I
stumbled across this book by total accident one night many months ago. I
read through several reviews and thought the book might have some real
answers to questions I'd been asking a long time without any luck. Took
me a while to get to it, but finally I started.
At first, it seemed very promising, then I got bogged down in it. It's a little over 200 pages, but took me several months to get through. Part of the "delay" may have been that the book made me think about a lot of things, which wasn't a bad thing, but it didn't seem to get to the point a great deal of the time. I did learn some things in the book, but not so much on what I had hoped it would tell me. I wanted to find what was "lost" as the title suggests.
I guess it sort of told me what I wanted to know, but it doesn't seem to really come out and say it. And it offers little in telling how to get to the place in question.
If someone is interested in the book/topic, I recommend reading the Conclusion before reading anything else. In fact, read the last paragraph of the Conclusion first - the author is not kidding when he states that the single aim of the book was to communicate the idea mentioned in this last paragraph. Not much in the way of detail is found elsewhere in the book for that matter - best advice I can give is to pay special attention when the soul/intermediate is discussed in the book. Might save a reader's time if they know all this upfront.
Yes, something seems to have been lost in Christianity. The author seems to have found what that might be. But, his description is not all that clear, and things are even murkier on the how to overcome the loss part. Notice how I haven't stated much detail as to the "answer" - that's because I can't really explain it that well, even though I did read and understand the book. Yes, it is one of those kinds of books.
The book has value, but it was a very frustrating read at the same time. Left me unsettled and somewhat unsatisfied.
At first, it seemed very promising, then I got bogged down in it. It's a little over 200 pages, but took me several months to get through. Part of the "delay" may have been that the book made me think about a lot of things, which wasn't a bad thing, but it didn't seem to get to the point a great deal of the time. I did learn some things in the book, but not so much on what I had hoped it would tell me. I wanted to find what was "lost" as the title suggests.
I guess it sort of told me what I wanted to know, but it doesn't seem to really come out and say it. And it offers little in telling how to get to the place in question.
If someone is interested in the book/topic, I recommend reading the Conclusion before reading anything else. In fact, read the last paragraph of the Conclusion first - the author is not kidding when he states that the single aim of the book was to communicate the idea mentioned in this last paragraph. Not much in the way of detail is found elsewhere in the book for that matter - best advice I can give is to pay special attention when the soul/intermediate is discussed in the book. Might save a reader's time if they know all this upfront.
Yes, something seems to have been lost in Christianity. The author seems to have found what that might be. But, his description is not all that clear, and things are even murkier on the how to overcome the loss part. Notice how I haven't stated much detail as to the "answer" - that's because I can't really explain it that well, even though I did read and understand the book. Yes, it is one of those kinds of books.
The book has value, but it was a very frustrating read at the same time. Left me unsettled and somewhat unsatisfied.
