Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are [Paperback]

Bob Frissell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 18, 2002

This ambitious book is a personal psycho-spiritual journey, a theorization on the meaning of the monuments of Mars, a guidebook for transcending present three-dimensional limitations, and an account of our function within the grand celestial battle between internal and external knowledge. The newly revised and expanded edition of this cult classic features photos and illustrations throughout, and adds the Lucifer Rebellion, the solar storm, and the final three breaths of the merkaba meditation. The author emphasizes the importance of meditation for promoting the understanding of and connection to the metaphysical.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"If ever there was an aptly named book, this is it. In a highly readable and sincere manner, Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are proceeds to thread together every New Age belief and conspiracy theory into a grand unified field theory of kookiness. They're all here: gray aliens, ascended masters, free energy, cattle mutilations, crop circles, rebirthing, earth changes, the Great Pyramid, and secret colonies on Mars. And yet, despite the sheer unbelievability of half the book, the author's goodwill and spiritual intentions are so infectious that the books ends up being a heartwarming experience. Nothing has the potential to become the Cosmic Trigger (Robert Anton Wilson's 1977 psychedelic mind-bender) of the '90s."

—Jay Kinney, Wired

 

"What is really taking place as we head toward the end of this millennium? If conventional explanations don't make sense to you anymore and you want to explore other options, read this book. An insightful, radical view of our planet's history and its future."

—Perceptions

 

"This is an accessible guidebook to consciousness expansion and evolutionary progress which, in effect, restates age-old knowledge, and in so doing reminds us of our heritage as spiritual beings. Frissell tells his account primarily through the experience of one Drunvalo Melchizedek, a 'walk-in' being who claims to be from the thirteenth dimension by way of several vibration-stepping-down incarnations along the way—on this occasion, via a mutual spiritual pact with a male human in 1972. Part of Drunvalo's mission is to remind us that we can assemble within ourselves the universal pattern of creation—our own merkabah vehicles—which will facilitate the evolution of our consciousness as well as that of planet Earth."

—Nexus

 

“I appreciated reading [Nothing in This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are] and having the opportunity to adventure outside of my usual range of thinking and envisioning of the human story.”
—New Consciousness Review

About the Author

Bob Frissell is a master rebirther and teacher of 26 years, whose books are regarded as underground spiritual classics. In addition to Nothing in This Book is True, But it's Exactly How Things Are, he is the author of Something in This Book is True and You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience. Frissell was trained by Leonard Orr, the rebirthing pioneer, and by Drunvalo Melchizedek, the originator of the Mer*KA*Ba and Unity Breath meditations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Frog Books; 3 Rev Exp edition (November 18, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583940677
• ISBN-13: 978-1583940679
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #11 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Astronomy & Space Science > Mars

More About the Author

Bob Frissell
Author, Rebirther and teacher of the MerKaBa (vehicle of ascension)
The Shift of the Ages:
Countdown to 2012 and Beyond
"This is a time of great celebration as we move out of the darkness and into the light. The veils will be lifted, we will remember and live our intimate connection to all life. We will completely redefine what it means to be human."

BOB FRISSELL is a master rebirther and teacher of thirty years, whose books are regarded as underground spiritual classics. In addition to Nothing In This Book Is True, But It;s Exactly How Things Are, he is the author of Something In This Book Is True... and You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience. His books are published in seventeen languages and are available in more than thirty countries. Musicians have credited the ideas presented in Bob's books as a source of inspiration for their own creative work. This list includes Tool (band), Danny Carey, and Gojira (band).

Bob has been a featured speaker at The Global Congress of Spiritual Scientists in Bengalore India, the 4th Annual Symbiosis Gathering at Yosemite, The Prophets Conference in Tulum, and many New Living Expos. He has also appeared on numerous talk shows, including The Jeff Rense Program and has been a three time guest on Coast to Coast AM. He has presented his workshops throughout North America and Europe.

Bob is a qualified and authorized facilitator of Flower of Life Research. He teaches the MerKaBa Meditation, sacred geometry, and Breath of Life Rebirthing along with other heart opening techniques. He was trained by Leonard Orr, the rebirthing pioneer, and by Drunvalo Melchizedek, the originator of the MerKaBa and Unity Breath meditations. He gives private rebirthing sessions along with his two workshops: "The Breath of Life (Rebirthing and Emotional Healing)" and "The Flower of Life (Sacred Geometry and the MerKaBa)." He lives in Sonoma, California, and can be contacted via his website, www.bobfrissell.com.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I needed..., December 14, 1999

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Shannon (Ferndale, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nothing in This Book Is True, but It's Exactly How Things Are (Audio Cassette)

I felt really compelled to write a review for this book, being that it has helped me so much and will continue to help anyone willing to read it. It changed me so much in fact that I find it hard to begin this review. One of the major things that stands out about it is it's factual approach to Christ. At the time that I read it, I did not even believe in God, but I believe that the staightforward manner in which this book was written had a lot to do with changing that. It is not written from a religious perspective. That in itself was VERY refreshing. Yet to the author it is common knowledge that God exists as well as His Son Jesus. Though these topics aren't addressed in the typical way, (i.e. preaching and sermonizing) I really began to understand how a God could very well exist and yet be tied into everything I've ever believed (aliens, reincarnation, immortality). What's sad is that the Church today see's many of these things as "New Age", the very reason I hail this book. Anyone interested in finding out the truth about the universe in which we live or the true nature of our souls will not be dissappointed with it. I especially recommend this book to any Christian who holds beliefs that are labeled New Age or are just plain seeking. Like I said, it is not written from a religious perspective, is a very easy read. Thank you to the powers that be for letting me write this review.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars why all the anger at his books?, November 24, 2004

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ladystardust (new york usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are (Paperback)

I liked the book, I like all his books. My question is to all those who wrote such hate filled angry reviews. Why did you react so strongly to his ideas? I am a person of science and I liked some of his ideas. I did not notice any response to his ideas other than they hated them. I find that a very knee jerk response without actural data of why they found his ideas so harsh. Maybe some of the ideas stated were very uncomfortable for how they have been living their own lives.. I enjoy his ideas and find they add a new way of my looking at the problems in science with a new eye and open view.. I think this book is helpful to all for many different reasons. If it makes you angry it is obvioulsy the message of its content and the condition of your own spirit and life...

45 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sadly, Not a Joke, April 24, 2003

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Penner (Brattleboro, VT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are (Paperback)

The only thing wrong with this book is that it takes itself seriously. It could be a hilarious fantasy extravaganza on the order of "The Illuminatus Trilogy" if only it weren't trying to convince us that it's real. It reminds me of the shrink in "The Terminator," who comments that Kyle Reese's psychotic delusion is brilliant because it doesn't require a shred of proof. Same here: The reason our archaeologists can't find evidence of the 500 million years of advanced civilizations on Earth is because they all occurred on a higher dimension. Dolphins and whales are much smarter than we are, but it doesn't seem so because "advanced beings create everything they need internally." Drunvalo Melchizedek, the book's putative hero, is ten billion years old and came from the center of the galaxy to help us, but he doesn't look it because he's "borrowing" the body of an ordinary human. What's more he doesn't even remember any of that because to retain memories of the thirteenth dimension while in the third "would be just too painful." Our sun is currently undergoing a period of intense solar flares that are engulfing the Earth, but we're not aware of it because a group of benevolent aliens from Sirius B constructed a holographic grid around the entire planet so we would think life was going on as normal, until "we could get to where we could handle a wall of flame."

Like I said, this is great stuff. I'm surprised no one's made a movie about this; it would be a blockbuster. The closest I've seen is the movie "Stargate," in which we learn that the ancient Egyptian gods were actually aliens who created humans as a genetically-engineered slave race to work their mines. (That one's in this book too.)

Interspersed with these fantastic chapters are boring sets of instructions on how to breathe so that you can inhale psychic energy or "prana" along with your oxygen; and a treatise on "sacred geometry." What makes the geometry useless is that Frissell claims the sacred geometry is "the morphogenic structure behind reality itself," but discusses it through the use of metaphors and vague references to familiar mathematic terminology. Geometry, of course, is a very specific discipline, but Frissell avoids specificity, saying instead things like "Life doesn't know how to deal with something that has no beginning because there is nowhere to start. So this sequence, which has become known as the Fibonacci Sequence, is life's solution to that problem."

The flaw in Frissell's "brilliant delusion" is that he starts making predictions about the future, which is always risky for psychotic nuts. By the end of the century (that's the 20th century, by the way -- this book was written in 1994), the Earth as we know it will have disappeared and most of us will have successfully transcended to the fourth dimension, where we'll live in the harmony of christ-consciousness and understand everything. This transcendence was evidently meant to be a conscious one, implying that it probably couldn't occur without our realizing it. Now it's 2003 and I think it's time for a sequel explaining what went wrong with this plan.

On the other hand, if you're adrift in the world, if you've accomplished nothing and done nothing practical with your life and you're getting on in years, isn't it comforting to believe that very soon none of it will matter anymore, because you'll ascend to a higher plane of consciousness and be fully invested with your cosmic destiny as an immortal master whose purpose is to save the universe? At the very least, it means I don't have to worry about not having any retirement savings.