I might have found this book more impressive were I not familiar with the works of Richard Bach. This book is so similar to “The Reluctant Messiah” that you could have just linked people to that book and not bothered writing this one.

I found nothing to disagree with in the “teachings.” Though there’s nothing here I haven’t read before. Indeed, I use all those “teachings” in my own writing. The difference being that I write real works of fiction. Your book fails as fiction because of the duplicitous implication that you’re presenting something as fiction that really isn’t fiction. Ok, I know Richard Bach did the same thing, but that still doesn’t make it a wise way to go, especially if you’re trying to accomplish the goal that is stated in the last chapter.

I personally have been attempting to do what your character was instructed to do in the last chapter since 1979. I write a fictional series in which the very same “teachings” in your book are brought out from within myself to give my story and characters substance. I publish the results on the net for free at the site I linked in the comment box, which you’re welcome to check out if you like.

Anyway, what follows is a little list of rules I practice in order to accomplish the goal that was laid on your character – rules which I wish I’d been around to share with you before you started writing. They probably won’t do you any good at this late date, but I’ll share them anyway.

1. Story comes first. The more elaborate and captivating the story the better.

2. Create characters by dividing yourself into aspects. Every character should be an expression of some part of yourself.

3. Don’t plan the story with the idea that you’re going to explain this or that “teaching” here or there. I write the story. The “teachings” will write themselves in of their own accord by virtue of the characters acting as an amplifier for the still small voice inside.

4. Leave no one any doubt that this is fiction, and that the readers are not being asked to believe anything that they read. This is not a place to preach, nor is it a place to sell. The reader must be completely free to take or leave the “teachings” as they float past in the course of the story.

5. The “teachings” must not constitute the bulk of the book. Preaching or teaching must not be the first objective of the project. For something like this to be successful the first goal must be to offer the world an extraordinary story. And the teachings are there only to add substance to that story.

6. Avoid using Biblical characters. They evoke preconceived notions in the reader. The ideas are what’s important. They don’t need God or Jesus to sell them. More than that, they need to be accessible to people who aren’t Christians. They need to be accessible to people who may not be religious at all.

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“I am more than just a personality. I am a soul using my emotional body to study my lower self.”

Why do you think I did you the favor? I have more interesting things to do than to answer made up
thoughts what I am supposed be like. I can post pages up on pages of dialog were I do nothing else
but to help people grow and enable women to get find their own true power but that is something that
I have outside the keys list. And no I will not betray ones I am working on behalf just to prove a point
in this pointless and frankly boring argument.

The slightest criticism? I beg to differ on that remark……..

I have had many criticisms of my personality over the years by other people.

In fact, rather than get extremely offended, I always look at what other people say to me and then I look within myself and see if it is true, and what I can do to change my personality flaws.

Not many people can actually do that. Because most people get highly offended and do not reflect within what they hear from without.

It does take strength and courage to battle one’s programming and personality faults.

Everyday my own daughter always picks on my personality, because it grates on her nerves. So I get a daily dose of big criticism from my own daughter, so anything that you guys say to me is not even that offensive to me because I have learned to not be offended by other people’s remarks about me.

I am more than just a personality. I am a soul using my emotional body to study my lower self.

RJ

Johann said: ““And then you take that power back or think you are taking it back by harassing us. ”

Ruth said: Mirror effect Johann.”

Johann said: “That was a cheap shot and you know it, do you know what you are negating here? You just
negated all of my previous post. This is sheer arrogance to me, that you think that you know more
about myself that I do.”

It is obvious that you called the cheap shot first by telling me how you think I behave and think, when in reality, you have NO idea about what I am really feeling.

You incite me into an emotional response, and then turn around and say that I always react this way 100% towards you guys, when in reality, I am only answering questions or defending my statements etc.

I can be very passionate. There is nothing wrong with emotions, as we all use them and have them. I am not outrageously rude, insulting or belittling in my comments to others. I am not even being overly or 100% sarcastic. I can write and feel no emotion. It is your perception of me that creates a smoke screen of illusions when I write what I write.

If someone attacks my thoughts or me personally, then I defend myself. That is usually human nature. I defend what I believe to be true and just because many years ago I was always defending JJ or his teachings and I came across as very rude, it does not mean that I am still like that. Learning the truth can create major changes within.

I am not embarrassed by anything I have ever displayed on the group. If I have made mistakes in my approach to others, then I always apologized when it was pointed out. I did not intend to deliberately make them feel slighted etc.

So what if women are more emotional than men.

Alice Bailey had a bad temper for years and was abused and even was a bit of a snob towards lower class people. But she grew and learned and expanded her consciousness, which then helped her to change and control her lower emotions. Nothing to be embarrassed about. We are all in the same boat usually.

It is about using our emotions in a harmless manner, and this takes a lot of time and practice.

So when you instigate posts to inflame me or to make me reply angrily etc, then it is your own fault for pushing my buttons in the beginning, rather than approach me on the same level that you would the men in the group and talk to me without trying to make me attack you etc.

Disciples can have a very powerful emotional body, so it can be harder to tame. Therefore rather than try and make me fight with you or the others, why not just make peace and stop instigating a particular reaction from me, just so you can make a point and say “I told you so”. If you always expect me to react 100% in a certain way, then that is all that you will see in me, rather than see me changing and growing.

RJ

I did not write your posts and I say that again. I agreed with the points we had in common and gave
you some criticism as well but I calculated the odds that you would not see the common ground
and just see the bad as a close to 100%. Or in other words, that you would not treat me with
respect and it went accordingly. That was the nature of the “manipulation” if you can call it that. I
just decided to do it. You did all the work really. It must be embarrassing being so out of control and
then to try to pass it of on others.

““And then you take that power back or think you are taking it back by harassing us. ”

Mirror effect Johann.”

That was a cheap shot and you know it, do you know what you are negating here? You just
negated all of my previous post. This is sheer arrogance to me, that you think that you know more
about myself that I do.

If you think that I admire the folks that almost pushed me to suicide in favor of outer peace and am
just mindlessly replicating their behavior then you must be out of your mind.

I do not admire sheer strength and dominance at the expense of others and it is not I that am calling
for political correctness.

So we are not perfect but so what?

Reacts towards you? The answer is starring you right in the face, it is not big mystery. No one is
interested to be attacked when discussing the issues or an innocent remark is made and no you
do not have the freedom to do that. The slightest criticism and all blows sky high. That is how I
calculated the odds. 100%….