Book Review
Title: Messages From Spirit: The Extraordinary Power Of Oracles, Omens And Signs
Author: Colette Baron-Reid
Publisher: Hay House Books/Raincoast Books
Pages: 243
ISBN: 978-1-4019-1845-3
Released: May 1^st 2008 

Reviewed By: Beverley Ann (Clairvoyant Medium at www.beverleyann.ca) 

Heralded as the next big deal in the Hay House ledger of self-help and spiritual gurus, Colette Baron-Reid is an inspiring woman. Her spiritual path was set off by an unspeakable physical tragedy that no woman should ever endure. From great suffering, Baron-Reid has sprung from the flames like the Phoenix she is. In fact, Baron-Reid has a great Mediterranean energy about her, as her dark features and mysterious aura seem to herald back to an ancient priestess who has passed through many life-cycles.

Colette Baron-Reid an ‘intuitive counselor' as she calls herself, has already released a book titled Remembering The Future, but Messages From Spirit is her first venture into explaining a type of spiritual process. I find this dangerous territory as all people receive messages in different packages and forms, what one medium experiences can be different to another. I found Messages From Spirit unnecessarily overly complex. Citing the ‘27 universal unfoldments,' for example, is perhaps too eccentric. Spirituality is a commodity to a certain extent for many authors, and so one-up-manship can run itself ragged. The ‘27 unfoldments' reminds me a little of this, as many authors speaking about spirituality are desperately searching ways to separate themselves from the pack, the theories and explanations can become a little sideshow at times. North Americans have a saying ‘Keep It Simple,' and I would tend to agree, most people are starting their spiritual journey's and the advanced ones are reading the likes of ancient texts and not books about identifying messages and omens.