posted December 08, 2004 04:25 PM           

Who's read it?

I just finished it. I had ordered it years ago and forced myself through the first two chapters, put it down and never picked it back up, until the other night. I skipped the first few chapters and read the rest of it. Parts of it are a little too scientific for me. Very interesting, but hard to wrap my brain around certain parts of it. Like when he gets into the physics of it all. I definitely recommend it though.

Here's part of a review:

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Bentov then describes the quantity and quality of consciousness; he sees all consciousness as evolving to the ‘absolute’ which is the source of all consciousness.

Matter, being made of quanta of energy, is the vibrating, changing component of pure consciousness.The absolute is fixed, manifest, and invisible. Ours, then, is a vibratory reality – from sub-nuclear to atomic, to molecular to macro-levels – everything is producing “sound”.

Realities are relative, dependent on the position and state of the observer. Bentov says that we all know the human reality, but most of us do not know that human consciousness can be taught to expand and learn how to interact with the whole spectrum of realities. He says that he hopes to show that realities are states of consciousness.

He describes a set of bodies (astral, mental and casual) made of higher harmonics than the physical body which interpenetrate our physical body, and which allows us to interact on different levels of consciousness.

Bentov also says that our brains do not produce thoughts, but are devices for amplifying thoughts. He says that our soul or psyche acts as a bridge between the material body and the spirit, we also have a higher self which is the spiritual us, and that all higher selves are connected and are in constant communication.

Bentov also describes a model of the universe as a closed universe that forms an elongated hollow torus. He says that human psyches form an interference pattern with psyches of all other consciousness in the universe.

Our physical bodies are four-dimensional electromagnetic holograms, which change in time and they are the end products and the result of the interactions of our subtle, non-physical ‘information bodies’. Bentov concludes by saying that the goal of the creator is the evolution of consciousness, that she uses the opposing forces of good and evil to stimulate evolution.

This is an unusual and interesting book, one that you will need to read a couple of times to completely grasp, but one which will help to make sense of our confusion with the world we inhabit.

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posted December 10, 2004 03:26 AM           

Interestingly the book doesn't mention Immortality per se, but he does refer to this book in it: Blueprint for Immortality by Harold Saxon Burr.

He mentions it in "The organizing fields of life" section. He wrote; "A good account of the field around living organisms is given in Blueprint for Immortality by Harold Saxon Burr."

Either of you read that one? I'm sure it's old becuse Stalking the Wild Pendulum was originally published in 1977.

posted December 13, 2004 05:26 PM           

"We like Oreos best."

posted November 15, 2010 07:11 PM         

i just read the thread...