..... In only a hundred pages, and in clear and appealing prose, McKenzie delves profoundly into the nature and implications of human experience and the diverse aspects of samsara that affect all of our lives where the ‘grand illusion’ of everyday existence is seldom questioned. In today’s turbulent times, McKenzie’s serene optimism that we humans can reinvent ourselves as spiritual questers, upon grasping the significance of a universal consciousness as the ground of being, is most welcome. He wants to show that the concept of samsara ‘is much more than just a passing metaphor for the soul’s endless transmigration and fruitless pursuit of happiness’...... https://geoffjward.medium.com/an-escape-route-to-the-truth-about-reality-9a9475e307bb ~ Geoff Ward, Medium.com

This illuminating book explores samsara in the wider Vedantic context of the universal spiritual journey from darkness to light and ignorance to knowledge, where the author sees life as a setup to give us the chance to understand who we really are in terms of an underlying spiritual reality. ~ David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer

So, according to the cultural meaning of samsara that I myself grew up around, samsara, (Sanskrit: “flowing around”) in Indian philosophy, is the central conception of metempsychosis: the soul, finding itself awash in the “sea of samsara,” and which strives to find release (moksha) from the bonds of its own past deeds (karma), and in which form part of the general web of which samsara is made. Now, to be honest, laymen to this thought process and the word itself, let alone all that surrounds it, are going to be as lost as they ever were, but hopefully still overly curious as to how such a thing can indeed influence our everyday experiences and daily multiple choices. Throughout the book, author McKenzie not only gives us the lowdown on samsara, but its origins, its continuing evolution, it's widely ruminated misjudges, and how the concept itself is actually much broader and, to his mind, also encapsulates psychology along with the universal laws of nature. At its core though, the whole process of rebirth, samsara, is cyclic, with no clear beginning or end, and encompasses lives of perpetual, serial attachments. Actions generated by desire and appetite bind one’s spirit (jiva) to an endless series of births and deaths. Therein, desire motivates any social interaction (particularly when involving sex or food), resulting in the mutual exchange of good and bad karma. Furthermore, a renunciate of the new age may overcome samsara by affirming the divine truth in everything instead of identifying with the attachments of the individual ego. So whatever your belief on samsara, and how you yourself either believe it has a hold of your life - whether streamlined for personal use or on a much broader level of worldly inhabitation - or whether you have no time for it, as such, Samsara: An Exploration of the Hidden Forces that Shape and Bind Us is a book that provides you all the pro’s and con’s; so you can formulate, at the very least, an educated thought process to everything. Full Review: https://annecarlini.com/ex_books.php?id=311 ~ Exclusive Magazine, Review