Barbara Hand Clow

This book was interesting and captivating. Is it good fiction - absolutely not.

Barbara Hand Clow is a ceremonial teacher and Mayan calendar researcher. Her work is really interesting and while it doesn't always resonate with me, I respect all the research and work she puts in her books. This book also has a fair amount of research behind it. It was nice to read a work of fiction that embodies some elements that people on a spiritual path are aware of, but general public may not be. In that show more sense, I wish there were more books like this.
I liked Clow's take on Marcian and the Gnostics, it was very interesting to learn more about him.

That being said, the characters were such caricatures I was embarrassed at times. The first part of the novel was the best and was believable for the most part, but as the book moved on it was getting worse and worse. The characters in this book are just so unbelievable and their actions make no sense at all. A good editor could have helped a lot. Fiction may not be the best medium for Clow after all.

Also, I had a problem with her demonization of the Catholic church up until Pope Francis. I think John Paul II was already quite a revolutionary figure and feel like his role was subdued because the truth just wouldn't fit Clow's Mayan calendar agenda. Yes, sexual abuse is horrific, there is no excuse for that, but I found it superficial for her to focus only on it. It came across as lazy and one-dimensional, for someone claiming to be multidimensional it was quite ironic.

I will read the sequel because I want to see where she takes this, but I'd be reluctant to recommend this to anyone. It may make her honest message feel cheap because of her poor writing. show less

Like Clow’s other books, this one is highly challenging. I found it impossible to understand, absorb or digest much of the vast amount of information presented. However, I found the book more positively enjoyable than the others.

Most of the book is channelled from Satya, Keeper of the records of Alcyone, the central star of the Pleiades. She is an engaging narrator, and the nature of her personality is probably the cause of my afore-said enjoyment.

Satya tells us much about the Anunnaki of show more the planet Niburu, who direct the World Management Team, by others termed the Illuminati. She also mentions that the famous artist Van Gogh was an incarnated Pleiadian, and as such could see the spiral form of stars, which demonstrated his faculties of multidimensional sight. She invites us to study Van Gogh’s star paintings, as this will help us to see how our own Sun is part of the Pleiades.

Satya also advises us to integrate the astrology or stellar orbits and cycles by meditating during solstices, equinoxes, and new and full moons. She tells us about the Sirians, who are “magnificent feline gods from Sirius who built the Great Pyramid and Sphinx to hold open the geometric portals of the stars while our solar system is travelling in the Photon Band”.

We are informed about the importance of creating a sacred altar, and how to do it. This is because we can then “Make Home”. In the glossary at the end of book “Making Home” is defined as “consciousness locating self in linear space and time by being so conscious of the four directions that all dimensions are totally accessible”.

There is a chapter about the alchemy of nine dimensions, which Clow later wrote a whole book about. In this chapter we are told about the value of traumas – “right in those times is where the knowledge about restructuring your whole planet exists! All your traumas and pain happen only to get you to see the worlds of others!”

We learn about the nuclear war that occurred in 2024 B.C. which was “triggered” by Abraham and which “made the Dead Sea into a lifeless body of water”. Abraham’s mission was to “deposit the power of Anu into Annunaki temples, so as to control the emotional bodies of “our ancestors”. (Anu is “the great father God of Niburu”.) Abraham deposited uranium in the temple in order to “begin a new level of Nibiruan control of Earth”.

A section of the book is dictated by Anubis – “The great Sirian/Egyptian god Anubis is the guide who holds Niburu’s orbit in form … Anubis is a being who travels the universe with the consciousness of Sirius, and he is a very, very superior being”. One gem from Anubis is - “The degree to which the World Management Team gets away with murder on your planet is in direct proportion to the degree to which you do not trust yourselves to be creative”.

Enoch also gets a word in. He is a 7D light being when he manifests in 3D and, when unmanifested, he exists eternally in the Galactic Centre. He says the most valuable part of his teachings were the techniques for ascending into the light. That was why the books about him were removed from Scripture.

There are accounts from King Lizard and Dr. Lizard. Yes, it gets curiouser and curiouser. King Lizard instructs us about kundalini. Dr. Lizard, who is a collective entity, wonders why we spend so much time worshipping God when our planet is going to hell. They wonder why we think God is superior to ourselves. This is impossible, they say, since nothing is superior to us.

We also hear from the Moon and Lucifer. It is all fascinating. You don’t have to believe it all, if you don’t want to, but you should read the book.

All this should have given you an idea of the content of this amazing book. I strongly recommend that you read it. As stated above, I found it to be the most enjoyable read of those of Clow’s books I have read so far (though I have many still to read). show less

This is an amazing book, though I cannot say that I fully comprehend it. You would need to be on the same level as the brilliant author to do so.

Barbara experiences and recounts for us her regressions to multifarious previous lives (if that is indeed what they all are); these personages include well-known figures such as Isaiah and Pontius Pilate, but also others some of whom should perhaps been recorded by history, but were not (at least I hadn’t heard of them).

The regressions span not show more only a time period of thousands and thousands of years, but also various universes, apparently. One major theme is the violence of the masculine gender and the pressing need to balance the energies of the two genders, i.e. restore the power of the feminine. Barbara experiences leaping from the body of a perpetrator of rape into the body of the victim. We have all played the roles of both perpetrators of violence and victims and indeed all need to experience both sides.

There is much information about the Harmonic Convergence of 1987 and the role of the Pleiadians, who seek to expedite our spiritual development by radiating love to us. “The beam from us has become a Rainbow bridge from the stars to earth.” Basically, as far as I can understand, the book is about our impending ascension into the 4th/5th dimension, which necessitates that we emulate “Christos”.

She cites Christos as saying:

“My gift to the people is good. I encode the planet with the knowledge that now is the time to take my gift and own it. You, the people, must become the divine beings who were in the mind of the Creator in the beginning.”

This book is very intense and Plutonian and, though fascinating, I can’t say it’s easy to read. It is packed with information and there are constant leaps from one time to another, one universe to another, one body to another, there are instances of bilocation, etc etc. I would say it is a book for the select few. It contains wonderful, intricate illustrations drawn by Angela C. Werneke. show less

This is a sequel to the Revelations of the Ruby Crystal. It is written in a similar fashion, as a book of fiction which introduces the reader with several controversial theories about Abrahamic religion, the Mayan calendar and the occult societies. I actually found this book a little better than the first installment. The characters are the same in both books and their lives are now very conveniently intertwined.
But, I have to remind myself to stop regarding this as a classic work of show more fiction. As such, it is not very exciting. The plot is just not interesting enough in itself to carry the novel, the characters are still very unrealistic. In a way, this is more similar to [b:Sophie's World|10959|Sophie's World|Jostein Gaarder|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1343459906l/10959._SY75_.jpg|4432325] for lovers of mysticism and various esoteric traditions, but much more narrow in scope and oriented primarily on the legacy of the Catholic church.

I am a bit more forgiving on judging this book as I recently watched Barbara Hand Clow's interviews about both of the books in this series. I was not aware that she is writing these books on a timeline as world events occur and provide a background to the plot of both novels. While I still believe that some of the connections BHC is making are a little far-fetched, I am more inclined to focus on the positives.

Lately, it seems that some of the "outrageous theories" are becoming more accepted among mainstream historians. This book focuses on the new paradigm, the shift needed in the Abrahamic religions to establish the Golden Age - the Age of Aquarius marked by the beginning of the new precessional cycle of Earth. BHC covers the widely spread theory of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and their possible holy matrimony (inspired by the occult tradition and the discovery of the controversial Talpiot ossuaries), touches on the teachings of Ahmed Osman about the Jewish-Egyptian relationship and explores the traditions of Knights Hospitaller. Of course, there is a fair amount of Mayan calendar symbolism and the teachings of the astrological ages. There's even an interesting connection made with the work of Antoni Gaudi. If you tell someone this is a book about all those things (and much more) it seems like a complete mess, but it actually works at some level.

I am really curious about what the next installment of this series is going to bring and how Barbara Hand Clow will portray this year in the light of her teachings. Even for those who may be skeptical of these theories, it can be refreshing to keep an open mind, change perspective and give these books a try. show less