While the Gods Play: Shaiva Oracles and Predictions on the Cycles of History and the Destiny of Mankind

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Summary: AWESOME Revelations!: The Dissolution of the World
Review: This is hands down one of the most important books I have ever read. If you are interested in the "end times" and the invisible (to most) forces that permeate this world, then you will be blown away by what is revealed here. Mr. Danielou offers his reader a truely staggering and comprehensive explanation of the Cycles of Time (we are now living in the Twilight of the most dark and dense cycle, the Kali Yuga or the Age of Conflict & Confusion); a profound understanding of how consciousness creates reality (an ancient metaphysical precept, way before any 'new age'); exact symptoms of the Kali Yuga (including 'pre-cooked food will be readily available' - meaning the ancients knew that fast food would be herald a degenerate civilization); and a list of the events that occur as this final cycle of Time brings the inevitable dissolution of the world.

As I have been urging my friends to read this book for years, I have been praying that Inner Traditions would reprint it. While anything that Alain Danielou wrote will open your mind and alter your consciousness, this may have been his most valuable book.