Too New Age to be anything newJuly 27, 2008 This book has great reviews, and I can't for the life of me see why. It's not a terrible book, of course, it hits a lot of the same ground that most new age books do. But it came so highly recommended to me that I was terribly dissappointed to find so much rehashing of worn out material. The book has good points, but nearly each one is outweighed by negative points. Example:
Positives:
The book is well written. It gives good examples to illustrate it's subjects.
Negatives:
There are so many examples that the substance of each lesson is all-but lost in the meandering illustrations making it hard to read. I felt the rare urge to skip ahead, something I never do. But in this case it was all but irresistable.
I don't want to belittle the text since so many people find it useful and enjoyable. But I do want to give fair warning. If you know anything about auras, chakras, astral projection, and similar subjects, you are unlikely to learn much that is new here. And the presentation of this material is handled far better in the works of people like Robert Bruce.
All you need to know!March 4, 2008 This book explains in detail how to practice metaphisics, astral projections, spiritual contact, etc. I have tried some of them with great results. Great book.
You ForeverMay 21, 2007 Great book, recomended to all on the path, a must have, brings into focus the things we should know, wonderful.
Metaphysical readingFebruary 23, 2006 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been reading this author for over 30 years and I still find his books as fascinating now as I did then. This book and others by this author encourage the reader to interpret and adapt the material to their own way of living. It is also written for the Western reader in an easy to read style.Encourages the reader to explore their own spirituality without heavy handed axioms.
Awesome Book on Tantric Buddhist and Occult ThoughtFebruary 15, 2005 14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is an awesome book on Tantric Buddhism and the occult under Buddhist thought, one grid of measurement in the sea of beneficial blueprints to view humanity and reality under. In this T. Lobsand Rampa goes into the idea of human body and the atomistic view in its relation to smaller and higher forms of matter, the etheric and magnetic fields, the aura and it's colors, the wave fields of telepathy, clairvoyance and psychometry along with other waves of of existence in all matter.
Written as a mail order course combined into a book format, lessons are conveyed on how to understand and read the auric sheath, it's colors, the ability to see the etheric and aura fields, escaping the limitations of the body through meditative practices beyond thought and conceptual thinking, intuitively feeling existence. In this are out of body auric experiences, the auric body travel while dreaming while attached by a psychic silver cord. How life as we know it is a school of suffering for growth towards higher existence beyond our incarnations of existence through reincarnation.
In order to grow psychically, one has to leave the highs and the lows of thinking in moodiness of euporhia and depression to that of the sound stable waves of inner composure and calmness. Our minds consist of electrical waves when kept level and balance exist for us in an inner peace with calm faith in the universal laws of karma where we can maintain a peaceful inner existence which induces our psychic abilities of telepathic hearing, clairvoyant visions and the psychometric ability to feel the vibrational frequencies of history in objects, places, things and people. And there is reading the Akashic Record which contains the knowledge of all history.
And T. Lobsand Rampa expounds on the act of giving, forgiving and letting go of anger and fear. This includes practices of breathing and balance of non-thinking that lets go of anger and emotional turmoils. To continue fear anger and anxiety is to run an engine in lower gear going the same speed.
There is mentioned self-hypnosis to the subconscious, to train our minds to do as we wish. The wisdom is in living in a peaceful state of kindness, tolerance, understanding and balance beyond all the petty concerns of the physical competition, of the constant clinging and aversions of the materialistic and ignorant. Generosity, agape, tithing to your causes are essential. I really enjoyed these spiritual principles. It makes me smile at the ignorance of the monotheists and Christians that condemn the occult, while these teachings endorse the only acts of receiving are through giving, an attitude and life of service to others.
There are no doctrines, no religious dogmas, but the endorsement to let people have their own philosophies, religions and doctrines, unless of course the reader is dogmatic about these teachings or any other he or she reads.
