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The Kabbalah Code: A True Adventure

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Don't waste your hard earned $15 on this book. It has nothing to do with Kabbalah, just the authors fairy tale story of his trip to Paris and his chanting of some Hebrew names of G-d in Churches of all places, with lots of references to the Knights Templars. Not worth wasting your time or money on. If your interested in Kabbalah, start your reading with Steinsaltz's The 13 Petalled Rose, a truly magnificent book

This book was a cross pollination of Angels and Demons, The Exorcist and Bill & Ted's Excellent adventure. I learned that Paris has some restaurants that serve great crepes and that there are a plethora of churches and obelisks that have some sort of consciousness trapped in or otherwise attached to them that may or may not want to be there and that should or should not be shown the way home.

While the adventure wasn't terribly written, it was rather anticlimactic and random. I'm required to ask (in good conscience) why these entities were held, and for so long? Why were these two gentlemen the only ones in history to recognize the spirits unenviable positions, and what, pray tell was it that caused Phil Gruber to seemingly pre-cognize these ostensibly ineluctable events that were about to transpire? What tipped him off? Furthermore what was the result of these exercises (not to be confused with exorcises) with regard to the rest of the planet? Is everything Okay now, or are we still on the cusp of oblivion?

Lastly, I know less about Kabbalah now than before I read the book. For the shear fun and whimsy, 2 stars and not a dram more.

This is an adventure book. It is not to be taken lightly. To say the work accomplished by James and Phillip is deep is an understatement. If you feel drawn to read this book, you will have the option of opening into unknown aspects of yourself. Aspects you may not have experienced for many lifetimes, aspects holding the truth of you at great depths.

The integrity and reverence that James and Philip embody during this adventure make reading and experiencing this book a transforming experience. On the surface it looks like a couple of guys running around chanting some sacred names but if you open to their work you too can access these hidden realms within yourself where true power and pure love exist. Realms that have been shrouded for many lifetimes.

If you know *nothing* about the Kabbalah, the Tetragrammaton, the templar knights, etc and if you are also interested in knowing some history about 10 famous monuments in Paris then go for it. You will be entertained.

But if you are advanced material and looking for spiritual advancement, please look elsewhere.

In my opinion, I think the underlying message this book conveys is that every one of us has the potential to receive His pardon, grace and that each one of us has many forces within us that we need to channelise in the right manner. Its the concept of each one of us being a microcosm of the universe, although this concept has been explained in many ancient books, James explains it in a differnt perspective here.

Not bad at all for starters.

As the book title says, a true adventure and it is James' and Phillips' experience. I went right on that adventure with them. Having been to Paris a couple of times helped me visualize. I never thought this book was about the teachings of the Kabbalah. I loved it as I did Celestine prophecies in its time. It's the author's journey into mysticism and our journey to be open to the possibilities of tuning in to these "codes" and experience our own insights.
Enjoy the ride through Paris.

This is an astonishingly bad book. It doesn't make sense, it shows little or no understanding of the Kabbalah, and reads like a poor man's Da Vinci code without the suspense. Though it is supposed to be a true experience of the author and his depressed friend, it fails to convince and also fails as an imaginary adventure.

I forced myself to speed read to the end, just on the off-chance that something might happen apart from the meandering from one church to another, but the story ends like a sputtering fuse ...

Save your money, don't buy this book!

If James Twyman were a fiction novelist, I'd read his entire series. This book reads like a Indiana Jones adventure, but states it is based on a trip that Twyman took himself? Regardless, it was a great read, full of fun and adventure, and focused on ancient religious mysticism. The story is based on two friends going from church to church to release ancient energies trapped here on earth, in order to help advance mankind. I know nothing of the Kabbalah, so I am not for sure of the names, or the entities presented in this story, but it was still one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a long time. If you like the Celestine Prophecy, you'll like the Kabbalah Code.

This is a book I could not put down. I wanted to know more and more as I turned the pages. I finished the book in 6 hours. Luckily I didd't have to work that day. I wonder if I would have called in? Engrosing, fascinating, surprising, amazing, can it be real? I have to go to Paris one day and see the sights as described in the great adventure in Paris. I am intrigued by spiritual mysteries and this book describes things so fantastic that I applaud the authors for letting the world of readers in on their adventure. I can hear the scoffing, the disbelief. But it just makes me want to go there and breathe in the mysteries. What do I expect? Being an ordinary person who has had years of critical thinking in the Great Books Foundation Series, I now think outside the box. So I am open to experience the grandure of the architecture and see what developes. Who knows who I will meet up with in Paris. More seekers who have read the book? I sent a copy to my sister. Perhaps we will manage to have the vacation of a lifetime in Paris, London, Lisbon, Rome.

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This is the "true" story of 2 guys who go to Paris to chant the names of God in various churches. Why? They want to free spirits imprisoned by the Templars.

One of them raises the question of how the Templars are involved since some of the churches were built long after their demise. There was no answer.

At a guess, Paris was chosen because of the "DaVinci Code"'s fame.

The book almost gets funny when an Egyptian spirit debates whether to eat the author for lunch. Sadly, even the demon couldn't stomach this drivel.

Contrary to the title, the Kabbalah receives only the slightest notice in passing. The theme of a code is also missing through most of the book; a few sentences at the end try to tie that in.

Had he published this as a novel, along the lines of Richard Bach's admirable "Illusions", this lightweight fluff might have been barely digestible. It strains credulity to accept this as nonfiction.