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God is Light--Metaphor or Literal?, February 25, 2007
This review is from: The Akashic Light: Religion's Common Thread (Paperback)
Baumann utilizes science to argue that comparisons of God to physical light, throughout the world's religions, are indeed literal--not the metaphors we've always been taught. Christ is the "light of the world" in the New Testament and Book of Mormon. God is the "light of the heavens and the earth" in the Islamic Koran. Brahma is the "the light of lights" (Hindu Upanishads). God is "clothed with light" in Psalms (Old Testament). "The "Clear Light of Pure Reality" pervades nirvâna in the Buddhist, Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Tao-te-Ching (Chinese traditional) notes that he "Who uses well his light, Revert[s back] to its (source so) bright." Sikhs believe that "one's light merges into the Supreme Light." Some indigenous African legends describe God as shining bright as the Sun. Lastly, many ancient cultures, including but not limited to the Egyptians, Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, and native Americans, worshiped the Sun and its brilliance. Is it any wonder, then, that quantum physicists use terms like omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and conscious to describe the physical properties of light? Baumann may well be on the right track.
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This book is a waste..., October 19, 2010
This review is from: The Akashic Light: Religion's Common Thread (Paperback)
I got this book from my local library with special interest in reading what this author has to say abouth "Akashic Light", specially since I was trained to read the Akashic Records and I do it regularly and there are several reasons because I say that this book is a total waste and an insult to any intelligent individual:
1- The author compares things that don't allow real comparison. He compares ancient religions, like christianism, judaism and islam with recently created cults with an obvious aim to act simply as business like the mormons and the scientology. Don't get me wron, I think that all religions now are distorted into mere business, but with the ancient ones you have a tradition of some sort, which the newer ones simply don't have. Why Smith or Hubbard mantioned "light" in their writings? Because the terms light and enlightment are in our minds already. If you want to create a succesfull cult you have to follow some norms... It seems that the author validates such cults just to get a wider aundience.
2- The author negates the evolutionary theory without any proof or even without any rationale, just because he doesn't believe on it. We can argue about this for years, but I simply expected some sort of thinking process here.
3- When the author cites scientific experiments the citations are vague, incomplete or simply to another of his books... how convenient... for him.
4- There is a point early in the book when the author says that we need the fear created by a punishing god and the reward promised by the same good in order to comply with social and moral standards, like not cheating to our wife or husband, depending which one applies. I simply found this sad. If for him the only way to know what is good or bad is through a father figure up in the sky... ok. But please don't include all the readers in that stupid-amoral-single minded concept, a lot of us are more intelligent than that. Thet was the moment when he completely lose me.
Since reading a book is like a dialogue with the author, I don't need to dialogue with someone that has so little to offer, and I bet a lot of you doesn't need it either.
Let's look for better options.
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