"intention is a learned skill"

It's an interesting read. I don't want to say too much for those who haven't read it yet, though...

Love,
Mike.

I found the da Vinci code to be entertaining but too Christian for my taste. I was hoping that the Lost Symbol wasn’t stepped in religiosity and its not. It appeals to me because of how much extra information- thoughts affecting water, thoughts having mass and affecting matter, the power of the mind, noetic science and the potential of consciousness in human form. Its not high literature and not even high dramatic writing. I couldn’t read it but the audio version has assisted with the weekend autumn cleaning. Over all the secrets that Dan is pointing towards in the Lost Symbol (,to me at least ) has far greater implications than whether or not ‘Jesus ‘had a fully consummated relationship or whether or not a female body could be a sacred receptacle for the ‘Holy Spirit’.


However I don’t see the Freemasons making a fuss about the book, probably because the main themes, the power of the mind, intention, willing events into being, is the common stuff of most new age books , besides the Freemasons won’t feel threatened in the way some parts of the Christian church were with the Da Vinci Code.

How I see it dove tailing with aspects of the Seth material is that again , along with the same popularity of ‘The secret’ for those who have had an intimation of ‘something more’, Dan brown in his populist format is putting intriguing information ‘out there ‘ in the guise of fiction.

Some will pooh-pooh everything he has written but since he drops a number of key .com addresses as well, I m certain many people will take things further. I also warmed to his referencing of Lynne Mactaggarts the intention experiment



Melancholia 1, Albrecht Dürer, 1514

Okay, so don't read this response if you haven't read the Lost Symbol yet...

When I read the Da Vinci Code what appealed to me was that it seemed as if the storyline was almost a backdrop for the historical information being presented. When I read The Lost Symbol, it seemed to me as if Dan Brown had reversed it, so that the historical information, the 'good stuff' was almost lost in the background of an adventure story. It wasn't until the last couple of chapters in the book that they really got to the heart of the message, and it seemed to me at first that one could skip most of the book and simply read the last couple of chapters.

Ah, but then I had a second 'look' at what his Masonic friend was really telling him, that the answers have always been there, throughout history, and while some of it has been disguised because of the religious and political views of the day, the information has always been there for those who took the time to look for it. And with that realization I could see that 'The Lost Symbol' was written in the same way. It's allegorical. Those who have an interest in adventure novels will see only that. They'll have a good story to read. Those who have an interest in early politics or Masonic traditions will see only that. And those who are looking for truth in their lives, in whatever format, will see through the overlays that make up the bulk of the book and see clearly the deeper information that the book contains. And with that thought I realized that Dan Brown is much more clever than I had previously given him credit.

Love,
Mike.

Some of my questions were answered by reading the lost symbol .Foremost was why I felt drawn to stories of adepts and secret societies and why most forms of religion leave me cold.

I could even see where my source of irritation at trivia and dismissal of simplistic new age platitudes arose.

Towards the end one of the characters uses the analogy that if one were in possession of a violin it would be correct to say that the owner of the violin could create beautiful music with it. Yet it would be obvious that training was required In all the talk f creating your own reality little time is spent addressing training of the mind to focus, the skill of holding the visualisation or feeling tone and the channelling of the intensity of emotion. Knowing that one can create beautiful music with a violin is not enough.

It might be that over all ‘The lost symbol’ is so esoteric and occult in parts that immature minds will only see the drama .In any case it doesn’t matter how the book is viewed, the words tumble into the mind of the reader and to each their own.


I think it’s a radical act and maybe choice to have deep faith and put away childish things. To refuse a trance like existence. The sleep in which every need is catered to by cable or the 7/11.

I am surprised the book affected me as it did because I really do prefer that books I listen to are better written from a literary and dramatic sense. With the lost symbol there were too many improbable twist and turns...and the ending of the anti hero was quite frankly silly...A forced morality tale ending.

Yet it is Seth material compatible and the principles espoused as ‘great and dangerous secrets’...well they are all in the nature of personal realty.

But one thing stood out, as in the lost symbol, as in the Seth material, the powers and potentials are latent, very few an activate them in a focused fashion as they chose. But I don’t see it as being out of an innate flaw. It seems to me as simple as one cannot play a violin with excellence simply because one knows one has the latent potential to.

Funny enough again as in the Seth material, as in The Lost symbol- towards the end the female character lays out a methodology.

Amazing, I wrote the post above a year ago and if I did not know who wrote it...I would be wondering who wrote it? I can barely recall the plot of the book, so I suspect its worth a re read.

Actually I might be do a phase of posting. mulling and reflecting as i go abou my day.

The Abraham folk have such a vibrant forum, it suprises me at times, but then again if one is to go beyond the platitudes..papaji seth takes some reading, study even and even all that will be for naught without the practitioner aspect. "..Faith without works.." and all that jazz.

So first things first re read all my old posts and see who I was.