I never would have bought this book had it not been recommended by someone whose opinion I trust and respect. Every time I thought it was going to get romanticized and “mushy” it managed to grab my attention again. Strange, I usually run puking from any mention of Jesus – half the world’s obsession with a brilliant mystic from 2000+ years ago makes me cringe. We had to make him a God – result – the biggest misunderstanding of the simplest message –yea, he was responsible for changing the world alright, but not how he might have intended.
Who is this author? Is it arrogance that he presumes to know God’s intentions? Is he brilliant, misguided, inspired or just guessing? I think he’s going in the right direction. It’s a direction/path/way of living set out by mystics thousands of years before Christ supposedly walked the earth – he didn’t have any new ideas – he just reworded them from the Jewish perspective of an oppressed people.
On Melissa Etheridge’s new album “The Awakening” she asks, “Why do we keep turning people into Gods when God is in the people?” So simple, so true.
Interesting that my friend was so enthused by this book – she keeps in tune with the universe by communing with the wonders of nature on a regular basis – but – the book stresses loving relationships as being one of the keys to transcending the mess mankind is making of the world, yet she eschews relationships. Maybe she’ll explain this seeming paradox to me one day.
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