The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose Paperback – May 1, 2013

This book is such a wonderful experience to read -- if you're into numerology, astrology, and other methodologies of understanding yourself and your path, this book is a must-read. Beautifully written in such a way that it doesn't matter what spiritual beliefs you hold, this content can apply to anyone and everyone. You can feel that the words are true, that the messages are meaningful, and that just by reading it and contemplating it's message, your perspective can open and your life could shift in beautiful ways.

I come to this great work with a bit of Rip Van Winkle type of disorientation -- a healthy shock! Where have I been for the last 20 years? As one who has found useful, indeed, very necessary, the don Juan recommendation of retrospection of one's life, Mr. Rudd's work here has been wonderfully stimulating. For the power of retrospection is increased by the reawakening of one's history, especially those parts of one's history which one would just as soon forget!Indeed, "forgetting" is one of the 64 Shadows described herein by Mr. Rudd, giving birth, as we become aware, to the Gift of Mindfulness, which in turn births the transcendent state or "Siddhi", of Revelation.Just words at this point, if you've not yet delved into this work. Indulge me, if you will. At the bottom of life, one bottom of several, but the first long bottom for this earth child, occurring before my 21st birthday, beginning the seven- year -long process of withdrawal from academia and the possibility of its shelter, financial rewards, etc. -- I was introduced, rather comically, to the I Ching, the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes." Now I had loved books ever since grade school when I read them surreptitiously under my desk to evade the boredom of what the teacher was saying. And my hidden purpose for going to college was to read as many of the great books as I could, indeed, to immerse myself into them utterly. For there I could HIDE!Sure, I also wanted to have a girlfriend (note the possessive there!), to be hip, living together in our off-campus pad, to be cool. And, although I did have, and mistreat, a few girlfriends, I found I was lacking in just about everything. I loved science and math -- but they gave me a huge painful knot in my belly. I loved literature, ideas, philosophy, religion -- but I was a pipsqueak in trying to talk about anything.In desperation I attended a "sensitivity training" workshop -- and behold! along came a new girlfriend -- and a book, the I Ching. (Sally, won't you come by and get your book back? I haven't known where you are for 50 years!) With its famous introduction by Carl Jung on Synchronicity Now I could just take some easy courses, smoke all the dope I needed, and ---- whatever. And, as I pondered my fate, cast pennies and read the I Ching with all its marvelous advice, "Perseverance furthers" "It furthers one to cross the great water." I was King! (AsTom Petty has sung, "It's good to be King!" For, as with astrology in the West, the I Ching was originally written for the kings of old.For fifty years I have read and reread this book. Now, along comes a usurper! Kill him! No, of course not. For now, in these times, every man in his own king, every woman her own queen, and Mr. Rudd has not merely retranslated or updated this ancient classic, he has absolutely transmuted it into a whole new form. In all due modesty he insists it is a "transmission," but I would not call it a "channeled" work, as are so many doing now and always.Well, my old I Ching world is turned upside down. All the old nice hexagrams I used to draw now come with warnings. Number 11, "Peace", is now contains a Shadow, "Obscurity." The terrible "Splitting Apart," number23, now holds the wonderful gift of Simplicity. ("Tis a gift to be Simple/Tis a gift to be Free....)If this were not enough, Mr. Rudd has also tied into Astrology also. Astrology became my second metaphysical language after the I Ching, beginning about a year later. He uses astrology as the basis for the "hologenetic profile," by which one can zero in on one's major life lessons. But it's not absolutely necessary. Hell, you can open the book at random and find meaning -- if you are open to it. Open the book, open yourself!This will be everyone's favorite coffee table book in another year or two, just like M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled. Most deservedly so!

I recommend this book to everyone. It's like having a encyclopedia for living a life you don't know is possible. Until you do know it's possible. You will come back to this book over and over for years to come!!! Thank you Richard Rudd♡♡♡♡♡

This book itself is a psycho-spiritual treasure and life-long companion... And ‘deep-diving’ into the GoldenPath-- a series of webinars offered in Genekeys.com that delve into the depth and breadth of the Gene keys and their lines-- is like no other. It is a most elucidating and joyous self-awakening journey! We are compassionately invited to appreciate our shadows as service-propellers of our gifting pathways to the world— without private shame, self-battering or inner judgments as we consciously or subconsciously repeat our behavioral patterns, or when we regress emotionally—all the while being inspired by embracing glimpses of our siddhis...I have been on this inward journey of my Gene Keys for a few years now—taking pauses in between to allow room for new perspectives to emanate from within. This is not a path for the fainted heart, or a half-hearted playing field. Yet it is the most profoundly sustaining self-contemplation Grand Crossing that I have ever undertaken. It is a firm and clear, yet kind and gentle self-honoring Way of inner-illumination based on our own DNA codons that correlate with the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching. Born of Chinese origin, the I-Ching cosmology is imprinted in my psyche, yet I was left yearning for more through the years beyond its oracles laced with nuances of patriarchy—which I do understand and even appreciate, given the ancient time frame when this divine knowledge was 'gifted' to humanity.I find it fascinating how a cosmic equilibrium is manifesting itself in this world of spiraling evolutionary consciousness. Through Richard Rudd’s transmissions, the West is 'gifting' a divine feminine approach to naturally balance out the still masculine undercurrents of the I-Ching’s wisdom—coming full circle to reverse the historically analytical Western mind and the circuitous Eastern mind, and thus synchronize them. A new harmony of East-West confluence is born.The GoldenPath is our own Fountain of Youth. It synergizes and illuminates all sacred systems without the need for refutation. It is self-liberating as it is self-affirming, and divinely re-awakening from the core of our being. It is a ‘homecoming’ invitation to plumb the depth of our unique Genius—in ways not possible before without fathoming our personal hologenetic profile. I am deeply grateful to the immeasurable generosity and perseverance of Richard Rudd who continues gifting to humanity with transmissions for self-unshackling, with humor and with compassion for all of life dramas. We, together, can imagine and solidify this newborn pathway of Peace into existence—the Amazing Grace that we each carry in our hearts.