subject: A Critique - The Shack by William P Young [print this page] A Critique - The Shack by William P Young
How can there be any true relating among humans when every human being is not his personal self but walks around like programmed robots utterly brainwashed through political, religious racial and a hundred other ideological or ethnically induced propaganda schemes. No one is honest and up front and when you happen to be of that caliber no one wants to relate to you. They cannot even wait to get away from you. None of these influences can be blamed on the brain-washed individual but on society, schooling, religious upbringing, financial status and a myriad other things. We grow up with a million repressed feelings and attitudes and a million fears hidden in the tissues of our bodies giving us pains, hurts, insecurities and unspeakable sorrows.
Human existence cannot be said to be anything else but a conglomeration of humans existing in their own personal hells. No, Pappa, Jesus and Sarayu cannot blame us for trying to be independent. Pappa, Jesus and Sarayu cannot blame us either for the way babes grow up in this society. Conditioning is done to us individually on a mass scale and adults grown up in this manner cannot be spiritually held responsible for they way they turn out. The only one that can be held responsible is god, himself, for not stepping in the breach of each child's misfortunes and making sure they reach adulthood according to god's wisdom and not just through myriad unrelated circumstances that destroy any chance for a child to grow into mature, sane adult.
Jehovah did not create, and humanity does not live in the sweetie-pie fantasy world as depicted by William P. Young in his book The Shack. We, as humans, are immersed in the ideas of evil and we must come to learn to reject evil in any of its many guises.
The Shack also describes a celebratory event where people, animals and even the environment take on bodies of light that sparkle and change according to the mood and excitement of the creatures. This light has the capacity to reach to other people and enfold another person. Angels surround the congregation in steady blue light. I can believe that this may be true because Jesus himself transfigured himself in a body of sparkling white light.
Much is spoken, written and discussed about our light bodies, that are either present already or can be obtained through Yoga or Prana exercises. Many meta-physicians claim to be able to see our auras of light. Prana, some claim, is god-energy that surrounds us all, the world and even the universe. However, I claim that Prana is energy emanating from souls who are engaged to project the universe. It is claimed and true to be god's / Jehovah's presence in all creation or environment. In a sense this is true as Jehovah directs and control's the display of the universe through his power over us souls. This, however, does not automatically include that the true god in true reality is present. It is more propaganda, cosmic propaganda as I call it, through which Jehovah is trying to establish in our minds that he is the god of all that exists. The true god exists in truth, not in a fictional /virtual setting.
The book is a good read. I recommend it. However much of the discussions and principles related to us in the book would much better fit if the author would have raised the level of god as seen in this book from the universal plane to the true spiritual plane. If the author had done that I would have had very little or no critique on the book at all. I must admit that he knows how to spin a good yarn. Having this critique while reading the book, the book has immense spiritual value for each of us.
As a final note, Jesus created paradise and Adam and Woman from his own substance as god, but the serpent kidnapped what was not his and used it to enliven a dead universe by introducing the enslaved/captured souls in it. The spirit in Jesus simply came to set the record straight in souls' minds. He has had very little success until recently, when I found out the truth. This article has become part of environment/god. Environment changes, therefore god changes. Only the ultimate god (and father) in truth does not change.
Hans van Krieken, author of "The Truth About Reality- -Beyond God and Religion
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