Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Maïeutologue

Author: Joubert Richardson

ISBN: 10 1-4327-0137-1: 13 978-1-4327-0137-6

I can only recommend this esoteric book for devotees to this particular religion or philosophy. I didn't anticipate an easy read, and looked forward to the challenge. However once I got to page 12 I quickly became confused. The introduction to the Maïeutologue is barley finished, and one is thrown into a description of several different branches, and their responsibilities. The author talks about these branches and the religious organizations if they exist, I am not certain it does as my Google search turned up little, I assume he intends to create it. The book would have been better served if the aims, goals, hierarchy, and different aspects were kept in separate books, or more coherent chapters. Read, as it is, it’s disharmonious, one gets the feeling of being pushed back and forth.

On the pro side most of the aims and goals are reasonable and clearly stated, some even brilliantly. This religion holds humanity as nature’s guardian. This is considered humanities most important task, after which comes the protection of truth. While these are valid and important points, they are lost in the astounding amount of anecdotes and reflections within this book. Most are poorly supported. They are simply referred to as "positive assertions." One such rule rules claims homosexuality, "is detrimental to human nature." God doesn't always, need not explain his teachings, but a philosopher should.

I turned to a "positive assertion" entitled  "concerning health and sickness" in hopes to find solace or advice on dealing with loved ones sickness. Instead this is what I found "Sickness consumes us on the road of our tribulation profiles the image of death. The scare on our faces cast the shadow in our eyes and expose sufferance. We had not taken care of our beings and destitution reduces us to a pitiful condition." The next paragraph goes on to explain why we must follow the Maïeutologues instruction to avoid this, an example of the contradiction between being against fear tactics, but making subtle use of them.

Similar, is the claim that hell is a superstitious fantasy, meant only to ensure our obedience yet "Satan" is referred to more than once when discussing unflattering parts of human nature. This only stands out because the main premise of this book is the doctrine of autotelism. Meaning "the knowledge of truth through spiritual sufficiency". Yet this entire project seems to need dedicated members who must all have a similar idea of a utopian society, in order to accomplish the authors full vision.

Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Maïeutologue

The above review was contributed by:  Christopher Williams. Chris is a journalism major at Baruch (CYNY College) who aspires one day to be a novelist and a teacher.

To find out more about this book click the image below. (Note: May not work with all browsers)