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Summary: Open your mind
Review: I'd like to thank Bob for being the first person to get me motivated to attempt to understand the mysteries of the universe. This book is riddled with paradox, truths and untruths. I cannot tell you which bits are what, simply because your interpretation is different to mine. I believe this is what Bob was trying to do with this book.
If you are to take this book and analyze it, you will more than likely find it a travesty to literature. Bobs ideas and views have no backing what-so-ever. He references things that a few other people are accredited to; the book doesn't really flow. Or even have an easily visible purpose.
Open your mind. Take this book as it feels. "Nothing in this book is true". Can you imagine yourself living in a multiple dimensional reality? Alien existence? Just because we can't prove these facts as `truth', doesn't mean that they are impossible. I urge you to disprove alien life.
The topics that Bob raises, for me, sparked something inside of me. I feel more alive now than ever. I'm reading so much about everything. I want more. Before reading this book I read pretty much nothing. Read it to be inspired, get yourself contemplating possibilities, if nothing else.
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Summary: Two Questions
Review: If nothing is true in 'Nothing in This Book Is True', then what's the author's real name and how come I wasn't allowed to buy it for ten bucks less than the recommended retail price?
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Summary: It's in the title...
Review: If you're looking for some cheap laughs, read this book. The other reviews have done well, but note: For Side-splitting vein-popping hysteria, get this book!
Especially if you get the tape, you can tap into its insane goodness at any time of the day: during breakfast, driving to work, with a glass of port after dinner, or during your usual sessions of ritual merkaba meditations, whippings and chants.
To believe this book you gotta believe a vast and intricate web of insane theories, spanning from aliens building the pyramids, atlantis, time-travelling....you see where we're heading.
Although maybe not as funny as authors like Spike Milligan, this book still rates highly as a highly amusing piece of trash. New-age mumbo-jumbo, Phooey! You're not thinking outside the box, you're just thinking in Frissel's box, and you LIKE it!
A great laugh, nix more than that.
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Summary: Laugh til you cry
Review: If you're looking for some cheap laughs, read this book. The other reviews have done well, but note: For Side-splitting vein-popping hysteria, get this book!
Especially if you get the tape, you can tap into its insane goodness at any time of the day: during breakfast, driving to work, with a glass of port after dinner, or during your usual sessions of ritual merkaba meditations, whippings and chants.
To believe this book you gotta believe a vast and intricate web of insane theories, spanning from aliens building the pyramids, atlantis, time-travelling....you see where we're heading.
Although maybe not as funny as authors like Spike Milligan, this book still rates highly as a highly amusing piece of trash. New-age mumbo-jumbo, Phooey! You're not thinking outside the box, you're just thinking in Frissel's box, and you LIKE it!
A great laugh, nix more than that.
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Summary: A misguided work, or modern tall-tales..
Review: Most reviews of this book are slanted by opinions of the readers based solely on the material discussed by Frissell. From a strictly objective point of view, this book is honestly nonsense. Frissell reviews various 'hidden' aspects of human nature, without ever clearly explaining their purpose, or justifying them with some sort of reliable facts. Similarly, his theories of existence of multi-dimensional existance, and collective conciousness are simply stated, not explained or ratified. Not to mention his 'abridged history of mankind,' which lacks both belivability, and credibility, in that his only source is never properly cited (merely inferred as Drunvalo, see works by him).But perhaps Frissell did not intend this to be an entirely serious work. If nothing else, perhaps Frissell can be applauded for writing one of the greatest travesties of modern literature. Simply look at the title, Frissell discounts his work before anyone even gets inside. So, this opens the work up to more interpretations. Without getting into them, however, I sincerely doubt this novel is really wtorth a lot of anayltical work. It severely lacks in credibility, and perhaps is best read for entertainment value, and to understand exactly what your far out friends mean by 'merkaba,' 'flower of life,' or 'rebirthing.'
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Summary: A misguided work, or modern tall-tales..
Review: Most reviews of this book are slanted by opinions of the readers based solely on the material discussed by Frissell. From a strictly objective point of view, this book is honestly nonsense. Frissell reviews various 'hidden' aspects of human nature, without ever clearly explaining their purpose, or justifying them with some sort of reliable facts. Similarly, his theories of existence of multi-dimensional existance, and collective conciousness are simply stated, not explained or ratified. Not to mention his 'abridged history of mankind,' which lacks both belivability, and credibility, in that his only source is never properly cited (merely inferred as Drunvalo, see works by him). But perhaps Frissell did not intend this to be an entirely serious work. If nothing else, perhaps Frissell can be applauded for writing one of the greatest travesties of modern literature. Simply look at the title, Frissell discounts his work before anyone even gets inside. So, this opens the work up to more interpretations. Without getting into them, however, I sincerely doubt this novel is really wtorth a lot of anayltical work. It severely lacks in credibility, and perhaps is best read for entertainment value, and to understand exactly what your far out friends mean by 'merkaba,' 'flower of life,' or 'rebirthing.'
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Summary: You must buy this book!
Review: Simply in my opinion the most important book ever. It woke me up, opened my eyes, and helped me put things in prespective that I had already figured out myself. I keep at least one extra copy on hand to give to others.
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Summary: Sadly, Not a Joke
Review: The only thing wrong with this book is that it takes itself seriously. It could be a hilarious fantasy extravaganza on the order of "The Illuminatus Trilogy" if only it weren't trying to convince us that it's real. It reminds me of the shrink in "The Terminator," who comments that Kyle Reese's psychotic delusion is brilliant because it doesn't require a shred of proof. Same here: The reason our archaeologists can't find evidence of the 500 million years of advanced civilizations on Earth is because they all occurred on a higher dimension. Dolphins and whales are much smarter than we are, but it doesn't seem so because "advanced beings create everything they need internally." Drunvalo Melchizedek, the book's putative hero, is ten billion years old and came from the center of the galaxy to help us, but he doesn't look it because he's "borrowing" the body of an ordinary human. What's more he doesn't even remember any of that because to retain memories of the thirteenth dimension while in the third "would be just too painful." Our sun is currently undergoing a period of intense solar flares that are engulfing the Earth, but we're not aware of it because a group of benevolent aliens from Sirius B constructed a holographic grid around the entire planet so we would think life was going on as normal, until "we could get to where we could handle a wall of flame." Like I said, this is great stuff. I'm surprised no one's made a movie about this; it would be a blockbuster. The closest I've seen is the movie "Stargate," in which we learn that the ancient Egyptian gods were actually aliens who created humans as a genetically-engineered slave race to work their mines. (That one's in this book too.) Interspersed with these fantastic chapters are boring sets of instructions on how to breathe so that you can inhale psychic energy or "prana" along with your oxygen; and a treatise on "sacred geometry." What makes the geometry useless is that Frissell claims the sacred geometry is "the morphogenic structure behind reality itself," but discusses it through the use of metaphors and vague references to familiar mathematic terminology. Geometry, of course, is a very specific discipline, but Frissell avoids specificity, saying instead things like "Life doesn't know how to deal with something that has no beginning because there is nowhere to start. So this sequence, which has become known as the Fibonacci Sequence, is life's solution to that problem." The flaw in Frissell's "brilliant delusion" is that he starts making predictions about the future, which is always risky for psychotic nuts. By the end of the century (that's the 20th century, by the way -- this book was written in 1994), the Earth as we know it will have disappeared and most of us will have successfully transcended to the fourth dimension, where we'll live in the harmony of christ-consciousness and understand everything. This transcendence was evidently meant to be a conscious one, implying that it probably couldn't occur without our realizing it. Now it's 2003 and I think it's time for a sequel explaining what went wrong with this plan. On the other hand, if you're adrift in the world, if you've accomplished nothing and done nothing practical with your life and you're getting on in years, isn't it comforting to believe that very soon none of it will matter anymore, because you'll ascend to a higher plane of consciousness and be fully invested with your cosmic destiny as an immortal master whose purpose is to save the universe? At the very least, it means I don't have to worry about not having any retirement savings.
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Summary: one of the most entertaining books that tie everything
Review: whether or not it's "true", it makes for very stimulating, interesting, and thought provoking reading.. it is one of my top ten favourite books of all time!! bob frissel is a man with a very well thought out system of how things work and were and are, and the book just is.. yeah, it just "is".
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