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Joined EzineArticles on Dec 12, 2008 Deep Truth: Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate by Gregg Braden
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: December 28, 2011
Braden clearly summarizes our current position in the world and suggests how we can improve our future for 2012 and beyond. He presents Six Deep Truths that solve personal and world problems if we accept them and states Five Major Crises confronting us.
Jerusalem Maiden by Talia Carner
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: July 18, 2011
The story of Esther, living in Jerusalem in the early 1900s, takes us into the lives of the Jewish people adhering to strict rules at a time when the plight of the women was to have as many children as possible to provide more Jews to populate the area. Esther rebels against such a future, wanting to be an artist after realizing her talent.
Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne
Book Reviews: Westerns • Published: July 14, 2011
I am impressed with Hearne's knowledge of magic. As with the first book in this series, Hounded, this fantasy, is intriguing as the hero, a 2000 year old Druid living in present day Arizona, fights evil forces.
The Mayan Prophecies: 2012 - The Message and The Vision by Gerald Benedict
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: June 7, 2011
This book describes the 21 Prophecies that Benedict has drawn from a variety of sources, mainly from the Chilam Balam Books. I will comment on the ones most relevant to 2012. Please note that these Prophecies do not predict the end of the world.
An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of an Authentic Life by Mary Johnson
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: June 6, 2011
Mother Teresa is such an intriguing and mystifying figure who suffered with self-doubts, as revealed in recent books, so the idea of finding out more about her from a sister of her Missionaries of Charity is appealing. The book was not disappointing, as Mother Teresa is seen as perhaps a more real person than in other books. She is not diminished in this view; she only seems more larger than life and holy.
Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secret of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012 by C. Barrios
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: June 2, 2011
Barrios is a member of the Guatemalan Elders Council and a Mayan Priest. He writes of his experiences with two Mayan leaders: Don Pascual - a leader of the Eagle clan and Don Isidro - a Mayan ruler. According to Barrios, 2012 is the beginning of a change of consciousness, a time when peace and harmony can exist during this next stage of evolution. The Mayan view is that we have forgotten what is most important in our lives: to balance the material and spiritual.
The Mayas and the Significance of 2012
Self Improvement: Spirituality • Published: June 2, 2011
As we approach 2012, we care about the Mayas because 1) they predicted that the sunrise of the solstice sun on December 21, 2012 marks the end of a cycle of precession at which time an alignment of the Sun and the center of the Milky Way occurs; this happens only every 26,000 years, and 2) their Long Count calendar ends on that same date, which some people interpret as the end of the world; the Mayas, however, did not predict such an ending. Precession and the Long Count Precession...
Jesus Potter Harry Christ: The Fascinating Parallels Between Two Literary Figures by Derek Murphy
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: May 16, 2011
The author spends more time promoting the facts of Jesus as a literary figure than discussing Harry Potter, but he clearly makes his point. Both Jesus Christ and Harry Potter had miraculous births, childhood miracles, and miraculous powers; battled with evil; were sacrificed in death with a rebirth or resurrection; and dealt with the symbolism of seven, Jesus in the Seven Seals of the Book of Revelation and Harry with his seven magical tasks in Books 6 and 7.
Healing Through the Akashic Records by Linda Howe
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 30, 2011
This is as important a book to read as Howe's first book How To Read the Akashic Records. While her discussion on healing sacred wounds is important, I will focus my comments on the three main keys she suggests in the last part of her book: Gratitude, Grace and Generosity.
The Superbeings by John Randall Price
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 30, 2011
Price suggests we are here as humans for one purpose: to find our way back to God. He provides ways to do this. This is a classic in the spirituality/metaphysical library, a book as relevant today as when it was published in 1981. I continue to be amazed, and I guess I shouldn't, that we knew so much over 20 years ago. While new information comes to light each year, and we find new tools to help, there is a validity and truth in this book.
Mercurius: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth by Patrick Harpur
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 25, 2011
Ambiguity is the real story here. Alchemy's history is provided, but what I most responded to was the entrance into a world where nothing is as it seems, where all is uncertain and unclear. The "marriage of heaven and earth" relates to the union of the above and below, as in the universal, "As above, so below."
Entangled: The Eaters of Souls by Graham Hancock
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 18, 2011
This is a bloody and brutal story but exciting. Two main female characters' lives are intertwined - Leoni in the 21st century and Ria in prehistoric Spain of 24,000 years ago. As Leoni experiments with drugs, she is drawn into the world of Ria who is fighting for her life and that of her tribe. Enter the world of other dimensions and of one's of one's past.
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 18, 2011
In this book, Hancock is asking us to see with different eyes. From cave art to fairies to shamanic activities to UFOs, he presents an intriguing possibility that other dimensions may exist and that the beings encountered are, as suggested in his subtitle, not physical beings but ancient teachers helping in our spiritual evolution.
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Graham Hancock
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 17, 2011
What if there were civilizations much earlier than any previously recorded, ones preceding the flooding and before the Ice Age melt down. Hancock discusses the current history of human civilizations, but he also provides much evidence to show that new discoveries may deviate from the standard accepted facts.
The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy for Mankind by Graham Hancock and R Bauval
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 1, 2011
What is the message of the Sphinx? The statue remains a mystery, but a puzzle with new insights. Is the statue older than the conventional wisdom of about 2500 BCE? Could it have been gazing at the sky as early as 10,500 BCE, which was the time of the Age of Leo and when the statue faced directly east at the constellation of Leo and when the pyramids of Giza form a precise map of the three stars in Orion's Belt?
One: Enhancing Life and Illuminating Your Spirit by Kimble Greene, PhD
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 1, 2011
Greene also presents a mental health aspect that I found intriguing, and new to me - the idea that defensive mechanisms in a young child, or an adult, may be healthy ones providing a positive way of dealing with a trauma in life. Isn't it interesting that, in many arenas, old ideas have value?
The Children of the Law of One and The Lost Teachings of Atlantis by Jon Peniel
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 1, 2011
What is a Spiritual Path? A spiritual path leads to Universal Consciousness and Unselfish Love and has a spiritual, not material, focus.
Advanced Energy Anatomy by Caroline Myss
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 1, 2011
Caroline Myss is a great storyteller, irreverent with no sympathy for those who wallow in self-pity. Perhaps we can listen to her advice that forces us to see ourselves and our lives clearly with no excuses.
The Shack by William P Young
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 1, 2011
The story is riveting in parts but, despite my strong spiritual leaning, I thought the personification of God as a character named "Papa" was overly sentimental, inappropriate and hard to believe, even in a novel. The main character is a man whose daughter is kidnapped by a serial killer and relays his journey coming to terms with that horrific loss.
Walking Through Walls: A Memoir by Philip Smith
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: March 1, 2011
Philip Smith's father, Lew Smith, was a healer and psychic in Miami in the 1980s. This memoir reminds us of some of the unusual activities that happen to real people. Among other things, Lew Smith healed people using techniques that he developed, often using the pendulum. We forget how many very talented people exist with such unusual healing and otherworldly abilities.
Journey of the White Robes: An Aquarian Adventure by Fred Jenning Rogers
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: February 28, 2011
This is story of visiting other dimensions by a young couple who is being trained to help back on earth. They learn to orb and travel, assuming any shape while becoming comfortable on other levels.
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: February 10, 2011
I read this book because I was interested in the Olmecs in Central American, who were the forerunners of the Maya and Aztec. There is evidence that this tribe, in fact, had the calendar of the Long Count before the Mayans, but there is no evidence that either of these peoples were sophisticated enough to have invented this calendar with the technical knowledge required. This calendar that predicts the world to end in 2012 is, obviously, receiving a great deal of attention today. I expect we will get closer to the truth of the message, which is probably not foretelling the end of the world.
Initiation by Elizabeth Haich - Remembering Priestess Initiations
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: July 26, 2010
This is an autobiographical novel, published in 1965, based on the life of Elizabeth Haich who was a well-known European yoga teacher. This is an account of her life in this century interspersed with her recollections of her life as a young priestess in Egypt.
The Tenth Insight - Holding the Vision by James Redfield
Book Reviews: Westerns • Published: June 4, 2010
In this sequel to his novel, The Celestine Prophecy in which he presents 9 insights, Redfield suggests that we need to visualize the future we want; then we can know what to pray for, what to expect. We have the choice to see the world crumbling, or we can see the future of us progressing.
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield - Another Look at This Classic
Book Reviews: Spirituality Religion • Published: June 1, 2010
Why revisit a novel published in 1993? Because the message only gets stronger in time. I'm amazed as I reread this book how much I have forgotten that was so influential. Part of the message is that we are always running in search of new material when, in fact, we have most of what we need already in our minds, and/or in our libraries to help remind us.