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Spiritwalker : Messages from the Future |
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(August 1996) | |
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Synopsis
Combining the prophetic elements of Ishmael and The Celestine Prophecy with
the visionary dimension of The Art of Dreaming, Spiritwalker is the extraordinary
true story of an anthropologist and skeptic who is initiated into an alternate
reality and given dramatic insights into the future of our world.
Reviews:
D. from Atlanta, GA, 01/28/98 Thought
Provoking
At first I was really bored by Wesselman's description of his experiences.
I've read a lot of New Age books and I was thinking this is just another
guy telling about his 'weird experience'. However once he met Nainoa and
started describing life in the future, I got interested. I was very surprised
by his discussion of metals. We really take a lot for granted these days
and this book will make you think about what life would be like without
the conveniences we have today.
A reader, 10/28/96
Spiritwalker, by anthropologist Hank Wesselman, has the rare capacity to
make you change your fundamental assumptions about the course of human evolution
and its esssential purpose. The author has accomplished an extraordinary
and lucid synthesis of experiences which could have underminded the sanity
of a less curious and tenaciously analytical person. This autobiography
of spontaneous, altered-state visions and the struggle to decifer them represents
a triumph of trust in the dimensions and wisdom of the psyche. Wesselman
carefully unravels the threads of memories left by an ecstatic paralysis
in which he finds himself abruptly looking through another man's eyes. He
has this man's memories, feels his emotions and bodily sensations and knows
his people's history. Through this involuntary psychic evesdropping, he
discovers that his host lives five thousand years in our future, in a "new"
stone age. Global warming has caused the collapse of our "great age"
of technology, reducing it to artifacts and a mythological status,never
to be recovered. The future man eventually becomes aware of a presence as
Wesselman's spontaneous (and non-drug induced) mental trips touch his own
mind. Eventually, they are able to meet by mutual agreement, and together
ask, and receive answers to, the greatest and simplest of human questions:
why are we here? The answer will make you questions your most basic sense
of our human importance and purpose. Wesselman's experiences create wonder
at the flexibility of man's mind and fascination with our possibilities.
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