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In 1993 Jon Marc Hammer began channeling 35 lessons from the master teacher Jeshua, or Jesus, his Greek name. He was sponsored by The Shanti Christo foundation, which took the recorded talks and produced "The Way of Mastery" in 1997. In August of 2007 I spent a week in a retreat in New Mexico with many of the people who produced this book. I felt like I was in a family reunion. This was the most happy, peaceful and loving week of my life. My lifelong scepticism about channelled writings flew out the window. Since then I have read through the book twice and lead and been in a group study weekly all year.
The purpose of this book is to bring into being an updated, simple and relevant version of what our brother, Jeshua taught and lived 2000 years ago. The teachings are beautiful, masterfully presented and in modern easy to understand language, and the book is of excellent quality.
Jeshua promises no less than Heaven on Earth to those willing to study and practice the lessons deeply. This is not religion, but how to live as God intended His beloved children to live. No one is excluded, judged, less or more than any other. It is our choice to follow the traditions you have been taught or to open the mind and heart to the possibility that there could be more to life than we ever dreamed of. No other book in print is so up to date, simple, and profound yet "user friendly" in it's teachings.
It is the answer to my prayer, in July of 1947, when I was in the class for new members at the first Methodist Church of Canyon Texas, and not satisfied with what the Methodist and Baptist and other churches had to offer. I said to myself,"I just wish I could ask Jesus." It took me 60 years to be ready to listen. This book will save any serious reader many years of wandering in our own wilderness. Study groups are springing up all over the world.

This material is a true gift. Teaches you how to have true communion with God and to let go of all the things we have created to block this. Now I believe it is actually possible for all of us to achieve what Jesus wanted for every soul.

This is an outstanding offering for those who are inclined to do introspective work. As difficult as I found it to understand the language in "A Course in Miracles", this one is the complete opposite. Same message, different language. A real treat and gift. I cannot, however, recommend that this be purchased from any source except the Shanti Christo foundation.

I first came across this work almost 15 years ago, after another 15 of seeking everywhere I knew or could find for answers to life's big questions, including 8 as a student of A Course in Miracles.

For me, The Way of Mastery is the most aligned and powerful spiritual work I have ever seen--many of the lessons are said ot be one's Jeshua did himself in his lifetime--and the work is growing like early Christianity. Profoundly life changing.

Although the Amazon price says $150, and that it's unavailable, the current edition of the book and included CD is available through the Shanti Christo website for a very reasonable price.
Namaste,
Marcia

I learned of this book from a friend during a discussion of spirituality. I looked through the book briefly and decided to purchase it through the source on Amazon. I have read from it daily since it arrived. I love this book and will certainly recommend it to anyone who studies in the light of the Oneness with God.

That the authors claim this book was from Jesus explaining the basis of Christianity and then to go further and associate it with A Course in Miracles is a farce. They differ greatly in the basic fundamentals as follows:

Firstly, as ACIM correctly states, you are the dreamer producing the dream and are not contained within the dream. To associate yourself with an objective body and then honor the desires and pleasures of this "body" as God-given puts you back in the limited dream-nightmare humans call "life". And by the way, with all these human bodily pleasures being entertained, where do you think all the lost and dreaming separate egos come from in the first place???!!!! DUUHHHH!!! There is nothing about the objective universe and the bodies in it that are valid as these so-called material illusions are all counterfeits of the real deal, have no direct meaning and will be redeemed for their real meaning when correct understanding is attained.

Secondly, the Oneness of Being has no gender as it contains both in its completed, unseparated state of Being. Instead of referring to this Being properly as It, ancient writers referred to It as Him as was the custom but were still aware Oneness has no gender. To willfully change the gender of It (Him) to Her as this book does smacks of a hidden femenist and childish agenda.

Thirdly, ACIM forgives all. The Way of Mastery casts corporations and governments as something to leave behind implying a negative connotation. When the Truth is understood, there are no evil corporations or governments, as they are all illusions in a dream that never happened (along with that pleasurable human body dealt with above).

In summary, my take on The Way of Mastery is that it is not Christianity at all but is a wolf hiding in sheep's clothing poised to expand this lost generation of alien egos that erroneously claim "females" to be the source of life. It seems to use similar and correct themes of ACIM over which to foist and clothe its erroneous ignorance (or is it malevolent aggression?) To put my opinion in modern media-speak, The Way of Mastery sounds like left-wing, femenist, communist propaganda claiming to be the actual words of Jesus! Indeed these final days will be full of voices claiming "Here is truth" and "No, it is over here!"...indeed, therefore, I SAY UNTO ALL, WATCH AND BEWARE!