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Summary: Interesting
Review: It is interesting to note that The Flower of Life (Vol 1) has stimulated a huge disparity in terms of readers' judgements of its validity and usefulness. I agree with the nay-sayers who state that most (if not all) of the information contained in this book cannot be verified by standard reference methodologies. To be fair to Drunvalo, he does recommend discarding any information presented that does not feel comfortable intuitively. Some readers apparently feel that this applies to most of the material presented. He does not profess to be a 'scientist' and in fact stated his rejection of that form of informational hierarchy. His writing style is thus easy to read, as if you are talking with a friend. There is a huge amount of information presented in this book, and it remains to be seen if it really 'true' or not! Still worth a read in my opinion. I have not read Volume II but will take a look at it when it becomes available.
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Summary: Confirmation AND a quite a ride!
Review: Let's just say that synchronicity led me to Dru's books (vol. 1 & 2). I put off reading them until I actually met the guy at a seminar, and then I "got" it. His message is really way out there: you've got to read from your heart. But what he's talking about is so familiar - we all know this stuff; we just forgot. Well, this is going to help you remember. Dru is a scientist, and he really loves math & physics, so hold onto your hats, because these books are deep, at times. But they are also like water to someone in deep thirst. They fill gaps in our history and answer those little niggling intuition urges we hear inside. Trust the message and do not judge the messenger. He is a real man, normal, funny and trying to live just like you and me. Trust yourself as to what you will feel when you read these words. That funny feeling around your heart area is there for a reason. After reading these works, you'll know why.
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Summary: Amalgamates Science and Spirituality; Past, Present and Futu
Review: My personal quest over the past 50 years has been varied; from one subject to another but only thru this book have I found connection. A fascinating book to forward any persons quest for truth.
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Summary: A NEW AGE CASH-COW. I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!!
Review: On the back cover of this book it says 'Drunvalo Melkizadek's life experience reads like an encyclopedia of breakthroughs in human endevour'???
Not to me it doesn't, judging by the scant and unimpressive biography in this book (I get the feeling long spells on welfare are papered over). Drunvalo presents himself as some kind of academic genius as well as a deeply spiritual person yet manages to come over in his writing like an dim-witted drunk who might bore you senseless in a flea-pit bar with conspiracy theories straight out of the national enquirer.
Not that I necessarily think that the opinions put forward in this book are untrue. I wouldn't have even bought it in the first place if that were the case. I just don't think that many of these ideas are his own. They seem to be fleeced from a variety of sources: Kabbalah, sacred geometry and other new age books. Any of which are credible sources, and yet drunvalo has a real knack for making all these ideas seem flaky and preposterous. His writing is clumsy and vague. It's quite a feat to write 200 plus pages about aliens, ancient civilisations, governmental cover-ups, dolphin midwives, extra-dimensional beings etc. and make it all so interminably dull! By far the most infuriating flaw in this mess is D.M's constant allusion to 'a bunch of scientists who calculated this...' or 'an archeologist who discovered that...'. Almost never does he give any names, or dates, or locations, or hints of any kind as to how this info was gained or how it might be checked. It leaves one with the distinct feeling that he's making it all up as he goes along, or that it's just rumour from the new age social circle. Academically this book is a travesty; spiritually it is highly suspect. I'm sorry folks but if your looking for answers they 'aint here. An insult to the intelligence and boring too! On the plus side it does have a nice shiny cover. All in all I found this fluff very difficult to finish and after turning the last page I was left feeling 'so what?'
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Summary: How did he graduate from Cal with writing skills this poor?
Review: That's the question. "Some people believe...", "Scientists say...",& "The Pentagon has done studies..." would never be accepted by Cal professors. All that was bad enough but, "There's a story going around about the World Health Organization..." on pg. 77 made me want to take a shower. Clearly the author with the presumptuous pseudonym did not run across the yamas, i.e., ethical precepts of yoga, when he was studying all the major world religions."Satya--Commitment to the Truth-- This precept is based on the understanding that honest communication and action form the bedrock of any healthy relationship, community, or government, and that deliberate deception, exaggerations, and mistruths harm others. One of the best ways we develop this capacity is to practice right speech. This means that when we say something, we are sure of it's truth...A large part of our everyday comments and conversations are based on our imagination, supposition, erroneous conclusions, and sometimes out-and-out exaggerations. Gossip is probobly the worst form of this miscommunication."(pg.9, Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit by Donna Farhi)
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Summary: flower of life
Review: There are books you read for ENTERTAINMENT only. There are other books you read for EDUCATION mainly. This book, actually an edited transcript of the Flower of Life Seminar as Drunvalo originally gave it, is BOTH entertaining and educational. Entertaining in the sense of a well-told story around the campfire. Educational in the sense that you might well wish your formal education more often was. But YOU decide. The Amazon site offers you the opportunity to SAMPLE some pages. I'll entertain myself to just tease you with this: If I had to suddenly leave my home, or country, or planet, and could only (because of volume/weight constraints) take ten titles with me, The Flower of Life, Vols. 1 and 2, would be one of those titles. I would try to cheat, however, and ask if I could also take along Drunvalo's new book, Living in the Heart, since it's only a very small book, as part of the set. Quite frankly, I would take these books before the Bible, not because I don't love the Bible, but because I feel the Life information here is more efficiently presented than the more redacted message of the Judao-Christian Holy Writ. And efficiency, when it's YOUR time, energy, and life, MIGHT make the difference between a "fragged" faith that cannot survive the belief-tests of modern science, and a more wholistic view that can capacitate the quantum-jump to higher consciousness even beyond the die-mansions of enlightenment. See, Drunvalo has helped me understand what I believe to be the message of the Bible --or all True Scripture-- in a way I never could have before this. Even if you choose to be skeptical (as some of us always will until, as Shakespeare wrote, "my bad angel fire my good one out") one could seldom find such a generous smorgasbord of things to (d)evaluate. Isn't there some value even in that?
Truly, I'm grateful to have encountered Drunvalo and wish the same for YOU. Whether your interest is in information (to which the Flower of Life geometry seems key) or meditation (enhanced through awareness of the mer-ka-ba) or miracle (read the section on dolphin-assisted orgasmic childbirth!), I wish you happy learning! And if you find something better to put in the Top Ten, please let me know why:)
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Summary: On My Top Ten List
Review: There are books you read for ENTERTAINMENT only. There are other books you read for EDUCATION mainly. This book, actually an edited transcript of the Flower of Life Seminar as Drunvalo originally gave it, is BOTH entertaining and educational. Entertaining in the sense of a well-told story around the campfire. Educational in the sense that you might well wish your formal education more often was. But YOU decide. The Amazon site offers you the opportunity to SAMPLE some pages. I'll entertain myself to just tease you with this: If I had to suddenly leave my home, or country, or planet, and could only (because of volume/weight constraints) take ten titles with me, The Flower of Life, Vols. 1 and 2, would be one of those titles. I would try to cheat, however, and ask if I could also take along Drunvalo's new book, Living in the Heart, since it's only a very small book, as part of the set. Quite frankly, I would take these books before the Bible, not because I don't love the Bible, but because I feel the Life information here is more efficiently presented than the more redacted message of the Judao-Christian Holy Writ. And efficiency, when it's YOUR time, energy, and life, MIGHT make the difference between a "fragged" faith that cannot survive the belief-tests of modern science, and a more wholistic view that can capacitate the quantum-jump to higher consciousness even beyond the die-mansions of enlightenment. See, Drunvalo has helped me understand what I believe to be the message of the Bible --or all True Scripture-- in a way I never could have before this. Even if you choose to be skeptical (as some of us always will until, as Shakespeare wrote, "my bad angel fire my good one out") one could seldom find such a generous smorgasbord of things to (d)evaluate. Isn't there some value even in that?
Truly, I'm grateful to have encountered Drunvalo and wish the same for YOU. Whether your interest is in information (to which the Flower of Life geometry seems key) or meditation (enhanced through awareness of the mer-ka-ba) or miracle (read the section on dolphin-assisted orgasmic childbirth!), I wish you happy learning! And if you find something better to put in the Top Ten, please let me know why:)
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Summary: flower of life
Review: they should really have this book in public libraries, so nobody has to spend money to read it. in it, melchizekdek proposes a geometric/mathematical model for radical abstract consciousness theories and a new age history of the world. mostly, it's rumors he's overhead, i dunno, outside a freemason cocktail party or something. it's not very well-written, which is good, since if you read it closely you can see how information can be manipulated to fit any argument. does sacred geometry exist? yes. do space aliens? maybe. portholes to other dimensions? if there were, i imagine there would be a starbucks coffeehouse at each end. walt whitman traversed more universes than this guy can shake a stick at. if you read this book, and believe everything in it, you're probably paranoid. get out more, and read better books.
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Summary: One Star for this incredible "mathematical" disinformation
Review: This book (and volume no.1) deserves no any star, however because the incredible lies it contains makes it get 1 star as an example for those who still are confused; to proof how many people can be trapped in this idiotic but genious fabricated disinformation.
It's amazing and incredible how easy people can be getting catched by this secret government "setup theories" with false mathematical and wrong explanations and incorrect applications of the so called mathematical laws herein. Just think for example about the spiral case drawings made by halfway circles instead of an projection of the exponential function characteristics.
People must think for themselves. If they don't check the so called refered mathematical "explanations" for themselves, or they accept anything because it looks "mathematical beautiful", be very aware. Thus, the population wants beautifully fabricated images instead of a written truth.
Be aware ! I do not say the aliens do not exist. I do not state the old civilizations and original ancient sciences named here are incorrect or never did exist. I don not deny the spiritual and paranormal phenomena.
I state the suggestions and conclusions in this book are fabricated by a writer who has an AGENDA that fits to get confused people starving for truth and knowledge in his "New Agey" web by a dirty way of spreading disinformation and false hints.
BTW: every serious researcher of spiritual stuff and conspiracies would already have to know, the so called writer of this book is a PATSY for the New World Order Agenda.
The name Melchizedek suggests some integrity, well he isn't !
Using this aftername or synonym is a hot spot signal for the better would-be critical reader.
I know a lot of readers will dislike my review. I know people first shoot the messenger before they get grounded and finally wake up. That's the way how life is all about.
Sorry guys, I don't have a more comfortable message which maybe fits in your "Flower Life" expectations or "End of Time" philosophy with the availability of more of the so called "vibrational dimensions" given by Drunvalo.
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Summary: Interesting but poorly written
Review: This book has some of the most facinating ideas/theories/hypotheses. It combines a lot of things. Please make sure that you also look at the reviews that do not advocate this book or its content. I enjoyed reading the book, however I was very disappointed the way it's written. It feels as if there was very little editing or proof-reading was done and that it was transcribed directly from the lectures given by Drunvalo. At times my eyes popped and mouth gasped wide open, and other times I went, "What the hell is he talking about?" With tremendous effort, I could let go of the way the content is presented and focus on the content itself. With that said, there are a lot of negative points to the book and I would love to go on forever, but the following should summarize them:
1) Eventhough Drunvalo has formal education in Physics and Math (or at least that's what he claims), he fails to present scientific content in scientific way. Most of the references are incomplete or inadequate.
2) At times, Drunvalo is self-contradictory. For an example, in a chapter he talks about the inter-dimensional beings called, 'the Grays', helping us to fix the Christ Consciousness grid (which is going to save us during the magnetic pole shifts) and then in the next chapter he talks about a Peruvian woman lifting a ship from the great pyramid to get rid of these beings ('the Grays') as if they are a threat to us. There are a lot of other examples such as this.
3) Most of the content gives off a feeling of being slapped in from everywhere without any coherent flow.
4) Drunvalo always mentions, "somebody found this", "they discovered it", "we now know..." without any direct reference to a specific individual or a group.
5) It becomes really hard to even agree with some of the other ideas, like "Sacred Geometry" after observing the above flaws.
6) All along you get the idea that this great divine and sacred knowledge is supposed to be non-esoteric and available to everyone! and yet Drunvalo occasionally mentions, "Melchizedek order", "Melchizedek knowledge", "the brotherhood", and it leaves you with an absurd feeling of cult-like philosophy. And because of this, the book fails to be tangible.
I hope this review was insightful and I hope you somehow read the book nonethless. It's very interesting. However in the end, I just like to point out that this so called, "Divine knowledge" and the help from, "the ascended masters", is not free to all humanity and it's gonna cost you some money (Drunvalo's "Sky-Earth" and other workshops cost $333 per person). Is it a wonderful business strategy combined with apperently scientific and bogus spritual gibberish? I don't know - You decide!
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