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God's Gladiators
God's Gladiators by Stuart Wilde is his most personally revealing book to date. He lays his soul bare as he goes in pursuit of the devil, and finds him a decent chap if a little misunderstood. The dark side, after all, stands side by side with the light, waiting for each of us personally to walk up and shake their hands. What a glorious moment awaits as we embrace our mortality and say good-bye to our illusion of perfection. Stuart lays it all out for us. It's up to you where you go from here.
- GenresSpirituality
211 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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About the author
Stuart Wilde
75 books153 followersWilde was born in Farnham, England. He was educated at St. George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey. After his schooling he joined the English Stage Company in Sloane Square, London. A year later he opened a jeans business in Carnaby Street London, at the height of the Swinging Sixties where he enjoyed considerable commercial success.
He studied alternative religions and Taoist philosophy for five years from the age of twenty-eight, and when he was thirty-three, he emigrated to the United States of America where lived in Laguna Beach, California with his first wife Cynthia. He wrote his first book, Miracles, in 1983.
Shortly thereafter he began a career as a lecturer appearing mainly in New Thought Churches and at New Age conferences. In the 1990s he toured regularly with Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Louise Hay, appearing at venues such as the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
tuart Wilde is a prolific writer, with eighteen of his books published to date. They appear in more than fifteen foreign languages, with a total of ninety-three different books and audio works in circulation.[2]
He executive produced and was the lyricist on the music album Voice of the Feminine Spirit (1994), which sold several hundred-thousand copies. He later produced and was the lyricist on two albums of Celtic music, Voice of the Celtic Myth (1997), and Creation (1999), and wrote the book and libretto for Tim Wheater’s oratorio Heartland (1995).
He studied alternative religions and Taoist philosophy for five years from the age of twenty-eight, and when he was thirty-three, he emigrated to the United States of America where lived in Laguna Beach, California with his first wife Cynthia. He wrote his first book, Miracles, in 1983.
Shortly thereafter he began a career as a lecturer appearing mainly in New Thought Churches and at New Age conferences. In the 1990s he toured regularly with Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Louise Hay, appearing at venues such as the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
tuart Wilde is a prolific writer, with eighteen of his books published to date. They appear in more than fifteen foreign languages, with a total of ninety-three different books and audio works in circulation.[2]
He executive produced and was the lyricist on the music album Voice of the Feminine Spirit (1994), which sold several hundred-thousand copies. He later produced and was the lyricist on two albums of Celtic music, Voice of the Celtic Myth (1997), and Creation (1999), and wrote the book and libretto for Tim Wheater’s oratorio Heartland (1995).
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November 2, 2016
This is the first Wilde I read cover to cover, I had read a few quotes of his online and he was recommended by a friend who meditates, so I took the plunge.
In my opinion Wilde plays it way too fast and loose to get things right more than sheer guesswork would provide us with. I love the Seth books by Jane Roberts, and Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi" - if you're red them you know they are thorough and pretty methodical in their approach and analysis, especially Seth. With Yogananda you have to accept a few things he says as his opinion, he doesn't support everything with information, but you can tell he is completely sincere.
Wilde strikes me as half inspired by a mixture of inner experience from all sorts of levels of his being (mixing passions/fears/emotions/thoughts/hopes), and half guesswork. His guesswork is not impressive imo. Telling people they don't need a spiritual practice is not impressive. There is a reason people through all known history have spontaneously developed meditation techniques, religions, transformative rituals, mind-opening drug use... because they work to open our eyes to a greater reality of what is going on both inside and outside of us. I could quote a lot of other stuff Wilde said that I consider to be mostly guesswork and in some cases entirely wildly flailing bs, but I'll just summarize and say I will not read any more books by this author. He gets two stars instead of just one for having the courage to say what he really thinks, in the hopes that he's not simply a conman salesman who doesn't believe half of what he says and needs another book to subsidize his drinking and (cowardly) barfighting legal costs.
In my opinion Wilde plays it way too fast and loose to get things right more than sheer guesswork would provide us with. I love the Seth books by Jane Roberts, and Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi" - if you're red them you know they are thorough and pretty methodical in their approach and analysis, especially Seth. With Yogananda you have to accept a few things he says as his opinion, he doesn't support everything with information, but you can tell he is completely sincere.
Wilde strikes me as half inspired by a mixture of inner experience from all sorts of levels of his being (mixing passions/fears/emotions/thoughts/hopes), and half guesswork. His guesswork is not impressive imo. Telling people they don't need a spiritual practice is not impressive. There is a reason people through all known history have spontaneously developed meditation techniques, religions, transformative rituals, mind-opening drug use... because they work to open our eyes to a greater reality of what is going on both inside and outside of us. I could quote a lot of other stuff Wilde said that I consider to be mostly guesswork and in some cases entirely wildly flailing bs, but I'll just summarize and say I will not read any more books by this author. He gets two stars instead of just one for having the courage to say what he really thinks, in the hopes that he's not simply a conman salesman who doesn't believe half of what he says and needs another book to subsidize his drinking and (cowardly) barfighting legal costs.
March 20, 2022
Found in my late aunt’s storage container. Brought plenty of joy and playfulness and fun :) will certainly be looking into more of this man’s alternative perspective
August 17, 2017
I have to say that this book is good, three stars does not mean it is bad, but it has elements that make you think and ponder. The biggest thing that I got from this book is perception. Other parts of the book are a lbit far advanced for me but I can still digest the information so I still recommend you taking a whiff at this book, give it a shot. There are parts for you where you'll be shocked, and parts where you won't be surprised.
After reading J Krishnamurti's books this book adds in to the imagination. Enjoy!
After reading J Krishnamurti's books this book adds in to the imagination. Enjoy!
June 13, 2012
Live Stuarts work. This is his "darkest" book but there is so many good things in it to meditate on in regards to our shadow selves.
July 26, 2014
This book blew My Mind open to a new level & had me scared & paranoid when I was finished. I still don't know if it was true.
May 9, 2015
His life experience did not touch mine ... I have the benefit of hindsight on his assertions. Not much can be extrapolated into the new earth energies.
April 1, 2015
Great book! All important things we need for life are explained.
March 25, 2009
love stuart
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