ONEO is one of the most influential and inspiring spiritual awakening journeys you will ever read. From despair to enlightenment, every sentence rings with honesty and bravery the details and description of his Consciousness awakening are unbelievable; you are right there when this happens. ONEO is a true story about unconditional love and how a single random act of kindness can save someone's life. Cornelius Christopher courageously opens up his life to the world to show how we urgently need to change the way we treat one another and ourselves. The depth with which he shares unspeakable accounts on how society creates an abused child who later becomes a suicidal adult is beyond imaginable, beyond words, beyond anything you have ever read before. The story begins the moment Cornelius experiences what physicists call a quantum superposition, during which he is forced to watch his funeral and the heart-wrenching scene of his wife finding him dying from his future suicide. From there, the roller coaster ride continues, moving the captivated reader from moments that are painfully honest, gritty and raw, to scenes that are heartwarming, romantic and laugh-out-loud funny. Through a perplexing series of unfolding events following his quantum superposition, Cornelius discovers newfound abilities, including his continuous connection with Consciousness and a gift for healing. While healing his wife, Cornelius is shown a vision and channeled by Collective Consciousness to write his life story and share the knowledge he gained from his Consciousness awakening with the world. ONEO is more than an autobiography; it's a must-read for anyone wanting to learn how to escape their emotional and physical pain or be free of the ego by learning to expand their Consciousness and raise their vibrations. It is a valuable, in-depth, self-help resource of eye-opening truths about reality and how we can influence it to improve our lives by realising our power of choice in every moment of Now. "Prepare yourself for your spiritual awakening."
I bought this book before I had even finished watching Cornelius' interview on Batgap. It's refreshing to read of a Kundalini / awakening experience happening to someone who had no background or interest in "spirituality" at all, and who literally had to search Google to find out what he had gone through.
He's not all caught up in all the jargon and mystery, and as far as I'm concerned is the real deal. It's still early days for him, but his transition was very similar (although a lot more dramatic lol) to Eckhart Tolle's re-birth-out-of-pain, his message is essentially the same which is no surprise, although his experience has also seemingly manifested in slightly different ways.
The first part, before his transition is quite hard to read, and seems to have been written by a completely different person to the second part (after his experience) which makes sense in a way, and getting to that second part makes it well worth the slog.
I felt this was an inspiring read. Cornelius really described in detail the horrors he faced growing up and the struggles he went through as an adult. Really gives a new outlook on the conscious mind and the power of healing.
Not influential and not inspiring. I rarely leave reviews on things, but this one reached a level where I felt physically and mentally sick reading it. I tried to push through to get to the "awakening" bits and did not manage to get there linearly. I had to jump through sections, simply to check the box that I read this book.
This book could have used a lot of editing. More than half of its content could be slashed at no cost to the plot, if it can be called that way. The author goes on endlessly with minute details of day to day life about his victimhood, negative mindsets, bad lucks, and toxic relationships, which only creates an unnecessary and overwhelming heaviness that drags the reader into its depths. Reading this affected me in the most weird and negative ways, as if it ungrounded me and lowered me to his levels. There is nothing inspiring to this egregore at all.
The author offers no redeeming story arc to this darkness. That "awakening" just happens. Deux Ex Machina. No self work, no slow but steady realization on the fact that he is the architect of his own demise, no heroic struggles to finally overcome adversity while learning something about himself. Nothing like that.
This is not helpful to anyone as a story. It feeds this questionable message to the reader that maybe, this magical thing will happen to you as well -- without having to work on yourself.