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Sage-ing While Age-ing | 
 enlarge | Author: Shirley Maclaine
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 10235
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1416550429
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
EAN: 9781416550426
ASIN: 1416550429
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
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Condition: Never opened or read.
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Product Description
"I've been a questioner all my life..." So begins bestselling author and award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine, as she invites readers to join her on the most powerful, provocative journey of her life. Over the years, Shirley has firmly established herself as a fearless, iconoclastic thinker and seeker of truth. Now, as she confronts the realities and rewards of growing older, she reflects on the greater understanding of her own place in the universe that her experiences have brought to her. Sparked by the experience of moving into a new house, she is inspired to look back across the remarkable professional and personal milestones she has experienced so far. Surrounded by books, pictures, and the artifacts of a life well lived, Shirley is able to recognize the profound power of synchronicity at work around her, discovering the invisible threads that stitch together the seemingly random events of her days, adding meaning even to the mundane. Having grown older, she is increasingly concerned with the potential pitfalls of modern medicine. She shares personal insights into nutrition, acupuncture, homeopathy, and alternative medicine. Practical and bracing, here is advice for anyone looking to expand his or her understanding of health and well-being. Moving beyond the physical, Shirley explores what has always interested her most -- those things that are unseen. What is consciousness? What is the purpose of our lives? Are we alone in the universe? And perhaps the greatest mystery of all, what happens to us after death? Filled with her trademark wit and candor, this is a fascinating, inspiring book that will delight and captivate Shirley's legions of fans and fellow travelers everywhere.
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 sageing while aging August 28, 2008
shirley mclaine writes another book about her life, interesting first half, second half full of aliens, if thats your cup of tea, by all means, buy it.
 Wonderful woman with incredible advice August 28, 2008
This is yet another wonderful book from an inspiration to us all. I also loved the video Out on a Limb and hope that they put it on a DVD soon.
Still out on a limb... thank Goodness! August 25, 2008
Yes, Shirley is still out on a limb. I loved this paragraph from the first chapter:
"I've decided to believe everything I hear. Why not? It's all unbelievable anyway. I mean, most everything these days challenges what I grew up knowing and believing was a kind of sane truth."
In Chapter 2 Shirley reveals some of her memories and experiences with some of Hollywood's other stars and that makes for some entertaining reading but she also tells us something about her relationship with her father. That was quite illuminating when it comes to understanding just why Shirley ended up out on a limb and remains there to this day. To venture out on the shakey end of the limb one must be daring. Her daring nature came as a direct result of doing just the opposite of the way her father lived his life. As she says, "He had been taught not to dare. So he didn't".
When you get to Chapter 3, hold on and strap yourself in. This is where the ride really begins and doesn't stop until the last word is read. She covers it all: her past life in Atlantis, alternative medicines, psychoactive drugs (although the only "illegal" drug she's tried is a little marijuana), synchronicity, reincarnation, prayer, prophecy, pyramids and bible codes, ufo phenomena, ghosts, freemasonry, the works of Zecharia Sitchen, quantum physics and... well, you get the idea. But she doesn't just pull these topics out of a hat at random to fool the uninitiated into thinking, gee, she must be really smart. She is genuinely interested in these topics (has been for many years) and she actually knows a great deal about them. She's done her homework and she shares her thoughts and insights on these subjects with her readers. That is not to say, however, that she considers herself some sort of a guru. On the contrary, she sees herself as a seeker still out on that limb, still searching ever deeper for the Truth, whatever that may turn out to be.
Sage-ing While Age-ing is the quintessence of the Shirley MacLaine many of us have come to know and admire after all these many years.
Gary Val Tenuta
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"Entertaining and enlightening."
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 Sag-ing While Ageing was a big disappointment August 19, 2008
Shirley Maclaine appeared on the view last month to promote her new book Sag-ing while Ag-ing. During her interview, she advertised this book as a resource for bettering yourself as an individual by using the power of gemstones to heal your inner-self. She advertised this book as a one-all, be-all resource for better living to all who read it, but when I started reading the book, I realized this book was nothing of the sort. The book is full of affairs with actors like Jack Nicolson, and it hardly mentions anything that could benefit me as a person. Where are the remedies you promised to the fans of the View? The explanation of the colored gemstones..? The homemade recipes that are suppose to replace the medications that you claim are killing us? None of these are present in any detail. This book is a complete misrepresentation of what Shirley claimed it was on Television.
Still going out on the limb after all of these years! June 6, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
At seventy-four years of age, there's a good chance that SAGE-ING WHILE AGE-ING will be Shirley MacLaine's last book about her own life and the spiritual journey that she's been on for the last two-and-a-half decades. In many ways, this new book sums up what was begun in OUT ON A LIMB, DANCING IN THE LIGHT, and GOING WITHIN. The author continues with her diligent research into mind, body, and spirit, while attempting to answer the most important questions about life and why we're here. This isn't to say that her journey for understanding is over. No, not by a long shot. Ms. MacLaine will continue to ponder the mysteries of the universe right up until the very moment she dies and then maybe after.
SAGE-ING WHILE AGE-ING covers a large number of topics that prove to be rather interesting for those who are consciously on the their own spiritual journey. In it, Ms. MacLaine discusses the hatred and anger that seems to permeate most societies in our world today, wondering if this aspect of humanity is necessary in order to have love and insight and a strong desire to know God. The pondering of this question enables her to look at her own fears with regards to growing older and perhaps even dying alone, which in turn leads her to examine the field of alternative medicine in relationship to her own health problems and what needs to be done to insure that everyone receives the best possible health care in the world today. But, that's isn't all. Reincarnation is discussed as well as the heavy UFO activity on our planet and how every country except the United States seems to accept and acknowledge these somewhat friendly visits from other solar systems. The author also takes a hard look at religion and spirituality and the affects that both have had on humanity over time and what changes may be necessary in order for mankind to survive.
Needless to say, I found some of the subjects to be fascinating and thought provoking, while others did little to stir my interest. I think most readers will encounter this. You'll have to pick and choose what's of value for you. I have to admit to enjoying her discussion on synchronicity and how it has affected her life and work. The chapters on the famous 1947 Roswell crash in New Mexico and UFO activity around the world since the late forties also proved to be an eye-opener. I didn't, however, care much for the information about alien abductees, nor the secret code to the Bible and the unusual event that seems to be coming in December of 2012. Still, I would recommend this book to those of you who've enjoyed Ms. MacLaine's previous books just to see where she's at in this particular stage of her spiritual growth. Whether or not you agree with her views, Ms. MacLaine definitely lays it on the line as she once again goes out on a limb to discuss the subjects that seem to be gaining in popularity. This is certainly a book that will have you asking your own questions before the final page is reached!
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