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Holley Bishop loves bees. No, more than that: she idolizes them. She marvels at their native abilities and the momentous role these misunderstood and unjustly feared creatures have played in the development of human history. And with her book, Robbing the Bees, she succeeds in making the reader love bees, too. Take this nifty bit of information, one of countless fascinating factoids offered by Bishop in her celebration of all things bee-related: "Because of bees' starring role in the drama of pollination, we humans are indebted to them, directly and indirectly, for a third of our food supply. Visiting bees are required for the commercial production of more than a hundred of our most important crops including alfalfa, garlic, apples, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, citrus, melons, onion, almonds, turnips, parsley, sunflower, cranberries, and clover." Or how about this: "For the past decade, the American military has been testing [bees'] potential as special agents in the war on drugs and terrorism. Bees are as sensitive to odor as dogs and can be trained to buzz in on drugs, explosives, landmines, and chemical weapons." Beat that as a winning opening gambit at a cocktail party. And that ain't all. Bishop charts the evolution of honey and beeswax harvesting through the ages, gives us an up-close look inside working beehives from ancient Egypt to the present day, interviews beekeepers, quotes bee chroniclers past and present (from Charles Darwin to contemporary Florida beekeeper Donald Smiley), reveals her rather clumsy foray into beekeeping in candid detail, studies bees' impact on religion and history, and provides a selection of innovative recipes calling for honey. Through it all, Bishop never loses sight of the star if the show--the humble honey bee--or the crucial but largely unrewarded role they continue to play on our planet. And she does it with snappy prose and keen humor. Dogs be warned: if Bishop has her way, bees will be the it pet of the future, or at least less likely to die at the end of a folded newspaper next time one buzzes in through an open window. --Kim Hughes
Book Description
Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food -- for centuries the world's only sweetener -- for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousand years. Part history, part love letter, Robbing the Bees is a celebration of bees and their magical produce, revealing the varied roles of bees and honey in nature, world civilization, business, and gastronomy.
To help navigate the worlds and cultures of honey, Bishop -- beekeeper, writer, and honey aficionado -- apprentices herself to Donald Smiley, a professional beekeeper who harvests tupelo honey in the Florida panhandle. She intersperses the lively lore and science of honey with lyrical reflections on her own and Smiley's beekeeping experiences. Its passionate research, rich detail, and fascinating anecdote and illustrations make Holley Bishop's Robbing the Bees a sumptuous look at the oldest, most delectable food in the world.
Customer Reviews:
Editor Needed!.......2007-08-23
Good book if you can skip over the extraneous bits. Alot of un-necessary information. Author has interesting story to tell, but when she gets into a whole section about how the bee-keeper mistakenly painted his house some bright color of pink and there's no connection to bees here, she loses me. Book is another in my collection of 1/2 read tomes.
excellent!.......2007-02-18
an excellent bio of honey, bees, beekeeping and the role the three subjects have in history and our lives. great read.
Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey.......2007-01-13
This is one of the best books I have read. Makes me want to get a bee hive for my back yard. Very interesting facts about bees and honey. Every high school/middle school science class should read this book. I liked it so much I bought it for friends.
How sweet it is...........2006-12-16
Occasionally an engaging book doesn't conform to its title and gains from the misapplication. Bishop's is such a piece. She blends introspection, scientific inquiry, journalism, and historical research in a splendid way that the title of her bee book cannot contain. Her varied perspectives and zoom-lens segues explore not simply the "biography" of honey but also a slice-of-life examination of a hardworking, seasoned Florida panhandle beekeeper named Don Smiley. In fact, his good life with his bees is the inspiring story that anchors the book. With her sophisticated down-home manner, Bishop excels in portraying Smiley's single-minded concern for his bees, his love for the swamp, and his pride in his Tupelo honey business. With the contrasting gulf of inexperience in mind, self-deprecating Bishop conveys her own feelings toward her hive-tending gaffes.
Woven in with the confidence of Smiley and the confessions of Bishop are fascinating glimpses into bee biology and natural history. From cover to cover this book is filled with interesting details though there's really no telling where the chapters will go. Bishop touches upon the nineteenth century innovations and inventions that transformed the global flow of honey. But then we jump off of an incoming Dutch Gold truck, tour the factory in Lancaster, PA and learn how honey bear packaging was invented. Our nation's regulation problems with imported honey are explained. For good measure, we also find out about a variety of products that have more to do with bees than honey--such as bee venom, propolis, pollen and beeswax. As Bishop's hymn to all things apian comes to a close, she leaves us with a few recipes, some ancient and some modern.
All honey robbers would do well to buy this book--rob your bees but not your local bookstore. Raise a toast of mead to the author for her fine accomplishment. It's all for the best if the title of Bishop's book is strained because she has bottled up a sweet, pure product. Salud.
Buzzing with Enthusiasm for this Book! .......2006-11-06
You know, when I picked up this book, I had no idea I would enjoy it so much. I am researching for down the line when I buy a house, considering some minor beekeeping in my future and this was recommended to me by my local librarian (yea librarians!). I'm not sorry I picked this up...it's written in such an unabashed loving way that one cannot help but be as exited as Bishop and Smiley about bee's and beekeeping. I was also quite pleased to find an extensive history of bees; beekeeping, honey, and wax were a part of the book. I thoroughly enjoyed the way the story was divided between following Bishop as she discovered her own love of beekeeping, her interviews and following of Smiley on his beekeeping farm in Florida (following his rounds and seasons was very fascinating and who know it was such hard work), and finally the sections on the history. These were woven together quite well and as a whole provide the reader with a solid foundation that is also filled with love and enthusiasm for bees and their honey. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in doing a little beekeeping of their own (not as a how to, rather as a first step in becoming more familiar with the process and history of it)...heck, if you like honey, you'll probably like this book! I'll be adding a copy to my permanent library very soon!!
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From the big bang to the present and into the next millenium, The Universe Story unites science and the humanities in a dramatic exploration of the unfolding of the universe, humanity's evolving place in the cosmos, and the boundless possibilities for our future.
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wonderful book.......2007-07-26
Everyone should read this book or "universe is a green dragon" or "hidden heart of the cosmos". These powerful cosmological ideas are beautifully captured in these books.
Abject depravity.......2001-06-29
I have reconsidered my first (one star) review and it is clear to me now this book fully deserves five stars, simply because Swimme, without apology, wants to make clear his worldview. Read on...
Author Swimme zooms around the globe in commercial air transports, speaking at "earthspirit rising" conferences, telling his audiences that humanity needs to embrace the "new story" so the Earth can bloom again. He has also written to me stating that "knowledge of complex systems is crucial."
Swimme is in a predicament here. In this book, he shakes his fists at consumerism, rages against the machine, and complains about environmental degradation. Yet for whatever reasons, he does not see fit to eschew commercial air transportation and instead walk to the conferences he speaks at. It's my view Swimme can't have it both ways. He asserts that knowledge of complex systems is crucial, yet he appears comfortable that the turbofans attached to the airplanes he rides in spew a great quantity of carbon dioxide into a very complex system (the Earth's atmosphere). What other conclusion is there than this: that knowledge seems neither crucial nor has it changed Swimme's behavior. Worse, if the new story hasn't changed him, how does he expect it to change anyone else? You would think that Swimme, in all his cosmological wisdom, would lead by example. Is not Mohandas Gandhi sufficient prooftext for that?
The rest of humanity need not worry about Swimme (or worry about his fellow ecoutopians), at least as long as he doesn't have power. My frank assessment is that the great majority of utopians really don't have what it takes to change anything, including themselves. One of the easist things a person will ever do is theorize. Swimme is proof enough of that. Beyond that, it's all work. And making things work.
Nevertheless, history teaches a few utopians gain power. Then they change things a lot. One very good example is Pol Pot. Another, who I consider the quintessential utopian of the 20th century, is Joseph Goebbels. A common theme of their thinking was to posit at least one segment of humanity with derivative value. It is not surprising that Brian Swimme essentially holds true the same view, but he elevates it to a new level, as he has written: "The well-being of the Earth is primary. Human well-being is derivative." Swimme's statement is not unique to the religion he practices, as his ecoutopian friend Rosemary Radford Ruether has spoken at another "earthspirit rising" conference thus: "We need to seek the most compassionate way of weeding out people." So now, all of humanity, not merely the Jew (as in the case of Goebbels), is of derivative value.
Nevertheless, my faith in humanity to overcome this sort of evil remains steadfast: history also teaches there are two constants associated with utopians in power. First, their power always comes to an end. Second, most unhappily, the end is always very messy.
As for me, I will continue to marvel at the antiutopians. The example of Gandhi comes to mind. Now here is a guy who knew the value of walking the talk. And then there's that quintessential antiutopian, none other than Jesus of Nazareth. This guy held the value of humanity above all else. Brian Swimme, you might want to make note of that.
The universe in a wildflower........2001-05-03
"There is eventually only one story," collaborators Swimme and Berry write, "the story of the universe. Every form of being is integral with this comprehensive story. Nothing is itself without everything else. Each member of the Earth community has its own proper role within the entire sequence of transformations that have given shape and identity to everything that exists" (p. 288). Beginning 15 million years ago (p. 7), THE UNIVERSE STORY follows the universe "from its original Flaring Forth through the shaping of the galaxies, the elements, the Earth, its living forms, the human mode of being, then on through the course of human affairs during the past century" (p. 241). The product of its writers' "imaginative power as well as intellectual understanding" (p. 237), this book "is not the story of a mechanistic, essentially meaningless universe, but the story of a universe that has from the beginning has [sic] its mysterious self-organizing power that, if experienced in any serious manner, must evoke an even greater sense of awe than that evoked in earlier times at the experience of the dawn breaking over the horizon, the lightning storms crashing over the hills, or the night sounds of the tropical rainforests, for it is out of this story that all of these phenomena have emerged" (p. 238).
This superb book shows that the universe acts "in an integral manner" (p. 26), everything in the universe existing for everything else (p. 263). For plants and animals, "the universe is a chorus of voices" (p. 42). We are told, for instance, "the winds speak to the butterfly, the taste of the water speaks to the butterfly, the shape of the leaf speaks to the butterfly and offers guidance that resonates with the wisdom coded into the butterfly's being" (p. 42). Similarly, we can "climb a mountain and get hit by something so profound, at so deep a level," that we will never be quite the same (p. 41). For humans, "the adventure of the universe depends upon our ability to listen" (p. 44) to "the mountain language, river language, tree language, the language of the birds and all animals and insects, as well as the languages of the stars in the heavens" (p. 258). We also learn Walt Whitman's sentience was "an intricate creation of the Milky Way, and his feelings are an evocation of being, an evocation involving thunderstorms, sunlight, grass, and death. Walt Whitman is a space the Milky Way fashioned to feel its own grandeur" (p. 40).
The moral of this STORY is that the Earth is "a one-time endowment" (p. 246). Through the destruction of the rainforests at the rate of an acre a day, by disturbing the chemical balance of the planet through petrochemicals, through genetic engineering, and through the "radioactive wasting of the planet," we are "eliminating the very conditions for renewal of life in some of its more elaborate forms" (pp. 246-7). "As the natural world recedes in its diversity and abundance, so the human finds itself impoverished in its economic resources, its imaginative powers, in its human sensibilities, and in significant aspects of its intellectual intuitions" (p. 242). This celebration of the unfolding universe will change the way you look at life.
G. Merritt
Sweeping Thoughts, Bad Conclusions.......2000-11-23
Brian Swimme sure knows how to put it all together. This book purports to be the story, or history, of the Universe. It is absolutely amazing in its scope. The book attempts to tie up everything that has ever happened in any form of existence into one tight narrative. This is possible, according to Swimme, because everything is interconnected, it is a coherent one. Nothing happens without everything else feeling its effect.
Needless to say, the book is heavy with physics and philosophy. The book starts out with the Big Bang and ends with today. Along the way Swimme shows how all things are built on what has come before. This is his big thesis behind the story, that the Universe is not a cyclical set of events, but a series of epic transformations. When viewed in this light, events begin to fit into place. Massive changes occur that everything after builds upon, and which could not have existed if that shift hadn't occurred in the first place. Human history also has undergone these fundamental shifts, in thought as well as geographical movements. These shifts are one way in which the Universe expands and expresses itself in reality.
There are some deep thoughts in this book. Swimme says that Walt Whitman's poetry, and the feelings behind it, are, "an intricate creation of the Milky Way, and his feelings are an evocation of being, an evocation involving thunderstorms, sunlight, grass, history, and death. Walt Whitman is a space the Milky Way fashioned to feel it own grandeur." Deep stuff.
Though the book is well written and expresses a deep intelligence, there are alarming statements in the book that show the ideological underpinnings of the authors. I first heard about Swimme when I read Kenn Kassman's book "Envisioning Ecotopia", which studied the Green movement in the United States. Swimme is an acolyte of the Deep Ecology movement, a belief system that posits a rejection of the industrial system we know today so that mankind can return to the days of Neolithic life. This book makes several telling statements that conform to this wacky belief system. While discussing the ultimacy of nature, Swimme discusses how all things on Earth must have communion with every other thing. Therefore, in the example Swimme gives, when a group of woodpeckers from a different region move into a new one, they must conform to the new area, or perish. When this is applied to the real world, we see that this isn't happening. In America today, there is no communion. Communion is frowned upon, while "multiculturalism" and "diversity" rule the roost.
Swimme also buys into the Mystical Deep Ecology belief of Ecofeminism, where women should be in charge of everything, just like the old days when humanity worshipped "Mother Earth". This raises the ugly spectre of Charlene Spretnak, an author who is the main theologian of this ideology. Spretnak is even cited in the bibliography as a source for this material. Using this wingnut's material seriously undermines Swimme's arguments.
What's so bad about being ecologically minded? Nothing if it's done responsibly. But these people are anything but responsible. Take this statement found on page 243 of this book, "The well-being of the Earth is primary. Human well-being is derivative." Enough said.
Swimme also believes that the world has lost its relationship with nature. Maybe so, but his argument that humans should return to the Neolithic Age is ridiculous. Swimme says that by industrializing, we have lost touch with the good old ways. By the use of the term "good old days", Swimme must be referring to starvation, disease and early death. While these things still exist today, it is nowhere near the levels it reached under Swimme's glorious "neolithic" days.
This book is well written and contains many mind expanding statements that will make you think. His conclusions are absolutely wacko, though.
Cosmogenetic Scripture.......1999-12-06
The enthusiasm of this book is almost tangible. Describing the history of the universe in a wildly dynamic, even celebratory style, authors Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry evoke emotions of awe at the story of cosmogenesis, an awe that high school students don't always feel when reading science texts. It captures a beauty that microbiologists behold when focusing an electron microscope on a chromosome, that poets experience when describing a rose, and that astrophysicists feel when listening a distant pulsar. This novel is the scripture of science.
Religion sometimes exaggerates Man's place in the Universe, while science frequently diminishes it. To my delight, The Universe Story finds a balance, reconciling the natural world and the special role humans play in it. A revelation of hope for the future, the Story calls upon humans to fulfill their special destiny: to become the first creatures conscious of themselves and their universe. This consciousness is what the stars intended when they so generously erupted tens of millions of years ago, relinquishing their matter to the human form - for indeed, we are star stuff. Now, as we turn to our futures, may our own cosmogenetic stories reach such a climax as the explosion of a supernova! May our own stories never cease, but simply continue to differentiate and to commune with the original stupendous energy which exploded so many billions of years ago with a big bang! These are the stories which will captivate us all ... the stories integral to the one story, the story of the universe.
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- Details the TRUTH to life after death - TRULY AMAZING.
- Mildly entertaining gobbledygook
- Want to Learn More About Christinanity, Must Read!
- Absolutely amazing stuff.. Open your mind before you proceed
- I changed my life for better from the time I read this book.
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The Laws of Eternity: Unfolding the Secrets of the Multidimensional Universe
Ryuho Okawa
Manufacturer: Element Books Ltd
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ASIN: 1862042926 |
Customer Reviews:
Details the TRUTH to life after death - TRULY AMAZING........2006-08-16
If you have ever wondered what life is like after death but didn't know where to search for answers, then this book is definitely for you. It is written in very simple language, but the content will open your mind to something you knew in your heart existed by never learned in school (or anywhere else). This book has the special power to ease the worries in your heart and mind, and guide you to understanding the meaning of existence. Through this, your life will become more proactive and filled with motivation to be the best that you can be. There is a meaning to life and everything you do in life is not wasted as life is essentially spiritual and eternal. Life continues for eternity - which is something wonderful to know. Once we know this we cannot live meaningless lives or lives of taking, we have to live for others.
This book explains the higher dimensions (or heavenly realms) in crystal clear detail. Read it, enjoy it and let the contents fill your heart with wonder.
Mildly entertaining gobbledygook.......2004-06-03
Yet another of the many New Agey religions that are springing up in Japan like weeds these days. The big-nosed demons are good, as is the bit about what Moses is doing these days (he's busy remodeling hell), but other than that it's just run-of-the-mill rainbows-and-dolphins feelgooderism. Give it a miss.
Want to Learn More About Christinanity, Must Read!.......2000-10-23
This explains much clearer about the mystery of Christinanity. It's well-written so that anyone can read without having hard time understanding. I couldn't find this kind of book anywhere before. I learned one and the only thing we can take to the other world after death is our mind. That's why it is so important to improve ourselves in this world! Read so that you can, too learn the importance of love, knowledge, reflection, and development.
Absolutely amazing stuff.. Open your mind before you proceed.......2000-04-13
How open is your mind? Read the book from word to word and make up your mind at the end of it. Do not stop mid-way and jump into conclusion. All the Nine Dimensions World mentioned are inter-related and you need to have a complete picture. If you believe what's written in the book, you will develop a new perspective of life that makes your current living absolutely worry-free and you will begin to enjoy what you have - regardless of what it is - there is no good or bad, it is your mind that determines it.. not the "it".
I changed my life for better from the time I read this book........1999-09-29
I was surprised when I found in this book a clear and racional explanation about the structure of the "Other World". The multi-dimensional structure of the other world, the memories of past lives, the stages of enlightenment and the inhabitants of each dimension (from the fourth to the ninth), as well as how they live in their levels was an extase for me. My inner-self agreed with all the concepts and explanations of this book, and I felt the happiness we experience when we meet the Truth, which is stronger than any wordly concept or definition. I found the meaning of my life and the reason why we face many troubles and difficulties, unable to recognize why people are so different from each other...Everything lies on the Truth that we're here on Earth to train our souls and evolve, but each one of us is in an unique, personal and particular stage of enlightenment. Then, this book presented the concept of the different stages of enlightenment and love, which was the key for me to work for the improvement of my inner-self instead of complainning about others or the environment and day after day I can see and practise its concepts in my daily life, with imediate and astonishing results. Extremelly practical and positive. Great reading.
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Now What? Developing Our Future: Understanding Our Place in the Unfolding Universe
Anne Goodman
Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
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Book Description
The beauty of the stars, the planets, and other faraway objects of wonder is readily apparent, while the reason for their splendor is not. Now, there exists a source of expert advice that amateur astronomers and interested stargazers can actually understand: Unfolding Our Universe. Popular science writer and award winning author Iain Nicolson opens the world of astronomy to a wide audience. He takes readers into the heart of the Universe, clearly detailing the facts, concepts, methods, and current findings of astronomical science. This unique book strikes a perfect balance between the fundamentals of the subject and cutting-edge research. Step by step, the volume leads to a complete understanding of astronomy. Readers can access the material without referring to any mathematical principles or formulas. The well-designed text allows more ambitious readers to easily delve more deeply into key points and consult basic mathematics found within self-contained boxes. More than 100 full-color photographs beautifully and clearly illustrate all concepts. The wealth of color illustrations and very readable chapters make this book a delight for the casual reader to browse, while the clear and concise explanations will appeal to anyone with an interest in the science of astronomy. Iain Nicolson is the author or co-author of some 17 books, including The Universe (with Patrick Moore) and Heavenly Bodies. In 1995, he received the Eric Zucker Award from the Federation of Astronomical Societies (UK) for his work in popularizing the subject.
Customer Reviews:
WAY TOO MUCH.......2001-04-24
This book claims to be for a lower-level college Astronomy course. Currently, I am enrolled in a lower level astronomy course and have just completed the book. IN the early chapters the book is supurb, primarily because it relies heavily on definitions, however, further into the book (where it supplies explinations) it becomes extremely confusing. While explaining something the author will quickly spit out 3 or 4 new words which immediately leaves the reader mind boggled. I found myself reading a whole section just to have no clue what it was really trying to say. I recomend this book if you are an advanced astronomy student, yet if you are a beginer or just taking it to satisfy your science core requirment (which I am) stay lightyears away from this book. It starts off great but then throws WAY TOO MUCH at you.
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The Unfolding Universe
Patrick Moore
Manufacturer: M Joseph
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ASIN: 071812152X |
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- 3rd book in Findlay's Trilogy is the best
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The Unfolding Universe
Arthur Findlay
Manufacturer: Spiritualists' National Union Ltd
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Customer Reviews:
3rd book in Findlay's Trilogy is the best .......2007-09-05
This book forms a trilogy with 'On The Edge of The Etheric' and 'The Rock of Truth'. For those who have not read these books, the former is mostly a factual record of the author's experiments with medium John Sloane, which even to the skeptic show that many phenomena occur in the presence of genuine mediums that defy 19th century physics, but not 20th century physics. We now know that there is no such thing as a solid material object - it looks solid, as those electrons are spinning so quickly, but really an atom is mostly space. Hence the physical human form is only solid to the human eye. We too consist of mostly space, our weight being the sum total of all the protons in our bodies. It is important to keep this in mind when considering that we may have a second etheric body interfused with the physical one, which is released at death. Those who says they merely believe what they see must find the operation of their TV, radio and microwave, to give just a few examples, a mystery as they do not accept the existence of the invisible waves received or generated by these devices that full the rooms where they are sitting. In truth, what appears as space is full of elecromagnetic waves and who knows what else that is outside our limited range of perception. Consider how easily we accept invisible forces like gravity and magnetism - early physicists who rejected Newton's idea of an invisible force of gravity considered it to be too occult-like. We have seen a similar reaction to the forces encountered in Spiritualism.
The Rock of Truth is basically a comparison of Christianity and Spiritualism. Findlay first relates the history of Christianity, then the beliefs and aims of Spiritualism. Both this and the previous book I have previously reviewed in more detail.
Which brings us to this book, which covers similar ground as The Rock of Truth (which I had rated as 5 stars, but compared to this 5-starrer deserves just 4) but with far more detail. This is one of Findlay's best, covering the rise of world religion and Christianity in particular in far more detail. Included in the book is the text of the Quelle, 9 pages of Jesus' original teaching before it was added to and corrupted over the next 3 or 4 centuries, which makes interesting reading. It's all the moral and ethical teaching we are familiar with, but without claims to be the Son of God and no reference to the Trinity, the Pagan concept later grafted onto this original teaching. This is the teaching of Jesus, the religious teacher who tried to make the lives of his fellow men more bearable, and who died like we all will some day. The teaching of Christ, that mythological being who is one of the three gods believed in today by Christians, born of a virgin and dying for the sins of man, has but a feeble connection with that of Jesus. That explains why the same man could preach such messages of love on one day, and yet on another, say that 'Those who do not believe in me bring them before me and slay them.' That was not Jesus, but followers of the religion created by Paul tring to justify their slaughter of opposing Christian groups or followers of other religions.
In summary, I would strongly recommend this book, as well as book one of the Trilogy, On the Edge of The Etheric. If you've read these two, The Rock of Truth is no longer necessary reading, as most of the material is repeated in The Unfolding Universe in more detail.
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