Galactic Pot-Healer

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What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.

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My favourite author, but I'll try not to gush too much.......2006-12-10

What's extraordinary about Philip K Dick is that while he often has his characters (even a robot in this book) discuss theological ideas and quote poetry, he is rarely accused of being pretentious. It never feels like he does it to make his own ideas or characters seem deeper than they are, maybe because every page is filled with ideas that could only come from Philip K Dick. This also explains why he can write such plainspoken prose that's still unmistakably him. First his ideas are plausible yet inventive and ahead of their time. I saw an ad the other day for a phone number you can SMS words to and get a reply with a dictionary definition of the word that you SMSed. This is reminiscent of the dictionary and encyclopedia hotlines in Galactic Pot-Healer. But the spin PKD puts on this simple, plausible idea is more ingenious than the idea itself. In the book the technology is supposedly expensive, so the government has put a quota on how many times you can call the encyclopedia robot per day; in other words, a technology that should have made information easier to get at has restricted it. Think of the internet restrictions in China for a real world illustration of this irony. But don't think too long, because PKD has a million more ideas to throw at you, which also makes this novel fast paced with the perfect balance between depth and a sense of fun. The only thing that prevented me from awarding five stars was a weird digression about the lead having believed that robots were impossible after he talked with robots on the phone in the beginning. Also the ending... While not as gloomy as I expected from other reviews and the buildup in the novel itself, it's unusual to come across a down ending that seems tacked on, but this one did.

I've never kippled..........2005-01-25

Surrealism, absurdity, dadaism, abstraction. The twentieth century gave us plenty of words to describe the movement in art that eschewed normal dedication to order and jumbled together randomness, or at least stuff that might look random. Detractors argue, of course, that anyone can throw together nonsense. And they're right, of course. But it takes a genius to produce good nonsense.

Joe Fernwright works as a healer of ceramic pots in a huge androgynous office complex in Cleveland. Business is slow, especially since ceramic pots have been outlawed in favor of plastic. To make matters worse, the government forces its citizens to dream about the glories of Che Guevera, inflation is diminishing his earnings, and he gets only limited use from telephone diciontaries and encyclopedias. Joe is almost ready to give up when someone badly in need of pot-healing services starts dropping messages in his toilet. After this mysterious benefactor transports him inside a crate, which he learns about by means of a radio show, Joe joins dozens of others on a galactic quest to Plowman's Planet where an enormous liquid (maybe) entity called Glimmung wishes to raise a gigantic cathedral from the depths of Mare Nostrum. Or possibly Hell. After that things really get strange.

Of course, as with Douglas Adams or Neil Barrett there's much more at work here than pure silliness. The insanity is all being carefully orchestrated so as to make us think about the big questions of redemption, indivdiualism, determinism, death, purpose, and many others besides. And the philosophy in turn gives way to yet more insanity, such as when Joe argues with a computer over whether Glimmung's arch-nemesis' victims are sitting ducks or sitting hens.

Phillip K. Dick obeyed few of the rules that any beginning writer is told to follow. But time and again, when we read his works we see his shrewd insight cutting effortlessly through the morass of modern thought. Consider at the start where Joe and other bored office drones play "The Game", which consists of running English phrases through a compujterized translator to Japanese and then back to English, and then trying to figure out the original phrase from the result. Absurd, no? Except that in our modern world, thanks to the wonder of the internet, many folks actually play such games with the Babblefish program, and often with hilarious results. That's Phillip K Dick for you. Don't laugh too hard at his notions, because they might get sneaky and come true.

Let me put in my 2 crumbles worth...here goes...;).......2004-11-02

This book is difficult to describe. Although it is found in the SF shelf, I wouldn't be able to label it as SF, pure and composite. This one falls in the PKD theological mind frame novels. It's like the softer shade of what was to come in VALIS. The other funny thing is that this novel borders on the flimsy line, one side of which, it could be called the classic PKD theological-SF which we come to expect of PKD and on the other side could as easily be labeled as some kind of weird otherworldly fairy tale with shades of fantasy. Just because there are ET's, spaceships and otherworldly planets doesn't make it SF, neither does this one really fit as fantasy, because pure and simple it is not fantasy. So what is this novel...hard to describe. From my recent research and interest in PKD, I feel, that this novel says something deeper than just a different kind of so-called SF story. Funnily PKD in the classic book, which I recommend to everyone, says in one of his interviews at an SF meeting, that SF stories don't need to have a moral. Although this story doesn't have a moral, but it tries to say something about GOD, or at least something akin to GOD. So does PKD contradict himself here? A message or real word meaning is very close to a moral.

Background on the story: There is a planet called Plowman's Planet which is inhabited by just one being called "The Glimmung" which among other things, weighs 10,000 tons, is very large and can fall 10 floors down to the basement. It can take quite a few shapes. At most times it looks like a hoop of fire and a hoop of water, at right angles to each other, each rotating about its own axis, with a face of young girl in the 3D center of both hoops with a floating shawl, hovering behind the twin hoops, I'd be freaked out if I men some thing like that. Plowman's planet was first inhabited by humorously named "The Fog things of antiquity" after which the only indigenous species which remained on Plowman's planet were the spiddles, wubs, wejes, klakes, trobes, and printers. Also on the whole planet there is only one book ever published and which keeps getting published. You can get many copies of it and the book keeps changing everyday, but there is essentially only one book called the book of Kalends written by the Kalends, which are like dark shadows who watch over you and can predict the future. So the future is essentially written in the book and the future keeps getting updated in the book so you can book the updated versions, as the kalends keep adding stuff.

There is only one Glimmung on Plowman's planet and this Glimmung summons the best people in their own fields, from different sol systems of the universe to this planet to partake in a very important mission which involves the "Raising of the cathedral" called Heldscalla which has sunk to the bottom of the oceans of Plowman's planet, where all things decay and rot. Glimmung along with the rag tag group of flipping and flolloping members, which includes a human member, Joe Fernwright have to succeed in the mission of restoring the Heldscalla to it's original glory, that is bring it to land and remove the decay that it has undergone by being in the dead ocean of Plowman's planet where all things rot and decay. Joe Fernwright is a pot healer, his specialty being ceramic pots and there are probably lots of those which need restoration when Heldscalla is raised and since most of those pots will be in bad condition, in comes the job requirement for Joe.

Joe is a low lifer and earth has becomes commercially so unstable with relation to galactic trade that the monetary worth of terran currency oscillates from a little to a zilch within the duration of one day. Basically it's as volatile as the stock market. And the people on earth have become poor and without enough jobs live like rats in a police state and while away their times playing strange word games. This involves, basically, submitting an English phrase converted to Japanese by language supercomputers and then reconverting it back to English, creating a wholly different phrase than the actual source phrase. So it's like solving a riddle where one offer, the reconverted phrase in English and asks for the actual source phrase before conversion.

Joe gets a job offer from Glimmung. The offer manifests itself in quite a strange manner in the form of a paper in bottle, floating in the water closet of his toilet. Joe is offered 35,000 crumbles, a crumble being the unit of currency in Plowman's planet and according to the exchange rates of the "Interplanet corn and Wheat People's collective bank", 1 crumble = 2 * 10 to the power 44 units in terran currency. Off course, just like Joe, everyone one who has been made to assemble at Plowman's planet has been offered such profitable inducements. Also there is a very humorous robot called Willis who escorts the team at Plowman's planet. This story is a very funny story. At times it feels like a very amateurish effort, because of its theme. But at the same time, we know that only PKD could have come up with the odd names, characters and the very costly crumble. I can't place this book; it is a very odd experience. The story if seen with just the external husk will have no meaning, but gathers some meaning only if you see the inner meaning of the story.

PKD here is trying to visualize GOD as essentially human and that the energy we call GOD is in each one of us. GOD listens to what all of us has to say and we can listen his talk if we are perceptive enough to pick it up; this might be our good conscience. Each and every one of us just like the characters brought by Glimmung to Plowman's planet, we too have been brought into existence because each and every one of us has a purpose for being here. Each and every one of us has skill which will further the cause and aid in that purpose.

The book is good, if you can catch that meaning with a bit of Y B Yeats, Goethe, Western classical music commentary, and Theology thrown in, in this classical concoction which only PKD could have come up with. It's quite a few crumbles worth!!!

Vikram

Science fiction as myth.......2004-06-05

In Galactic Pot-Healer, Dick's attention was more on creating a myth than on writing a novel. The characters are relatively undeveloped, and the science-fictional conceits are used rather casually as vehicles for archetypes; the work is almost a Jungian allegory. It does not lack Dick's characteristic humanizing touches, but its tendency toward myth makes it unique among his novels. It is certainly as dense with themes and ideas as any fiction he ever wrote. Joe Fernwright, the main character, is found at the beginning in an oppressive future dystopia where policemen stop people for walking too slowly, all phone calls are monitored, and everyone is programmed to have a common dream every night. He is a pot-healer; that is, he has the skill of not just mending but restoring broken pots to their exact original condition. A godlike extraterrestrial being called the Glimmung enlists him on a team made up of species from throughout the galaxy to help raise a sunken cathedral called Heldscalla on the Glimmung's home world, Plowman's Planet. From this Faustian undertaking, Joe experiences an awakening to self-knowledge. This is a story of hope and ultimately religious transcendence.

Extraterrestrial Archeology.......2004-02-01

.KD.'s secretly cerebral novel whose protagonist, an average Joe named, appropriately enough, Joe Fernwright, is a sound showcase for his usual talents. The bizarre story begins with Joe bored out of his mind at a desk job in the future-2040s, which was the future in 1963, when this book came out. Recently divorced (he half-heartedly longs for the company of his estranged wife, whose intelligence he respects), his boredom at his desk job is alleviated only by long-distance games such as guessing film titles from metaphorical rephrasings and telling jokes based on computerized translations (similar to Google's German translation program). The book's plot takes off when Joe is recruited by a huge alien intelligence known as Glimmung that uses the unusual expedient of leaving a message in the water closet of his toilet. (Later the Glimmung, on its home planet, will communicate from the bottom of the sea by means of messages on bottles.) Joe is recruited because of his expertise in ceramics and their reconstruction. The extraterrestrial monster seems to have a good heart but is intent on raising a cathedral from the bottom of the sea and reconstructing its shards, to which end the Glimmung-manifesting most reliably as two spinning rings, one of fire, the other of water, and sometimes a giant young female face-has recruited depressed and suicidal aliens (many of whose species Joe has had the privilege of eating) from all over the galaxy. The planet upon which they congregate affords Joe time for a dalliance with an ambitious humanoid female, who proves to be his confederate, along with an intelligent robot (who is funny, and has a tray table with phone built into his chest), as events unfold. The water-steeped planet has a long history of warfare and alien take-overs and is susceptible to Solaris-like manifestations, such as Joe's striking encounter, underwater, with his own future corpse. There is also the Book of the Kalends, which is said to correctly predict all future events, including Joe's destruction of the Glimmung (thus foiling the very purpose for which he was recruited to the extraterrestrial planet's surface). Tension mounts as the Glimmung's equal and opposite foe the Black Glimmung engages it a battle to the death. The foreign workers grapple with the meaning of fate, the choice between exciting danger and boring work at home, and the metaphysics of fate. At one point the Glimmung engulfs all its recruits in its own body, allowing them a closer consciousness of both each other and the entity that surrounds them-endosymbiosis with humans as the symbionts of a higher power. As always, Dick's pulp provides the commercial rationale for a mediation on evolution and metaphysics. A fun book whose alien archeology project reminds us of the preciousness of handicraft in age of mechanization.

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Philip K. Dick
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Packed into this book is a treasury of spiritual history and teaching. --St. Anthony Messenger

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Obfuscates Rather Than Clarifies An Ancient and Universal Gift.......2007-02-24

Intimacy with God is one of the most ancient and universal of all God's Gifts to humanity..Adam was always having chats with God in Genesis. We are born with that same opportunity and at any time in our lives it is ours again through pure faith and a commitment to act in love. This book with its confused and confusing graphs and charts , its elaborate rhetoric and unnecessary defenses and justifications may be very useful for scholars, retreat leaders and clergy, but it is not on the critical path for anyone simply seeking to resume Intimacy With God.

Very Enlightening book for a formerly practicing Catholic.......2005-11-11

I was one of those kids who was forced to go to church every Sunday morning whether I wanted to or not. So I'd sit in the pew, kneel, read, listen, etc... for the hour that I had to and then rejoice when I was finally able to leave that place. For me there was no meaning to what I was doing. This book actually brings spirituality to the Catholic Church, something I've long thought impossible.

Father Keating, who is one of the most spiritual people I've had the pleasure of meeting, examines the early Christian practices of Contemplative Meditation and how it can help us become connected to God once again. His research goes back to books from the first millenium of the very early Christians, as well as relies on some of the declarations made by the Second Vatican Council.

The similiarities to meditiations practiced in some of the eastern religions is pretty remarkable and these are pointed out. I have some experience with meditating and it struck me as very similiar to Mindful Meditation but there a distinct difference in that there is intent with Contemplative Meditation.

An excellent introduction to a very valuable practice.......2005-10-30

This is another excellent book from Father Thomas Keating and signifies a solid introduction to the theory and practice of Centering Prayer. I encourage anyone who has immersed themselves in any of the wonderful eastern meditational practices, but who have always longed for something similar in a Christian context, to pick this book up and give Centering Prayer a try. This recommendation, though, should in no way dissuade those whose interest and path have been exclusively Christian. For the practice of Centering Prayer, as Father Keating so aptly explains in this wonderful book, is Christian through and through. What impresses me so much about the whole Centering Prayer movement, if one can describe it as such, is that this is not sugarcoated, watered-down, or pie-in-the-sky fluff. Keating's explorations concerning the unconscious and his paradigm of Centering Prayer as Divine Therapy are critical to an understanding of our spiritual and worldly proclivities. How many of us have pondered, along with St. Paul in one of his epistles, why we continue to do those things we wish we didn't, and why we find it so difficult at times to do the things we know we should? Father Keating's expert melding of spiritual and psychological wisdom has updated a centuries-old practice to appeal to our modern era. I owe Father Keating a debt of gratitude for his excellent writings and his tireless work on behalf of Contemplative Outreach. I sincerely hope that you get as much from reading his works as I have.

An Explanation and Defense of Centering Prayer Techniques.......2004-09-02

It is my guess that people who are looking at this title are already familiar with Trappist priest Thomas Keating and his championing of centering prayer. It is also likely that people who are familiar with Keating may know something about the controversy that surrounds the man and his technique of centering prayer. Perusing some of the criticisms of his book "Open Mind, Open Heart" by some Amazon readers will highlight both the admiration many have of this man, as well as some of the controversy. While some of the objections to centering prayer have merit if centering prayer becomes just another form of meditation, this is not due to Keating's writings as much as a misreading of his works or a misunderstanding of his intentions.

In this work, Keating sets out to further explain the technique of centering prayer. While he does use some psychology in this work, it does so not contain the heavy psychological point of view that some of his other writings contain (at least not in the detail), nor does he focus too heavily on non-Christian traditions of meditation. Instead he discusses centering prayer and roots in the Christian tradition. He also offers personal reasons why this technique is so important for him, namely that he saw many people who are Christians traveling to other parts of the world searching for something that is an important part of Catholic monasticism. The book was published in the 1990's, after years of trial and error concerning the centering prayer, as well as his success at leading workshops that introduced many people to those form of prayer, and the book contains many anecdotes he learned along the way.

Keating clearly sees the importance of centering prayer as a way of connecting with God, and entering into the presence of God. While he views it as a solitary activity by its nature, he strongly suggests that people who participate in centering prayer be part of a larger faith community, and if possible a centering prayer group. He espouses spiritual direction. The book also espouses what he calls "Divine Therapy" where hurts that are deep within us can be surfaced and healed in a spiritual manner, though he is also careful to state that this is not a replacement of psychological therapy.

This book compliments Keating's other writings and can help the reader come to a deeper understanding of centering prayer and the part it can play in a Christian spirituality.

INTIMACY WITH GOD AN INTRODUCTION TO CENTERING PRAYER.......2002-12-24

INTIMACY WITH GOD by Father Thomas Keating is one of the best books I have ever read about prayer. First and foremost Father Keatings book provided me with a safe haven to feel issues that I have felt since I was an orphan as a young boy. This book gave me affirmation and insight to my feelings about not only who God is but what it means to have a personal relationship with God in a hectic world. As I read this book the little boy in me felt God's loving arms and presence surround me and I felt an inner peace and excitement in what I was reading. As a Protestant Pastor I would strongly recommend this book by Father Keating to anyone who I may meet for a brother in Christ has written a very sensitive, loving book. If one desires to have a more intimate realtionship with God and not the world then read this book. The worse thing that may happen is you may stop and think about your priorities. By the end of the book you may also be thinking about what has been missing in my life that I need? The best thing is you may feel God's loving arms and presence in your life as you read and reflect. Reflect on where is God in my life? Maybe its time to take the step and find out! God be with you.

Madame Jeanne Guyon: Experiencing Union with God Through Inner Prayer & the Way and Rescues of Union with God (Pure Gold Classics)

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The most important book on prayer.

Madame Jeanne Guyon: Experiencing Union with God Through Inner Prayer & the Way and Rescues of Union with God (Pure Gold Classics)
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2 of Madame Jeanne Guyon's best writings together in one incredible volume: Experiencing Union with God Through Inner Prayer & the Way and Rescues of Union with God

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The most important book on prayer........2003-04-28

Madame Jeanne Guyon's guide to prayer is by far the most imortant book on the subject I've ever read. I could never recommend a more useful guide to prayer.

The book is short and sweet--to the point. And although it can be read in a single sitting, you'll definately want to slow down to digest each page. In fact, that's precisely what Madame Guyon recomnmends of her readers. She teaches one of the most significant principles of prayer: felloship with God through meditating on portions of His word (the Bible). She recommends sitting down in a quiet place with your Bible and reading it slowly and carefully. And when you happen upon a particularly moving passage, slow down and dwell on that passage in a prayerful, meditative fashion.

And there is so much more here, too. Too much to mention in a brief review. It's enough to say that this classic is an irreplaceable guide. Anyone will be made better at prayer by this book. It's definately one of those books one will return to year after year, ever refreshing their spirits with the simplicity of Madame Guyon's methods of prayer.

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A goldmine of spiritual direction

Union with God: Letters of Spiritual Direction by Blessed Columba Marmion
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One of Mother Teresa s favorite books, Union with God is a collection of letters written by Blessed Columba Marmion to the many persons who sought his spiritual counsel with questions about prayer, faith, temptation, suffering, and the struggles of daily life. Marmion excelled in the art of letter-writing his advice was always simple and direct, yet profound. In his letters we see him bringing to bear his great depth of theological knowledge in a practical and human way. Union with God offers warm, practical counsel from a spiritual master whom Popes and Bishops looked to for inspiration.

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A goldmine of spiritual direction.......2007-01-21

it is rather hard to come up with a review that this book deserves. The format of the book is quite interesting. Dom Raymond Thibaut took a large number of letters used for spiritual direction written by Blessed Columba Marmion and arranged excerpts of them by topic with short introductions ranging from a sentence to a paragraph or more on the points that Marmion was writing about.

This book is pure gold. I started highlighting parts of the book when I came upon profound spiritual passages, but soon determined I would save time by simply dying the pages of the book yellow. So much of the book truly resounded with me and stayed with me throughout the day I as used this book a spiritual reading in the morning. He is able to put things so well that they really broke through to me even when I was pretty much aware of basic idea of what he was saying before. As always there is a great distance from head knowledge and truly understanding something with your heart.

Blessed Columba Marmion letters of spiritual direction included a large range of people. They were prominently addressed to women religious, but included those thinking of the religious life, those just starting religious life, and a range of people with various levels of spiritual perfection, along with heads of religious communities and married women. Regardless of where somebody was in the spiritual life Marmion was able to provide direction. His advice was always soaked with scripture and the obvious experience of a contemplative who knew the deep things of God. Marmion would advise and sometimes chastise those he corresponded with and even when he had to tell them he thought they were on the wrong path - the way he wrote it is doubtful if anybody could become angry from the loving way he wrote them.

The book contains lots of correspondence with those who were entering or living in Carmel and it was quite obvious that Blessed Marmion was quite familiar with Carmelite spirituality especially as related to the founders of the Discalced Carmelites St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila - whose words he used often. Blessed Marmion was himself a Benedictine and as fitting he also used much of the wisdom from the writings of St. Benedict along with a slew of other great spiritual writers like St. Francis de Sales.

Included in the book is a letter he wrote to the Pope in 1911 to add to the request for the cause of Servant of God for Sister Therese of the Child Jesus, now of course St. Therese. He obviously immediately recognized the greatness of the Little Way that was the basis for her becoming a Doctor of the Church. Another of his letters of spiritual direction was one written to one of the people under his charge as abbot of Maredsous Abbey. The person was considering leaving the Benedictines to join the Carthusians. In it you are certain that if Blessed Marmion had thought that this person had a vocation to the Carthusians he would have blessed him on his way, though in this case he thought it was a temptation and that must be rejected and he forthrightly told him so, but with much love.

Even though the advice in this book was largely aimed at priests and religious the usefulness of his advice is suited to everybody regardless of their state of life. I could not recommend this book higher.

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out of death comes life.......2007-04-22

Guyon first talks about visible faith, a direct rapport with God, then a blind faith where trust is tested, then a naked faith where all signs of communication are abandoned. This is where I am currently at, naked faith involves a trust that whatever you do is God's will. There are higher levels but I have not experienced those levels yet.

Beautiful and Challenging.......2001-09-05

This book is so challenging to anyone wanting a deeper relationship with God. She challenges us to fully abandon ourselves to God, intellect and all, and love God for His sake alone, not what we will get from Him. This book is one of many things in my relationship with God that are helping to truly transform my view of God and self.

Freedom.......2001-08-21

This book to me has offered a lot of freedom to blindly follow God and not have to follow Him with my intellect - through intellectual study, prayer requests, going to church, etc. Those things are excellent and I do them. But where my heart really goes is intuitively and blindly and recklessly abandoning myself to His guidance. Guyon validates those of us who end up feeling like we are going backwards when really God is taking us truly forward in leaps and bounds. God's ways are certainly not ours and Guyon does a fabulous job of helping us understand His heart.

Lost in God.......1997-06-13

For those of you who desire a oneness with Jesus, this is a must-read. There are "prerequisites". First is that you should be totally in love with Him. Next is desire a total amalgamation with Him. Finally, you must be ready to die to self. Jeanne says, this takes time, but that you should be ready to wait on Him to accomplish this task

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The Best Goldsmith: A Must Read for Healers
I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE
Early work of Goldsmith's teachings.

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The Best Goldsmith: A Must Read for Healers.......2003-10-12

The vibration of this book alone is worth the price. It is the best book that I've read by Goldsmith. Every healer should read it, because it gets down to what healing is all about. It cuts through everything and gets down to the essence of what a true spiritual path is. It's deep and roots you solidly in what is real.

I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE.......2000-08-01

After the Search is over, one has to come to the place where the knowing and living begins. As taught in this marvelous adventure of self-transformation and awakening, the revelation is clear: I, AND MY FATHER ARE ONE. What does this mean on a practical, widely-applicable basis? How does this simple statement help one to develop far beyond other methods? How can this affirmation surpass all other affirmations and its realization and its truth catapult one into a wholeness never before experienced? Study this text and learn. You will not be ashamed. Of ALL of the myriad texts and methods available to quench one's spiritual thirst and to end the endless quest--this simple book, with its powerful, accessible Truth and Facts, is a welcome relief from the onslaught of material now available. Amazon, you should NEVER be without a full shippment of it. May all who are truly seeking THE FATHER, find refuge in the TRUTH. No Matter how Fundamental your preference and teaching, or how Spiritual your chosen path, you will Find THE FATHER in the TRUTH that is within this message. Look for it within your own time of Meditation and your own time of Prayer. Reach for it through your own quiet spirit. Subject the TRUTH of it to rigorous Biblical cross-refencing--then wait upon THE STILL SMALL VOICE. You will never be ashamed. There are simple truths within this Message, that can be applied to the most "Fundamental" teachings, and still be TRUTH for those upon other "Spiritual Paths". The Secret?: I,AND MY FATHER, ARE ONE.

Early work of Goldsmith's teachings........1996-06-08

The book was originally entitled "Metaphysical Notes". Joel Goldsmith discusses meditation,teaching the message, error, teachers and students. It is one of the books every serious student should read

Union with God According to the Letters of Direction of Dom Marmion

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On Union With God (Ways of Mysticism)
Albert the Great
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Albert the Great or Albertus Magnus (1206-1280) was born in Swabia, the son of a military nobleman. He was a Dominican priest who taught theology in Cologne and Paris. His most distinguished student was Saint Thomas Aquinas. Albert was called "Doctor universalis" because his breadth of knowledge spanned not only philosophy and theology but all the natural sciences.

He was a dedicated student of nature, and although he argued that the physical world can only be known reliably through observation and comparison, Albert distinguished between truths, which are naturally knowable, and mysteries, which cannot be known without revelation. People can only reach God through Himself-that is, by leaving behind the entanglements of earthly things and contemplating Him exculsively. The image and reality of God's incarnation in Jesus gives human beings the opportunity to attain a more perfect knowledge of God through contemplation. Albert refers to the teaching of St. Peter, "Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you" (1 Peter 5.7).

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a book for all those who seek the God of Love

An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love
Brian K. Wilcox
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a book for all those who seek the God of Love.......2003-09-03

This book can reach people of many faiths as Rumi and Gibran speak to many who love God.

While Wilcox currently serves as the pastor for Southwest United Methodist Church, his study of many different faiths and regular practice of Christian Meditation, allow him to speak the fundamental truth of all religions: God Loves Us.

A sample:
God's Earthy Angel
To Meditate on You, Spirit Divine,
I decide to rest here and alone,
silent, head bowed, eyes they look
into the richness of this good earth.
Like a mirror are these humble grains
that each one and together reflect
Your Supernal Majesty and call attention
to the Celestial Mansion alive within.
This blissful and quiet abode here,
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