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The Shining Ones: The World's Most Powerful Secret Society Revealed

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While dealing with an immensely interesting subject, the author in my view is rambling. It's nice to have a marketing guy looking at religion through the ages, but unfortunately his presentation and deeper grasp of the myriad texts he quotes never merge into a meaningful whole. There's a lot of guesswork and baseless statements in there that are presented as fact, and in many ways his rambling, know-it-all presentation reminds me of James Churchward -- just without the charm of English of yesteryear. Visually, we're dealing with a large amount of small paragraphs (reflecting incoherent jumps in content) and pages that are disturbed by ill-chosen pictures and images that often have no relevance -- they're just there, not to underline a point or prove something. This release could definitely have done with some serious editing -- and I don't think the author would have to worry about the secret hand of the Shining Ones in this regard, because he's really telling you nothing new.

I purchased this book in its original UK release, intrigued by the topic and description from the publisher. Upon reading the book I found it to be a good overview of the topic, but somewhat superficial and incomplete at times, as it does make a solid general case about the tradition of shamanic knowledge being held and passed on via an initiatory power structure, without providing great depth of analysis. This is a complex topic that could cover several volumes of text without being fully examined, so this is a useful introductory study. For fuller examination of the topic I prefer books by David Icke, Jordan Maxwell, Acharya S, Malik Jabbar, and Michael Tsarion. In my view the Shining Ones is indeed an ancient tradition that goes into the midsts of time to ET colonization of Earth and the establishment of social control structures that witheld knowledge from the masses, extending to the present day "Illuminati" power structure that many authors and whistleblowers allude to.

The books discusses interesting concepts but only touches on them and not reveals any major secrets of life. Quite disappointing after reading many books on the subject.

It's a very long time since I read a book that inspired utter contempt in me as did this one. In terms of it's content this is not the great secret of all time revealed. It is the contemplations of the playschool mind. But maybe Mr Gardiner is well aware of that and has an agenda in writing this book and foisting this his image of profound ideas upon us. To me this tract seemed to be an apology for very very failed religions. In this book he gives us the usual suspects to salvation and tells us they were the Shining ones, but no where does he offer any proof or serious ideas as to how they are the shining ones bringing mankind out of it's morass and into a better state of being. The shining ones are the old failed slave god religions of the past, whose dreadful hangover still poisons the world. He treats all these Old god ideas as literal truths and that's it. Well excuse me. In saying there was a literal Jesus,Mohammed,Buddha etc. What good does that do anyone. He doesn't explore their teachings or much else. It is just presented as fact that the teachings of these ideas is good and they were the shining ones directing and "Helping humanity". Evidence to how these religions have helped anyone over the last few thousand years is very evident from history and to his blindness Mr Gardiner can't seem to see that. In all these Religious doctrines it was never the mainstream that helped or had any notion of a possible real idea as to where humanity is at and where it might go. It has always been the mavericks who took on these creeds and made something of them. Not in a literal sense but in a magical and psychological sense. Mr Gardiner in his investigation fails to see this and propagates these tired old religions and their founders as the shining ones, there to help and guide us all to some far off utopia. In the mainstream of religious thought don't take this book as being of any help to you. For the Christians look to the Gnostic's, for the Muslims look to the Sufi's. For the Hindu's look to the Tantrics. For the Buddhist's look to the Bon sect. Here the real investigations into religious thought and enlightenment took place and never in the conservative and literalist religious creeds. Again I hated this book and was very sorry I bought it. The next time I'll trust my intuition and read the toilet paper as I do and where it and this book should go. On saying that I did like the look of this book and any credit should go to the publisher " Radikal Phase" for that. Just a shame about the content which to me was utter drivel.

This book is subtle. Often I believe it to be too subtle for some. Many call the codes childish, well then, they do not understand. I have been involved in the arcane wisdom traditions of the globe for decades and I understand ciphers. Gardiner has woven the ******* cipher into this text so beautifully that if it were made into a tapestry it would be hung in the Louvre. The surface story, for those who do not comprehend such inticiacies is also well done. No index is a shame, but the book makes up for this in class.!

I suggest if people like this book they also buy his new on, Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon's Temple Revealed - this also has a beautiful code, but hidden rather better this time in rich translated code. Nice work Gardiner!