A leak ship of practices in a sea of UPG and ego masturbation
Anyone who knows my opinion of UPG will instantly know this is not a positive review. Most of this book is intended to be channelled from two entities known as Orin and Da Ben and as such is the unverified personal gnosis of the two writers. They believe they are taking what their guides say about the process of channelling but it is mixed up in a fixed, unrealistic view of the universe and vomitted out into a book.
There are so many spiritual people out in the universe and frankly they all have some form of UPG of their own. I don’t have time to read everyone’s UPG! There’s just too much of it and most of it does not help me with my own connection with the universe or whatever I’m connecting to. Also when I work with entities, I put the information I receive with a rigorous testing that is unparalleled and I just cannot expect others to do that. Therefore I don’t want to waste my time reading about other people’s dreams or views.
If they had any real confidence in their view of the universe just focus on the techniques to channel it. If they are right then the universe will tell me itself and I won’t need to get the information second-hand from them. Also some of the stuff is not well thought through. They say things which sound nice but just don’t work. Comments like, “If your guide does not feel lovely then dump it and ask for a higher one.” seem like they’re trapped in the view of the universe as a place of everlasting light. A positive attitude is a nice thing to have but frankly we don’t live in a lovely world. We live in a place where people are sometimes sad, people sometimes get sick and die, and where one of the most important teachers we will ever have in our life is our own sufferring (as long as we don’t wallow in it).
I am also disappointed how the book attempts to masturbate the ego “your willingness to be open is all you need… there is much ahead of you… brave new world… you are the leaders, teachers and healers of the new age.” All this stuff is written to boost the ego of the reader. So they feel good about themselves. I’m not saying people should be miserable all the time, but frankly humility is to be respected, over-confidence is dangerous and taking such views of a spiritual practice is very inconsistent with many other spiritual traditions – compare Swami Satyananda Saraswati views on Siddhis. Swami Satyananda Saraswati says that developing an ego filled view of the siddhis (psychic powers including channelling) is bound to prevent the spiritual evolution of the soul at a later point when we become attached to them. He writes that many people have failed to move on and leave the siddhis behind and put their energy into their own alleviation from the ego. This book suggests positive things about being a channeller that then encourages a person’s sense of identity to then be based on their successful channelling but sadly I have news for the writers of this book. Not everyone channels successfully. They ask their readers to avoid channelling specific details, how else would you know it is working or not? Answer: They don’t want you to know. They want you to walk away with your brain riddled with their UPG, your ego massaged and inflated and as a result, you to have a positive view of the authors.
The book develops slowly and is salt and peppered with fairly adequate practices, but there are easier to use methods online. It is organised in a manner I don’t understand (it was probably an order that was “channelled”) but a contents table enables a reader to find things easily. Don’t be afraid to pay a lot of money to have the authors of the book take you on a course designed to part you with your hard-earned cash.
If you really disagree with my views of ego masturbating and UPG, please buy this book. Thanks for reading.