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| Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance | 
 enlarge | Author: Simeon Hein
Publisher: Mount Baldy Press, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 483391
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 206
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0971586306
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9780971586307
ASIN: 0971586306
Publication Date: August 1, 2002
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New discoveries in physics combined with a greater awareness of extra-ordinary phenomena all around us challenge our traditional beliefs. Research into resonant viewing crop circles and extraterrestrials shows our world to be vibrant, multidimmensional, and full of mystery.
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 music of the spheres May 23, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book will blow your mind. Simeon Hein channels the ghost of Hamlet as he eloquently posits that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most of our philosophies. His meditation is a guidebook into the worlds of alternative thinking that present themselves as viable expressions of creativity and human understanding taking the reader places she or he has probably never been before, yet, oddly enough, containing landscapes that seem strangely recognizable.
Writing about the occult sciences has been popular in the tradition of European literature since the 1500s when the Oxford English dictionary defined the term as "beyond the range of ordinary knowledge". These are just such the planes of being Hein encourages us to explore in his discussions of remote viewing, crop circles, resonance, and dreaded existentialism during this era of devotion to technology.
The first chapters of the book consider the Age of Illumination mentality we have inherited and how such clockwork versions of the world can lead us to feel trapped within mental walls while timeless, organic vignettes of a deeper reality are pictured just outside the window, out of reach. What Hein as bodhisattva leads the reader towards via discussions of Abbott's Flatland, the Butterfly Effect, sociological considerations of dystopias, and the rigidity of Western thought is truly simple: reconsider what it means to know and what it is to be in this best of all possible worlds.
The later chapters require a leap of faith on the reader's part as they discuss Ufology, government sponsored psychic research programs, and the residual energy created by the formation of crop circles. He also includes an interesting personal account of his entry into the world of alternative realities. However, the author doesn't try to convince or propagandize- he merely reports the phenomena as he experiences it.
Many writers, such a Fourier, Goethe, Nerval, and Strindberg have sought such fruitful, Orphic realms for the expression of the mind's untapped creativity. It is interesting to note that upon this reviewer's reading, several nights of extremely lucid dreaming occurred.
"Opening Minds" is essential reading for anyone who is fascinated by the topics it covers and who appreciates a writer who is in touch with the Jungian collective unconsciousness at a very deep, soulful level.
Hard Facts or Heresy? September 30, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Crop circles demonstrating natural superconductor properties -- individuals accessing unlimited amounts of information by tapping into unseen resonant frequencies -- the possibility that extraterrestials are walking among us -- Dr. Hein's book "Opening Minds" offers credible scientific evidence in support of these claims. Aptly named, "Opening Minds" has expanded my way of thinking by awakening me to a multiverse of constantly vibrating, invisibile subtle energies that are the very building blocks of our existence.
Strong on Thinking and Cross-Fertilization, Weak on Photographs and Illustrations March 15, 2006
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
Do yourself a favor and buy "Vital Signs: A Complete Guide to the Crop Circle Mystery and Why It is NOT a Hoax" by Andy Thomas. The superb collection of color photographs from many times and places there will peak your interest and inoculate you from losing interest in this book, "Opening Minds," which you should read AFTER enjoying "Vital Signs." See also my review of "Vital Signs" for points I will not repeat here.
This book, while weak on photographs and illustrations, is stronger on thinking and cross fertilization. I drew three points out of it:
1) Humans are barely scratching the surface of what they can do with their full conscious and sub-conscious powers. Our culture has literally destroyed much of our inherent talent for thinking and intuiting and remote viewing and sub-conscious communications.
2) There is, according to this author, and I for one believe him, clear evidence that remote viewing, when focused on extra-terrestrial targets (e.g. Martian Scientists), appears to open channels for receiving from those extra-terrestrial targets, direct sub-conscious inputs and assistance.
3) Finally, that crop formations, both those that humans make and those that seem to appear as gigantic beacons to some form of intelligence viewing the Earth from afar, are a focal point where a blending of different energies take place--magnetic fields, light fields, thought fields.
I put both these books down in a pensive mood. There is so much that is going wrong with the world, and yet there is so much that could be gotten right if we just harnessed the distributed intelligence of everyone, including the five billion poor at the bottom of the pyramid. We are--despite our millions of years of so-called development as a species--evidently at the 2nd grade level, still pooping in our crib, throwing tantrums, spilling food and breaking things. One can only gasp at the potential of the human species if it ever "grew up."
These are both serious and very worthwhile books to buy and read.
My mind was opened January 24, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was impressed by the new thoughts I had after reading Hein's book. The book starts by suggesting that our longheld cultural notion of time might be obscuring a more accurate view of reality. The book made me realize just how deeply our society's agreements about the idea of time affect our lives.
By juxtaposing a strong discourse about the philosophy of time with the other, non-traditional subjects of the book, the book lead me to question and then redesign many of my daily activities in a way that brought about immediate improvements in my life such as being more relaxed and productive in a variety of activities.
Hein's book is clearly not a self-help book, and yet the ideas are so profound and so skillfully presented that they can have a great positive affect on one's life. Aside from that, I found it to be good fun, and ended up reading it twice.
 a disappointment October 3, 2005
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
I found a few of his ideas to be interesting - but it was mostly a rehash of already printed ideas....and some ideas were outlandish
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