The Light Work: Reclaim Your Feminine Power, Live Your Cosmic Truth, Illuminate the World

Entrepreneur Zweig (Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself) aims in this eccentric and meandering guide to help readers access their inner “Light” to “embody authenticity... and empowerment.” During a 2022 trip to Egypt, the author visited the temple of Dendera, where the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, “extraterrestrial beings that come from the Pleiades constellation,” instructed her to activate “the Light that belongs to you” and help other women do the same to return the planet “to its natural state.” Drawing from transcribed Pleiadan “transmissions,” she encourages readers to unlock their “Inner Light” through ecstatic dancing, which involves moving the body “with physical liberation and joy,” and “primal growling” (a “somatic practice that connects you to sacred rage”), and their “Outer Light” by investing in relationships and “owning our worthiness.” Despite the author’s good intentions in promoting physical and spiritual empowerment, her advice is crowded out by long-winded retellings of her otherwordly epiphanies, and the awkwardly intimate tone distracts (“How incredible it is to know that you are a member of the Family of Light, here to recall your DNA and live in the path of a Lightworker.... Okayyyy, co-creator of the New Earth, I see you!”). Only the most spiritually adventurous will want to take a look. (Aug.)