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Summary: CERTAINLY A CULT CLASSIC IN THE MAKING
Review: From THE FORTEAN TIMES, June/July, 2000: Jeremy of Hampstead, Fiona of Bloomsbury, beware. European-style intellectual novels are making a comeback with a New Age touch. There are now no excuses for being a pre-industrial writer any more. Father Ernetti's Chronovisor is a beautifully written literary-cum-fictional experiment, in the Umberto Eco tradition. The book could have been a candidate for a review by Arthur Koestler in the long-defunct CIA-sponsored Encounter magazine. It could well represent a growing anti-pop movement in that genre which is now called "pan-dimensional." This style, while not "stream-of-consciousness" or collage, nevertheless juxtaposes many elements: an esoteric story, essays on occultism, historical elements and technological myths--just about everything that FT readers are interested in. Father Ernetti was an Italian Benedictine monk who died in the middle years of this [the 20th] century. He lived in the lovely abbey on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, just off the main island of Venice, and as a scientist and musicologist, he was an authority on archaic music. Using his knowledge of the physics of chordal structures, he claimed to have made a time-machine. (...) -Colin Bennett
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Summary: Important Correction
Review: I first of heard of this book when I heard the author on a radio show talk and made the book sound interesting but after reading this book I wish I followed the advice of some of the reviewers and skipped this book. This book shows a whole lot of nothing of the so called chronovizor with a bunch of tid bit informaion making you think maybe a chronovizor is possible. '' what ever skip this book at all costs, a total waste of time.
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Summary: [...]
Review: I got the book yesterday in the mail, and today it is in the trash. This has to be the worst book I have ever bought. It wouldn't even make a good magazine article, which is where they got some of the filler for the book. There are maybe only two chapters about Fr. Ernetti, and absolutely no verification of his "chronovisor", or any reason to believe the Vatican has possesion of it, or ever knew about it. The two chapters about him, show him to be a liar. Even his best friend, and the person that the author uses for a character reference are torn between his honesty and maybe he is a compulsive liar. The picture that Fr. Ernetti produced, claiming that it was a picture of Jesus on the Cross, he later, according to the book, admitted was a picture taken of the face of a carved statue. IMO, that makes him an admitted liar. The rest of the book is devoted to chapters of long dead spiritualists, like Blavatsky, and Cayce, etc. I think the whole book was compiled from the internet. This is a non-book.
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Summary: Reader Use Discernment...
Review: In the paraphrased words of a biblical apostle: "Reader use discernment...".Ernetti was a foremost Vactican *exorcist* who often had audience with the pope. This in and of itself smacks of the occult or complicity with the disobedient sons of god. As the bible mentions many times "remote viewing" is possible for spirit beings to perform for the benefit of humans. However, it is NOT the actual event but rather a highly editorialized version of that entity's memory of past events. The account of Jesus' "CRUCifiction" should be immediate forensic evidence to discount the "eye-witness" account of Ernetti. The Catholic archives as well as older more accurate bibles such as Guttenberg, Tindale, et al as well as Josephsus' historical accounts clearly indicate that the Roman custom of impalement execution was done via "stauros" (Greek word for 'torture-stake') and not more costly labor intensive crosses. The introduction of a cross was the occult machination of the 4th century true originator of Catholicism, Constantine and his occult practicing mother. They conspired to pollute true Judeo-Christainity with false Babylonian idol worship in the false god 'Tammuz' into the worship of the true god and his son Jesus Christ. Enter the idol in the shape of a 'T' or cross... Therefore, if Ernetti truly *saw* Christ's execution, rather then a demon-inspired highly editorialized remote view, then he would have seen a man on a 'tree' or 'torture stake' with no cross member! The bible clearly states that time travel is not possible when it states that 'The past is gone and can not be regained' (paraphrased). If it were possible it would negate the sacrifice that Jesus made in that he would be repeatedly dying in other dimensions over and over in contrast to dying ONCE for all time. Or that Ernetti (et al) could have interfered with Jesus' mission to earth in some obscure way. No, this book is just another of the many demon inspirations of the last days of the system of things...
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Summary: A Living Metaphor for Our Time
Review: In this unusual work, the author sets forth to describe Father Ernetti's creation of a time machine. What is more unusual is that the Venetian priest managed to realize the contraption under the wing of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet his machine afforded more than mere travel into the past and future, but rather embodied a kind of living metaphor for our time. The Father's machine afforded a look at linearity, the Gregorian calendar, perhaps even Bishop Ussher's insistence that the world was created on September 21, 4004 B.C., a belief still held by some even in this day of quantum non-locality. The author describes other achronological curios such as Baird T. Spalding's Camera of Past Events, the Secret School of Whitley Strieber, as well as Edgar Cayce. Also, information on Thomas Edison's device to contact the dead is described in this worthwhile volume.
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Summary: A Living Metaphor for Our Time
Review: In this unusual work, the author sets forth to describe Father Ernetti's creation of a time machine. What is more unusual is that the Venetian priest managed to realize the contraption under the wing of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet his machine afforded more than mere travel into the past and future, but rather embodied a kind of living metaphor for our time. The Father's machine afforded a look at linearity, the Gregorian calendar, perhaps even Bishop Ussher's insistence that the world was created on September 21, 4004 B.C., a belief still held by some even in this day of quantum non-locality. The author describes other achronological curios such as Baird T. Spalding's Camera of Past Events, the Secret School of Whitley Strieber, as well as Edgar Cayce. Also, information on Thomas Edison's device to contact the dead is described in this worthwhile volume.
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Summary: Important Correction
Review: Mr. Dennis Daly's review of Father Ernetti's Chronovisor is misleading and incorrect in that surely it must refer, not to the English-language version of the book (which you have on sale here), but to the original German-language version (Dein Schicksal ist Vorherbestimmt, 1997). The German version devotes only two chapters exclusively to Father Ernetti and his time machine, which is one of the complaints Mr. Daly makes. The American version has 14 chapters devoted exclusively to Father Ernetti and his chronovisor, and all of the other 12 chapters bear directly on those 14 chapters. The German version is riddled with errors (the author even gets Father Ernetti's first name wrong), but the American publishers seem to have done all their own research and brought out a book so greatly expanded, revised and corrected over the original version that it really amounts to a whole new book. I strongly recommend this new American version. It is a fascinating and riveting account that seems to me to bring out all of the complex, subtle and elusive factors in this mind-blowing and completely original odyssey of Father Ernetti. I'm at a loss, though, to explain why 4 out of 5 readers backed up Mr. Daly in his harsh review. Why did they affix their approval to a review that so obviously distorts even the most basic facts of the book? Have they, too, read only the German version? It seems unlikely. But, if so, I strongly urge them--and everyone else--to read the American version.
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Summary: Fascinating, unusual journey
Review: Purporting to be a biography, this book is a great deal more. Yes, it is fascinating enough as one of these — it tells of a scientist/theologian who developed a machine to look into the past — but it is also much more. To set the context of Father Ernetti, to show how his chronovisor fit into the human quest for spirit, the author also offers fascinating accounts of others who have added so much to our spiritual understandings. The chronovisor, after all, purported to grasp both sounds and images from the still-existent waves of the past, held forever in the akashic records. Mr. Krassa does not merely offer example of what these are, but gives an entire background by telling us of the 18th century birth of mesmerism and animal magnetism, which effects came from “a ‘vital fluid’ diffused everywhere throughout the universe.” The author shows the spread of this belief in varied forms, and takes us through the lives of people like Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and Edgar Cayce to explain where all of this went. He even tells of Thomas Edison’s apparatus to contact the dead! Enter Father Ernetti and his chronovisor. The father was widely known for his expertise in archaic music, and for his interest and talent in science and languages. When he began to speak of a machine built by scientists that allowed them to witness the past in 3-D, you can bet that people took note. But with fascinating irregularities to the claims, people’s reactions widely varied. A huge reaction set in when Ernetti claimed to have photographed the crucified Christ … and when the photo was proven a fake. Ernetti was a man of good repute, and Mr. Krassa examines why an honest man would lie in this way; why he would withhold information on the supposed machine; and just what was really going on with the father. If I might re-classify the book, I call it investigative reporting of a fascinating mystery. And, it helps the reader understand better where we stand today by better seeing where the spiritual movement has arisen from. One of the most interesting accounts I have read, and recommended for those wanting to take an unusual reading trip.
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Summary: Fascinating, unusual journey
Review: Purporting to be a biography, this book is a great deal more. Yes, it is fascinating enough as one of these — it tells of a scientist/theologian who developed a machine to look into the past — but it is also much more. To set the context of Father Ernetti, to show how his chronovisor fit into the human quest for spirit, the author also offers fascinating accounts of others who have added so much to our spiritual understandings. The chronovisor, after all, purported to grasp both sounds and images from the still-existent waves of the past, held forever in the akashic records. Mr. Krassa does not merely offer example of what these are, but gives an entire background by telling us of the 18th century birth of mesmerism and animal magnetism, which effects came from “a ‘vital fluid’ diffused everywhere throughout the universe.” The author shows the spread of this belief in varied forms, and takes us through the lives of people like Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and Edgar Cayce to explain where all of this went. He even tells of Thomas Edison’s apparatus to contact the dead! Enter Father Ernetti and his chronovisor. The father was widely known for his expertise in archaic music, and for his interest and talent in science and languages. When he began to speak of a machine built by scientists that allowed them to witness the past in 3-D, you can bet that people took note. But with fascinating irregularities to the claims, people’s reactions widely varied. A huge reaction set in when Ernetti claimed to have photographed the crucified Christ … and when the photo was proven a fake. Ernetti was a man of good repute, and Mr. Krassa examines why an honest man would lie in this way; why he would withhold information on the supposed machine; and just what was really going on with the father. If I might re-classify the book, I call it investigative reporting of a fascinating mystery. And, it helps the reader understand better where we stand today by better seeing where the spiritual movement has arisen from. One of the most interesting accounts I have read, and recommended for those wanting to take an unusual reading trip.
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Summary: Fairly interesting, but utterly limp
Review: This book posits an amazing notion from its first page: why did Father Ernetti, known for his studiousness and utter honestly, announce to the Vatican that he'd invented a time machine? And for that matter, why did the Vatican corroborate his announcement as fact before covering it up and pretending it'd never occurred? Pity that the book never truly takes a stand on its findings, however. It presents a series of facts, interviews, ideas, and thoughts, many of which contradict each other, and lets the reader interperet them as they wish. In the end, the reader is no more educated on the subject than when they began, and perhaps a bit more confused.
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