I mean, Paulo Coehlo is one of the most prolific and best-paids authors! And his books, while crappy, have been read by millions and can be found and the book section of almost any multinational drugstore.

On the other hand, I find it ludicrous that so many people are drawn to this emtpy literature. In any case, it's all bollocks!įinally, I'm appalled at how many people gave 5 stars to this piece of codswallop! If this is a micro of a bigger representation of the world, then there are too many people out there who do not really know how to live their lives and need bogus authors that cannot even dignify to print their real names on a book to teach them how to live them. It has nothing of value, and is way too close to the Law of Attraction-The Secret bullshit. If your approach is purely scholarly in the occult, then you'll probably end up giving this book two stars instead of one, as I just did. My guess is that if your approach in reading it is to discover how to develop magical and telekinetic powers, you are only fooling yourself (truth be told, this is one of those books that led me to where i am today: an atheist, though not a bitter one, thank you very much). It says too much and doesn't really say anything that you cannot find already in pop culture. Kuddos to the people who aim to give away 'secrets', hidden from the layman for centuries, without really giving them! This book is a waste of time.

This work neatly organized and illustrated the differences between seemingly similar phenomena like vibration and rhythm, polarity and correspondence, etc. If the idea of supersensible realms of experience do not drive you, or you think the idea of anything that cannot be seen with the objective eye is absurd, save yourself time and don't bother with this.įor me, this may stand as the most important piece of instruction I've received, even though I feel like I understood most of the ideas before. If you are unable to let go of the question of whether there is more to the universe than meets the eye, this should be on your reading list. And though this book is not long by page standards, it requires careful, slow study if one is to get the maximum weight of the material. As with any work intending to teach through words something that is larger and exponentially more complex than language will always require careful study.

This stands as one of the most important books I've read about the nature of reality and the supersensible universe.

The kybalion centenary edition