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Pauli2
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2011, 11:21:50 » |
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I use a grade from 0 - 10 (10 is the best/highest) on the books and documents.
Multidimensional Man, 2008, Jürgen Ziewe
GRADE: 7.5
The book is interesting for the reader who wants to read about several of Ziewe's astral experiences.
But let me start with some criticism.
Two small things which disturb me is that the many chapters in the book lack numbering. And this become silly when the footnotes, which refer to the chapters, are numbered!
Secondly, the front cover is excellent, except for the rectangular box at the bottom of the cover, which is filled with out-of-the-place bold font text. I wouldn't have expected an artist to ruin his front cover in such a way.
The good parts of the books are Ziewe's quite detailed descriptions of his visits to other worlds. He even manages to travel to some places which can be described as similar to Monroe's Locale III, meaning other "physical" realities.
Also interesting is that Ziewe notices that he has a cord attached to him, and at one point another being points that out to him.
In at least one of Ziewe's experiences it is not absolutely clear to me if the world encountered is a Locale III, an astral overlay of such a world, or purely astral.
Now some bad parts.
Ziewe is an artist and I think that's one reason why I feel that there lack some structure to his experiences. For example on page 32 and page 36, Ziewe talks about "fourth dimensional structure" and travel in "the fifth dimension".
But Ziewe never explains what these dimensions are, or from where he got the concept dimension. He also returns very little to these dimensional concepts through out his book. The lack of explanation makes the word "Multidimensional", in the book title, hang thin in the air.
It's almost like Ziewe has had an idea, but has been unable to follow it up in any more structured way. The book as a total then becomes very much a beautiful description of various unrelated experiences. I would have liked if Ziewe had managed to pull his experiences together and stuck more to the title concept Multidimensional. The lack of explanations is sometimes bad.
Further, Ziewe almost lacks references to his guides. There are some guides at some places but it seems to me that Ziewe has gotten very little information out of his guides. Perhaps because his main goal was not to astral travel, but to get some personal growth.
It's remarkable that the book is so thin, only 220 pages, in the light of it containing almost 40 years of experience. And the lack of detailed descriptions on exactly what the multidimensional aspect of the astral & physical is, certainly lowers my grade. Ziewe mentions in his book that he hopes that scientists will look into this matter and bring structure to various observations.
For being such a short book, it is still surprising that I almost can divide it into three parts. The first part is perhaps the best, where Ziewe explores his 360 degree vision and other phenomena. The middle part is kind of repetition and I think the middle part slows down as I find very little structure and conclusions of any greater length. The final part of the book becomes better and here Ziewe tries to give some kind of structure in a sketchy manner. He also tries to give a description of a deep exploration into a sort of higher astral plane.
Some experiences Ziewe says can't be described in words. He make quite a good attempt of describing things nevertheless.
There was one interesting experience, where Ziewe meets people on another planet. They are about to leave. One of the inhabitants has managed to create a harem with a lot of ladies, which he has hidden from other people in this world as he expected his style of life wouldn't be accepted.
I would recommend the book if someone wants to read about remarkable experiences. Also Ziewe's homepage is well worth reading, as there are some details he explains better at his homepage than in his book.
Structure, details, performance, explanations and connections between experiences could have been better executed.
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