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Grady Harp
, November 02, 2008
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Becoming the Director of your own Lucid Dream
As our planet as we know it seems to become more chaotic and self-destructive and wars rage and spring up in disparate places, we tend to embrace nihilism, not out of choice but out of lack of choices. Now with books and films and media specials addressing the once neglected attention toward ancient prophecies (from the Mayan Calendar, from the I Ching, and other ancient sources of wisdom) that the world as we know it will end on December 21, 2012, we can either bury our heads in the sand of ‘rational intelligence’ or elect to open our minds to the potential that is within each of us. It is to this latter direction that Stephen Hawley Martin directs his book THE TRUTH: What You Must Know Before December 21, 2012.
Shedding the integument of modern scientific thought, of the concept of entropy, of the ‘rational’ approach to the unknown phenomenon as psychics, channelers, visions, intuition, and the power of the mind as part of a Universal Mind instead of a small trapped thinking machine inside a corporal body that has a specific time on this planet, then dies, and becomes nothing – all or many of which are shared by the majority of us – is difficult if not perceived as impossible. The result is a life of self-centered involvement and a running race toward an end we wish to secure in order to leave something of ourselves (read money or possessions) as we complete our time on planet earth.
Martin shares his depth of knowledge and years of growth and experience with the ‘unknown’ in a manner that is intelligent without becoming unapproachable, friendly without the need to dumb down his reading audience, and in doing so he opens windows/doors/vistas to life as many of us have never experienced it. This is not a book of magic in the medieval sense, but it is a book of attainable MAGIC for the growth of the individual fortunate enough to come upon this wise, immensely readable book. ‘…there is only one mind. My mind, your mind. The Universal Mind. All of it is connected and all is one’ – ‘mystics have been saying this for millennia.’ ‘Life/thought/mind not only does not occupy space, it transcends time.’ He quotes many scholars and thinkers such as Edgar Cayce: “Spirit is the life, mind is the builder, and the physical is the result.’ And as Martin expands on these words, ‘Thoughts are things that exist in spirit, and what exists in spirit will in time exist on a physical plane.’
Martin leads the reader through this process of altering our perception of life and opening our minds to the enormity of possibilities that exist if we perceive and embrace the fact that all is One – physical, knowledge as we define it, spiritual, and the rapturous unknown. He does not confine his discussion or hold his torch in the direction of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, atheism, Gnosticism or any of the myriad sects who proclaim to define the universe and the beginnings and order of that indefinable something. Instead he encourages us to discover the interaction of our conscious and subconscious minds and discover the rarefied air of reincarnation or returning to the oneness of the Universe. As he so elegantly states, ‘Eventually, the scientific community will reverse their currently held premise that matter gives rise to awareness, consciousness and intelligence and will turn that assumption on its head where it belongs.’
‘Life is a form of energy. Energy cannot be destroyed. Therefore life cannot be destroyed.’ And with this statement Martin begins his instruction on how to rethink our concept of life, not as a pathway from birth to death, but instead as a continuum of being part of the oneness, the ether of the Universe. The lessons he offers are patient, user friendly, and in many ways profound in their simplicity. Once readers have read this book and embraced the concepts Martin gently shares, there will be no fear of the world ending on December 12, 2012. There will instead be the possibility of a world of enlightenment that will be so different from the status of discord we are now experiencing. And in this eminently readable volume, Stephen Hawley Martin becomes a guide, encouraging each of us to share a higher plane of consciousness that will make us eagerly anticipate that date, now not too far in the future. This is a book to digest, to grow, to share.
Grady Harp
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