I sometimes enjoy knowing what other people are reading so I thought I would share what I’ve been reading. Over the past two months, I’ve read Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, Tatiana Hardie’s The Rose Labyrinth, and I’m just getting back into The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart. Here’s a brief review of each one…
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
I loved this book as I’m a die hard Da Vinci Code fan. The Da Vinci Code was the book that opened me up to the idea of the divine feminine and started me down this spiritual path so I owe Dan Brown a big thanks. The Lost Symbol does not disappoint in bringing up more spiritual material. In fact, I found it to be even more spiritually profound than any other mainstream bestseller. I was surprised by the amount of interesting mystical viewpoints. I think I understand why it took Mr. Brown a bit longer to write this as he needed to undergo some spiritual development himself to even write about these concepts so hats off to him. I hope you will enjoy the excitement, suspense, and provocative spiritual questions that Dan spins into a great read. Here’s a few quotes:
“We have scientifically proven that the power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”
“What I’m saying is this…two heads are better than one…and yet two heads are not twice better, they are many, many times better. Multiple minds working in unison magnify a thought’s effect…exponentially. This is the inherent power of prayer groups, healing circles, singing in unison, and worshipping en masse. The idea of universal consciousness is no ethereal New Age concept. It’s a hard-core scientific reality…and harnessing it has the potential to transform our world. This is the underlying discovery of Noetic Science.”
If you wish to read more about Noetic Science, check out the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Yeoshua has mentioned this concept to me many times. The power of our thoughts is incredible and he is helping me to understand this. He has also shared with me the idea of how powerful it is when two or more are gathered in his name. ;>)
The Rose Labyrinth by Tatiana Hardie
I was pleasantly surprised by this book which I picked up at Costco. My intuition said I liked it and my intuition was right again. I loved this book. It was of great interest to me because it had the Chartres Cathedral in it (which I desperately want to go to), takes place in England, and explores the historical figure of John Dee who was a spiritual/astrological advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. It is also a mystery which I love and deals with finding ancient archaeological items. This was an excellent read if any you are interested in any of these subjects. There is mention of Jesus in it as well which I found interesting. I did not complete the puzzles that are associated with it. The book comes with the set of documents around which the story revolves but I wasn’t as interested in that part. You may like that though. It does add an extra dimension.
Also, there are many myths about Mary Magdalene going to France after Jesus was persecuted. Some have pointed to Chartres Cathedral as a symbol of their union or at least as a piece of history that can give us clues to their true relationship. So, of course, this book was of interest to me with Chartres Cathedral in it.
The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart
I picked up this book a year or two ago and began reading it. It fell by the wayside, I am sad to admit but I’ve picked it up again because my interest was renewed by The Lost Symbol. Dan Brown mentions this book by name as looking into the issue of “Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and Your World” (the tagline for The Intention Experiment). This idea of using our thoughts to change our lives has been a part of my life since I was a kid. I was raised in the Church of Religious Science (now called the United Center for Spiritual Living) founded by Ernest Holmes (author of Science of Mind) who was a vocal proponent of the idea that we can change our lives by changing our thoughts. But this book by McTaggart takes this idea to the next level by providing scientific research that backs up this idea. I am only beginning to tackle this book so I cannot provide a full review just yet. I am enticed to be sure. Plus, I love the idea that the author has taken the book a step further by offering you a chance as the reader to participate in an intention experiment on the web site. Check out the web site to see how you can participate.
I love this quote from the book:
“The Intention Experiment rests on an outlandish premise; thought affects physical reality. A sizable body of research exploring the nature of consciousness, carried on for more than thirty years in prestigious scientific institutions around the world, shows that thoughts are capable of affecting everything from the simplest machines to the most complex living beings. This evidence suggests that human thoughts and intentions are an actual physical “something” with the astonishing power to change our world. Every thought we have is a tangible energy with the power to transform. A thought is not only a thing; a thought is a thing that influences other things.”
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