Synopsis and Analysis

this is my analysis

Page	Point
?	a syncronicityl Well it is strange, that someone gave me this book, right after I met some people who seem to lead their lives by it !
?	a prayer energyfield surrounds us all Maybe, but don't we all pray for peace in the world and an end to starvation ?
60	People are poisoned by cooked food extensive dialogue of unsubstantiated rant - cooked food causes our bodies to be acid we are full of dead products so our body starts to decay Uncooked food is alkali what about citrus etc ? Raw food gives us "energy" to resist disease. Wildly claims that cooked food causes all disease even AIDS ...well what about diseases like skin cancer.
-	"open your body to energy", exercise every muscle in the morning. Vague use of energy He suggests by yoga, what about sex ?
-	Expect things to happen and they will vague use of language again. Of course it's a standard psychological technique to imagine yourself having achieved your goal, before e.g. at the job interview etc, but people often have unrealistic expectations which cannot be fulfilled ... Every athlete cannot win the race.
-	After the cooked food rant he then goes to a restaurant to eat soup, why isn't he down the market buying fruit ?
102	prayer field theory continued People influence others, so crowd behaviour, what the majority expect does actually happens. Says normally expect the be?t
113	Contradiction now he says be detached and accept what happens so it doesn't hurt you surely you should be thinking hard so that your positive thoughts affect others
-	EVERY BAD comes from missed syncronicity another generalisation which doesn't bear close analysis
129	Still not eating raw food
139	Uses the pseudo word manifest
140	CONTRADICTION The "ideal people" ie those in Shammbala don't eat pure raw food they eat soup.
146	Make Love Psychically surely you can't get anything more unnatural that that. Contradicts with saying you need to exercise every muscle in your body.
146	Shambala is a special place where an advanced culture has developed
153	No use money Everything made from energy need almost no food
155	Conspiracy Watch theory "them the evil government are constantly watching and controlling every idividual"
156	Previous great civilizations existed, but we don't see archaeological evidence cos buried by ice after continental drift
155	If each individual puts in his energy whole culture changes. Yes I accept this if instead of energy you mean good behaviour
166	In the perfect world of Shambala they wear American capitalist clothes - jeans and T-shirt more naive thinking .. The whole world looks to America. But why do they wear clothes at all ? Surely nudity is the most in touch with nature, ecological etc especially since they have an artificially controlled climate.
162	Souls of babies choose parents romantic crap .. Can you remember choosingyour parents, do some choose parents they know are going to abuse them ?
164	Anti GE Engineering rant
165	reinforces idea of nuclear family - YUK
169	States GE Engineering is "terrible for health" He misunderstands current arguments, no one has proved they are harmful, but no one has proved they are harmless so the argument is you don't use it until you are sure the benefit is bigger than the harm. Not cos anyone says they are "terrible for health" no one has said this. Furthermore there 2 uses for food and medicine and in medicine there are proven benefits
169	Big rant -Fear of large corporations controlling all - government surveillance - end of cash - headed for disaster Armageddon OR BE SPIRITUAL - then everything is easily OK
170	all religions must unite Rejection of material based society in favour of human potential movement 2nd part I agree with
179	again don't eat raw food they eat dried vegetable stew
179	Legends say Shambala will exist
187	Horrible sterotype only the evil Chinese general is logical the nice people are all romantic thinkers.
188	mentionschipping people evil powers say "we must control society more cos of new technology like suitcase bomb" evil powers say spiritual is bad
193	people become what you fear i.e. Treat people like criminals and they become criminals true, but it's a difficult one often you give bad people an inch and they end up taking advantage, but you can't cut them completely out of society
201	Energy level etc
202	Recap ENERGY 1 - we have "energy" we can direct it 2 - "cooked food causes bad energy" 3 - Purer is better more beauty 4 - expectation increases syncronicity 5 - boost others by expectation yes possibly 6 - be detached and seek positive so energy flow keeps high contradiction how can you be detached and seek to influence at same time ? this energy concept is a bit weird, I know what he means it like karma a good person brings good stuff to a project, but fat jolly unhealthy eaters are renowned for bringing positive side to projects
204	Avoid all negative energy WRONG this stops all realism I think
206	Angels really exist and are in every religion NOT TRUE - he is naive and only acknowledges weatern religions while lumping 100s of Eatern religions into on unit he doesn't mention indigenous religions, or African etc - true western religions may have angelss, but that doesn't mean all religions have It seems to be a common theme and attractive idea among people that, " hey we are all the same, all religions are the same, they are just looking at things from a different angle". but it's just wishful thinking. watch for a strange light similar to one which indicates syncronicity i.e. ?/
216	Crystal ball television in Shambala Youths in trouble in US are guided by people from Shambala The ridiculous idea that a few people have the time to send prayer energy to each individual youth dispute. 1. Why do they only focus on the US ? Do the maths : If this is true they need 10s of thousands of people praying every day If we assume that there is one argument per 1000 youths each day thats 50,000 disputes a day. If they have 5 people praying etc If they do care about the rest of the world they need 30 times more people praying ...
221	MASSIVE CONTRADICTION They are in fact doing exactly what they say governments shouldn't. Ie Controlling the world. Well who decided that they have the right to interfere with people ? Romantic idea - that they are good guys so it's OK to Break the rules, cos they do all the right things and governments do only bad
	Bacteria don't attack us without cause Pure people who eat raw food, might I concede have better resistance, but it seems to me they have a romantic idea ? Luck plays it's part so all you can do it shorten the odds.
221	People see medicines fail well it largely succeeds, but not always
221	Central theme dreams predict the future (well don't have any nightmares then)
227	channeling mentioned
228	Romantic untrue idea of Tibet His has a female monk character , in reality women have much lower status than mennin Tibet
235	twisted idea about angels If they don't seem to be working for you that's cos you're not sending them enough energy ie Angels don't exist unless you believe they exist ! Ha ha! If there are really angels why can't they just get on with their job and protect us in an intelligent way ?
22?	"If we don't succeed all past is in vain" this fatalistic hype manipulates us
-	Somehow puts an angel by Yin in prison What happens to Yin ?, I can feel a sequel coming. Earn another million dollars

There is an excellent non-romantic analysis of Raw Food diet and fashion in an interview by Ward Nicholson which I downloaded http://www.cythrawl.org/ketosis/files/nicholson_one.shtml his own website is http://www.beyondveg.com/

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