Spiriting Around: A Modern Guide to Finding Yourself

Martin ‘Mark’ Tomback
Mooring Field Books (2006)
ISBN 9780975524800
Reviewed by Sarah Johnson (age 16) for Reader Views (6/07)

“Spiriting Around” was a very strange book.  I guessed as much from the title, but I couldn’t quite get the full effect until I began to read.  The ideas that Martin Tomback offers his audience are very vague and sketchy.  Things like, “You are God…We all need to find the God that is in all of us.”  Yes Martin, I am sure we are all God!  That’s why we die and are stupid idiots.  Either way, the book doesn’t have much to offer to help in spiritual growth.

I will agree Tomback does have a few good things to offer.  His list on page 130, “Developing Friendships,” is sensible and probably a smart choice to review if you want friends that will build you up, however, his other ideas are so off-kilter that I couldn’t even read the entire book.  Things like “You decide what’s right for you.”  Alright - so if I steal something, but if it’s right for me, I shouldn’t have to go to jail?  There aren’t 50 billion ways to get to heaven and as long as you believe one it all works out.  There’s only one.  It may seem harsh, but there is only one road.  Not the religion that’s “right” for you.

All in all, “Spiriting Around” was very opposite to my belief system, and being so, I would recommend it to no one.  It is misleading, although it does have some passages from the Bible entwined.  This is wrong.  In my opinion something is either right, or wrong, no gray areas and this is definitely wrong.

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