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Book Review of The Transparency of Others

The Transparency of Others
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This book is supposedly 124 pages. There are actually 109 pages in the essay. It is written in a huge font, larger than large print books use. If an ordinary font were used, it would probably be about 28 pages long, hardly eligible to be called a book. It is a booklet with delusions of grandeur.

The brevity could be forgiven if the author had actually imparted anything useful in his essay.

The author spends the first 70 pages telling us we don't know jack about spiritual stuff. And, furthermore, he is not going to enlighten us. He would, but it is outside the scope of this essay, we wouldn't understand, the explanation is too long for this brief essay, he can't or he just doesn't feel like it.

We are not aware of our spiritual deficiencies because of a conspiracy to keep us in the dark. The ascended masters wish to keep us in the dark because they don't want to share the goodies of ascended mastery.

After telling us over and over how deluded we are, the author launches into an description of the ascended masters. My favorite: The body temperature of an ascended master is 87.5°. I can't tell you how many times I have wondered what the body temperature of an ascended master is.

In the last few pages of the book, the author announces that he has killed all the ascended masters, except Jesus and Buddha. What this means for the rest of us is not mentioned.

The last line of the book, in a complete departure from what has been said before, is: "Ascended mastery is nothing more than realizing that you are more than your animal life form and becoming what you most are inside of you; God." It is probably the only sensible sentence in the entire book.

Oh, one more thing. The author has no "clue" about the "proper" use of "quotation marks".