All meat, no potato salad | The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives,...

Mind altering | The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and ... | Gary R. Renard

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	• The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and ... Gary R. Renard Hay House, 2005 - 420 pages average customer review:based on 461 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A new slant on a fairly new Spiritual Course

"If you have found your way to A COURSE IN MIRACLES® and feel a kinship for it right along with, confusion, curiosity, hope, fear...you choose the feeling, you might want to read Gary Renard's books, "The Disappearance of the Universe" and "Your Immortal Reality". The message that comes through is rich with great information and instruction. I found myself having the experience of things falling into place inside of me while I read it.

I must admit that in the first book, I was so put off by the author's flippant response to the Masters in front of him (which I thought was rude) that I decided I wouldn't read it. I had bought both of Mr. Renard's books, so I started on the other one. The author of the second book "Your Immortal Reality" sounded and felt like a completely different author...well there were still a few smart-mouth quips but they were suddenly cute and "forgivable" and fun. When that book was done I went back to "The Disappearance of the Universe" and read it straight through. The last few pages stunned me. I had to sit with it for a while.

Reading these two books helped me to remember who I am all over again. Go discover yourself...read these books".
Sharon Beck
Concord, California

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All meat, no potato salad

I was given "Disappearance of the Universe" last Christmas. I was not looking for yet another New Age treatise, full of fluff and platitudes, someone's all-too-human review of reality. But, I read it out of affection for my friends who gave it to me. I admit the first 50 pages were slow, and I feared the worst! Here some guy "channels" some dis-embodied people who would speak in vague aphorisms and flabby "truths," like some kind of Celestial Hallmark Card Shop. I had long since outgrown the "New Age." Then things began to turn around in my perception of the narrative.
After 35 years of regular, on-going study of so-called spiritual matters, I saw that "Disappearance" was offering something new. And not just a "new" version of the same old stuff, but a profoundly simple and radically different approach to my own life. Make what you will about the Gary Renard's version of the mystical and sudden appearance of Arten and Pursah, his two etheric visitors, in his living room. The dialogue they produced, whether a literal one, or a doctored rendition of some other way he got the information, was the clearest and most useful I have ever read.
Every tradition on every continent has at its core the notion that the universe is but an illusion. I knew that. But "Disappearance" somehow had the punch, the sharpness, and maybe even the "truth," to make that vividly and concretely real. It was no longer an idea for me, but a palpable, vibrant reality. Renard's characters use A Course in Miracles as its foundational reference. I had studied that 20 years ago, and liked it. I had high respect for it. But after "Disappearance," I saw it in a new light. I finally, in a simple way, "got" it. I got the bottom line, and all the hundreds of bits that had been floating around in my head snapped into a shockingly simple understanding.
The big appeal of "Disappearance" is its utility. What I read changed the way I thought, and the way I felt, and the way I started to "be" in the world. It changed the world, too, in demonstrating that it a mere illusion. I had been hearing about that for decades. But with almost a wave of a magic wand, I saw it. I grasped it, and automatically and naturally lived it. And by lived it, I mean my perceptions shifted, and I began to unravel my own illusions. That was helpful. The book had a tremendous psycho-active impact on me, consciously, and unconsciously.
I was inspired to take up A Course in Miracles again, and have found my experience of it so altered and so different this time, and so useful, that studying it is now a joy, even if really difficult at times, as when I encounter my own deeply rooted and stubborn ego "stuff." It's as if reading "Disappearance" had jumped me ahead 20 or 30 years in my spiritual maturity, in my perceptions, and I can approach my Course study so much more heartily.
There are some "surprises" in "Disappearance," and by the end, I felt I knew the characters as real beings myself. Were they real Beings who materialized to chat with Gary? I dunno... Maybe Renard romanticized it a bit? Maybe he created a mild "fiction" about the actual nature of their encounters, so the world at large could understand it and accept the source. Again, dunno... However the "literal facts" might have been, clearly, renard talked to somebody, and that somebody knows The Secret.
It might be a novel, it might not. But it IS clearly Divinely inspired. I was a bit sad when I read the last page, like a great novel you wish you could read for the first time, again. But Renard's book somehow had the right words and thoughts and power to propel me along my own path. It helped me to synthesize much of what I already knew, into something more elegant and potent. And, 10 months after reading it the first time, I am reading it again, and enjoying it even more this second time. Great book! It belongs on the shelf of anyone who ever questions how our lives could be richer, more meaningful, and more real; even if realness means letting go of our beliefs about what the world even is. Even if that realness means recognizing our cherished world, in a way, isn't even here at all, and never was.

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Mind altering

This book changed me. I felt some resistance to it at first [especially the 'ascended masters'], but the more I read and after numerous synchronicites while reading this book, I realized that this makes more sense than any other spiritual read I've ever encountered. It is so real. I am the type to question absolutely everything, even if I am told not to question, and surprisingly, I found answers to absolutely every question I had only a few lines after asking them to myself. I related some of the examples given in this book to fantasies and questions I often had as a child, and I realized that some knowledge is simply forgotten, and this book helped me remember. I can only thank myself for reading it.

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A Must Read Book For World Peace

This book teaches a extreme important message Forgiveness! It goes through a mazing life changing experience for Gary Renard and anyone else who reads The Disappearance Of The Universe. I highly recommend this book for becoming more aware of your personal life and forgive and remember there is a goal in life, a spiritual goal of inner peace. Once we have peace with in our selfs then we will have peace in the world. I am the author of Think Before you Eat. I have read both of his books two times and have noticed an effect on my life of more peace. This book is easy to read with a great story taking place. Enjoy! With Love Diane Olive

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great stuff

Very well written, eye-opening and life-changing. Not for people who do not believe in metaphysics, however. This is not a 'fairy tale', but rather a work to take into your life, as well as then reading "Course in Miracles"

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