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More Adventures in Eternity: Embracing the Higher Self
In this follow-up to Phinn's Eternal Life and How to Enjoy It (Hampton Roads), he graduates from his afterlife guide Henry's tutelage to explore further on his own. The book begins with more of Henry's retrieval exploits including working with the souls of those killed during the Vietnam War. Moving beyond Henry, Phinn embraces his higher self and attempts to uncover the full measure of his astral consciousness through out-of-body experiences and meetings with Jesus, Buddha, and others.
304 pages, Paperback
Published May 30, 2006
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June 12, 2013
Gordon Phinn's More Adventures in Eternity- From Henry to Higher Self details the accounts of Gordon's adventures in the astral planes, from soul retrievals to casual meetings with loved ones to travelling into the future and meeting future selves etc.
In the beginning, I thought this book was headed in a healthy direction. Gordon gave accounts of soul retrievals and how souls were aided in the transitional phase after death to these reception centres and the higher planes of the astral where they could hang around before reincarnating and continuing their soul progress in this physical reality. The opening accounts were brilliant and entertaining. Some featured retrievals of soldiers from the Vietnam war and more were simply retrievals of people who died in typical accidents etc and didn't realise they had passed on. The writer just went off on a crusade after that, in my opinion. I don't doubt his psychic abilities or many of his experiences in the astral, including his many soul retrievals but I found fault with several things. Firstly, I believe his interpretations of some of his experiences were influenced heavily by what he has read in literature and also by his imagination. For example, he speaks about going into the future and meeting a future self from 2150. The future self raves on about what things are like in the future etc. I just found this to be way over the top. I believe it's possible to see spikes of probable future realities in the akashic records but to meet with a future self from 2150 seems absurd and furthermore to deduce from this encounter that the future, past and present exist simultaneously is ridiculous and defies all logic. That would infer that we don't exist with free-will here in the present and that the future is pre-determined. Thanks, but no thanks Gordon. Secondly, I found the author's tone and style of writing extremely frustrating. He comes across as a little overly proud of his psychic abilities and isn't afraid to boast throughout the book. He overuses big complicated terminology to illustrate already complicated points regarding his philosophic interpretations of his experiences. I nearly flung the book out the window when he started on about "The Greys" and meeting entities involved in breeding semi-humans etc.
The author tended to take off on tangents, raving about splitting into 3 or 4 aspects of self and simultaneously experiencing things whilst out of body. That's all fine but very difficult to relate to and his very long conversations with "Higher self" and others is very hard to read given that in the dialogues he fails to label who says what, quite often.
It also seems very apparent that the author is extremely religiously influenced and there's nothing wrong with that other than the fact we must treat his interpretations of his experiences with this in mind. Everybody filters data differently in the author's case we must allow for this influence. Another major issue is that he tends to speak about past lives and future lives and he what he knows of his soul history without any degree of uncertainty. Most people who have such experiences will admit that retrieving data from the akashic records, databases or whatever one wants to call them, is a very technical thing. One could easily mistake a past event for a past possible even (unactualised history) and make assumpstions based on such.
To summarise what I thought of the book I must say that whilst it was entertaining at times it was also quite difficult to follow in parts, owing to the overly-complicated jargon, poorly structured dialogues and over-referencing of religious associations. That much said, I trust that the author is sincere and genuine in what he says he has experienced. I don't think for a second there's any fabrication whatsoever, I just suspect there's a lot of misinterpretation and heavy influencing of his experiences.
In the beginning, I thought this book was headed in a healthy direction. Gordon gave accounts of soul retrievals and how souls were aided in the transitional phase after death to these reception centres and the higher planes of the astral where they could hang around before reincarnating and continuing their soul progress in this physical reality. The opening accounts were brilliant and entertaining. Some featured retrievals of soldiers from the Vietnam war and more were simply retrievals of people who died in typical accidents etc and didn't realise they had passed on. The writer just went off on a crusade after that, in my opinion. I don't doubt his psychic abilities or many of his experiences in the astral, including his many soul retrievals but I found fault with several things. Firstly, I believe his interpretations of some of his experiences were influenced heavily by what he has read in literature and also by his imagination. For example, he speaks about going into the future and meeting a future self from 2150. The future self raves on about what things are like in the future etc. I just found this to be way over the top. I believe it's possible to see spikes of probable future realities in the akashic records but to meet with a future self from 2150 seems absurd and furthermore to deduce from this encounter that the future, past and present exist simultaneously is ridiculous and defies all logic. That would infer that we don't exist with free-will here in the present and that the future is pre-determined. Thanks, but no thanks Gordon. Secondly, I found the author's tone and style of writing extremely frustrating. He comes across as a little overly proud of his psychic abilities and isn't afraid to boast throughout the book. He overuses big complicated terminology to illustrate already complicated points regarding his philosophic interpretations of his experiences. I nearly flung the book out the window when he started on about "The Greys" and meeting entities involved in breeding semi-humans etc.
The author tended to take off on tangents, raving about splitting into 3 or 4 aspects of self and simultaneously experiencing things whilst out of body. That's all fine but very difficult to relate to and his very long conversations with "Higher self" and others is very hard to read given that in the dialogues he fails to label who says what, quite often.
It also seems very apparent that the author is extremely religiously influenced and there's nothing wrong with that other than the fact we must treat his interpretations of his experiences with this in mind. Everybody filters data differently in the author's case we must allow for this influence. Another major issue is that he tends to speak about past lives and future lives and he what he knows of his soul history without any degree of uncertainty. Most people who have such experiences will admit that retrieving data from the akashic records, databases or whatever one wants to call them, is a very technical thing. One could easily mistake a past event for a past possible even (unactualised history) and make assumpstions based on such.
To summarise what I thought of the book I must say that whilst it was entertaining at times it was also quite difficult to follow in parts, owing to the overly-complicated jargon, poorly structured dialogues and over-referencing of religious associations. That much said, I trust that the author is sincere and genuine in what he says he has experienced. I don't think for a second there's any fabrication whatsoever, I just suspect there's a lot of misinterpretation and heavy influencing of his experiences.
November 22, 2009
I haven't actually read this book but my brilliant cousin wrote it so it must be good. I will know when he sends me a free friends and family copy which I now realize he will never do in case I drop my 5 start rating.
Love ya Gordy XX
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February 16, 2010I learned a lot from writing this book...gp
November 14, 2012
Loved it equally as much as the first book!
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