The Risen: Recommended Readings about the Summerlands

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Recommended Readings about the Summerlands

Anonymous wood engraving first published in 1888 in L'atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire by Camille Flammarion

"I don't see how there can be life after death.

There can't be any; there is no life after death

because there is no death.

It is just a continuation of life."

~ Ernest Holmes (Love & Law)

A reader of The Risen recently asked for recommendations for good reads about life after life. Here are a few, and if anyone has others to recommend, please do share about them with us.

"Where Two Worlds Meet" and other books by Arthur Findlay

Also - the works of Robert James Lees

Also - Riley Heagerty's The French Revelation - about Emily French

4 Comments:

At Mon May 23, 04:52:00 PM 2011, Richard Ashton said...: Hi August and Tim, can you please comment on the information presented in "The Urantia Book"? I am currently really enjoying reading "Life After Death in the Worlds Unseen" and am looking forward to reading Part 2 and then "Facts" all from Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson.

Thanks. Richard
At Mon May 23, 09:17:00 PM 2011, August Goforth said...: Our recommendation is to not waste your time with it, unless you have an historical interest in such things. It's clear it was generated by lower level entities, who are nonetheless brilliant in their own weird ways and whose agenda is to play tricks and pull people's legs, and lead them down meaningless untruthful paths. August has a copy of the book, but also a copy of Martin Gardner's exhaustive investigative study of it, also called "Urantia" if you're going to pursue it,

See our discussion on the diakka, which is a Spirit name for them; also search for the same term on our blog here.
At Wed May 25, 05:36:00 PM 2011, Richard Ashton said...: Ok. Thanks. If I may ask another question please, what is your assessment of the information as presented in "Life After Death in the Worlds Unseen" parts 1 and 2 and "Facts" as presented by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson?

As always, than you for your continued guidance.
Richard
At Thu May 26, 04:48:00 PM 2011, August Goforth said...: Monsignor Benson has done presented an especially exquisite rendering of the facts; however, there really is no way to even begin to adequately describe what would seem like the miraculous, using our un-spiritual language.

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"Creativity is the principle of novelty. Creativity introduces novelty into the content of the many, which are the universe disjunctively. The creative advance is the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates. The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction. The novel entity is at once the togetherness of the 'many' which it finds and also it is one among the disjunctive ' many' which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among the many entities which it synthesizes. The many become one, and are increased by one. In their natures, entities are disjunctively 'many' in process of passage into conjunctive unity... Thus the 'production of novel togetherness' is the ultimate notion embodied in the term concrescence. These ultimate notions of 'production of novelty' and 'concrete togetherness' are inexplicable either in terms of higher universals or in terms of the components participating in the concrescence. The analysis of the components abstracts from the concrescence. The sole appeal is to intuition.-- (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 26)

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"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." -- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

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"The instrument of thought, which has produced this world that does not work properly, is no longer valid. So perhaps this instrument of thought is worn out. Is there another instrument we can use?" -- Krishnamurti

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"...Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly." -- Alfred North Whitehead - English mathematician & philosopher (1861-1947)___________________________________

". . . keeping the Risen concept of weaving in mind, perhaps at this point it can be sensed that what we have before us, from which we are inseparable and as reflected in this book, is a Supreme Tapestry. There appears to be a Very Grand Design which we all follow, either in awareness or not, co-creatively or not -- recalling that creative means fun. As we weave we are free to make it up as we go along in any way we please, simultaneously staying within the Grand Design as imagined by Higher Imaginals, of whom we an inseparable part. The Grand Design is a work of perfections intermingled with imperfections, solutions with mistakes, and stillness within movement. The Higher Imaginals are many things, but for our purposes here, it suffices to say that they are very advanced and evolved individuals, or Higher Selves." (from The Risen: Dialogues of Love, Grief & Survival Beyond Death; Chapter 13, Mundus Imaginalis, p. 165).

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Recommended Readings about the Summerlands

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