![]() | We continually attempt to “patch” a system that is | |
| fundamentally flawed and cannot be made right. |
![]() | We have rejected the wisdom of spiritual avatars who | |
| have taught that the world is not our home. They have pointed out that our function lies in reclaiming our true identity, yet we deny this truth and try to improve something that was never meant to be. |
![]() | We distract ourselves with methods, formulas, secrets | |
| and rituals, believing that changes made on the physical level equate with spiritual growth. We ignore the mystics who have taught that everything happens on the level of the mind. We focus on the body, but reject our true identity as pure consciousness. |
| Copyright © 2007 Oroborus Books Lee and Steven Hager |


| Book Review by Michou Landon as seen in Mt. Shasta Magazine |
| Lee and Steven Hager provide us with a refreshing and meaty journey in their examination of Jesus' familiar parable through the lens of the Quantum paradigm, and what it may be revealing to us about "God" and human life. The parable's teachings come alive in this reading, sharing far more with Gnostic Christianity, A Course in Miracles and ancient perennial wisdom of other traditions than with the conventional Christian authorities who claim it. In 300 pages, the Hagers carefully examine elements of the story often neglected in its telling centuries later. Most noteworthy for me was the significance of the older ("good") son. They do so interpreting it not only against Quantum phenomena, but what Jesus' imagery would have meant to its original audience of mostly Jewish enculturation. This proves quite illuminating. The book is well written, and the arguments are sturdier and better documented than those of many contemporary metaphysical treatises. There are a few points where the thread of an argument lapses momentarily and little flags may spring up in the minds of discerning academics. However, the sense is that it may be the language that is failing rather than the logic. It is a tricky and layered topic to articulate. The authors seem uncharacteristically remiss, however, when documenting their claims about cultural contexts that would influence the understanding of Jesus' details by his contemporaries. The purpose and efficacy of the Truths revealed, however, seem scarcely impaired by this oversight. The language poses the same problems encountered in A.C.I.M., where pronouns must play triple duty, referring to players at different levels of reality; and also in the choice here to refer to "God" in personal pronouns. This is challenging for some readers, including myself. Even so, I found certain arguments in the book even more compelling, at times, than in the dense and verbose A.C.I.M. perhaps due to the reassuring presence of more neutral, quantum language as well. Not everyone will be ready for this book; full participation demands naked honesty about what each of us wants: to play the game or wake up. However, it makes for compelling companionship while we are, inevitably, in the process of doing both. |