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The Journals: A Message from the Council of Ancients

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The Journals is very enlightening. You will find yourself reflecting on every aspect of your life with every character. And the book will make you analyze your level of participation in helping people as well as mother nature. Suprisingly, it will even stir up your emotions enough to make you do something crazy...like plant a tree or volunteer at a soup kitchen. I highly recommend The Journals to all.

I've just finished the most amazing book. What a find! It's called The Journals--A Message from the Council of Ancients, by R.T. Stone. I saw a review on The Midwest Book Review web site that said, "The Journals is one of those ground-breaking novels of social consciousness that occur once or twice in every generation, and will have an impact well into the next century." I believe it!

The story line is so strong that it just pulled me in--and it would not let go. Not many books have that power. It's also a unique blend of fact and fiction that kept me wondering, is some of this true?

If you liked the Celestine Prophecy, then I think you'll love The Journals. It's extremely well written. I laughed, I cried, and I learned something about myself along the way. It's also Book One of a trilogy. I loved the characters so much in Book One, that I can't! wait for the next two books. This book is definitely a sleeper. Read it now before everyone else does, so that you can say you read it when...

This is one of those books that has so much going on in the story, it makes it hard to decide where to start describing it first. It's like Twin Peaks in book form. David Lynch would love this book. It reads like a movie. Chris Carter would also like it I'm sure. Regardless, I don't think you'll be dissapointed. Spiritual seekers, feminists, conspiracy theorists, sci-fi, sex and empowerment--you name it, The Journals has it! And it's all wrapped up in a very engaging and entertaining story that won't put you to sleep. It's a page turner.

Another one of the best ways to describe the book, and how it hooked me in, is to write the text that appears on the inner sleeve. I think it says it all. It is as follows: Do you believe in destiny? A higher power? R.T. Stone didn't. Stone had lived the American Dream as an obscure self-! made millionaire. Then one mysterious night all that change! d, forever.

In the space of a few short moments R.T. Stone discovered a book (the very one you hold in your hands), watched his nightclub burn to the ground, was framed for attempted murder and arson, lost his life's fortune, and had his entire world shattered. It could be the best day of his life.

All this mayhem was caused by a celestial entity calling itself the Council of Ancients. Some call it God. Others fate. They have a message for R.T. Stone and the rest of humankind. They strongly suggest you listen.

Welcome to your destiny.

The Journals is a good book for beginners. It is very easy reading, lighter and easier to understand than most of the spiritual books. Entertaining for a change. Not mucked down by the weightiness of this subject. I enjoyed it in a simplistic sort of way. There isn't deep insight as one would suspect by the title, however, I look forward to Part II to rest my heart and soul.

WHAT MAKES A NOVEL GREAT? Think of your favorite book. Why did you enjoy it so much? Did it hold your attention? Did it make you think about life and love and how you relate to the world? Did it teach you something? Did it cause you to think and reflect about your own beliefs and values? Did it offer you hope?

If you answered "yes" to any of the above, then I promise you'll "absotively" LOVE this book! It taught me about life and love and caused me to reflect about how I think and see the world. It gave me hours, days, weeks of pure joy, delight and reading entertainment. It offered me hope and light. It has been a pivotal force in making plans for the future, re-evaluating my personal & professional choices and setting new life goals.

This book should be made into a movie! It should reach millions of people as a film, because it has the power not only to change people's lives for the better but to influence society, as a whole, in a positive, life-affirming and purely joyful way. I hope someone out there is reading this who has the power to help R.T. make this into a commercial motion picture! It would be God's gift through you. My sincere thanks!

I was so pleased that R.T. Stone wasn't shy about finally telling the many truths within this book. From what goes on in the Church to what went on before and during WWII. Thank you R.T.

The Journals leads us to profound depths and to our most inner selves.Questions arise that haven't occurred to us before. All of this, while entertaining us magnificently.It will connect with your soul like Celestine Prophecy but is an even better read. Adventure, mystery and wonderfully unique characters make over 600 pages zip right by. I didn't want it to end. How wonderful to find out it is the first in a trilogy. Thank you R.T.

R.T. Stones The Journals kept me riveted to its pages. Character development was superb and the plot drew me into the book in a way I thought was impossible.If you haven't discovered the power of The Journals then you are missing out. R.T. Stone is a brilliant writer and I hope he keeps up the good work.

I just finished reading The Journals: A Message from the Council of Ancients. I found the book to be entertaining and insightful.I don't normally read books like this so it took me a little bit to get into it at first, not that the story line was bad it was just that I tend to read different types of books. It didn't take too long for the book to grab me and pull me in. Once that happened I couldn't put it down. If you are looking for a nice long entertaining book then I would definitely say pick this book up.

This massive book about aliens, secret plans for "bettering" earth, and the birth and childhood years of a chosen pair of young people who will usher in a renewed age of purity on this planet had a few saving graces that spare me the task of unleashing the negative review so much of its content merits. What I liked was first off the fact it was set in my hometown and I knew many of these places the author pen-named R. T. Stone, was using in his novel. Secondly, a few of its characters were charming and I did sincerely get into some of the situations, like when the teens built their underground clubhouse and hung out there. That made me smile. Kids being kids? Things like that charmed me and made me forget how ridiculously hideous so much of Stone's attempt at a New Age masterpiece was.

This circa thousand page book was many bad things. It was an all-out attack on established religion, especially the Roman Catholicism dominant in the Cincinnati area in which it was set. It was a far-fetched fantasy that didn't make much sense, and it was a poorly-written effort of the writer to advocate his own ill-conceived spiritual mores. In Stone's mind, almost any movement or philosophy is wonderful as long as it's one that no more than a handful of average people--just a snooty elitist like him--have ever heard of. Any and every outsider faith from India or the far east is greeted with gushing praise here in this novel, but Christianity is always treated as a fraud and anyone connected with it is either an oppressor or an unwilling, miserable victim of its tyranny. There are no happy nuns in the convent where one of the two main characters is raised. No one in the Catholic hierarchy who appears mid-way through to investigate miraculous happenings in the life of the girl "prophetess" character is a nice person, either, for that matter, yet those who are members of any sect vaguely non-western or Wicca are the good guys, wise, benevolent, sane.

Probably the most blatant exercise in stupidity involves the messiah figure from another planet using mind control on a gang of (in Stone's hands needless to say stereotypically ignorant, loutish and bigoted) rural men who come and castrate him so this messiah can be sure he will only have one divine offspring out there: the one with whom he has impregnated a married woman after zonking her with his corny ESP so he can proceed to more or less rape. I stopped reading for a moment at the completion of the castration part and thought: A) if this being is so superhuman, couldn't he use will power to make himself not want to have sex; B) couldn't he use birth control if he has sex; or C) if he can work apparent miracles, couldn't he ESP his body into not making sperm; or D) couldn't he pay for medical sterilization instead of letting pocketknife-wielding rednecks do the honors?

That about set the tone of "Stone's" whole novel: it might work a wee bit if you don't think but if your brain kicks in, you're going to start going, "HUH???" If you excuse the "beautiful new religion" that's coming to save the world for its amorality and immorality, look past its forays into homosexuality, bigotry, and mind-rapes, forget the fact its central savior figures were conceived in adultery, and finally embrace the idea it has nothing spectacular to offer except control of the earth by mysterious aliens who seem intent on supplanting all notions of God by introducing a lost book of the Bible that says everyone's been doing everything wrong for 2,000 years, then, hey, this new faith sounds just ducky, doesn't it?

What you're left with after a thousand badly-written pages of preachy, heavy reading is a somewhat arrogant, bigoted, silly New Age manifesto of an egotistical would-be savior of humankind, that has moments of charm and is principally likable to me because of where its set. (When I read it I was also homesick, by the way.) Not a lot to base any sort of recommendation on, is it? And horror of horrors, folks, we are assured that the second book in this planned series of who knows how many volumes is coming. Scary thought!

It is hard to believe how many people out there are so unfamiliar with good writing that they actually like this book. I was really looking forward to a good read, based on some reviews, and the intriguing cover... unfortunately, the cover was as good as it gets. Ponderous, opinionated, and unfocused- not to mention the second-rate, high-school metaphors and verbiose descriptions of minutiae. The conversations between his flat characters were awkward and false, as were the scenarios he set up. The author should spend a few more years reading the works of good authors before he attempts to not only put himself in their league, but to vault over them ("the Bible is man-to-God, but this book is God-to-man," yeah, right). Read Herman Hesse for starters- say, THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST. Far more compelling and inspirational, in a concise and elegant package, unlike this muddled mess. Please spare us more of your egotistical ramblings.