Book Description
Featured in the book:
-the best UFO/ET cases and the evidence for them.
-the best US and other official government smoking-gun documents
-remarkable close encounters of the Fifth kind
-thought-provoking overview of why ETs are here
Customer Reviews:
Not woth the $.......2007-05-22
The author of this book is a paranoid man with delusions of grandeur. Their books seem to spend more time talking about how amazing he is (making such claims as being able to levitate and summon ufo's on a whim) and doesn't actually give any real evidence. You are better off looking for interesting evidence with a google search, this book is not worth the money.
Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications.......2007-05-14
There is truth here which must be heard so all peoples will benefit.
I have been to a Greer "training".......2007-05-05
Like this book, the training was full of fantasy and imagination. Unlike this book, it was not full of extra-terrestial experiences. Rather, for me, the training was full of social-psychological phenomena. Some would call it "group think."
Greer, a dominating personality fascinated as much with himself, his thoughts and imagination as he is with ETs, seems to have a core group of followers, a majority of whom are single women. They are his resident "experts" at these trainings and report seeing what Greer suggests they will see. (We call it "priming" the crowd.) The group dynamics are incredible! Some of these women observe with their eyes shut or tightly "squinting" and report what they have seen as reality -- always ETs or avatars, of course. Greer approves and calls them experienced observers. Others, who see nothing, are told to stick with it and as they believe and practice, they, too will see. (Sort of like, if you read enough, believe enough, you will see Jesus.)
If you like science fantasy, this book could be entertaining though frustrating because of the remarkably juvenile, repetitious writing style. If you want facts, go elsewhere.
All the stars in our Galaxy to you, Mr Greer. You have achieved wonders........2007-05-04
Thank you for this book and all the enthusiasm and love you put into it. Thank you for opening my eyes and taking my fears away and doing the same for lots of others. Thank you for all your brave hard work. Every bit of your effort is opening doors to great miracles, waiting for too long to happen.
With admiration, Gabriela.
Review of "Exterrestrial Contact" by Steven Greer, M.D........2007-02-18
Let's start with the bottom line: This book should be taken very seriously.
Preamble: There are certain philosophical and moral foundations for investigations of reality, whether conventional or "far out." 1. An investigation should attempt to gather all of the facts that are pertinent to the subject. Leaving out essential facts can lead to erroneous conclusions. 2. The anlaysis of facts and evidence should be as thorough, complete, and valid as humanly possible. 3. The investigators should hold to an attitude of perfect impartiality; any bias is scientifically immoral. Even more immoral is deliberate concealment and lying to support a hidden agenda. 4. Investigators must often exhibit considerable courage to face and overcome opposition from those who oppose new facts, concepts, and conclusions.
How does Dr. Greer's investigation stack up with these principles? 1. The investigation has been extremely thorough, with an enormous body of evidence gathered. 2. The analysis of this evidence seems to be carefully done and valid. 3. No bias is evident in the investigator. In constrast, Dr. Greer has uncovered not only bias, but deliberate obstruction of the truth among many of the individuals and agencies investigated. 4. Dr.Greer has displayed a great deal of courage in confronting opposition to his totally justified right to investigate an important phenomenon.
In my opinion, Dr. Greer has reached a correct conclusion that there exists a "shadow government" that is more powerful than the visible one, and which has the money and resources to control information and suppress new technology in support of its own goals.
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As our understanding and awareness of who and what we are advances through the grueling gauntlet of scientific process, we continually face a debilitating dilemma: we must simultaneously question everything and at the same time proceed as if we know something. As a result we continually battle ourselves, questioning the ground on which we stand while using that same ground to prove our questions irrelevant. It's a gift, then, when a writer emerges who will grapple with any of these battles at the event horizon between science and conjecture and take himself wholly into the fray, reporting back to us the subtle forces at work within the storm and how those forces play upon him and the subject he explores.
In Old Souls, journalist Tom Shroder manages this feat and hands us a volume that is considerable and engaging. Not only do we explore the work of a brave and committed researcher on the slippery slope of reincarnation, we are also treated to a remarkable tour of worlds foreign to us: human existence in post-war Beirut and in the depths of poverty in India. Through the entire journey, Mr. Shroder keeps the primary question lively, carrying the reader through to a closing bit of personal memoir that brilliantly ties the book together into a provocative whole.
Whether you believe in reincarnation or not, you can't help but appreciate Mr. Shroder's disciplined, scrupulously fair, and soul-searching explication. Along the way, we learn immensely about the process as it is revealed and a great deal about exploration itself. The book works on many levels, and readers will benefit from them all. --Donald A. Freas
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A riveting firsthand account of one man's mission to investigate and document some of the most astonishing untold phenomena of our time
All across the globe, small children spontaneously speak of previous lives, beg to be taken "home," pine for mothers and husbands and mistresses from another life, and know things that there seems to be no normal way for them to know. From the moment these children can talk, they speak of people and events from the past -- not vague stories of centuries ago, but details of specific, identifiable individuals who may have died just months, weeks, or even hours before the birth of the child in question.
For thirty-seven years, Dr. Ian Stevenson has traveled the world from Lebanon to suburban Virginia investigating and documenting more than two thousand of these past life memory cases. Now, his essentially unknown work is being brought to the mainstream by Tom Shroder, the first journalist to have the privilege of accompanying Dr. Stevenson in his fieldwork. Shroder follows Stevenson into the lives of children and families touched by this phenomenon, changing from skeptic to believer as he comes face-to-face with concrete evidence he cannot discount in this spellbinding and true story.
Customer Reviews:
Past lives revisited.......2007-08-24
Anyone interested in past life regression and reincarnation will appreciate this book. It is the attempt by a medical doctor and a journalist to compile a list of personal testimonies from the least corruptable members of society (children). The reason children are target of this research is the fact that they are the most open minded and sincere in expressing themselves regardless if they are speaking to their family members or strangers. Creators of this research travel to Lebanon and India as well as across US to find cases where children claiming their past life can tell their story and the story can be substantiated either from the newspaper articles of known history from families and friends. It is an interesting attempt, but it raises more questions than answers. If every body has a soul, then where does the new soul go, if the old soul wants to enter the body in order to get reincarnated? We never really get an answer to that question. Why some "old souls" live life many times over while other souls live only once. Many books on reincarnation claim that soul will live as many lives as necessary until they complete their purpose, after which they turn into angel, or a spirit or any other spiritual entity knwon to spiritual world. This book does not talk about any of it at all. In many cases, incidences described in the book sound more of a curse than blessing for the child participant. The only feeling this book may rise in you is that you will either wish you are not someone else's reincarnated version of the themselves, or you will long for the fact that you do not recall being reincarnated at all - wondering for the reasons of why not.
Good Subject, Way Too Much Personal Narrative........2007-07-09
I kept waiting for the author to actually get to the point. He describes every little detail to absurdity. I want to know about the actual subject matter, not in vast detail about the car they drove, the room, etc. I'm up to page 46 and still just a bunch of personal narration. It's like watching Seinfeld, nothing has come together yet even close to the main subject. Like reading a phone book. Hopefully he'll eventually get to the real subject at hand soon. Way too much prologue.
Old Souls.......2007-05-30
Emphasis was placed upon the adjectives in this book. The stories were painted as pictures, so clearly that the reader is allowed to enter the interviews with each individual person. The wording and placement in time was so vividly evident that one could truly enjoy the content and develop interest with the beauty of the writing in itself. However, it is important to admit that the content of his stories and research, itself, was also highly interesting, intriguing, and eye opening. There were points of shock, slight points of confusion, and several points leading to "ah - ha," within the text. Tom Shroder, the first journalist to have been present with Dr. Stevenson during fieldwork studies, was fabulous at bringing you to a point, by way of lead and follow. He clearly wants you to understand how he arrived at conclusions, not allowing you to be judgmental without knowing his historical findings.
There were so many stories that appeared flawless, despite slight contradictions from the interviews conducted. The photographs shown, within the text also depict strong resemblance to the people who claim to have lived a past life to those who are alive at the time of question. The fascinating part of this was that Dr. Ian Stevenson made efforts to locate and meet the past life families of these individuals, well into his old age. He fought for answers, for as long as he was able.
I felt some confusion within the course of the book. It seemed to lead us to think that only the soul was transferred from one body to another body. It brought up the theory that the body was like clothing to the soul and could be changed without consequence, after death. However, later into the stories, the author seemed to show more and more about shared birth marks from the deceased to the new born person, and other physical similarities, not just mental transfer, but almost total all body transfers. I would like to know more about how much of a person, if truly possible, can be re-created in another body? Also, as Dr. Stevenson struggled to figure out, does the transfer of soul happen at birth? Conception? After birth? How does that soul chose its new body to belong to? Does the soul decide?
This reading has brought me into an entirely new world of interest. I plan to obtain more information within this subject for further education about the beliefs and research leading to reincarnation.
A bit redundant.......2007-04-01
There was a lot information in this book to disseminate. It could have been shorter. Interesting, nonetheless. Very provocative and rang true.
I MISS HER SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-03-09
I bought this book because of my granddaughter. She is 4 years old and has spoken to me about a previous life. In this previous life that she speaks of her mother had died. When she talks about how much she misses this other mother she will say it with such strong deep sad feelings.
Reading "Old Souls" kept my attention through the whole book. I admire Dr. Stevenson dedication to his work. I feel that he has proved that there is reincarnation. As far as my granddaughter is concerned there is definitely something to what she says because I don't think a 4 year old could talk about a previous life with such deep feelings.
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John Edward, Suzane Northrup, and George Anderson are just a few of the prominent American mediums who have been accused of being frauds. But what if a respected scientist challenged them to make contact with the beyond under controlled laboratory conditions? What if the results not only stunned a skeptical scientist but also offered astonishing answers to a timeless question: Is there life after death?
THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS
Risking his academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz asked well-known mediums to become part of a series of experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. This riveting narrative, with electrifying transcripts, documents stringently monitored experiments in which mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of "sitters" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues.
Here are the results that awed sitters and researchers alike: a revelation about a son's suicide, what a deceased father wanted to say about his last days in a coma, the transformation of a man's lifelong doubts about the afterlife, and, most amazing of all, a forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Forced by data to abandon skepticism, Schwartz presents this amazing account of his groundbreaking work, compelling from first page to last.
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"An esteemed scientist's personal journey from skepticism to wonder and awe provides astonishing answers to a timeless question: Is there life after death? Are love and life eternal? This exciting account presents provocative evidence that could upset everything that science has ever taught. Daring to risk his worldwide academic reputation, Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, along with his research partner Dr. Linda Russek, asked some of the most prominent mediums in America -- including John Edward, Suzane Northrup, and George Anderson -- to become part of a series of extraordinary experiments to prove, or disprove, the existence of an afterlife. THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS. This riveting narrative, with its electrifying transcripts, puts the reader on the scene of a breakthrough scientific achievement: contact with the beyond under controlled laboratory conditions. In stringently monitored experiments, leading mediums attempted to contact dead friends and relatives of ""sitters"" who were masked from view and never spoke, depriving the mediums of any cues. The messages that came through stunned sitters and researchers alike. Here, as they unfolded in the laboratory setting, are uncanny revelations about a son's suicide, what a deceased father wanted to say about his last days in a coma, the transformation of a man's lifelong doubts about the afterlife, and, most amazing of all, a forecast of a beloved spouse's death. Dr. Schwartz was forced by the overwhelmingly positive data to abandon his skepticism, reaching some startling conclusions. Compelling from the first page to the last, The Afterlife Experiments is the amazing documentation of groundbreaking experiments you will never forget."
Customer Reviews:
Real After-Life Confirmation with Book!.......2007-10-07
I was reading through this book at Barnes & Noble and jokingly thought, "Loved ones on the other side, let me know you like this book!" Sure enough, right then and there, someone tickled me on the back of my neck. I immediately turned around and nobody was there. Thanks, Other Side. This book got endorsed by the spirits around me, so it's the real deal! The book is very well written and I plan to buy one next week.
boring...too much personal info.......2007-08-29
I don't really care about the background info on this man and his life, where he has worked...yadda yadda...it takes about 20 pages until it gets interesting and really into SUBJECT MATTER...unfortunately I've already lost interest...
Gary Schwartz - A personal experience made this book even more powerful.......2007-08-21
Wonderful book- I too was a skeptic until I was almost 40 and started going
into trance-like states where I would see scenes, people, images of various
time periods. During this trance state, I could barely move, could not speak, except for some strange words, I knew not to be English. As the speech portions progressed, I tried to research what type of language I was speaking and began recording and writing everything. I soon saw a pattern in the words and realized I was speaking another language and amazingly, not of this Earth. There is a star system called Roag, comprised of 22 planets, all united and all speaking this one language. What I WAS seeing were scenes from past lives lived on those planets.Scenes now became much more vivid and extremely specific, with names, dates, places, etc. As my trance states became more intense, telepathic communication now entered into the scenes as a few different people were explaining to me what I was seeing & hearing. I am not a kook,nut or ex-mental patient. I was in Nursing school and my children were almost grown when this began to happen. Now, I can also see a bubble of light around people, looking like threads,
living energy threads of awareness and filled with a person's life-their families, their past, things they like (and don't like to do)and so much more. I cannot possibly go into everything in this limited space-and I do hope to put everything together in a series of books in the future. But I do know that life most definitely goes on and is eternal. We are like balls of light,filled with "strands" of awareness, which never cease to exist.We
not only continue to exist but continue to return. I no longer believe, I know.
Gary Schwartz... UNETHICAL!.......2007-04-24
Dr. Schwartz, I didn't have a choice of rating your book with NO stars, so I gave it one. You should be ashamed of yourself for exploiting Allison DuBois and her work with you. How dare you promise confidentiality and then betray the very person one of your books is based on?
Another Possibility.......2007-04-03
After reading this book I can see how people come to the conclusion the mediums are indeed in contact with the spirit world. I believe some of them are. My personal spiritual impression, and I've sensed this with the TV productions produced with many mediums, is that they really are in touch with these spirits. However, what has come to me is that many of these "peeping spirits" giving information to the mediums are spirits of a malevolent nature, in other words evil spirits. They know more about us than we think and can appear as righteous spirits giving special information that "only the departed loved one would know". They really can impart information about a wedding day, a flower in the hair, or a special event because they (the evil spirits) were there as well.
This doesn't always mean all mediums are deceivers, but they can be duped. And why would these evil spirits want to deceive us? My personal experience has been not to underestimate the ends the adversary of all that is good will go to keep us from focusing on what is really important and developing our faith in God.
Once again, I am not criticizing those who believe these things. It's hard not to believe such things. Just be very careful and understand there is a great deal of ourselves to be lost when we give our faith over to what may turn out to be a very cruel, cosmic hoax.
The Holy Bible: King James Version
When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything
Book Description
Documentary evidence of Jesus' 17-year journey to the East.
The Gospels do not say where Jesus was between the age of 12 and 30. But ancient Buddhist manuscripts say Jesus left Palestine and traveled to India, Nepal, Ladakh and Tibet during the "lost years." For the first time, Prophet brings together the eyewitness accounts of four people who have seen these remarkable manuscripts--plus three variant translations of the texts. Illustrated with maps, drawings and 79 photos.
Customer Reviews:
A fascinating collection of forgeries and tall-tales .......2007-06-07
This book is published by Church Universal and Triumphant, also known as Summit Lighthouse. The extensive foreword is written by their leader, Elizabeth Clare Prophet. The rest of the book contains documents purportedly proving that Jesus spent his "lost years" (from age 13 to age 30) in India, Tibet and Persia, studying Hinduism and Buddhism. The foremost of these documents is Nicolas Notovitch's well-known "Life of St. Issa", first published in 1894. The book also contains three other texts supposedly confirming Notovitch's discoveries, by Abhenanda, Nicolas Roerich and Elizabeth Caspari. The Russian journalist Notovitch claimed to have discovered startling new stories about Jesus when visiting a Buddhist monastery at Himis, in the Ladakh area of Kashmir in India, close to the Tibetan border.
Virtually all scholars reject these documents, and believe that Jesus never set his foot outside Palestine and its environs. In my opinion, they have good reasons for doing so. For starters, nobody have seen the original manuscripts of these remarkable documents, only the translations made by Notovitch and his backers. There are also various discrepancies between the various accounts. In a foreword to "Life of St. Issa", Notovitch says that he did *not* translate a single manuscript. Rather, the monks at Himis showed him scattered passages about Jesus in several different ancient manuscripts, which Notovitch then re-arranged into a suitable, Gospel-like narrative. Tacitly at least, Notovitch is admitting that he was to some extent using his own creative imagination. This makes "Life of St. Issa" a paraphrase at best, a forgery at worst, even if we accept that the monks did show him some documents. However, both Abhenanda and Caspari claim to have seen a *single* manuscript with the Issa story in it, and Abhenanda even claims to have translated it. (What Roerich is claiming is frankly a bit unclear.)
A curious aspect of the documents, if one takes the trouble to read them, is that Jesus is said to have criticized both Hindus, Jains and Zoroastrians, and he doesn't sound very Buddhist either. Indeed, Jesus sounds like a 19th century liberal Protestant, which makes you wonder what exactly he is supposed to have picked up in India and Tibet in the first place? Notovitch's document can be read as a liberal Western criticism of barbaric India and Persia, rather than "proof" for Hindu-Buddhist influences on Jesus.
Another thing that strikes an out-sider as somewhat suspicious is that all people who confirmed Notovitch's story had *religious* reasons for doing so. Abhenanda was a disciple of the great Vivekananda, the founder of the Ramakrishna Mission. Nicolas Roerich was a Theosophist, and eventually founded a Theosophical off-shot of his own, Agni Yoga. And Caspari was a member of Mazdaznan, a nominally Zoroastrian but actually Theosophical group. In and of itself, the religious convictions of a person doesn't disqualify him or her as a serious witness, but when only people with a vested interest claims to have seen otherwise unaccesible documents (or was it just one document?), one is bound to suspect something. A cover-up? Wishful thinking? A little bit of both?
Be that as it may, I nevertheless recommend this book for students of comparative religion and others interested in these issues. It's the only collection of all pertinent writings on the subject (from the "pro" side) I'm aware of. Therefore I give it five stars, despite the questionable contents of the documents it reprints.
Easier To Go To Original Sources.......2007-04-12
I found this book to be nothing but a rehash of items found in other more authoritative books available on Amazon. Look deeper and you will find better books.
Interesting.......2006-12-10
I had vaguely heard a long time ago a tradition or a legend that Jesus of Nazereth had gone to the Far East in between childhood and adulthood. Then I came across this book several months ago. Very insightful, very interesting; it will definitely make you think. Having read this, about the best I can say is, I will not say for 100% that Jesus of Nazereth was there, but there definitely WAS a Jesus there and a lot of the teachings of Jesus do mirror Buddhist and Taoist beliefs to at least a small degree.
Mostly a travelogue.......2006-06-14
About 90% of the book is devoted to the travels of the 4 people who have reported seen the ancient scrolls that document Jesus' life in Tibet. And after completing the book I was not convinced that Christ ever made the journey.
If you read the reported quotes from Issa (or Jesus) they are quotes that definitely follow the New Testament teachings. But in so much of the Gospels, Jesus taught by parables, not in India. His quotes are more akin to Proverbs or sayings of Confucius. I would be surprised that he changed his manner of teaching so much.
The book also reports that Pilot was the person who wanted Jesus dead and the church leaders did not. While possibly true it contradicts the Gospels and it seems that Jesus was much more inflammatory of Church leaders than of Roman leaders. I do not see support of a motive of Pilot wanted Jesus dead.
I also do not understand the extreme secrecy of the scrolls? The ancient biblical writings are available for all to read. Why do the Lamas want to hide them and only share with a few select people.
If you want to read about the trials and travels of traveling in the Himalayan Mountains at the turn of the century then this is the book for you. But if you want to know about Jesus' lost years I think you will find facts very few and far between.
ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL AND A GREAT SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE.......2006-06-08
Elizabeth Clare Prophet presents the original sources for the belief that Jesus spent time in Asia studying the wisdom of the East. She summarizes the evidence in a well-written Introduction, then gives you long excerpts from the writings of Nicholas Notovitch who traveled to the Himis monastery in 1887 and saw a manuscript that the Lamas told him was the story of "Saint Issa." Notovitch went on to publish a book, The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ. One of the lamas translated the portions of the manuscript dealing with Issa for Notovitch as he was recovering from a broken leg at the monestery.
Notovitch's book created a sensation, but a skeptical public was generally not convinced. Some years later, another man went to Himis to try to verify Notovitch's claims, but reported that the chief Lama denied ever receiving Notovitch and denied that such a manuscript existed. This might seem like proof that Notovitch made it all up, but later travelers were to again hear about the manuscript and even see it.
The lamas who live in the mountain-top monasteries that dot the Himalayas offer hospitality to visitors, but are often wary about what they will reveal. They have apparently found that Westerners often come to plunder their ancient treasures, so they may not tell every visitor about the existence of something like a manuscript about Jesus, especially if they don't trust the visitor.
Two very credible witnesses were to confirm the tale of the manuscript about "Saint Issa." One was an Indian, Swami Abhedenanda, who visited the monastery in 1922. He not only confirmed that such a manuscript existed, he received a translation of it that is almost identical to the one published earlier by Notovitch. And in the late 1920s, Nicholas Roerich began the long trek through India and Tibet that resulted in the breathtaking paintings he made of this region. Roerich was an artist of the highest talent, a skilled archeologist and linguist, and a diplomat who worked for world peace. His son George, who went with him, was also an archeologist and linguist and spoke the Tibetan language. Wherever the Roerich expedition went, they heard stories of Saint Issa. And in 1937, Elizabeth Caspari made a trip to Tibet and was shown manuscripts and the lama who showed them said "These books say your Jesus was here."
I wondered how these travelers could be sure that Saint Issa and Jesus were one and the same, but in reading the Notovitch and Abhedenanda translations, it is clear that this is the story of Jesus, but with some variations. This Jesus praises women and urges men to treat them as equals. This Jesus affirms reincarnation. These original sources are fascinating reading. Interestingly, the story begins with Moses and the Jews and speaks of Issa as coming to bring the Jews back to a knowledge of God they once had. Issa leaves as a teen-ager for India because his parents are seeking a wife for him, according to the Jewish custom. Issa wants to learn from spiritual masters rather than settle into the life of a householder. He returns to his homeland at age 29.
These manuscripts, verified by credible witnesses, are quite convincing. They clearly are old, but could they be simply stories invented by early missionaries in the years when Christianity was taking hold in the Roman empire? Or were these the writings of someone who witnessed the visit of Issa? Is there evidence that Jesus' teachings have an Eastern flavor? I can't answer all the questions that pop into my head, thinking about what I've read in this book. But it has aroused my interest in learning more about this Jesus of the East.
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The startling and comforting findings are based on a four year study involving almost 50,000 terminally ill patients observed by medical practitioners in the United States and India.
Customer Reviews:
"Evidence for Life After Death" - is there?.......2007-06-28
I must say that I was a bit disappointed with this book. Perhaps I was looking for more real life experiences vs. statistical data comparison. Nonetheless it is a good book, giving you an idea what happens to people in their last moments on earth. But it doesn't really tell you what they see as in "how does the other world (if it exists) look", or can they hear the loved ones as they're "floating" away. I guess realistically, it's probably not possible to know those things but I guess that's what I was looking for in this book.
Exhaustive research, murky conclusion.......2000-05-04
Anyone interest in near death experiences or life after death should strongly consider reading this book. The research involved here is some of the most extensive, albeit exhausing I have ever read on any subject.
The authors, all MD's, have exercised the utmost diligence and honesty in researching, compiling, and analyzing data from both India and the U.S. on this very vital, but often abused subject.
The reading can be tedious at times and very much text book in nature. Also, don't expect any profound conclusions or revelations about the research from the authors either. They have opted for a very conservative and non-commital conclusion to their vast research. The reader must draw his or her own conclusions.
For those who desire a well-researched and documented book where the author expresses an opinion in no uncertain terms, read Tom Harpur's outstanding "Life After Death" ... .
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- Can't piece together until the end
- Great Suspense !!
- Second just as gripping as the first
- A +
- Another Scarpetta climactic finish
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic.
Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows....
Customer Reviews:
Can't piece together until the end.......2007-07-30
This book was great! I could hardly put it down. I do have to admit it was a but too slow and confusing for the first few chapters, wasn't sure where she was taking it, but it was definitely worth the trip. The ending of the book makes all the mysteries make sense and you are on the edge of your seat just like Kay Scarpetta. Great read, very edgy, and extremely well thought out. All the puzzle pieces finally come together at the end making it a wonderful murder mystery.
Enjoy!
-Andrea :)
Great Suspense !!.......2007-05-25
She is a wonderful writer! This book was my first and I have since ordered most of her collection. The book is so easy to get caught up in and forget to make dinner or not want to put it down til wee hours of the morning.
Second just as gripping as the first.......2007-04-17
After reading Cornwell's first of the Scarpetta series I was eager to begin the next in the series, hopeful that this would be as good as the first. It was, Scarpetta continues to show her insight in revealing the stories her victim bodies tell, and little insight into human relationships.
A +.......2006-12-19
Another terrific Cornwell novel. Holds your attention throughout the book. Even my "non-reader" husband loved it!
Another Scarpetta climactic finish.......2006-08-11
The book offers Cornwell's well-known climactic finish where the reader may literally stop breathing toward the book's most hair-raising part...the delivery of the lost luggage! Unable to begin reading this book (took several starts and stops), after I was into it a few chapters, I was unable to then put it down. That was the only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5, as I just couldn't get into it during the 1st chapter, as most of Cornwell's other books. I recommend reading all of the Scarpetta novels beginning from the first in the series "Postmortem"; although if you don't, Cornwell does briefly describe people and events from Scarpetta's past so you aren't totally lost. I am ready to begin my 6th in the series and can barely wait to drive the 20 miles to my closest library to check it out!
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Convincing evidence that the Egyptian, Sumerian, and Dogon civilizations were founded by aliens from the Sirius star system who are now ready to return
• Updated with 140 pages of new scientific evidence that solidifies the hypothesis that the KGB, CIA, and NASA attempted to suppress
• An awe-inspiring work of research that calls for a profound reappraisal of our role in the universe
• Over 10,000 copies sold in its first two months of release in Britain
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The Sirius Mystery in 1976 set the world abuzz with talk of an extraterrestrial origin to human civilization and triggered a 15-year persecution campaign against Robert Temple by the KGB, CIA, NASA, and other government agencies. Undaunted, however, Temple is back, with 140 pages of new scientific evidence that makes his hypothesis more compelling than ever.
Many authors have speculated on the subject of extraterrestrial contact, but never before has such detailed evidence been presented. Temple applies his in-depth knowledge of ancient history, mythology, Pythagorean physics, chaos theory, and Greek, to a close examination of the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was built to align directly with the star Sirius. He concludes that the alien civilization of Sirius and our own civilization are part of the same harmonic system, and are destined to function and resonate together. His findings warrant a profound reappraisal of our role in the universe.
Customer Reviews:
Exciting key to Mankind's ancestry, if a little long-winded.......2007-05-21
The facts which Robert Temple analyzes are amazing and should be known to all - the survival of correct astronomical information in a primitive tribe that concerns bodies invisible to the naked eye deserves analysis. Be warned though that where the author tries to connect the Dogon tribe's ancestry with the Sumerians and Egyptians it is not light reading. To give just a taste of this to warn off the unwary buyer, I quote a typical passage: '...Aarti is a common name of both Isis and Nephthys, and Nephthys is more closely connected with the companion of Sirius. The appellation Aruru is thus closer to Sirius B, who is also represented by Enkidu, than another name for the goddess Sirius which was not specifically shared with Nephthys, the dark companion. This word also means 'uraei' and we have just seen that the other word for the 'uraei' is related to the horizon of Sirius B's orbit, as well as also being shared with Isis and Nephthys - obviously shared because the orbit described by one is described around the other, and as we have seen several times, the orbit was common to them both and divided their respective precincts...etc'. Yes, it's so obvious isn't it? The chapter the passage is taken from is around 50 pages long, and by the end of the Appendices, some of which can be left unread, you'll have covered 600 pages. It's not all heavy-going, other parts can be both fascinating and humorous, even if in the foreword he wants us to believe that the CIA and Nasa are on his back, after mentioning elsewhere the paranoia of some writers! As can be imagined, there is a lot of speculation and linguistic analysis in this book, some reasonable, some just too tenuous to be believable in my opinion. My tip to others so as not to waste as much time as I did: buy it and read the interesting parts, and don't be afraid to start skipping pages when you get bogged down in the analysis.
Unconvincing.......2007-05-06
Except for a few tantalizing facts here and there, the author's arguments are far-fetched, unconvincing, and terribly long-winded. He also includes long sections of personal experiences and complaints about his treatment by others that contribute absolutely nothing to advancing his hypothesis and even sound gossipy and a bit paranoid. Reading this book was something like being stuck sitting next to some guy who won't shut up on a 15-hour flight to Timbuctu. I can't recommend this book.
The Sirius Mystery.......2007-03-19
Whatever this man researches, I want to read. I have another book by him, which is how I found out about this one. Jammed with information. A scholarly aspect. Loads of fun for me.
Awesome.......2007-02-14
Very well written and researched. Robert Temple has hit some very good arguments. I would love to read a follow-up on the subject.
The dots don't connect..........2007-01-27
The Dogon believed in the existence of Sirius B before it was visible to the naked eye and before their belief was confirmed by modern science. This is an astonishing factoid, but one factoid does not a book make.
Temple interprets this central anachronism as proof that aliens from Sirius contacted early civilizations, but he is just not able to add enough evidence to it to prove up his thesis. The punchline of the book is indeed pretty weird but, after that weird morsel is digested, all that remains is a meandering tour of ancient history and mythology that makes for pretty ponderous reading. Temple tries to identify continuities in these sources that would point to a single archaic "ur"-religion, shared by all ancient cultures and recounting the visitation of the earth by the aliens. To my mind, he does not succeed. I am a sucker for a good yarn, but the "coincidences" that Temple finds in these sources are lost on me. While the reader may follow him on the vague similarity between myth x and myth y, and also between myth y and myth z, the conceptual "drift" between myths x and z undermines any unified pattern.
I guess I had unusually high expectations for this book, since Temple has an unusually good reputation for his "no-nonsense" approach to extremely sensational topics. It is frequently pointed out that he is a fellow of the Royal Society, and he has apparently been associated professionally with some pretty heavyweight scholars. Indeed, he sometimes sounds like a paragon of scientific good sense. He rejects any dogmatic interpretation of his ideas and he is surprisingly eager to seek out grounds for the falsification of his own theories.
But there are warning signs. Temple's insistence that he has been persecuted by the CIA for his work on this topic is troubling. I have no doubt that the CIA does some seriously weird (and stupid) stuff, but it just doesn't feel right.
Less fair of me, perhaps, is to suspect a bit of resume-padding when Temple discusses his friendship with the esteemed Sinologist Joseph Needham. Temple recounts how he became close with Needham toward the end of his life, popularizing his work for American and British laypeople. Temple tells us that Needham's staff did not approve of the friendship, and inexplicably sought to undermine it. A cynical jerk like myself could infer from this that these staffpeople percieved that their mentor, in his senility, was falling under the malign influence of a UFO crackpot.
All in all, it reminds me a bit too much of the obsessive pattern seeking that paranoid people sometimes exhibit. The dots just don't connect.
Customer Reviews:
Thought Provoking, Interesting.......2007-07-12
Interesting and thought provoking account of one man's experience in communicating with a loved one in the afterlife.
Gary Schwartz... UNETHICAL!.......2007-04-24
Dr. Schwartz, I didn't have a choice of rating your book with NO stars, so I gave it one. You should be ashamed of yourself for exploiting Allison DuBois and her work with you. How dare you promise confidentiality and then betray the very person one of your books is based on? You have NO credibility.
Un-BELIEVABLE.......2006-09-01
I loved this book. I am a skeptic at times when reading others experiences, but this story took me through the book in three days - and without any hesitation in believing it happened. While I haven't had the 'extreme' experiences that Mr. Dalzell had, I embrace the ones I do have with more of an awareness to what is taking place and find myself wanting more. I recommend this to anyone - especially those non-believers.
Great Book, Now What?.......2006-03-04
I couldn't put this book down. Is Mr. Dalzell going to write sequel, I wonder? He should because there are so many great TV shows, like MEDIUM and PSYCHIC DETECTIVES, and I like the way this book links wild personal experiences to science and a potential afterlife. I still have so many questions. But this book offers a lot of answers.
can't recommend enough.......2003-04-07
I was given messages when a co-worker caught me, in an unhappy state, reading 'the celestine prophecy' on my lunch break. She said if I wanted to read something a little more real, she had the perfect book. One week later, having breezed through Dalzell's well-written memoir I couldn't be happier. Books like 'Celestine' are in the practice of selling us spiritual ideas from fathomed locations with no real context. Dalzell is dealing with 'reality'. And while the topic is unconventional, it only takes several pages to realize not only do you trust the writer, but as for the story IT DID HAPPEN. This is a great book to read and experience. Also, it's one to keep on hand, for friends and family in times of need.
Customer Reviews:
There has to be more for them than this cruel world.......2007-08-17
Since my beloved cat, Baby, died very suddenly and mysteriously at home in 2004, I have often wondered if her soul would live on. In addition, as an avid animal lover and rescuer, I am all too aware of the millions of poor furry souls who suffer neglect and abuse and are murdered for space or convenience every year. In order to remain sane, I have had to believe that this cruel world, one that all too often treats animals as disposable things rather than as the valuable souls they are, is not all there is for them.
After researching the topic at length, both spiritually and academically, I know in my heart that animals truly have souls and that if anyone deserves Paradise, surely it is these beautiful, innocent creatures who are so much purer of spirit than we humans are. I know that a Heaven without the love and joy of animals could not be Paradise for me.
It is in my search for knowledge that I read Scott Smith's book, and found it to be a valuable resource. The information in this 119-page work is presented as scientifically as subject matter of this ilk can be. To keep things objective, the author refrains from using an abundance of emotion or opinion and presents each anecdote in a clear, factual manner.
While I found the organization and flow of the content a little awkward in some places, overall I found this to be a fantastic book - easy to read as well as thought-provoking. I do have to caution, however, some of the untimely and violent deaths mentioned in this book may be upsetting to some readers - I know they were to me. Nonetheless, the message of this book is ultimately one of comfort and hope, and the short time investment that is required to read it is very well spent.
The Soul Of Your Pet.......2006-08-29
I recently lost my Beloved Blue Tick, Chester. I bought this book and several others on loss of a pet. I did not find any comfort or meaning to this book. In fact, it was a waste of money. It is print after print of animal ghost stories. Very disappointed.
Good content, poorly edited (sorry).......2006-08-29
I applaud the author for collecting stories and publishing this work. He has broken some new ground, and I hope that more books on this topic emerge. If the author should pursue further research and publish more (and I hope he does), he should employ a good editor to proof the manuscript for semantic clarity.
Regarding content: Personally, I would have preferred a bit more focus on the subjective experience of the people involved. How were they feeling at the time, and how did the experience affect them emotionally and spiritually? Of course I realize the author wanted to be as scientific as possible, simply reporting the occurrences along with names, dates and places.
There is another book which may be of interest to people interested in animal souls. It is titled "Animals as Teachers and Healers," by Susan Chernak Mcelroy (1998). This one concerns living animals - both pets and wild. It tells many stories of human/animal interactions that turned out to be quite meaningful to the people involved. It's one of my favorites.
This book made my loss easier to accept.......2004-01-15
This book helped to ease my broken heart. For anyone that has lost their beloved pet,The Soul Of Your Pet is a treasure. It made my heart smile again instead of crying myself to sleep at night. I recently passed it on to friend that just recently lost her puppy baby. She commented on the strength it has given her to move forward as well.
Much better books available.......2003-07-19
This one is a real waste of your time and money. For those of us who are searching for biblical reference to finding our departed animal friends in our next life, well look somewhere else. This book will do little to comfort you.. ...
Book Description
Working as a journalist for metaphysical publications for more than three decades, author Roy Stemman has investigated the most heralded occurrences of reincarnation. In One Soul, Many Lives, he brings together an impressive body of physical evidence and a fascinating collection of accounts he has gathered from interviewing people all over the world.
In case after case, One Soul, Many Lives engages the reader with the remarkable story of someone who believes he has lived before. In addition to testimony by reputable and trustworthy individuals, One Soul, Many Lives draws heavily on the work of eminent scientists to authenticate its compelling stories.
The evidence supporting the stories includes a young boy with scars on his head that precisely match the autopsy of the murdered man he believes he was in a former life; individuals whose illnesses and phobias can be traced back to a past life and healed; and people who can speak a foreign language fluently during regression.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful service!!!.......2007-08-12
I immediately received a confirmation email with very clear and specific instructions. The book arrived before time and was in mint condition. Great service and a very reliable person!!
one soul, many lives:.......2007-07-30
once i started reading this book i could not put it down. I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!
dissapointing.......2007-03-03
An amazon marketplace seller accidentally sent this used book to me, so I perused it out of curiosity before sending it back. What struck me was how un-striking the "striking evidence" was. Furthermore, there has been a lot of scientific research recently that flies in this face of this "evidence". Several different stimuli (high-G-force and electromagnetic stimulus of the brain) can readily produce near-death symptoms ("floating" or "tunnels of light"). Additionally, people like Penn & Teller, James Randi, etc., have shown how easy it is to convince yourself and others that past lives are real. Therefore I would expect a modern book on this topic to address these aspects, in order to be "striking". This book's "striking evidence" is basically just 20th-century hear-say.
A BOOK Full OF Other Book's Stories.......2006-12-26
After just reading several book on Reincarnation this week I felt a bit cheated by this book. It is well written and as the other review says it is a good book for someone who is just starting out reading about this subject. I had just read Ian Steven's book and his cases are in this book, just not as detailed. Jenny Cockell's Yesterday's Children is also here as well as Brian Weiss, and about 20 other authors as well. I was expecting a "Fresh" book with new stores, new research not a book about other books. It is like picking up a herbal book and seeing the same book repeated over and over as I have been the unfortunate victim of by authors who cannot do their own research for. The author repeats that he is the publisher of a reaincarnation magazine (I cannot find) so his stories are all from sources not his own. Get it from a library or buy it used.
Okay, but not the best.......2006-09-27
If you're just getting into reading about reincarnation, this book is probably a good place to start. Many sources are mentioned and compiled in one volume of very interesting stories.
However, if you've already done some reading on the subject, you'll probably find that many of the stories are familiar. People who've been into reincarnation for a while would probably do better to read the books that these stories are taken from.
The book is also riddled with typos, so I'm not going to give it any more than 3 stars. In the era of spell-checking software, there's no reason for any book to spell "was" as "wass".
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