly don't explain this exquisite sphere of being a human, an individual, and thus lack depth from an emotional and intellectual standpoint. They foster an idealism of living that falls quite short of what life is really about.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61833 ай бұрын

  Thank-you, you put that really wellxx

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  @kmal163 ай бұрын

  @@lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Thank you. I tried but it was hard to be succinct 😅

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  @kmal163 ай бұрын

  @@lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Thank you so much, I hope I wasn't too categorical, I try not to be but I'm not always successful. :) But like you I'm quite cautious, and rightfully so about some of these 'positivist' ideas in these books as they seem to me to lack depth, and can be very religious and cultish in some cases. For one many of the folks I have encountered who do follow these types of ideas have on average very little literature interests, or don't care much about art, or don't read anything outside of their spiritual texts, and turn out to be just as evangelical as any of the churches they criticize, and actually have displayed in many cases some dubious narcissistic behaviors. There's quite a league of folks like that that are entrenched in these positivist or spiritual schools of thought. But on the other hand I also know deeply pessimistic people who are on the opposite end of things, and while there's more interests in the arts and literature, hahahaha, they too fall into this thing where every aesthetic has to fit into this brooding mold but that's for another conversation , I digress, haha. There's nothing wrong with being positive in life, but often that can be accompanied with a profound fear to live I believe. I believe life to be naturally optimistic, as it should be to survive, but that involves a very complex set of natural creative levers that are at constant play with one another. Same goes with humans and how we experience depth and coloration via emotion, sentiment and feeling. Unfortunately Ask and It Is Given does very little to engage one's curiosity about life, it doesn't engage any curious dialogue about who we are, how emotions naturally are, their supportive roles, their complex and sometimes elusive nature, and their supportive roles in our lives. And also to note, in the US there's a huge tendency to systematically negate unpleasant feelings, particularly amongst men in the south, and there's a tremendous push to always look at things on the "bright side" which is very influenced by the baptist church (Lutheranism and Calvinism), but also I think on a deeper level it's a denial of the historical atrocities that were done in the Americas. But to be fair, the only area where I actually agree with Ask and It Is Given is how our emotional disposition colors or shades our day, and helps to form our daily experience. I concur with that but there's so much more in how our experiences are molded and over simplifying this process is quite typical of many of these 'positivist' schools of thought. Thank you so much.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61833 ай бұрын

  @@kmal16 Thank-you for commenting. I think Ask and It Is Given is good for people who don't have a much deeper spiritual interest, I would give it to someone going through a difficult time because I think it could be good at breaking a negative cycle. I agree with what you say about some people who are anti-religion but are very religous about their spiritual pursuit, just like atheists who are religous about science.

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  @Kash-eb7rj4 ай бұрын

  you seem to be wrong on a few levels, poverty is associated with thiness whereas fat is paired with riches. a quick google search couldve showed you that. im 18 year old male who lives in poverty and suffers from anorexia & bulimia, check your facts .

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  @Branzo294 ай бұрын

  Rite On!! Love this book I do/ much Mahalo;)

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  @GaryHighFruit4 ай бұрын

  Wow, you're wrong in everything you say, right down to the lie that she was vegan. Why do you do this? Are you also a MAGA? We can't figure those psychos out either. Oh, I just remembered, you're a feminist. Well I've been noticing the far-left and far-right has many things in common. It's all crazy, and destructive.

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  @dailyDosageofEng4 ай бұрын

  Love your British accent Mrs. Smith... I'm from India tryna catch the accent!

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  @EnglishToffee4 ай бұрын

  What's the new kitten's name, and what happened to Gretna?

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61834 ай бұрын

  Who is this? The new kitten's name is Smudge. Unfortunately Gretna is no longer with us on Earth but he's still remembered with lots of love.

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  @EnglishToffee4 ай бұрын

  I’m your old friend from secondary school, “NM”. I tried to send you a private message on your channel, but I was unable to do so. I’m sorry to hear that Gretna passed away, my condolences.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61834 ай бұрын

  @@EnglishToffee I can't tell you how lovely it is to hear from you, I've been thinking about you lately and what a shame it is I don't have any contact with you. It's great to hear from you, i hope you're wellxx I'm impressed you remember Gretna's name!xx

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  @nasticanasta4 ай бұрын

  If that was not the 1st edition of Tragedy & Hope then this review is useless. The 1st edition details using weather and diseases to control the populace, Bill Clinton praised it and it was pulled, and revised with all that remo0ved in the 2nd edition and on. So if you did not read the 1st edition, again you wasted your time.

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  @kevinsmith-bo4il5 ай бұрын

  Titter!

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  @Langorithmic5 ай бұрын

  I must say I got scared when I saw you holding NDCC and recommending it like that. I downloaded the PDF and laughed at the heavy anti-communist sentiment but still gave it a skim. Then I stumbled upon your video, to see what different discourse there is on it. I was worrying at first, but as I continued listening to you, I felt a lot of joy when hearing that not only you agreed with its core sentiment despite its narrow and dated points of view, but that you even enjoyed it. Thank you for this review, it let me see past its weird ramblings on economics and really focus on the core sentiment that it holds, which is valuable indeed.

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  @Langorithmic5 ай бұрын

  I also enjoyed the rest of your reviews and added The Withway to my reading list

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61835 ай бұрын

  I'm glad the review was helpful, and I agree with your comments about the narrow focus. I think that is also a sign of the times, when people were trying to expose these things before the internet/greater connection, I'm sure it was very frustrating and enraging - like shouting at a brick wall.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61835 ай бұрын

  The Withway is a great book - much more for our time, it is less ranty and more about materialising a better world@@Langorithmic

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  @evil_radfem91625 ай бұрын

  Thanks for reviewing one of my favorite books! 🙌

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61835 ай бұрын

  That's ok, I love this book, it completely changed how I think about food.

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  @swandive72905 ай бұрын

  here in australia i no longer listen to politicians of any kind red team /blue team differences are too microscopic politicians all parties countries now just interchangeable perhaps i am being too pessimistic ? i have learnt all the pretty words politicians say before an election have nothing to do with what they say or do once they are in govt ......bait 'n switch like magicians distracting us with hand movements whist real deception goes unnoticed until its too late or not noticed at all by most

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61834 ай бұрын

  Couldn't agree more

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  @swandive72905 ай бұрын

  Lydia ,..Thank you the true genius of the media such as Murdoch Press & State Media & most politicians is the way they persuade deceive us all into constantly voting against our own best interests .... history such as author above shows us despite Americans long fascination with guns i do not believe most americans are naturally war like people but have to be lied to each every time to go to war , with effective dismal repetition.... what can we all do work towards to change this ? Politicians ! ...boo ! ..Boo !

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  @joshuaabraham337 ай бұрын

  I hope you read my father’s book None Dare Call It Conspiracy. It started the global Illuminati resistance and I hope you enjoy it 😊

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61837 ай бұрын

  Yes I read None Dare Call it Conspiracy, I thought it was a great book that covers a lot of important areas, you must be very proud of your father.

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  @joshuaabraham337 ай бұрын

  @@lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 I am extremely proud of my fathers book but also very annoyed how controlled opposition agents like Alex Jones promote my fathers book. I just really hate how the Zionists use that book as a cover to hide their traitorous tracks.

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  @naveengupta10857 ай бұрын

  Happy new year 😊😊😊😊

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  @loucc68497 ай бұрын

  Happy New Year Lydia

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  @andrewteece34968 ай бұрын

  ‘None Dare Call it Conspiracy’ is an interesting read. Interested to hear your thoughts on ‘Prolonging the Agony.’ It’s on my to read list

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61838 ай бұрын

  It is on my reading list as well, too many books to read! I'll post a review as soon as I read it.

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  @mut8inG8 ай бұрын

  So, 4 years ago-what’s happening now 4 U, dear creator,you.🎯🌸

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer61838 ай бұрын

  Wow, I've changed a lot in the last 4 years, the world has changed a lot in the last 4 years, and I would like to think that humanity has changed a lot in the last 4 years as well.

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  @swandive72909 ай бұрын

  Thank you ! excellent !....a very treacherous time sadly reverberates until today *off topic but I liked film 'Lawrence of Arabia 'as a kid growing up in Australia later in life I got to meet talk with Omar Sharif , he was launching his own brand of perfume galactic testing indeed !,. hey !...look after yr health !

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  @johnmulvey51219 ай бұрын

  Very interesting thanks .I saw the film years ago but you have inspired me to read the book

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  @hertzair118610 ай бұрын

  All of the Seth books are an incredible insights to the Ultimate Reality. I read them all in the late 1980’s. Now that you can even listen to them on KZread. I still listen to them weekly. The information is staggering.

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  @swandive729010 ай бұрын

  'Sweeney Todd ' poem / T.S Elliott . ..i remember reading 'Sweeney Todd ' when younger truly disturbing Sweeney shaving & looking in the Mirror notices street girl in bed behind him in the mirror having an epileptic fit Sweeney Todd decides to ignore her just keep shaving & looking in the mirror ,very dark moment passage in eng lit that has always haunted me. i'm looking forward to upload of yr musical !

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer618310 ай бұрын

  Oooh, that sounds really creepy, I haven't read the book. I didn't really know the musical until I joined in doing this, it is written with a lot of humour though, and it has been amazing fun.

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  @swandive729010 ай бұрын

  Lydia ,.. sorry , i don't know musical i just remember reading poems TS Eliot when much younger but image scene in poem i found disturbing i'm sure musical is much or perhaps totally different take i will re read TS Eliot ,as its been a long time Thanks for the vid

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer618310 ай бұрын

  @@swandive7290 It is a really odd choice for a musical! It seems to work though.

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  @swandive729010 ай бұрын

  Enjoy the Musical ! I didn't mean to spoil things for people I do hope well get to see audition vid highlights ! *Poem by T.S Eliot was 'Sweeney Erect ' for me some darkest lines in eng lit though for me 'Wuthering Heights 'has a passage that comes close second

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer618310 ай бұрын

  @@swandive7290 I have looked up the TS Eliot poem(s), and I'm not sure if it is referencing the same character. I don't know much about TS Eliot but I recently watched a good podcast with Alexander Little which was de-coding The Wasteland, that was really interesting.

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  @swandive729010 ай бұрын

  YAY !...Book review time ! Thanks for the tip P.K.D ! as i need to explore a new genre further, Bio Robots now using DNA apparently is a thing Congrats Musical Ensemble Review 'Sweeney Todd. ' i remember vid yr Monologue Brilliant ! hey !,.. i know a few * blobs myself

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer618310 ай бұрын

  Bio Robots - argh!

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  @AlaOM714910 ай бұрын

  I’m just now seeing this review and I have to agree with you. By far this is my number one favorite book! I have read it fully at least eight times since I was 15 years old and I am now in my mid-60s. Nothing compares to Seth! And not a day goes by when I don’t think of Seth and Jane and Rob, (and my mother) and feel immense gratitude for the gift that they have given me. I include my mother because she was a reader of Seths since the first book, The Seth Material, in 1970. The nature of personal reality is a book like no other! It is my Bible.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer618310 ай бұрын

  Thank-you for commenting. I love the Seth books, it is like reading a Bible! I often find myself just sitting and reflecting on lines when I'm reading Seth, there is so much in each sentence. Wow, what great Seth heritage with your mother as well, for me I have been immensely grateful to the internet for first bringing me to Seth and then connecting me with so many wonderful open thinking people around the world.

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  @kungfujones110 ай бұрын

  “The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies... is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.” ~Carroll Quigley, Tragedy And Hope “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” ~Edward Bernays, Propaganda "if voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." ~Emma Goldman Meet Carrol Quigley- The Corbett Report kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4R43NCje7CvlbQ.html

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  @loucc684911 ай бұрын

  Enjoyable review, thanks Lydia

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  @kmal1611 ай бұрын

  Nature of the Psyche; an extremely incredibly enriching, fascinating book that remains psychologically groundbreaking to this day. One of my favorites.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer618311 ай бұрын

  Yes, I've loved all the Seth books I've read but I thought this one was particularly good.

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  @kmal1611 ай бұрын

  Thank you so much. I just finished watching Tolstoy's War & Peace and am so impressed with the amount of detail into human character both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky understood and could write about. Reminiscent of Flaubert and Balzac's explorations of these themes. I always find so many corollaries with our current world.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer618311 ай бұрын

  Yes, I really enjoyed Dostoevsky and I've got Tolstoy on my list to read. I haven't read Falubert or Balzac, I just looked them up, they sound good, I'll have to look into them more.

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  @kmal1611 ай бұрын

  @@lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 I haven't finished a Dostoevsky book, but know a bit about his writing style. The same goes with Tolstoy, however both Balzac and Flaubert left a lasting impression on me. I read both. To be honest Flaubert is a bit dense as he's part of the literary realism movement or Naturalism, which is mostly concerned with using the environment to describe human emotion. The settings are what give us insight into the person's internal atmosphere. But this is where Flaubert's genius shines, and it leaves its mark by the end. His writing style is also incredibly journalistic, historical and educational, but it's also slowly paced. Balzac to me is more closely tied to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Thank you so much once again.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer618311 ай бұрын

  Thank-you for commenting, they do sound interesting, I will definitely look them up @@kmal16

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  @GabrielConstantinides11 ай бұрын

  1:39 truth. One problem I have with current society is its fixation on salary instead of service

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  @tickledtodeath011 ай бұрын

  I just read it too. Here are my impressions of it. An old USA guy. I also sing the song from the movie version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lmaDpah7l7HRodY.htmlsi=57Tvmgsm6XCwPEWW

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  @swandive7290 Жыл бұрын

  ..absolutely excellent ! thank you !

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Жыл бұрын

  Thank-you!

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  @dstrong86bluecoffee Жыл бұрын

  I've now started creating some of my KZread playlists for these health topics. LOVE your review !!! You might want to take a look at these books (below) GREAT CHOLESTEROL MYTH, REVISED AND EXPANDED Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease Bowden, Jonny, Sinatra MD, Stephen T. (cardiologist) STATINS TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS: EVIDENCE FROM 500 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS (Cholesterol Book 3) - Evans, David KILLING FOR PROFIT - Dr Aseem Malhotra - Presentation at European Parliament - KZread STATIN NATION 2 - Video documentary Lies My Doctor Told Me Second Edition Medical Myths by Ken D. Berry, MD

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  @jonathankruger6356 Жыл бұрын

  So can I skip this book ? Will the next book/books call back to any plot points from The Body Thief ?

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Жыл бұрын

  Thank-you for commenting I haven't actually read any more of the series since this book, so I don't know! I really enjoyed this book though, so no need to skip over it.

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  @donnamoore2153 Жыл бұрын

  I’m curious to know what you did not care for in the book?

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Жыл бұрын

  Thank-you for commenting. It was quite a while ago now that I read this book, but I found it to be an informative and easy to read book and worth reading for new parents to understand more about their babies normal (and less normal) behaviour and ways to manage them.

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  @naveengupta1085 Жыл бұрын

  You always suggests us unique book collection....... 💯

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  @pietdutoit3517 Жыл бұрын

  Love the Hamlet analogy. Agree that it is indeed hard here on mother earth.

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  @pietdutoit3517 Жыл бұрын

  Love what you do. It helps me a lot, as I very seldom read (ADHD etc). Have you ever read material published by Aurora on KZread @ Rising Phoenix Aurora, Todd Deviney on KZread @ Enlightened Aspect Productions or Ashayana Deane?

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Жыл бұрын

  Hi, I'm glad you enjoyed it. No, I haven't heard of them, but I will definitely look them up, thank-you for the recommendations

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  @swandive7290 Жыл бұрын

  YAY ! ...Book time !

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  @barrystalder3137 Жыл бұрын

  911 was in there

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  @karafez394 Жыл бұрын

  Nice detailed review

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  @swandive7290 Жыл бұрын

  Thank you for another clever thought provoking insights & commentary Mythic quality dimension of modern life is what has been lost i wonder if some clever person could re write myth / reverse engineer common myth to describe this process ? i knew someone did something like this with myths Ovid instead people becoming trees rocks flowers animals / animals rocks trees flowers becoming people i wonder what kind of person a Rose would be ? *thank you for another fascinating Lydialogue !

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Жыл бұрын

  Thank-you. Yes I think we could definitely do with some modern myths to help guide people and make life a bit less scientific

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  @ObscureBookAdventures Жыл бұрын

  Interesting you also read a lot of non-fiction. I also love a good non-fiction book. This book sounds interesting.

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Жыл бұрын

  Thanks for commenting. There are some fiction books that I love, but I do tend to choose non-fiction more often. This book was great for understanding more about how economics works.

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  @chrsl3 Жыл бұрын

  Yes! Dr. Köhnlein is a brilliant German doc, discovered him during the "pandemic". He is much more believable than the WHO, definitely proven by the last 3 years.

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  @swandive7290 Жыл бұрын

  Lydia ..Thank you ,....so much boundless insatiable curiosity ,so inspirational ! as sadly so many of us end up going thru our lives with no curiosity at all..... i love the eclectic nature of the recommendations , willingness take on ask really Big questions 'The Gnostics Gospels' by Elaine Pagels sounds like good entry point a must read for someone like myself has little knowledge of such a rich topic subject period in History. 'Utopia Avenue',... i'd better read this book a.s.a.p ,as yeah i'm someone who really still digs the 60s ,70s glam . but sometimes i'm left wondering .just where did all that freedom that we once had go to ? hey ! .. thanx for the review ! ...another excellent Lydialogue !

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  @lydiasmith-writerreviewer6183 Жыл бұрын

  Thank-you, They were both great books. Utopia Avenue was a great fiction, particularly if you're interested in music from the 60's, it was brilliantly written. The Gnostics Gospels was great for investigating the big fundamental questions in life.