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Soul Guide On Planet Earth
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A completely new review of the soul is now derived from a common inheritance of the ancient heritage and mysticism, as well as the personal experiences of the author, the practice of hypnotic regression and discoveries of quantum physics that only in the presence of a conscious observer - the soul - the matter takes a form of a physical reality as it is known to us. All the activities of the soul that have an impact on man's life, from life-saving interventions of the soul events in everyday life, inspiration to the spiritual work and creativity that is the basis of human civilization. Souls as the carriers of intelligent design in nature. Communication between the mind and the soul. A detailed description of the reasons for obsession as a "loss of soul". The evil in the world and the goodness of the soul. Self-realization, resurrection or enlightenment as the knowledge of the divine nature of the soul while still in the body. The discipline of meditation as a practice of self-realization of the soul.
CONTENTS - Introduction - The origin, or where we come from - The manifestation of everything through seven phases or proportions - Manifestation of everything through five dimensions - Human body as the outcome of the manifestation of all the dimensions and proportions - The dual nature of the emanation of God: the oblivion and the awakening - Organic life as the foundation of the human body - Human body as the foundation of personality - The complete personality as the foundation of the soul - The organic world as the stage for the drama of the personality - Personality as the personification of the Divine - Divine as the foundation of the soul - The presence of the Divine as a testimony- The mechanical manifestation of the organic world - The manifestation of the organic world as the basis for consciousness - The circle of creation: inorganic world, organic world and man - On the incarnation of souls before the organic life on Earth - The division of souls: the young, developed and highly developed - Souls get ready for a human life shaping all other forms - Soul being born in a body - The beginning of oblivion - Communication between mind and soul - Why the soul is always good - Why some people are not good - The decline of soul - the opposite point on the circle of Divine manifestation - Some of the characteristics and problems of young souls - Some of the characteristics and problems of medium developed souls - Some of the characteristics and problems of the highly developed souls - Some of the observations of the young, medium and the highly developed souls - Everyday life of Bringers of the dawn - Planets condition the organic world - Soul and karma - Soul and science - Soul and religion - Three kinds of work: physical, intellectual and intending - Work on oneself - Man's testimony of the presence of the Divine
A completely new review of the soul is now derived from a common inheritance of the ancient heritage and mysticism, as well as the personal experiences of the author, the practice of hypnotic regression and discoveries of quantum physics that only in the presence of a conscious observer - the soul - the matter takes a form of a physical reality as it is known to us. All the activities of the soul that have an impact on man's life, from life-saving interventions of the soul events in everyday life, inspiration to the spiritual work and creativity that is the basis of human civilization. Souls as the carriers of intelligent design in nature. Communication between the mind and the soul. A detailed description of the reasons for obsession as a "loss of soul". The evil in the world and the goodness of the soul. Self-realization, resurrection or enlightenment as the knowledge of the divine nature of the soul while still in the body. The discipline of meditation as a practice of self-realization of the soul.
CONTENTS - Introduction - The origin, or where we come from - The manifestation of everything through seven phases or proportions - Manifestation of everything through five dimensions - Human body as the outcome of the manifestation of all the dimensions and proportions - The dual nature of the emanation of God: the oblivion and the awakening - Organic life as the foundation of the human body - Human body as the foundation of personality - The complete personality as the foundation of the soul - The organic world as the stage for the drama of the personality - Personality as the personification of the Divine - Divine as the foundation of the soul - The presence of the Divine as a testimony- The mechanical manifestation of the organic world - The manifestation of the organic world as the basis for consciousness - The circle of creation: inorganic world, organic world and man - On the incarnation of souls before the organic life on Earth - The division of souls: the young, developed and highly developed - Souls get ready for a human life shaping all other forms - Soul being born in a body - The beginning of oblivion - Communication between mind and soul - Why the soul is always good - Why some people are not good - The decline of soul - the opposite point on the circle of Divine manifestation - Some of the characteristics and problems of young souls - Some of the characteristics and problems of medium developed souls - Some of the characteristics and problems of the highly developed souls - Some of the observations of the young, medium and the highly developed souls - Everyday life of Bringers of the dawn - Planets condition the organic world - Soul and karma - Soul and science - Soul and religion - Three kinds of work: physical, intellectual and intending - Work on oneself - Man's testimony of the presence of the Divine
190 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2016
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Ivan Antic
33 books64 followersIvan Antic is the author of a dozen books on Samkhya, soul and consciousness, meditation, true history, astrology, and the law of attraction. He has developed a unique approach by combining ancient teachings and modern science. His works explore the relationship between the human soul and physical reality, emphasizing the importance of science and ethics in manifesting divine consciousness. He has been a practitioner of the "Fourth Way" and Shikantaza Zen meditation for over 40 years.
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December 18, 2017
Oh, my...I knew my curiosity would someday be my downfall. Disclaimer #1: I asked for a copy of this book, because I was curious. Disclaimer #2: I got a ebook from the author through a Member Giveaway on Library Thing in exchange for a review, which he won't like, I'm sure, and I hope won't keep me from winning future offers on Library Thing...
Richard Dawkins coined an eponymous "law" he called Dawkins’ Law of the Conservation of Difficulty in The Devil's Chaplain:
And then there are the, shall we say...spiritual...writers. Try this: "In every proportion the Divine divides itself over and over again, and forms the Divine of that particular proportion, once again in accordance with the holographic model, into smaller entities. This is how the Divine exists and rules all the galaxies, together with all the stars and all their planetary systems, as well as one Divine entity that rules every planet on which there is organic life." Language-d up, for sure. But balance not redressed.
Antić likes throwing out Laws...especially numerical Laws...with nothing behind them (okay, languaging up behind them...i.e., "A certain number of laws rule every proportion which impose a set of conditions upon the proportion.") Seems down from the Absolute, he says there are three laws for each layer (proportion) - galaxies, stars, Sun (apparently, not a star, as it has its own trinity of laws), planets, the Earth (again, not a planet because it, too, gets its own trinity of "laws", the Moon. Ending with "This should explain why life on Earth is the way it is, hard and conditioned." Explain? Yeah, not exactly.
Did you know that "Moon is a big electromagnet which with its motion induces the life energy on Earth." {Head shakes} No geodynamic magnetism, and certainly no electrodynamic magnetism, but there is some slight crustal magnetism, so weak as to be essentially zero effect on the Earth, but...just wow.
Or this, "
How about this?
I'm not going to ask how he knows this (or anything else he's stream of conscience-ing...) On "Some of the Characteristics and Problems of Young Souls"
If you had any doubts as to the author's over-the-rainbow stream,...
This is not a simple read...oh, it reads like a simple read...but it is so deliberately obfuscatory, convoluted, meandering, incoherent that I wonder if the only one who thinks this makes any sense at all is the author. I'm pretty sure that the peyote of Carlos Castenada, the LSD of Robert Anton Wilson, or some other hallucinogenic/psychedelic won't help either. Reminds me of the Postmodernism Generator (refresh...you'll get a different "paper" with references every time!)
On the format, the epub I downloaded wouldn't open, and the PDF was unfortunately unsearchable on my iPad, but uselessly searchable on my desktop, as my notes were all on the tablet. Would have made it easier to cross check, but then, maybe the point was that a reader shouldn't do any checking.
If you are prohibited from using "evidenced-based" in your life, ...read this. It will align perfectly. This really qualifies for one of my rather rare (24 out of 765 I've got on Goodreads) one star...but I'll be generous - two. Oh, and Disclaimer #3: I've never found evidence for any such thing as a soul, or the abnormal (some call it "paranormal"), or Divine, or anything similar, ... but there are extremely active imaginations...
Richard Dawkins coined an eponymous "law" he called Dawkins’ Law of the Conservation of Difficulty in The Devil's Chaplain:
...obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity. Physics is a genuinely difficult and profound subject, so physicists need to – and do – work hard to make their language as simple as possible (‘but no simpler,’ rightly insisted Einstein). Other academics – some would point the finger at continental schools of literary criticism and social science – suffer from what Peter Medawar (I think) called Physics Envy. They want to be thought profound, but their subject is actually rather easy and shallow, so they have to language it up to redress the balance.
And then there are the, shall we say...spiritual...writers. Try this: "In every proportion the Divine divides itself over and over again, and forms the Divine of that particular proportion, once again in accordance with the holographic model, into smaller entities. This is how the Divine exists and rules all the galaxies, together with all the stars and all their planetary systems, as well as one Divine entity that rules every planet on which there is organic life." Language-d up, for sure. But balance not redressed.
Antić likes throwing out Laws...especially numerical Laws...with nothing behind them (okay, languaging up behind them...i.e., "A certain number of laws rule every proportion which impose a set of conditions upon the proportion.") Seems down from the Absolute, he says there are three laws for each layer (proportion) - galaxies, stars, Sun (apparently, not a star, as it has its own trinity of laws), planets, the Earth (again, not a planet because it, too, gets its own trinity of "laws", the Moon. Ending with "This should explain why life on Earth is the way it is, hard and conditioned." Explain? Yeah, not exactly.
Did you know that "Moon is a big electromagnet which with its motion induces the life energy on Earth." {Head shakes} No geodynamic magnetism, and certainly no electrodynamic magnetism, but there is some slight crustal magnetism, so weak as to be essentially zero effect on the Earth, but...just wow.
Or this, "
Souls incarnate in the smallest percentage in the so-called "primitive people" who, even to this day, seem to live a prehistoric life. They are incapable of developing culture of living nor do they develop themselves as personalities.What the...? I'll bet that if he bothered to learn their complex languages, spend significant time with them, they might surprise him with their personalities and cultures of living. But the narrative smacks of typical exclusive myopia of "enlightened" ones.
How about this?
The very act of childbirth is not a trauma for the soul but for the body, mostly because the wrong way of giving birth which is done today under the influence of the wrong medicine. For this reason souls are usually not present during those unpleasant moments, but are waiting nearby, but the trauma of birth stays in the body that gathers all the impressions, and later on when there is a bigger identification of the soul with the body the initial trauma can affect the soul.
I'm not going to ask how he knows this (or anything else he's stream of conscience-ing...) On "Some of the Characteristics and Problems of Young Souls"
First of all, it should be understood that young souls are not merely born in primitive societies, nor are they mentally retarded people. [What???]We have already said that the soul does not incarnate in its entirety. People in primitive communities are most often animated by the smaller percentage of the consciousness of the souls, less than necessary for the forming of the complete personality, barely sufficient to give them life. That is why they do not have a developed karma or the drama of life, their life is usually based on physical survival. Young souls with a real incarnation are born side by side the developed ones, in the conditions where they can form a personality and go through all the karmic plots of the drama of life. Actually, young souls get more often born near the more developed souls, in conditions where they will be able to learn easier and receive tutoring.
If you had any doubts as to the author's over-the-rainbow stream,...
Before people were so the conscious subjects were stars. They influenced the creation of matter in the form of planets on the cosmic plain. Planets then, as conscious subjects, influenced an even finer forming of matter into life energy, into all the living world on them, depending on its position and the connection with the other planets. The link between the micro and macrocosmic influences shows the science of astrology.Yes, he said "science" of astrology.
This is not a simple read...oh, it reads like a simple read...but it is so deliberately obfuscatory, convoluted, meandering, incoherent that I wonder if the only one who thinks this makes any sense at all is the author. I'm pretty sure that the peyote of Carlos Castenada, the LSD of Robert Anton Wilson, or some other hallucinogenic/psychedelic won't help either. Reminds me of the Postmodernism Generator (refresh...you'll get a different "paper" with references every time!)
On the format, the epub I downloaded wouldn't open, and the PDF was unfortunately unsearchable on my iPad, but uselessly searchable on my desktop, as my notes were all on the tablet. Would have made it easier to cross check, but then, maybe the point was that a reader shouldn't do any checking.
If you are prohibited from using "evidenced-based" in your life, ...read this. It will align perfectly. This really qualifies for one of my rather rare (24 out of 765 I've got on Goodreads) one star...but I'll be generous - two. Oh, and Disclaimer #3: I've never found evidence for any such thing as a soul, or the abnormal (some call it "paranormal"), or Divine, or anything similar, ... but there are extremely active imaginations...
October 25, 2023
This is my fourth Antic’s book and I truly enjoyed the previous books I read. But this one… shocked me with its irrationality and absurdity, and, honestly, nothing made sense and one statement contradicted another. My takeaway from this book is that we are all weak, immature souls possessed by demons or astral parasites. I have lost any respect for the author. I got to the page 124 where he mentions “mentally retarded” and “primitive” people and that’s when I tossed the book away. I wish I never read it.
March 26, 2021
Didn't agree with some things but enjoyed it all in all. Read Donald E Scott's The Electric Sky with it or instead of it is my recommendation.
January 20, 2019
"Who am I meant to be?” “What is it I’m here to do?”
They are questions which have baffled, captivated and inspired so many people, me included.
I consider myself to be both well-read and well-versed on the subject of spirituality and whilst books I’ve read on the subject in the past tend to be either intellectually stimulating or emotionally uplifting, I’ve never experienced a book which manages both until now.
It gave me a completely different lens to look at creativity through; I found it truly inspiring to think of my own creativity in this way and it has enhanced aspects of my home and work lives as a result. I feel like more things are possible and fewer things are out of reach because of this simple mind set adjustment alone. Self-help in its truest sense in my opinion.
I found the book to be incredibly well-written; there is a fair amount of jargon, but nothing someone with a little experience in realm of spirituality could not manage.
For an honest, insightful study of the soul, you need not look any further than this genuine page turner!
They are questions which have baffled, captivated and inspired so many people, me included.
I consider myself to be both well-read and well-versed on the subject of spirituality and whilst books I’ve read on the subject in the past tend to be either intellectually stimulating or emotionally uplifting, I’ve never experienced a book which manages both until now.
It gave me a completely different lens to look at creativity through; I found it truly inspiring to think of my own creativity in this way and it has enhanced aspects of my home and work lives as a result. I feel like more things are possible and fewer things are out of reach because of this simple mind set adjustment alone. Self-help in its truest sense in my opinion.
I found the book to be incredibly well-written; there is a fair amount of jargon, but nothing someone with a little experience in realm of spirituality could not manage.
For an honest, insightful study of the soul, you need not look any further than this genuine page turner!
November 1, 2017
chosen identities, but forget to ask what their soul identity is. The real answer is that we are a part of God or the Divine Consciousness, depending on which phrases you choose to use. Being that we are a part of this, we also have creativity and vitality within us that we often overlook. To quote the book "the conscious subject is the key player, the one who turns possibilities into existence." While this book is not a self-help book it does remind us that we have the power to make many possibilities real if we want to.
This book is highly technical, but worth reading to understand that we are more than just sentient creatures. We need widen the scope of our worldview. Instead of looking at the human limitations, we need to look at the scope of our divine capabilities.
This book is highly technical, but worth reading to understand that we are more than just sentient creatures. We need widen the scope of our worldview. Instead of looking at the human limitations, we need to look at the scope of our divine capabilities.
January 11, 2020
Meticulously Explains Our Soul Purpose
I found this book to be deep and simple simultaneously. Although with sentence structure and verbiage expressed in the unique style of a nonnative speaker of English, I had no trouble understanding the intent of the author. I found his insights to be affirmative and informative about the role of meditation in the ultimate awakening to one’s identity as a soul who is fully conscious to its divine being while in the world.
I found this book to be deep and simple simultaneously. Although with sentence structure and verbiage expressed in the unique style of a nonnative speaker of English, I had no trouble understanding the intent of the author. I found his insights to be affirmative and informative about the role of meditation in the ultimate awakening to one’s identity as a soul who is fully conscious to its divine being while in the world.
April 17, 2019
Craziness
This book draws you in for about the first quarter with profound thoughts and statements. Then it starts heading for the Looney bin. There is a plethora of conspiracies and much racism. I only kept reading to see what he would come up with next. It is from one statement to the next full of contradictions. Would not recommend to anyone.
This book draws you in for about the first quarter with profound thoughts and statements. Then it starts heading for the Looney bin. There is a plethora of conspiracies and much racism. I only kept reading to see what he would come up with next. It is from one statement to the next full of contradictions. Would not recommend to anyone.
March 26, 2022
This was a slow read for me due to all this awesome information. There were times I was just in awe. I really loved this read and the contexts is unbelievable. Awesome information thank you Sir for this read, I closed this book with knowledge that will stay with me for a very long time.
September 19, 2023
Fascinating and articulated scientifically in perfection. The way he explains ideas and concepts in both high technical formatting and then reverts back to layman terms - properly draws you in. I read the whole book in 3 days- I was that captivated. Very well done
January 16, 2019
Get more in touch with your soul with the help of the Soul Guide - aligning with your soul purpose will help you to live more calm and peaceful life.
This book will help you do that.
This book will help you do that.
May 24, 2018
The "Soul Guide on Planet Earth" by Ivan Antic is one of those books that every 'spiritual but not religious' seeker should read. In my opinion, this is one of the most important book today that remind us who we truly are, the Souls, and what are our inner purpose in this life. If you're on a spiritual quest, the "Soul Guide on Planet Earth" will open you up to wonder.
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