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Summary: spiritual upliftment
Review: I have been searching for answers to the question, Who am I? and, Why am I here? I have finally found all the answers that I need, in Going Deeper. Even though this book is a novel it has the ring of truth all the way through. I will strongly suggest this book to everyone that I know, as this is truely, exactly, what everyone and the planet desperately need at this time.
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Summary: The "Celestine Prophecy" for the New Millennium!
Review: "Going Deeper" is truly the novel of the "New Age"---meant for all of us "fish out of water" 70 million Wanderers who have ventured onto this planet, most unfortunately still asleep. This book is conceived as a catalyst to urge the unawakened Wanderers to wake up and BE their destiny---whatever form their specialized service work will take in the upcoming planetary dimensional shifts of this earth.
Even if you don't need to be nudged awake, it is still a great book which presents the deeper concepts of the New Age in an enjoyable 'fictional' read. I absolutely love that the author has recognized the deep wisdom held by other than human beings. Animals, trees, and stones have such wisdom if we have but ears to hear.
This book has the potential to be the next "Celestine Prophecy" in terms of a bestseller crossing over into the mainstream. But, it is a much better written book, and fathoms deeper than the predecessor. In other words, one which is more suited to this current time period. That it is a first book makes it all the more an amazing accomplishment.
Even if the author does no more writing, he will have probably left a complete, eye-opening legacy for the earth Wanderers. If even a small percentage of these souls wake up from reading this, he will have done an incredible service for the Earth. I congratulate and honor you, Mr. Koven, for a masterful work.
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Summary: Goes really deep!!!
Review: 'Going Deeper' by Jean-Claude Koven is not a novel in the ordinary sense of the word and again it is also not a self-help book in the normal sense of the word. It is a novelised version of a man's spiritual search to understand his true nature and his true mission on this planet earth. The book's cover categorises it better as Self-Help, Spirituality, New Age and Metaphysical.
The action takes place in Joshua Tree National Park and the whole 'Story' is about the Spiritual Rebirthing (the Phoenix is an appropriate metaphor) of Larry, the 'hero' through shedding many layers of ego resulting in better awareness and thus better integration of the many egos that go to make up an individual.
Through Larry and his dog Zeus, who acts as a teacher, guide and guru, and through a tree and a rock, Jean-Claude tries to explain the nature of the 'self' or soul. The book is especially appealing to the 'Wanderers', souls of a higher plane who have volunteered to take birth on the earth allowing the veil of ignorance to cover them, but who, at the same time are not allowed to forget their true mission. This reviewer could well identify with the wanderer's problems, having been tormented by similar conflicts between the insights that keep coming up from the other side and the veil of ignorance that tries to cover up those sights. The book certainly helps clarify many of the puzzles presented by the universe. The book is different from the usual new age books in that it tries to harmonise the relationship between spirituality and science. I found the portion that bridges the spirituality and science excellent reading.
Even if you don't have a scientific background, the book talks to you from several points of perception and thus succeeds in reaching its central message across of non-duality, or the unity in diversity. Readers who are steeped in believing a specific religion may find some of the ideas revolutionary and disturbing.
The photograph on the cover is really inviting and the printing quality is good.
The book has gripped my attention and interest. I had to pick it up every day and continue.
"Going Deeper" really goes deep into the subject of spirituality.I strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: A bright and truly inspirational look at the spiritual quest
Review: Genre: Inspirational/Self Help
GOING DEEPER
AUTHOR: JEAN-CLAUDE KOVEN
A bright, new and truly inspirational look at the spiritual quest.Entertaining, engaging and subtle this book carries a serious underlying message. Author Jean-Claude Koven has chosen a humorous fictional character named Larry to make his point. Larry and his wise-cracking dog Zeus make their way to Joshua Tree National Park for, what Larry thinks will be, a relaxing holiday. Zeus however has other ideas. Yes the dog talks however before you scoff and disregard this book, you should know that Zeus speaks with the wisdom of the ages. Larry begins a journey of spiritual awakening and true enlightenment with the help of Zeus and his unusual friends. Larry learns that the Earth and all of her inhabitants are depending on him to move them smoothly into the next dimension.
Author Jean-Claude Koven has studied with the Masters and lectured on six continents. He stimulates the hidden memories deep within and seeks to help realign this planet?s inhabitants with their souls.
With bookshelves bulging at the seams with technical often boring information on enlightenment, spiritual awakening, finding the Self, etc. this book is a refreshing change that not only covers most topic for the spiritual voyager, but does it in a most enjoyable format. The cover photograph is representative of the book?s contents and most pleasing to the eye. Well written, informative and nicely presented-- this book is highly recommended.
Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews.
Title: Going Deeper
Author: Jean Claude Koven
Publisher: Prism House Press
ISBN: 0-9723954-5-8
Pages. 434
Price: $ 24.95
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Summary: fresh & lucid
Review: Going Deeper is seriously 'not for everybody'.
A qualification like "the Matrix meets the Hitch Hikers Guide (to the Galaxy)" is suggestive of its flavour...
The book's target audience is relatively small (a share of 70 million humans). As such, the encountered negative reviews may be taken as a positive indication. This work is a gift. It's sparkling, and laced with triggers designed to disclose the (3dimensional) 'exit'. It's purpose lies in contributing to the awakening of souls. To help generate the minimum energy required to counteract the looming dead weight that drags our collective consciousness.
So, if you think you might just have what it takes to break away from the herd - and break out - then this is a book for you.
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Summary: Hair of the Dog?
Review: In this premiere novel by Jean Claude Koven, touted as the next Seth Speaks in the promo material, a talking dog named Zeus channels the so called Council of Nine in Joshua Tree park for the main protagonist Larry, who appears to be something of a spiritual bumpkin amidst all the high falutin' metaphysics swirling about him. Throughout the remainder of Going Deeper, the anomalous dog (as well as a Juniper tree and spirit beings in a crystal cave) continue to spout out 'wisdom' of the ascensionist, love/light variety. Much of the information seems evolutionarily compelling, such as harmonizing our sub-personalities and not letting one or the other predominate, balancing out our emotions, serving others, preparing for the coming fourth dimensional shift, etc.
So persuasive and cosmic the mutt's utterances were that I actually let my subtle body guard down, rose colored optimist that I tend to be at times. However in the afterglow of all the cosmically refined superlatives flying out of the canine's mouth, my etheric hackles promptly rose when I read the author's own bio: Aside from being a successful entrepreneur for over forty years, he mentions interfacing with J.J. Hurtak, Andrija Puharich, and Scientology. For those in the conspiratorial know, especially those who have read The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynne Picknett and Clive Prince, mention of these shades should be sufficient enough of a red flag that something may be deeply amiss here.
Puharich is known to have worked with intelligence organizations such as the CIA, unethically experimented on psychically gifted children at the 'Turkey Farm' etc. J.J. Hurtak is probably the ultimate metaphysical spin meister himself, via his suave, trans-dimensional propaganda otherwise known as The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch.
Either Koven is a naive channel for what seems to be (or, ironically, may actually be) highly evolved-compassionate information or is deliberately putting all the red flags in the novel himself, perhaps unconsciously. I'm not at liberty to decide which considering the profound bias I have towards the Council of Niners. I honestly ventured into Going Deeper with a beginner's mind and confess to experiencing a short lived kind of spiritual exuberation. However, the illuminating epilogue, sad to say, has left me a bit less than hopeful about the kind of wondrous future Koven attempts to steer us towards in his novel.
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Summary: I can't recommend reading this book
Review: Jean-Claude Kovan, Going Deeper
Maybe my anticipation was too great or my expectations too high, but this book really bugged me. It's an often heavy, often absurd, often confusing psychospiritual-metaphysical "novel" without a plot, character development, or other standard fictional devices. It can't compete with the "message novels" of James Redfield (Celestine Prophecy series) or Ayn Rand. There are some inspirational concepts, to be sure, but they've already been written about (better) in the non-fiction works of Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, and others. I actually thought the glossary, odd to have in a work of "fiction," was the most interesting part of the book. Oh well, like the talking dog and "the Voice" say: "If you find what we say helpful, you are welcome to make it yours. Any part with which you do not resonate you are free to discard." I think I will discard this book.
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Summary: Folks, the rapping raccoon is the HIGH point.
Review: Jean-Claude Kovan, Going Deeper (Prism House, 2004)
I really didn't think I was going to read a worse book than Roger Hailey's travesty Museum this year. And, to tell you the honest truth, I haven't... yet. One of the worst, most frustrating things about Going Deeper is that it's reasonably well-written, at about the same level of competence from that perspective as the books of James Redfield (and whatever you think about the psychospirituality behind The Celestine Prophecy, it does make a good adventure story when Redfield isn't trying to teach you a lesson). The problem is that Kovan can obviously write, and he's obviously got a message to tell, but no one bothered to hammer McLuhan's old truism into his head. Just having a message to impart is not enough; if the story doesn't tell the message, what you end up with is usually unreadable dreck. (A lesson many authors could stand to learn, not just Kovan; he just happens to be my particular target at this moment.) Kovan comes up with a decent, albeit vastly overused, setting, and some intriguing characters, but then plops said characters down in said setting and gets to teachin' without so much as a Celestinesque adventure. So despite Kovan's insistence that what's here is a novel (and despite the bits outside the novel where Kovan explains his reasons for writing the book-- which may be the furthest reaching into the fictional to be found between these covers), it reads a whole lot more like a how-to self-help book written by one of the great scammers of our age. I'm sure I don't have to name them, you all know the names, some of you have even read the books. At least Kovan as the sense not to try and pass this off as nonfiction. (zero)
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Summary: Think with your heart and love with your mind
Review: This books takes on the age-old question, "What is the meaning of life?" in a most intelligent and insightful way. Author Jean-Claude Koven illuminates and expounds upon the nature of consciousness with this fictional account of a week in the life of one man and his search for the Great Unknowable Mystery. It begins in the week following 9/11, when our hero Larry and his very special adopted puppy head to Joshua Tree National Monument to commune with nature. Larry gets more than he bargained for, as encounters with a talking a raccoon, a juniper tree, and even a million-year-old rock shatter his view of reality and transform his previous beliefs about Heaven and Earth.
Koven has traveled the world seeking answers to the great spiritual mysteries, studying mystics from Lao-Tse to L. Ron Hubbard and many lesser-known cosmic searchers. He weaves many of these ideas into Larry's encounter, expressing a sense of urgency about the need to cure the imbalance we now face on Earth, and describing how we must rise to new heights of awareness and compassion. Larry's enlightenment is aided by spiritual icons like the Medicine Wheel and a native shaman, visions of soaring eagles and dramatic sunsets, voyages through crystal caves and virtual galaxies, and frightening visits to his own darkside. This dramatic cosmic trip eventually brings him back to the simple truths of surrender and humility, and the underlying importance of "being present." Unlike most self-help guides, Koven promises no quick fix, and urges us to approach the quest for awareness with hard work, and sense of humor, and thorough, meditative introspection.
Are we due for an apocalypse? Is the world out of control? Whether it is or not, this book brings much relief by offering ways to "be in the now" and to "think with your heart and love with your mind." All our problems, from war, to greed, to addictions, can't be solved with pills or money or power. The answers -- and the conscious will to save ourselves and our planet -- can only be found by "going deeper" within.
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Summary: Midwest Book Review -- Mayra Calvani
Review: Who am I?
What is my purpose?
What is the meaning of life?
If you are the type of person who often ask yourself these age-old questions, then this is a book worth considering. In a simple, straight-forward style accompanied by light, fun dialogue, Jean-Claude Koven explores profound metaphysical subjects and presents it in a manner any intelligent reader can understand.
The story begins a week after 9/11, when Larry, a successful LA lawyer, ends up adopting a puppy in the strangest of circumstances. Important to point out is the restless state of Larry's mind at this point, as it symbolizes how many people think and feel in these times:
"Little by little it was dawning on him [Larry] that reality doesn't lend itself to containment in tidy packages. Certainty was receding, replaced by a newborn voice in his psyche that demanded answers to a host of unspoken questions. Despite all his education and apparent success, the life he'd constructed for himself didn't quite make sense to him anymore. Something about it was a complete sham. Whatever he was doing now, whatever he had done in the past, no longer had much relevance. And he had no answers."
One day Larry decides to make a "nature" trip to Joshua Tree National Park with his beloved, and quite inseparable adopted dog, Zeus. On the way, Larry suddenly hears a voice talking to him. Stunned, he realizes it comes from Zeus. Thus Larry's spiritual journey begins... A journey that will completely transformed him, heighten his level of awareness and change his old sense of illusion vs. reality.
Larry learns that he is, in fact, a Wanderer, an advance soul from a distant dimension come to earth in love and service to assist the transition into the next paradigm. Through the engrossing, sometimes hilarious dialogues between Larry and Zeus, Larry and a racoon, Larry and a juniper tree, and Larry and stones, metaphysical concepts are explored, among these the Higher Self, Akashic records, Levels of Awareness, densities, chakras, indigo children and reincarnation. Timeless subjects such as religion, science, faith, free will and intuition are also discussed. At the end of the book there is also a helpful and informative glossary with all the metaphysical terms.
This novel should not only be in the shelf of every metaphysical enthusiast, but also in the hands of anybody who desires to enrich his/her spiritual life. All throughout the novel you'll find enlightening words and quotes, like Einstein's "No problem can be solved from the same level of Consciousness that created it." Or "When caught in a fog bank, you can always see more clearly by moving above it." I specially like Zeus' advice at the beginning, when he tells Larry that human beings shouldn't focus so much on the imagined destination and instead learn to enjoy the actual journey in getting there.
Even for those of you who don't believe in concepts like Wanderers, Light Workers, Planetary Servers, reincarnation or chakras, any open-minded, intelligent reader will be able to derive wise tips on how to become a better human being and live a better life.
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