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Summary: preaching to the choir
Review: I found myself data mining this book. That is the process of reading in order to collect quotes, to get pieces of information to store or to use in other venues. I don't often fall into this mistake with books, i try to be careful and take the writing in a open spirit and grasp what the author is trying to say. This data mining breaks the connection between an author and a reader, i don't like it. Why it happened is the weakness of the book, it is truely preaching to the choir. It assumes such a relationship with the world that if you are unaware, or unable to practice the author's particular style of spiritual discipline that the book becomes disjoined.Certainly he is not intending it that way. He tries carefully to set the groundwork for his spiritual practices, but like he says, they are things to be done, not things to be thought. And that's what makes the book an excellent place for data mining. He is aware of much spirituality and sees the interconnection of modern science, especially leading edge physics to this spiritual realm. So that you are able to get much information out of the book, without participating in the author's real desire, his real reason for writing the book. The author desires, deeply and sensitively, for the reader to follow him into another realm of contemplative spiritual awareness. He has a well written chapter about the need for good competent guides into the field, so he knows a book is not sufficent, but he tries as this is really the only chance he has to help you into his world. And i am sorry to say that this is not enough to help me see or understand the deeper things he proposes in the book. However that said, it is a good book, tone and stylistically superior to much in the field, dominated as it is by unreadable and unfollowable junk. Maybe it is simply that the spiritual, the comtemplative requires a guide who can interact and see where you are in the journey and tailor the message to you. There are many nuggets and pieces to held in the mind and added to your database of thought. For this alone it is worth the time, knowing that since your aren't a member of his choir you are really missing the true meaning and significance of the book. thanks for reading this review, i hope you get more out of it than i did, but don't let my failure discourage you from trying. You perhaps are on a journey more like his and his words might very well inflame your contemplative passions, for i can see them in him, i just can't feel the heat of them. richard williams
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Summary: The excellent book for anyone having sceintific background.
Review: this book is among the best which compares mysticism with science. the logic of correlation is simply superb. the author has done a quite good survey and has very good insight. thanks for writing such an excellent book.
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Summary: =U N I T Y=
Review: This is VERY well thought out book about knowing the Ultimate Reality. Mysticism and Physics are both aiming for it, that same Universal Truth. But it can be found through contemplative meditation. This helps me alot in my Baha'i views, not just in uniting God and his religions, but science and religions. They are all varied and vast sides of a mountain with but one peak. That peak is not just some supreme being, but being itself. God is his creation, but not just that. (i.e. not pantheism) True "perfect" mystics all know the same pristine reality that is viewed as something different by the sectarian religions that stem from it. This is also parallel to Baha'i beliefs in the Divine Manifestations all emanating from the one united God. Everything is unity. There are alot of other scientific and philosophical issues looked at by the author. From Quantum Cosmology and the Big Bang to clearing up free will and determinism, at the same time connecting it to Karma. Though this does not answer each and every question you'll have of the Ultimate Truth (it didn't for me atleast, there is stuff that I wish I could ask the author), its perspective is a key to your universal understanding, and that would be: monism. This book is a good choice as your first step back home: divine Light and Unity. O, yea, and its pages are riddled with beautiful verse from a perfect mystic--Rumi. His message is one that you will find uplifting. =¤)
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