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REVIEWS BOOKS QUEST FOR TRUTH: 100 Insights That Could Change Your Life sourced by Darryl Anka, edited by Steve Meyers Publisher: Nobul Press, USA, 1997 ISBN: 0-9656078-1-X (258pp tpb) Price: USD$22.95 + 5% tax (lowa) + $1.75 (surface) or $4.00 (priority) in USA; foreign orders add USD$6.00 Available: USA—Nobul Press, PO Box 286, lowa City, lowa 52240, tel 1800 315 4510 (toll free in USA), fax (319) 338 1465, website www.bashar.com MY people are understandably scepti- cal about the value of channelled com- munications. So, too, was Steve Meyers (the editor of this book, Quest for Truth) until in 1985 he first encountered Bashar as channelled by Darryl Anka. Meyers was impressed with the level of intelligence and integrity exhibited, the insightful responses given to even ordinary questions, and the expansive philosophy and perspectives presented. Whatever the truth about Anka's claims to have an extraterrestrial intelligence speaking through him, to Meyers this matters not. What is important is not where the ideas come from (indeed, how can we really account for the source of our 'own' ideas?), but the messages themselves. In other words, rather than 'shoot the messenger’, let's check out the message. And this compilation of insights and actionable advice from Anka's/Bashar's self- empowerment seminars may well change your life, as the subtitle suggests. Its pur- pose is to show how we can become open to the beliefs, fears and behavioural patterns which actually limit our freedom in life. It's about how we can integrate new pat- terns and ways of thinking for accessing greater creative expression, attracting abun- dance, transforming relationships, improv- ing health, and even achieving a greater understanding of death and dying. The book's central message is that we can create the kind of reality we really, really want, but to achieve this we need to act upon whatever excites us the most at any given moment! As for the consequences of such creative manifestation, this is another matter entirely. Meyer's advice is to take from this book what grabs you the most—an unbiased attitude if ever there was one. Quest for Truth Soro! Anke Siewe Mayers 74 © NEXUS CONVERSATIONS WITH ANIMALS by Lydia Hiby with Bonnie Weintraub Publisher: NewSage Press, USA, 1998 ISBN: 0-939165-33-3 (195pp sc) Price: £11.95; NLGfn/a; USD$12.95 Available: UK—NEXUS office, tel 01342 322854; Europe—NEXUS office; USA— NewSage Press, PO Box 607, Troutdale, OR 97060-0607, tel (503) 695 2211, fax (503) 695 5406, website www.teleport. com/~newsage; Canada—Publishers Group West, tel (416) 934 9900 f you were ever in doubt that it's possible to talk with the animals, then this book will dispel your scepticism. Conversations with Animals is the story of animal commu- nicator/psychic Lydia Hiby, told in collabo- ration with client-turned-friend Bonnie Weintraub. Hiby has a natural talent for communicating with animals and refined her skills under the tutelage of animal psychic Beatrice Lydecker in California. Hiby uses a form of communication called "picture talking", where questions can be put to animals verbally but, most importantly, with images. And because most animals are actually keen to communicate, they are able to answer specific questions so that the open-minded human questioner can receive the answer in pictures or feel the specific emotions being sent or smell the favourite food being described! All the senses are employed in this creative communication process—one we are familiar with as babies before we develop language skills. The stories in Conversations with Animals are all part of Hiby's lifetime of helping ani- mals, and many are deeply touching: the depressed horse grieving for his owner who had died two days earlier, though no one had told him; the cat, having a CAT-scan due to FEBRUARY — MARCH 1999