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The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness |
Author: Gary R. Renard
Published: 2005-01-01 |
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 The Disappearance of the Universe
After three atempts to read the book, I couldn't get through more than a third of the book without feeling dismal and depressed.
In my humble opinion Mr. Renard has written a parable instead of the truth and representing it as the truth. I even felt some of his statements were contradictory to The Course In Miracles. Also, Gary's conversatin had the exact same tone, attempt at humor, and style as Pursah and Artem. I am not convinced for a second that this actually happened to him. Lots of people can say God spoke to them. Example - George W. Bush believes God is guiding him. As one learns in The Course In Miracles, the ego can take many forms.
 Classical Advaita Vedanta in New Age format
I am not a big believer in mediumship or angelic revelations but this work, even if it might be purely a fiction, seems to have been written with a lot of thought and imagination. It does have some trappings of New Age and that is why I reserve a bit of healthy skepticism.
What made me a bit wary was the claim of this book that Thomas was killed in India. This seems to be retelling of a popular myth as the contemporary biblical scholarship, both secular and religious, now discounts this story as apocryphal. The fellow mistaken from St. Thomas was actually Thomas of Cana , a Persian merchant who escaped to India with other Christian refugees in 4th century CE. I was wondering if Purusa was real St. Thomas she would have still made this claim about St.Thomas' death in India, a claim which is now known to be spurious, based on a mistaken identity.
Having said that there is a lot in this work that is thought provoking. It is basically retelling of classical Hindu philosophy of Advaita , or Non-dualism, in a New Age format.
For a more orthodox and time-worn reading of non-dualism philosophy the reader is advised to refer to the works of Adi Shankara, the 8th century Indian mystic who reconciled Buddhism and Hinduism. Another classical Hindu work that comes to mind, which contains the same exposition in a much more comprehensive manner, is "Yoga Vashishtha". A more contemporary and Christianized, and yet somewhat conservative and orthodox, reading and practice of his philosophy is also available from Self-Realization Fellowship founded by Paramhamsa Yogananda, the author of Autobiography of a Yogi.
The present work refers back to Course on Miracles, a work I am not very familiar with but would definitely like to check out after listening to this work. On the whole, I recommend this book but with a little caution however.
 Serious Seekers Only
I have read this book three times, and keep it handy to read excerpts.
For those people who really understand that the concepts of The Course In
Miracles are very important, but can't seem to commit to the time to
do the serious study necessary, this book makes it all clear. I am so
grateful for this book. It has changed my life. With sincere appreciation of Gary Renard, thank you. A. Marie Eichelberger
A master piece for spirital enlightment.
I had been searching all my life for something,and that something seems always out of my reach. My life's seem so unfulfilled no matter how much material-well I got I still always felt hallowed inside. I bought ACIM in 1999,tried to read it, but couldn't get it. Not until after I read DU and listened to the CDs by Gary Renard that I started to understand the message Jesus sent to us through ACIM. Now I am proud to be a student of the Holy Spirit, and try to forgive every person or event that upset me on my everyday mundane life. Most of the time I succeed and when that happened I felt the Love Of God in me. Thank you,Gary! Thank you for being born in this time fame with us.
never received it
i never got this book, if the postal service was a fault i understand this but the seller never even returned my emails till the 4th one! he said he only opens his mail on weekends.i won't buy used books from amazon again.
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