More About Life in the World Unseen [Plastic Comb]

Anthony Borgia (Author)

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 168 pages
• Publisher: Map (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963643525
• ISBN-13: 978-0963643520
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,002,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Comment on "More About Life in the World Unseen" by Borgia, May 12, 2002

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John Pratt (Manti, Utah USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More About Life in the World Unseen (Plastic Comb)

Mr. Clark, a previous reviewer, made some comments on this book without having read (at the time) the primary book of this trilogy: "Life in the World Unseen." This is unfortunate, because many of his complaints about "More about Life..." would have been more then adequately answered in the first book. I presume that he has read the other two books by now. While I would rate the first book with five stars, I agree that the two sequels, "More about Life ..." and "Here and Hereafter" might barely rate three stars (especially read alone). They merely give some more experiences and detail on the main points which were basically set forth in the first book.

I disagree with Mr. Clark's approach, in that he judged apparently the book with a "checklist" of all the features that he should expect to find in any experience of someone passing the portals of death. That is a mistake, especially since the purported source of the verbiage in this books, Mgsr Benson, never claimed to be delivering to us an all-inclusive description of either God's plan for men on the earth, nor of the precise experience of dying and passing into the world beyond. Not only that (and I speak from the collective message of all three of the books), Robert Benson admitted that his own progression is not what it might have been, and that he only claimed to describe things that he witnessed in the realm where he took up residence (the lowest of the realms of light), and in his brief excursions into other realms.

It is clear from the context of his descriptions that those who inhabited the realms lower than his own, the realms of darkness, lacked certain comprehensions of how things worked, or had certain unresolved character issues which prevented them from moving up. It is only reasonable then that Mgsr. Benson might have also had certain things that he hadn't yet mastered or comprehended which prevented him from inhabiting any of the four realms of light higher and more brilliant and beautiful than his own beautiful realm. Consequently, it would have been impossible for this book, given its context, to give any comprehensive description of "The Plan," as Mgsr. Benson not only wouldn't have had much personal glimpse of higher realms, but likely he wouldn't have comprehended all that might be required to progress through them.

Nor do I feel that the descriptions given in these books rule out "reincarnation," as he is simply relatively silent on the actions necessary to move up in progression. It is interesting that during one visit (given in the first book) he had with an extremely high-level being, a ruler of all the realms, he says that this man had been in progression for "countless eons of time." How inconceivable that someone could be in progression for such a long period of time, and yet have only 40-80 years of experience in mortality "on the earth plane" so to speak, where we must "walk by faith," as clearly from the collective near-death literature, the issue of "faith" is not so difficult as it is in our present situation. As these books attributed tremendous importance to our actions and attitudes in this life as a determining factor in what realm we "suited ourselves to" within the hierarchical realms of the spirit world, it seems therefore requisite, to me, that one have again mortal experiences to be able to "do the work of progression" "by faith" in order to qualify for the higher realms.

One of the primary purposes for the books stated in the first volume was to set certain things straight that Mgsr. Benson feels were errors committed during his life. As a well-renowned Catholic author, he had written extensively on "Orthodox" Catholic dogma. When he arrived on the "other side," he simply discovered that virtually all that he had written simply wasn't so. Consequently, he seemed to focus on those orthodox doctrinal errors that he felt he had incorrectly written about, and for which many people had placed deep trust in him for as a religious teacher, and by the way, which things are still read today by many avid Catholic devouts. Most of Mgsr Benson's writings are available on-line today on Catholic-related web sites. It was these errors that he felt the strongest desire to correct, and not to give any descriptions in any comprehensive way.

I found the first book (and the sequels only if considered as one work with the first book) to be refreshing and enthralling, and were also a tremendous balm and comfort to my sister who at the time we gave her the books, was dying of cancer. In the remaining few days of her life, she was in and out of the "spirit world," and during one of her last moments on "this side," related seeing the "rest homes" so to speak that Robert Benson described in some detail in the first book, where newly arrived people often go in the spirit world to recover from a traumatic passing, or to adjust to conditions there.

Please read the first book first. Read the others then if you have a thirst for more of Robert Benson, however, the sequels do not contribute significantly further to the understandings and concepts encapsulated in the first book.

John Pratt

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Manti, Utah (non-LDS)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Here and Hereafter, July 21, 2008

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E. Hale (florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More About Life in the World Unseen (Plastic Comb)

This is an interesting, and can be comforting, book of the hereafter. I would consider it more of an introduction to the subject, to whet one's interest. Considerable and indepth reading can be found in the Urantia book - not an easy read - but superior in every way.

5.0 out of 5 stars Really gave me a peek of what's to come, June 14, 2011

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Joan E. "Joan E." (Utah, United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: More About Life in the World Unseen (Plastic Comb)

I really liked this book of the life in the hereafter. There were a number of things I had already felt, and here was the validation. Maybe not everything exact, who knows, but some good info.