Karma Releasing

With a distinct California lilt, Virtue rolls through two upbeat discussions and guided meditations. While the total effect of affirming the dismissal of all negative, self-limiting ideas, vows, and beliefs from the past (including all past lives) and the future (each and every minute yet to come) is relaxing and deeply liberating, some of Virtue's topics are curious. No one can fault the concepts of forgiveness and letting go, but how many of us have deeply embedded memories of "spontaneous combustion" or "death by jousting"? Overall, this recording is highly recommended as a wake-up call to the subconscious, but it's also, at times, noticeably overly earnest. D.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine