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Deepak Chopra's Lords of Light: A Novel

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This is a good book to read. I bought my copy when it first came out a few years ago and found it hard to put down. I am neither a outspoken critic or a "follower" of Deepak and I found this novel worthy of merit on its own , without making general reference to the authors past work in non-fiction and in fiction.

It sort of cleverly grabs you from the first few pages and beckons you with bare hints that an unfolding mystery is sure to follow should you continue reading. I found myself easily identifying with the religious and idealogical morass the protagonist experiences, and it seems revelant to the day and age in which we live.

Thick, compact and easily readable (to be fair, I did find some parts overly-breezy) without being overly simplistic or pollyannish, it provides an engaging reading experience. The author takes care to not produce something overly dense, causing the reader to become bored and lose interest; choosing not to bog and mire the reader down with sidebar note fuzzy pseudo religio-philisophical concepts.

This book could be just what the Dr. ordered to ease the mind and achieve a serene calm from the ripple effects of an increasingly troubled and chaotic world as we search to seek out and re-adjust our position in it.

This new genre of "spiritual fiction" has many more misses than hits. I would call this one a near hit. Near because it starts out great and had me right with it until the last few chapters, then I sorta lost interest. The story takes some odd turns and although it does make some important points, it seemed to miss others. If you are interested in a good spiritual novel, check out "The Destiny of Miro" by Julie Rae Rickard. It is a great combination of spiritual ideas in a fictional format. A great read.

This book is trying to illustrate a philosophy but may lose a lot of people in the translation. I found the book scarey in that we don't often know who is good and who is evil or if good and evil even exist. I wish the point was more clear.

Finally, a book by Chopra I liked...

Apart from his self help series of books, I find this earlier work of "Spiritual Fiction" to be unique and easy to read. I can only hope that the genre can keep getting better from here.

I have read several books by Mr. Chopra... Some of them very inspiring... Quantum Healing, The Seven Laws..., Ageless / Timeless..., and I'd recommend them to readers interested in that kind of material.

I had also read Mr. Chopra's novel about Merlin, and got very bored and confused with it. I don't even know how I could finish it.

Yet, I wanted to give him another chance and bought Lords of The Light... It's just as boring and confusing, but at least is shorter.

Mr. Chopra... Perhaps I totally missed the point in those two books, but I'm giving you no more chances with your novels.

From now on I'll rather read New Age novels from writers such as James Redfield, Dan Millman, Hank Wesselman, Marlo Morgan ("Mutant Message, Down Under"), Ken Carey...

Chopra and Greenberg have "created" an epic parable for the closing scene of the one act play called The 2nd Millennium.

If you can flow past the occasional factual "error," this is a book that takes up where the Torah-Bible-Koran leave off.

For ages descriptions of Utopia, Heaven and Paradise have lacked vitality, meaning and excitement. Recently theology, science and psychology have crossed to spawn a vigorous new spiritual awareness that is reflected in many nonfiction books, some by Dr. Chopra.

Lords of Light is an entertaining, action packed, thoughtful and humorous story of a modern day Saul of Tarsus. It is a great read, and it feeds the soul.

Let it take you on a journey of the fantastic! I do not typically enjoy reading, but I found Lords of Light to be a very intriguing and very enticing book that includes fantasy and wonder! It also includes historical facts that have been blended into the writing, but you don't realize that you are learning while you are following the fantastic story of good and evil, dark and light...determining what is good and what is evil is the true creative twist Deepak Chopra creates in this fantiastic novel. Try it, you'll love it!

While the concepts of this book are inherently sound (you create your own reality with thought, wherever you go there you are, all time is simultanteous), the rendering into fiction becomes a sketchy conveyance. Deepak Chopra's style of dissertation spiked with poetry is most palatable when delivered factually as rendered on Public TV specials. His message is tarnished when dispensed as pop-culture consumable. There are too many inconsistencies, gaps and assumptions to nurture anyone but a page-turning beachgoer -- not what we expect from Chopra. Reading that Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are all in the same week also indicated that research was minimal.

It seems that the authors had a need for cash without work -- crank it out, collect the cash. :-(

Much more palatable was The Education of Oversoul 7 by Jane Roberts.

The first three reviewers of this book are in the state that is being talked about in the book..that is, the meaning and lessions of the book are invisible to them. This book jumps and jurks you around and into and out of different times zones and places. That is one of its purposes and by so doing, gives you the feeling that the author wanted to convey about Michael. The "editing with a meat cleaver" is very effective. The minor error about Ash Wednday (if it is really is an error) may have been done like a trap for the reader and some of the reviewers walked right into the trap and they don't even know it. The harping bad of the book by one reviewer based upon this "possible minor error" is like not being able to sleep at night because there might be a weed growing in your lawn overnight. People!! open yourself up to something different. Stop living in the world of "The Prophet" and see the multi-levels taking place. Go beyond the book. Become "the observer" of yourself while you review the book. Start seeing with your imagination and your heart..not always with your mind.

Tom Gietzen

It's interesting to see the different reactions to the book. I read it first, knowing nothing about it and not looking at reviews. Though I did enjoy reading it, I leaned towards those who found it confusing. My biggest problem was the arbitrariness of the universe we were put in. The rules changed every few paragraphs, so I found that it all became rather arbitrary. After a while I cared less about what was going to happen and certainly gave up trying to make any sense out of it. In the end they somehow got rid of the Prophet but I really have no idea how or why it worked.