Though the language is not always accessible, the work is both welcoming and revelatory.
Cochran offers a guide to understanding the spiritual side of humanity in an ever-changing universe.
In this entry in his Emerging You series, the author explores a range of ideas related to a posited shift in how the world operates; as Cochran explains, the old ways of competition (rooted in things like fear) are giving way to new compassionate approaches (rooted in things like love). This shift calls for people to think of themselves and how they act in a new light. The author touches on such topics as the power and importance of thoughts, how humans are incarnated on Earth in order to learn lessons, and how time and space do not necessarily operate the way the average person thinks that they do. Discussions of psychic phenomena like remote viewing and astral projection lead to bracing pronouncements like “Many of us were born with space-time manipulation abilities”; per the author, people generally contain much more power and much more depth than they realize. In light of this, Cochran goes on to counsel that one should not waste energy on things like fearmongering news reports or even scary movies (he argues that fear begets “fear’s children, such as judgment, anger, worry”). One must remember, asserts the author, that “magic happens when win-win groups with compassionate intent reach a critical mass of coherence.” The book certainly provides plenty for even skeptical readers to chew on; if nothing else, the work offers a novel way of looking at many familiar details in life. Some of the ideas of the text are explained in an alienatingly abstruse manner—concepts like “nested etheric energy spheres” and “self-aware vibratory energy” sound distractingly like SF jargon. Still, the reader is guided through it all in an earnestly benevolent manner.
Though the language is not always accessible, the work is both welcoming and revelatory.Pub Date: Sept. 10, 2023
ISBN: 9798218191153
Page Count: 370
Publisher: Independently Published
Review Posted Online: March 21, 2024
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.
A compendium of charts, time lines, lists and illustrations to accompany study of the Bible.
This visually appealing resource provides a wide array of illustrative and textually concise references, beginning with three sets of charts covering the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament and the New Testament. These charts cover such topics as biblical weights and measures, feasts and holidays and the 12 disciples. Most of the charts use a variety of illustrative techniques to convey lessons and provide visual interest. A worthwhile example is “How We Got the Bible,” which provides a time line of translation history, comparisons of canons among faiths and portraits of important figures in biblical translation, such as Jerome and John Wycliffe. The book then presents a section of maps, followed by diagrams to conceptualize such structures as Noah’s Ark and Solomon’s Temple. Finally, a section on Christianity, cults and other religions describes key aspects of history and doctrine for certain Christian sects and other faith traditions. Overall, the authors take a traditionalist, conservative approach. For instance, they list Moses as the author of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) without making mention of claims to the contrary. When comparing various Christian sects and world religions, the emphasis is on doctrine and orthodox theology. Some chapters, however, may not completely align with the needs of Catholic and Orthodox churches. But the authors’ leanings are muted enough and do not detract from the work’s usefulness. As a resource, it’s well organized, inviting and visually stimulating. Even the most seasoned reader will learn something while browsing.
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-5963-6022-8
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This a book of earlier, philosophical essays concerned with the essential "absurdity" of life and the concept that- to overcome the strong tendency to suicide in every thoughtful man-one must accept life on its own terms with its values of revolt, liberty and passion. A dreary thesis- derived from and distorting the beliefs of the founders of existentialism, Jaspers, Heldegger and Kierkegaard, etc., the point of view seems peculiarly outmoded. It is based on the experience of war and the resistance, liberally laced with Andre Gide's excessive intellectualism. The younger existentialists such as Sartre and Camus, with their gift for the terse novel or intense drama, seem to have omitted from their philosophy all the deep religiosity which permeates the work of the great existentialist thinkers. This contributes to a basic lack of vitality in themselves, in these essays, and ten years after the war Camus seems unaware that the life force has healed old wounds... Largely for avant garde aesthetes and his special coterie.
Pub Date: Sept. 26, 1955
ISBN: 0679733736
Page Count: 228
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Sept. 19, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1955
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