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The Unobstructed Universe
An undisputed classic in the field of psychic exploration, The Unobstructed Universe is as important to human understanding as the tales of Marco Polo six hundred years ago. This book records the discoveries of Stewart White as he explored the terrain and topography of the inner dimensions of life.
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First published January 1, 1940
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Stewart Edward White
583 books27 followersFrom about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. Starting in 1922, he and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. White died in Hillsborough, California.
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June 25, 2011
I normally do not buy into talking to the dead or channeling, I find it interesting, but this one makes me pause. Stewart Edward White writes a very convincing book based on information he claims to receive by way of his deceased wife.It is a very detailed description of the cosmos, afterlife, and the unseen world. My copy was published in 1940, and given to me by a friend. I'm told it has been published in revision several times since. It is a Fascinating Read!
September 23, 2021
the beginning is a very slow book, and kinda hard to get into initially due to the different terms used (but that is a huge part of the whole book). as the pages go on though, you get sucked in. there are so many concepts that make so much sense and will make me see the world differently forever after this. definitely a book that i will be rereading often when i feel like i need to understand more deeply about our universe, and the unobstructed one we can’t see
October 10, 2023
A really strange book that purports to be a "divulgence" by the author's late wife from beyond death--and a view of what she calls the "unobstructed universe." I don't know why I read this when I am usually so averse to anything that even hints of the psychic, occult, or new age. Curiosity, simply, I guess, and that there was nothing particularly sinister in the book, only a sense of the strange and unusual. Still, I don't think I'd recommend this book to anyone; it was just one of those weird books I stumbled upon by chance, and interested by its novelty and its obscurity, decided to read.
Something to unpack in the creation of the book itself, before even getting to the content: if you read the book as one who does not believe in psychic afterlife communication (as I did), then this book becomes the somewhat sad story of a grieving man (S.E. White) genuinely propounding a theory of the universe which he truly believes is coming from his dead wife Betty through the person of their friend Joan, and with the assistance of her husband Darby. Sad when you think about it.
Even ignoring the strange content and theory of the book, it is interesting to think that these three were real people, who obviously sincerely believed what they were writing. That alone was curiosity inducing enough to draw me into reading the entire thing. It makes you wonder about the human mind, and what stories we will tell ourselves, however misguided and strange, to maintain some grasp on ourselves in the midst of deep grief.
As far as the content goes, their theory of the universe and life after death was somewhat thought provoking but not particularly illuminating or compelling or believable, and ultimately vague and useless as a conception of the universe. Even if true, I see no practical application to our life here. It is not surprising that the book has disappeared into obscurity; what is surprising is that it was ever popular to begin with in the 40s.
Again, would not recommend to anyone, but not regretful that I read it.
Something to unpack in the creation of the book itself, before even getting to the content: if you read the book as one who does not believe in psychic afterlife communication (as I did), then this book becomes the somewhat sad story of a grieving man (S.E. White) genuinely propounding a theory of the universe which he truly believes is coming from his dead wife Betty through the person of their friend Joan, and with the assistance of her husband Darby. Sad when you think about it.
Even ignoring the strange content and theory of the book, it is interesting to think that these three were real people, who obviously sincerely believed what they were writing. That alone was curiosity inducing enough to draw me into reading the entire thing. It makes you wonder about the human mind, and what stories we will tell ourselves, however misguided and strange, to maintain some grasp on ourselves in the midst of deep grief.
As far as the content goes, their theory of the universe and life after death was somewhat thought provoking but not particularly illuminating or compelling or believable, and ultimately vague and useless as a conception of the universe. Even if true, I see no practical application to our life here. It is not surprising that the book has disappeared into obscurity; what is surprising is that it was ever popular to begin with in the 40s.
Again, would not recommend to anyone, but not regretful that I read it.
January 5, 2022
Fascinating!
I was absolutely hooked on this book! So interesting, & fascinating! But it was also clear & intelligible. I really enjoyed the style of writing. It seems, late 18, early 1900 was the times to be living in for interesting research that was happening at that time!
I was absolutely hooked on this book! So interesting, & fascinating! But it was also clear & intelligible. I really enjoyed the style of writing. It seems, late 18, early 1900 was the times to be living in for interesting research that was happening at that time!
October 1, 2019
This book has a 1940 copyright. I found it at an antique store with a torn cover, stained pages and mildewy smell. It spoke to me and I truly enjoyed it. It does get a bit deep in theories and the writing is definitely dated but I have no complaints. The following is one of my favorite quotes which I feel does a nice job summarizing the books overall message, "Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see and hear is less than one-millionth of reality." R. Buckminster Fuller
July 14, 2008
I'm rereading this book that was published in 1940. Rather amazing the descriptions that modern physics has come to understand. Still a fascinating subject and premise.
April 5, 2024
FURTHER THOUGHTS/EXPERIENCES FROM THE AUTHOR OF 'THE BETTY BOOK'
Stewart Edward White (1873-1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist.
He wrote in the second chapter of this 1940 book, “Some twenty years of exploring with [his wife] Betty beyond the known frontiers of present consciousness had lifted from me most of the conventional ideas as to death. I had come to have no faintest feeling of it as final and irrevocable separation. Nevertheless, I found on April 5, 1939… I had become a man who had ‘lost his wife’…. Betty and I, since March 17, 1919, had been exploring another land… from which … ‘no traveler returns.’ We doubted that. Betty had visited that land, and had returned, many times. It was her reports of these… which made up the body of the work I now felt so impossible without her, and so untimely broken off…” (Pg. 14-15)
But soon, he realized, “Betty had not gone---SHE was still with me… That presence has continued, not all the time, but normally so… Betty is still living. This I know… She has given me a thousand proofs of it… Betty calls it a ‘divulgence.’ … Divulgence of what? Of ‘The Unobstructed Universe’ where Betty went after her body died and concerning which, its ways and means, methods, laws, habits, work, triumphs, failures… she, through Joan [a psychic] has since reported back to me.” (Pg. 18-19)
Stewart Edward White (1873-1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist.
He wrote in the second chapter of this 1940 book, “Some twenty years of exploring with [his wife] Betty beyond the known frontiers of present consciousness had lifted from me most of the conventional ideas as to death. I had come to have no faintest feeling of it as final and irrevocable separation. Nevertheless, I found on April 5, 1939… I had become a man who had ‘lost his wife’…. Betty and I, since March 17, 1919, had been exploring another land… from which … ‘no traveler returns.’ We doubted that. Betty had visited that land, and had returned, many times. It was her reports of these… which made up the body of the work I now felt so impossible without her, and so untimely broken off…” (Pg. 14-15)
But soon, he realized, “Betty had not gone---SHE was still with me… That presence has continued, not all the time, but normally so… Betty is still living. This I know… She has given me a thousand proofs of it… Betty calls it a ‘divulgence.’ … Divulgence of what? Of ‘The Unobstructed Universe’ where Betty went after her body died and concerning which, its ways and means, methods, laws, habits, work, triumphs, failures… she, through Joan [a psychic] has since reported back to me.” (Pg. 18-19)
December 29, 2016
Ok, I gave this two stars and that means "it was ok", and actually it wasn't even ok. If you summarized it all up, then it was ok, but to actually read it was a real chore. I presume this is
because I don't know much physics or metaphysics, whatever. I wanted to understand it, if
someone could just explain it to me!
because I don't know much physics or metaphysics, whatever. I wanted to understand it, if
someone could just explain it to me!
April 10, 2022
I am revisiting many of the books I read many years ago that have greatly impacted my quest for understanding life and death and afterlife.
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