A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life [Paperback]

Harold Klemp (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 14, 2010

All of us need solace and encouragement at times. Where do you take your toughest questions for compassionate, straight-to-the-point, and even surprising answers? In ancient days you'd turn to a prophet. Today there is a modern-day prophet who can answer your questions with good sense and compassion, plus help you find wisdom within yourself. Harold Klemp is the Mahanta, the modern-day prophet of Eckankar. He says that your life is your personal pathway back to God. You are like a star of God sent into this world for spiritual experience. Your questions help you grow spiritually - in love and compassino. Become more godlike. Harold Klemp's answers to the hundreds of questions you'll see in this book will uplift you and transform you. They'll help you see God's presence in your life. A Modern Prophet Answers Your Key Questions About LIfe is a guide to your own source of wisdom and deep inner joy.

Editorial Reviews

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Established in 1965 by Paul Twitchell, Eckankar is a religion that refers to itself as the "Religion of the Light and Sound of God." It teaches that past lives affect present decisions, dreams are real and can be used to understand everyday experience and that "Soul Travel" is a "natural method for discovering spiritual truth." Soul Travel is taught only by the living ECK Master, the spiritual leader of Eckankar who assists people in their spiritual travels and whose "duty it is to lead Souls back to God." In 1981, Harold Klemp, after a career in the U.S. Air Force, became the current living ECK Master, or Mahanta, of Eckankar. In the past 17 years, many followers of Eckankar have written to Klemp seeking his advice on spiritual matters, and many of those questions, along with Klemp's answers, are reproduced in this volume. Gathered into 12 chapters, questions range from "Are dreams real?" and "Why is life so hard?" to "Why stay a virgin until marriage?" and "Does smoking affect your spiritual growth?" In his responses to questions, Klemp remains evenhanded and seeks a middle ground that will lead the questioners to reconsider certain principles of ECK that deal with their situations. On balance, though, Klemp comes across as a spiritualized "Dear Abby" proffering aphorisms like, "Life isn't run by people who are experts in living" and "Be kind and gentle to yourself. We are all beginners in living."
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Review

A compassionate, understanding, immensely helpful response to the problems that confront ordinary people at the end of the twentieth century. -- Robert S. Ellwood, Emeritus Professor of Religion, University of Southern California, co-author, Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America

A highly recommended book filled with practical, spiritual nuggets for transforming our lives. -- Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., author, Love Is Letting Go of Fear

Harold Klemp is a pioneer of today's focus on 'everyday spirituality.' -- Arielle Ford, author of Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul

Harold Klemp's insights place him among the most esteemed spiritual leaders of our time. -- Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of The Miracle of Prayer and Dreamwork for the Soul

This book offers a wealth of spiritual information and analysis which is both illuminating and comforting. --Michael Newton, Ph.D., author, Journey of Souls

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Product Details

• Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: Eckankar; illustrated edition edition (April 14, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570431434
• ISBN-13: 978-1570431432
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #603,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritual information applied to daily life, September 22, 1998

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John Marikos (Salem, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life (Paperback)

In A Modern Prophet Answers Your Key Questions About Life, Harold Klemp fields questions about all kinds of subjects and gives answers that are simple and practical while still maintaining a spiritual perspective. He explains how to get more help from your dreams with living your life. When I was a kid I could never understand why only certain people in the Bible could have spiritual dreams that gave them guidance in their lives. It just didn't seem like something God would do. Klemp gives a technique for remembering more of your dreams and it works! In later chapters, he even gives techniques for having spiritual experiences while you are not dreaming. He gives techniques for problem solving. He even answers questions about how to get along better in your relationships. What I like most about this book and this author is that the things he tells us are not just theories or mind-candy. He shows us how to apply this information to the ways we live our lives and it works! At the same time, he gives us techniques to help us experience God. On page 168, he explains why it can be hard to experience truth and what a person can do to have truth in his or her life. On page 259, he gives a technique for overcoming fears. In the same chapter, he even tells how to get help from spiritual guides--and how to become one yourself. It's a great book and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their spiritual connection with life.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book for those who love God, April 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life (Paperback)

This book is not for those unwilling to look deeply at the answers to questions like: why am I here, what happens when I die, why is life hard sometimes, why does love hurt, who am I? Even if you think you know answers to these questions, Harold Klemp's answers take a step further in understanding in a gentle, open way. The format of the book is wonderful - actual heartfelt questions from seekers with his response. There's lots of room to manuever in this book, you can read it like a tennis match - watching a dialogue back and forth from the sidelines, or more likely, feel yourself pulled in to the conversations because the content touches on subjects that as human beings we've pondered sincerely for millenia. Harold Klemp's answers were always given with so much love and respect for the person asking, I enjoyed it just for that too. I found incredible jewels of wisdom in this book and would highly recommend it to any sincere seeker who loves God.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Filled with Practical Wisdom for Today!, June 23, 2000

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Dorothy Weiss (ORLANDO, FLORIDA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Modern Prophet: Answers Your Key Questions About Life (Paperback)

This is an inspirational, unique, timely road-map containing answers to those perpetual plagueing questions of life. Why do troubles come? How to stay in balance? Analyzing Spiritual dreams. Setting and accomplishing personal goals. The author has given us a personal enrichment primer. Easy to read, easy to apply.