Has anyone read this?

comments?

The disappearance of the universe : straight talk about illusions, past lives, religion, sex, politics, and the miracles of forgiveness

by
    Renard, Gary R.

thank u Lucy!

for turning me onto that book I treat u my dear to my alter ego "the bouncer."

I just ordered it after reading the exerpt you kindly provided. my, the authors language does suit me well (he used the term I don't give a rats a-ss to explain that he doesn't care if J was having sex or not..neither do I frankly!

yes, well, as you know I read ACIM for a full year. every line meditated on that sucker. was what the doctor ordered and here's someone just like me. haven't ordered any books for awhile as too busy trying to get mine all ship shape...nobody said writing a book takes your whole life...guess I'm impatient to start another.
you ask do I believe spirits appear and talk, to Gary the author ? yes, I do, but it's on an altered level of consciousness. you can be completely conscious of your physical surroundings, yet be observing a conversation going on in your mind and the answers to questions seem quite beyond your current experience, so I believe he works with these others, to help get the word out, and so far what I've read is where my present understanding is also.
I doubt if these spirits actually materialized, as that is a rare thing, but I don't know. I think the material is more important to focus on than to be ascertaining whether it was a nonphysical or a physical being who delivered it. there will come a day more and more of us will be able to pick up communications from behind the veil, as I think this could speed up evolution considerably and make this ol world a safer, friendlier habitat. love, alysia
thanks again, I have a dear friend needs to read some of this book.

Also manifestation does happen now and then. we have a forum member here, Vicky, who has a guide who said he is always with her, and he appeared to her as solid flesh in her hospital room during a crisis, not once, but several times. she thought he was an orderly and found out later, he didn't work there. he has not returned in flesh. she posted that story, its in the archives. Vicky is a very trustworthy person my extra senses say. I assume some of us can become aware of guides with us from the start. I think we all have them; nice to make contact. love, alysia

Hi Lucy. I'm on page 129. I like to read slowly, not to miss anything. yea, this planet is the planet of the ego I just read today. also I read that we separated our mind from the heaven area, and this caused a split in consciousness so that now we, as mind, had perception. in order to have perception to percieve something..there must now be created an object to perceive. to perceive is to live within limited consciousness. I'm just mulling it over. guess we can let god off the hook, eh?

hugs, alysia

Lucy, Ricardo has read it and probably hasn't seen this thread. You could pm him and I'm sure he'd be happy to discuss it with you.  I hope to order the book soon too since I'm hearing so much about it. Will have to wait til next month though.

Love, Mairlyn

Hi Lucy, I don't think the point is to get back. at least not personally for me. what I've been thinking on lately is the book is saying our true home is an abstract, non dual state of consciousness. such a mind state would have a nonduality type of viewpoint which means non conflicted (ego) within the mind which must always balance and measure reality as in a ceaseless judgment activity. if you or I didn't always have to be busy with measuring our good or our lack, it would be peaceful there as in a non competitive way.
so whats the point of having a life?  I think thats a personal question because everyone is right. I think it means its the value we give it as creators of it. essentially we're free will beings..free means freedom to do the mistakes also. in the non duality state it doesn't really matter whether you live in a body or out of one, I mean dimensions. both dimensions are there.
hugs, alysia

hi again. hang in Lucy. I think belief system crashes are in the final analysis something that makes u feel freer, like a load is taken off your chest. we could also look at crashes this way; that we will continue on having them ultimately until death and exit of the world we once knew, but personally each crash got less wearisome to bear up under and so I'm thinking thats the reward of doing them, that pain gets less and slowly joy replaces or balances with the grief of it all. like learning to walk a tightrope, u might fall into the net sometimes until the balance occurs from being willing to practice. u said your brain was going back and forth..thats the dual thing of our nature. I still do it now and then..I just forget. the evolution of consciousness as energy in motion appears to me like a pendulum, like it has a ball on it and it swings to and fro until gradually the ball meets in the middle until the next motion of thought begins it swinging to and fro again.
I've been considering all the possibilities of any situation developing. Cozzolino author of the Path calls this learning cognitive thinking. you get your priorities in order from this kind of thinking a little faster and leave conflict behind easier. u start asking a lot of questions which don't get answered quickly but they simmer and thats when I start dreaming the answers.
that very little emotion you speak of Rick..I get in those moods too, but I don't think it's entirely correct to turn the entire afterlife areas or focus levels into a non-emotional area..theres some very strong emotions can be felt out there and holding some very important messages within the emotions. I assume your parents are beyond what they experienced here in emotions and they are trying to communicate this to you as best they can, that they got over the hump. in that nonduality state I've had the emotions suspended for some automatic writing, its a calm place to be in, but I like to experience emotions like fun, humor, enjoyment, love and I wouldn't want to all the time be nonexpressive in that.

hugs, alysia

HAs anyone read any more lately? There's a part of the cosmology discussed that claims we created it all...we the ego that is....simultaneously, in the Big Bang, of course. So it starts sounding like things are predestined. This is making it hard for me to find motivation to do stuff. But the rest of the cosmology is compelling enough that it is hard to drop this part.