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Title: More About Life in the World Unseen by Anthony Borgia, Mike Rigby ISBN: 0-9636435-2-5 Publisher: MAP Pub. Date: September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Comment on "More About Life in the World Unseen" by Borgia
Comment: Mr. Clark, a previous reviewer, made some comments on this book without having read (at the time) the primary book of this trilogy: "Life in the World Unseen." This is unfortunate, because many of his complaints about "More about Life..." would have been more then adequately answered in the first book. I presume that he has read the other two books by now. While I would rate the first book with five stars, I agree that the two sequels, "More about Life ..." and "Here and Hereafter" might barely rate three stars (especially read alone). They merely give some more experiences and detail on the main points which were basically set forth in the first book.
I disagree with Mr. Clark's approach, in that he judged apparently the book with a "checklist" of all the features that he should expect to find in any experience of someone passing the portals of death. That is a mistake, especially since the purported source of the verbiage in this books, Mgsr Benson, never claimed to be delivering to us an all-inclusive description of either God's plan for men on the earth, nor of the precise experience of dying and passing into the world beyond. Not only that (and I speak from the collective message of all three of the books), Robert Benson admitted that his own progression is not what it might have been, and that he only claimed to describe things that he witnessed in the realm where he took up residence (the lowest of the realms of light), and in his brief excursions into other realms.
It is clear from the context of his descriptions that those who inhabited the realms lower than his own, the realms of darkness, lacked certain comprehensions of how things worked, or had certain unresolved character issues which prevented them from moving up. It is only reasonable then that Mgsr. Benson might have also had certain things that he hadn't yet mastered or comprehended which prevented him from inhabiting any of the four realms of light higher and more brilliant and beautiful than his own beautiful realm. Consequently, it would have been impossible for this book, given its context, to give any comprehensive description of "The Plan," as Mgsr. Benson not only wouldn't have had much personal glimpse of higher realms, but likely he wouldn't have comprehended all that might be required to progress through them.
Nor do I feel that the descriptions given in these books rule out "reincarnation," as he is simply relatively silent on the actions necessary to move up in progression. It is interesting that during one visit (given in the first book) he had with an extremely high-level being, a ruler of all the realms, he says that this man had been in progression for "countless eons of time." How inconceivable that someone could be in progression for such a long period of time, and yet have only 40-80 years of experience in mortality "on the earth plane" so to speak, where we must "walk by faith," as clearly from the collective near-death literature, the issue of "faith" is not so difficult as it is in our present situation. As these books attributed tremendous importance to our actions and attitudes in this life as a determining factor in what realm we "suited ourselves to" within the hierarchical realms of the spirit world, it seems therefore requisite, to me, that one have again mortal experiences to be able to "do the work of progression" "by faith" in order to qualify for the higher realms.
One of the primary purposes for the books stated in the first volume was to set certain things straight that Mgsr. Benson feels were errors committed during his life. As a well-renowned Catholic author, he had written extensively on "Orthodox" Catholic dogma. When he arrived on the "other side," he simply discovered that virtually all that he had written simply wasn't so. Consequently, he seemed to focus on those orthodox doctrinal errors that he felt he had incorrectly written about, and for which many people had placed deep trust in him for as a religious teacher, and by the way, which things are still read today by many avid Catholic devouts. Most of Mgsr Benson's writings are available on-line today on Catholic-related web sites. It was these errors that he felt the strongest desire to correct, and not to give any descriptions in any comprehensive way.
I found the first book (and the sequels only if considered as one work with the first book) to be refreshing and enthralling, and were also a tremendous balm and comfort to my sister who at the time we gave her the books, was dying of cancer. In the remaining few days of her life, she was in and out of the "spirit world," and during one of her last moments on "this side," related seeing the "rest homes" so to speak that Robert Benson described in some detail in the first book, where newly arrived people often go in the spirit world to recover from a traumatic passing, or to adjust to conditions there.
Please read the first book first. Read the others then if you have a thirst for more of Robert Benson, however, the sequels do not contribute significantly further to the understandings and concepts encapsulated in the first book.
John Pratt
Manti, Utah (non-LDS)
Rating: 3
Summary: Somewhat Simplistic, Some things Lacking, Others True
Comment: I have not had the pleasure to read the other two books, having only found this one and reading it. I am comparing this one to other books on the topic of spiritual life after death. Supposedly, the real author is a discarnate Monsignor, at least from the viewpoint of the text. The one thing I found lacking the most, was any recognition of reincarnation. Supposedly, when one dies and goes to this part of heaven, one never gets the opportunity to be reborn again (something entirely in keeping with current Christian thinking, but entirely out of line with every other book on the subject I have read). You have to read the book, but obviously, Peter Ilyich is Tchaicovsky, and Franz Joseph is Listz the piano wizard...what is the big deal with hiding who they are by not sharing their last names. From what I have read, the reflection of earthly life (trees, grass, flowers, etc) is on the outer periphery of heaven...until such a time as one is ready to shed Earth-Like contrivances. No mention was made of any kind of life review, no meeting of friends or relatives who had already died or those we knew before we were born into this life, no mention of any kind of soul group. The fact of the matter is, time does not exist, from what I have learned, in heaven, and so time and age and earth years are meaningless contrivances. All time is RIGHT NOW, past, present and future. What we are treated to here in this book is like a Sunday School walk through a lovely garden, without any kind of hint about the reason of what we are doing other than we have a right to learn how to make flowers or weave. There is frequent mention of higher beings, but no mention of how one gets to be one. A mention was made of a spirit guide of the departed, but not one further word about this important person in relation to the development of the departed's soul. Not everyone who dies, is treated like a gentle butterfly, as you will find out if you read more about this whole thing...frequently, souls are left to roam the earth in total ignorance of the fact they are physically dead. Others are left here for an eternity because they are insane and don't have the capacity to go towards the light. Others still, sit in the darkness, waiting for help with no help forthcoming. I think God should do better! Create souls, put them on Earth, and if they are helpless, then use some of that infinite power to not leave one of them on the Earth Plane. Here, we are told, we shall be lifted up gently and placed upon a tranquil bed or find ourselves in a wretched hovel if we have been BAD. There are elements of truth strewn here and there throughout the text, but I am left in serious doubt as to the relevance of this text. I shall reserve my judgement after reading the other two in the series...But for now, the second book lacks SUBSTANCE, centers on the frills, and trivialities and the niceties and doesn't concentrate on the purpose, reason and rememberance of what we are doing here or what REALLY happens when we get THERE. I think they are there because they don't WANT to advance beyond the merest opening space of Heaven...they never ever seem to even get to their life review...something every one of us is going to have to face, like it or not!
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Title: Here and Hereafter by Anthony Borgia ISBN: 0963643533 Publisher: MAP Pub. Date: 15 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Afterlife Codes: Searching for Evidence of the Survival of the Soul by Susy Smith, Suzy Smith, Gary E. R. Schwartz, Linda G. S. Russek ISBN: 1571741917 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom ISBN: 0786868716 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Life in the World Unseen by Anthony Borgia, Mike Rigby ISBN: 0963643509 Publisher: MAP Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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