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    <body><![CDATA[This book has me very divided.  On one hand it did make me think again about my spirituality and about the occult history that is lurking but more in terms of arguing with the author mentally.  I now understand the people on wikipedia who go around randomly scattering &quot;citation please&quot; com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38217699">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, what a romp. I can only add what I put into a Blog Posting on this one ... &quot; [it] could be read as a cynical attempt to capture interest in the occult, as an occult attempt to re-introduce the 'Hidden Masters' to the wider public, as a 'sinister' ideological project to undermine the Enlig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18446879">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was another impulse purchase from Fopp: it was cheap and sounded intriguing.<br/><br/>Not an easy read by any means, there are a lot of ideas mixed up in here. Not having a strong spiritual belief, I came to it with a fairly open mind, and viewed it initially as a source of information.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61869331">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining if only for it's absolute bat-bleep craziness.  Reading it was like listening to Coast-to-Coast with George Noory or Art Bell.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not sure about this one. This guy has got one hell of an imagination, and it is interesting the perspectives he introduces of other peoples religions through history and how they perceive the world. But at the same time, he comes up with some outlandish claims with hardly any to no evidence to back ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30622536">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely odd book. Interesting as a theory of the evolution of consciousness. As a thought experiment, imagine everything in the book is true - you'll feel yourself staring to go bonkers.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very interesting book that you need to read with paper and pen to take note of all the thing you will want to know about after their introduction in this book. Go for it!]]></body>
    
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