A Book of Life

A hagio-biographical peep into the world of the unseen. It is a pity we do not see all that we can see.

Please don’t read this book It’s utterly stupid and self obsessed. The only word in the book that repeated after every 10 letters Is ‘I’. a self proclaimed sage with no clue what’s he is trying to say

Feels like I bought a 100 rs version of the book....not at all worth the money....

I had forgotten that I had ordered a book June 6th......it arrived while I was away September 22nd......Have just opened it....or should I say it has just started to open me...tears & happiness overwhelmed me....I peeked forward to a page that seemed a bit open......as startling as the release of the 2 Michaels from China......golden are the leaves as they release themselves to the earth....

The individuation process involves the transformation of one soul at a time (Jung). Peter Kingsley shares a brief autobiographical account of his soul’s transformational journey meant to correct the influence of his inherited environment - the one-sided enslavement to the rational way of approaching life’s journey. It is a modern Exodus experiment of setting new captives free by helping them wander in the desert of their souls for a symbolic 40 years before reaching the Promised Land. Put another way it is the highly constellated coniunctio archetype hell bent on healing the split between spirit and matter, between masculine (rational) and feminine (non-rational) knowledge. A union of opposites is desired. This split was brought about by the reign of the Logos Christ of which Jung said, "Christ may have redeemed spirit but Nature was left undone."At a young age of 11 or so Peter is made aware of his need to find his way into the non-rational knowledge of the feminine principle. The one-sidedness of the Logos ego rational integration that has gripped the world for over 2,000 years in the West has run its course – mission accomplished. The Gods gave approval to Abel’s sacrifice about 2500 years ago - whose smoke rose into the sky (=s Logos or rational consciousness) while Cain’s smothered the land (=s Eros or non-rational consciousness) was denied being integrated first. Thus, the necessary psychological sequence of events was set by the Logos Self to the utter frustration of the Cain’s in the world, including Parmenides and Empedocles whose message was also denied by the rise of Aristotelians also 2500 years ago. Winners and losers? Or victims all since the split gave rise to the hostile brothers. Cain slew Abel in the aftermath as you may recall.At our time in history the Logos Christ followers and the Aristotelian adherents of the world, must now bend their knee to the Eros Self in order to become more whole. She seeks our cooperation in a new co-creative effort to help incarnate new births in consciousness. One soul at a time. Jung figured, based on the over 80,000 dreams he analyzed during his lifetime, that such a feat would take 600 years before a critical mass of humanity (about 10%) would turn the tide in the collective towards greater wholeness in the general human population. In the meantime, those of us on the cusp, the leading edge of this pending world-wide transformation, who are conscripted to integrate their portion of the tremendous energies of the damned-up compensation of the Eros Self have our lives on the line. It puts such a one in the role of being (mostly silent) prophets for what is to come.Those caught in the grips of this transformation at our time in history are the latest victims experiencing what it is like to be involved in the slaughter of the innocents as Peter began to realize at the age of 11. A victim of the first-born ego integration (Logos rational integration) is victimized further by the need to enter a second-born ego (Eros non-rational integration) which involves learning from the spirit in the depths, the Eros Self, that now wars against the spirit of the times that began to be created in the soul of humanity at the start of the Christian eon. The vast separatio phase at the start of the Christian eon - that split the masculine and feminine principles, spirit and matter, apart began the process of the integration of the opposites. The unintegrated opposites had to be split apart so it is clear who was who. And the integration of the Logos ego was to be the first. This is Jung’s understanding of Western history.Now the integration of the Eros ego is next and that involves an Eros ego altered state of consciousness, as in mediation. Peter’s autobiography clearly conveys what that meant for him. My experience of the Eros ego is very similar. One is characterized as being a savior of the world and prophecies of the saving of the 144,000 in the Book of Revelation may arise as well as the Hopi prophecy of the Blue Star Kachina that Peter mentions. It is a life-long individual task to save more of one’s own soul.It was not a mistake that the psychic nature of Cain was denied integration back in the day, nor that of Parmenides and Empedocles. It was a sacrifice of their contribution to wholeness that was made by the Gods. Now a great richness awaits all who are called to become more whole and embrace the Eros Self wisdom emanating from out of the unus mundus. And that requires a sacrifice of the rational Logos ego – at least during meditation time. As Peter notes the Wisdom of the Eros Self comes from a 2nd center of knowledge, the belly-brain, the Gut-brain – the VNS (vegetative nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system) not the CNS (central nervous system) that governs the upper brain. The intestines have nearly as many neurons as the gray matter of the upper brain.GOOD LUCK TO ALL!Gregory SovaVictoria, BCPhoto Caption: A Grape of Wrath - A BLUE STAR Kachina Implement

Kingsley's books are very compelling. He is saying something vital: we are missing the sacred in the western world today and so we are missing the reality of life itself. He posits a dualistic world divided between the forces of love and strife encapsulated within the wholeness of the sacred - a world he dashes into as a figure of strife. Because so many mask themselves in a mask of love, which veils what they really are, his own figure, veiled in strife, masks what he really offers, which is love. I suppose his intelligence attracts envy, and criticism disguises that. Perhaps he too can be stupid and ignorant but that is also the point - we are not whole unless we are all connected, all offering the different sides of Elegua's cap.Anyway - perhaps he has to be like that or he would shrivel up and die in our world - and not be able to say what he does. Which would be a huge loss. Read him. he's very exciting... and such a relief to encounter. He brings life.

The quality of the paper and the selection of the font in the texts is excellent. The illustration is intriguing...

On the first page of reading this Book: my mind went silent, my heart tingled. I knew my life will not be the same again. After the first Chapter, i felt the Knowing was inside before the words i read, like an Echo before the Call. I knew, i understood without understanding. Like eating a fruit for the first time, yet KNOW it deeply, it's Texture, it's smell, it's taste.... ALWAYS known it. First i thought it's A book of his life, then i noticed it's about my life, now i feel it's not his, nor mine. Simply LIFE. But who am i to say. All i really know is i don't know and Life or Trickster has caught my heart. And only hope, that the best preparation is being UNPREPARED.