Ami, el niño de las estrellas (Spanish Edition) Paperback – May 7, 2009

7.5/10Ami: Child from the Stars is a spiritual New Age fable full of wisdom, that conveys very powerful environmental, social, psychological and spiritual messages for young adults and adults. The message that Barrios conveys is heartfelt, and as valid in 2017 as were in 1989, probably more so in 2017 because of some of the issues we are having with the environment, social injustice, violence, religious extremism, racism, war, and other sins of our modern world.This is a very New Age book that presents all the beliefs that New Age Spirituality is known for. ↪ Belief in reincarnation as a path to spiritual evolution and growth, and in Karma (boomerang effect) as part of a cosmic justice. ↪ It has a holistic view of the Universe in which everything and everybody fits like puzzle piece and is intricately connected, and also a holistic view of divinity that permeates the whole Universe. ↪ It has a powerful environmental, ecological and peace message. ↪ There a strong focus on compassion, solidarity, non-violence, diversity, acceptance, inner growth, and on spirituality not religion. ↪ The ultimate aim is a planetary order based on global unity, freedom and collaboration, self-regulated organized societies where everybody has what it needed to have a pleasant life free from poverty and suffering so people can focus on their inner development. That world that is not based on economic, social, racial or gender differences but one in which nations, countries or regions are not important, but being "earthians" is.All of these teachings are in "Ami: Child from the Stars". Perhaps Barrios' main emphasis is his powerful belief that God created the Universe, and that any manifestation of love is God, and God infuses everything in the Universe through love. His second main contribution is the emphasis on emotional intelligence, and he pairs intelligence not with IQ but with smart living and relating, with solidarity and inner goodness.I specially loved the Utopia Barrios created in Planet Ophir. I thought it was very modern, very wise, interesting, peaceful, sustainable and liveable. It is certainly idyllic, but why not focus on invented worlds that are full of goodness instead of those dark, contaminated and full of wars?The illustrators of the Spanish version (Eliana Judith Temperini & Marcela García) created a lovely set of illustrations for the book. There are two defined styled, one that I really like, that is painterly and very ethereal, that applies mostly to the description of the interstellar trip; and another that is "chunkier" more illustrative than painterly, that relates to Pedro and Ami in Planet Earth and in the spaceship, and is less of my liking. Who is who? I don't know! THE SO-SOs✋ The aim of the story is to spread a spiritual message not to entertain. The book is mostly a series of monologues by Ami with some "ahas", questions and realisations by his disciple Pedro. There is some adventure, but is more a sort of watched passive adventure than proper adventure. There are ways of conveying philosophical and spiritual messages in a novel and creating a narrative that is engaging and entertaining at the same time, but I felt that this book hadn't achieved a good narrative balance, and found myself bored at times despite the subject being of my interest. It wasn't engaging enough.✋ The book insists over and over on the fact that God does exist and that he is the creator of the Universe, and that those who deny this fact are somewhat lesser souls. Although Barrios mentions that it is better to be a good person and not religious than a very religious but bad person, the insistence on God as creator annoyed me. It is, after all, what creationists teach isn't it? If you are one, this will certainly please you. However, this sort of preaching could put off millions of people.✋ Although this is fiction, I found a fallacy. We are told that the planet Ophir's sun is 400 times bigger than our sun, but then the planet that has a similar atmosphere to ours, similar kind of people, beautiful green areas. Really? It doesn't matter that this is fiction, for fiction to be credible needs to be based on things that are possible or might be possible, this would be impossible.RENDERING FOR KINDLEThe Kindle edition is very good, something that I always appreciate and value. The typos I found are mostly the use of the noun preocupación and the verb preocupar with unnecessary hyphenation. At the end of the book I thought it might be a personal unusual poetic license to add meaning to the word, but it might not be the case. A true typo can be found in> sólo las paas (loc. 1353)IN SHORTThis a clearly New Age spiritual tale, which wonderful messages for young adults and adults, but certainly not for children, unless it is read by an adult to the child. Despite the clear New Age impromptu, the book reads well no matter your creed, and there is nothing that contradicts the basic principles of any major religion. Overall, the message is constructive and good-hearted. If you are looking for a science-fiction book, this is definitely not for you as this is a spiritual fable, the aim of which is to take you in a inner journey not into an adventure, the aim is to enlighten not to entertain, and that is, perhaps, the weakness of the book and the thing that prevented me from fully enjoying it. The book, if you read it in Spanish, is well written, with a classic Spanish that would please most Spanish speakers around the globe, although I found some expressions unnatural in certain Spanish speaking areas that might be common in Barrios' native land.

It's very easy to read and it has an important message for everyone. It's supposed to be written for the young, but I think everyone should read it before is too late...

Una historia bellísima, tengo los tres volúmenes de Ami. Cada uno de ellos es fantástico.

Es un libro excelente para empezar a incursionar en la espiritualidad, me enamoré de este libro de chica, siempre lo releeo y es un hermoso regalo para qualquiera que va por el mismo camino

Pedro cambiará el modo de percibir las cosas en su vida luego de conocer a Ami, un personaje que viene de otro mundo, quien le mostrará que la ley fundamental del universo es algo que muchos conocemos y no lo practicamos. La lectura esta llena de muchos mensajes positivos y reflexivos sobre la humanidad.

Really nice and great to look the world in different view to learn that we need to improve ourself with the people around us and the way to life without be all the time bad.

Hermoso. Desde los 14 años he estado hablando del amor como la clave de todo. Sabiendo esto, un amigo me recomendó este libro. Gracias Goyo.

Este libro es maravilloso, tiene enseñanzas profundas que pueden disfrutar niños y adultos. Hace años leí el libro en internet peto finalmente compre mi copia física y ha sido aún mejor leerlo la segunda vez. De verdad lo recomiendo a todos.

Amazing book..my kids and Family love it ❤

Beautiful story, uplifting and spiritual. Also the book came very fast all the way from Spain.

For those spanish speakers, this is a baby story not just for children but adults too. Brings spiritualaty in the child`s life.

La versión original y la redacción original de Ami ya no existen. Era el libro que siempre leí y compartí, la versión primera de los años 80. Ahora no puedo encontrar más que la versión revisada y "corregida"; que si bien está modernizada para que parezca de ahora, y han cambiado las edades de los protagonistas para que parezcan más "para todas las edades", etc, en realidad se le pierde un poco.El mensaje sigue siendo el mismo y es muy bello y válido.

Libro maravilloso,que deberìa ser imprescindible lectura en las escuelas...puede que algùn dìa lo sea,cuando el "sistema EDUCATIVO" no estè en las manos de quienes lo manejan actualmente,y me refiero a nivel GLOBAL.Hermoso cuentecito,pero que poco a poco se va abriendo paso hasta tu interior y despierta verdades "dormidas" "certezas" no apreciadas,pero que descubres que siempre han estado ahì,latentes,esperando una oportunidad de asomar. Este libro,les abre la puerta. despuès de leerlo,es imposible que no imagines y sueñes con la posibilidad de que un dìa,nuestro mundo pueda llegar a ser como se sugiere en este libro. La realidad es que si queremos que el mundo cambie,primero tenemos que cambiar nosotros. No podemos esperar que otro venga a dar el primer paso en nuestro lugar.P.D. He comprado otros tres para ir prestándolos a otras personas,por que creo que lo van a saber valorar y darles que pensar favorablemente.