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Summary: This is not Christianity
Review: Marion asserts that all "prayer, Bible study, preaching, fasting, music, Holy Communion or Mass, healing services, chanting, rituals, almsgiving, monasteries, convents, pilgrimages, meditation, icons, and sacraments have only one purpose--to accelerate people's growth in consciousness upwards and eventually into the nondual vision of Jesus' Kingdom" (p. 23)Christianity is at heart about honouring God and doing His will in this world. Christianity places God and His purposes at the centre of the universe. Humanism places man and HIS development, desires and wishes at the centre of everything. Marion is clearly in the latter camp if he can say that the whole purpose of prayer is to accelerate one's growth in consciousness. The whole purpose of prayer is to honour God and to hear what He wants for our lives - which includes denying ourselves (read Paul). This is bogus Christianity that places man at the centre of the universe. If you accept this you have swallowed a subtle lie of the enemy, that will lead you further and further from the truth.
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Summary: Very interesting book
Review: There are things in this book that struck me as very profound. Other things struck me as strange and unbelievable. But everything was interesting, and over the last couple of years I find myself going back to it again and again.
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