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Why People Will Want to Read Holding a Butterfly

Fresh Approach: Holding a Butterfly invites readers to step beyond the illusions of time and space to enter a group experiment, here and now, with every other reader to see what we can create together. It offers an immediacy and sense of collaboration not present in other how-to books. The use of joined minds, as it’s put forth in this book, is an approach that hasn’t been used elsewhere, yet is a natural advancement of quantum and New Thought principles.

Readability: Even though the book addresses some of the most mind-boggling concepts, it’s down to earth, explaining the seemingly impossible in very reasonable terms. In short chapters and straightforward language, it offers science and anecdotes to support its premises and isn’t heavily laced with metaphysical or religious terminology.

Instant Gratification: The book gets its message across quickly in easy, bite-sized pieces, well-suited to today’s short attention span. Readers don’t have to read past the first chapter to have an opportunity for miracles.

What sets “Holding a Butterfly” apart?

(Or, why a whole genre of books is out of date.)

A recent trip to my Barnes and Noble found half a dozen books with “the law of attraction” in their titles, a handful more with it in the subtitle and even more had the topic included in their content. Virtually all of these books covered similar ground, offering slightly different techniques and steps for manifesting desired outcomes—rehashing teachings that were exciting in the eighties when they were first popularized but haven’t been significantly updated since. Holding a Butterfly breaks the mold of New Thought success books, taking familiar teachings to a new level while avoiding the common shortfalls of popular literature such as:

An out-dated emphasis on “me” rather than “we.”

The New Age success techniques that were popularized in the eighties were flavored by the eighties, when personal ambition and wealth were chic, when we took pride in “separating ourselves from the herd” and there was no such thing as too much. Now, as this “me first” strategy is falling apart on a global scale, our times call for something more than locking ourselves away with vision boards and copies of The Secret, intent on achieving our personal goals. The very strength of the collective experience in recent years is clearly calling us to have a collective experience, not separate ourselves from it (for more on this see Lynn’s article on “Creating Success in Changing Economic Times” ).

Holding a Butterfly not only explains, but taps the power of “We.” It incorporates throughout the exercises and experiments the new truth that evolving humanity needs to find its success together rather than separately.

Too much emphasis on how it works and too little on why it doesn’t.

Many books promise easy results and do deliver for some readers some of the time while still leaving many disappointed by techniques that fail to work predictably. Working with the law of attraction is an exercise in nonlinear paradox, not a clear-cut path to a goal, as it’s typically presented in existing literature. Holding a Butterfly addresses straight-on the paradox of “it’s easy… except when it’s not” and includes information and exercises to counter unconscious barriers to success.

What’s more, Holding a Butterfly gently guides readers to the greatest paradox of all: that mastering the law of attraction is a profound journey of Self, not a path to achieving goals. Before undertaking this journey, which can be both terrifying and exhilarating, our success with metaphysical techniques will always be partial at best. And once we’ve stepped beyond the comfort zone into greater authenticity and Self-awareness, the goals that once motivated us no longer seem so important.

Presentation of nonlinear concepts in linear terms.

Miracles, by their very nature, defy linear processing. Still, most New Thought success literature presents mind-bending concepts in linear formulas (as in, read the book; follow the steps; see results). Holding a Butterfly breaks this mold—there’s no need to work or wait for miracles. Some of the exercises even counter the hard and fast commandments of law-of-attraction teachings; such as “accentuate only the positive.” It cites science and anecdotes to explain why focusing too hard can actually push away a desired outcome. Sometimes daydreaming about what’s too impossibly big to manifest is actually more effective than affirming with false bravado that anything is possible!

Of course, the most obvious way Holding a Butterfly shatters the mold of linear presentation is by turning the written word into an immediate group experience, out of time and space. This is an approach that is virtually unexplored in other popular literature.

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