This book is really getting some acclaim. I read about it in Utne and it's received some great reviews in other sources that I've found. In it, Bob Brezsny maintains that everything that happens to us, both good and bad, are meant to happen to help guide us to more knowingly know ourselves and to become self-fulfilled. From the sounds of it, we do have free-will, but we don't have it in terms of circumstances and in given situations that we encounter. You can read about it here at Amazon.com.

Anyone read this one? If so, would you recommend it? Any thoughts in general?