Barbara Emrys

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Ruiz-Lart-de-vivre-et-de-mourir-des-tolteques/123...

> Victime d'une crise cardiaque, l'auteur a passé 9 semaines dans le coma, suspendu entre deux mondes. Ce livre est le récit de cette profonde aventure mystique.
Il est le fruit de dix ans de travail et nous donne accès à l'esprit d'un guerrier motivé par la recherche de la Vérité.
Miguel Ruiz partage avec nous le fonctionnement intime de son cœur et de son esprit, nous livrant un message essentiel sur la vie et la mort.
—Soleil Levant, janv. 2016… (altro)

I struggle to understand how some people find profundity in books such as this. I had heard it described as Ruiz’s “masterpiece” in the course of a long form interview. I’m still not sure how I would describe it, but masterpiece is not a term I would use. The most positive comment I can make is that the imagery is creative. The story is a series of dream scenes involving the spirit of the author, his mother, several departed ancestors, and others of his family. An Eve-like character and a departed grandfather guide his mother through the unconnected sequence of realizations that will result in the author returning from his coma back into the physical world. I can value that the author’s actual life experience of returning from a coma gave him further creative impetus; however, this work doesn’t inform any significant philosophy or life lessons. Some of the scenes are colorful, but the writing is simple and there’s no compelling story arc. At 120 pages in, I gave up on this book.… (altro)