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Illusions by Design Reviewed By Bani Sodermark of Bookpleasures.com
- By Bani Sodermark
- Published March 13, 2013
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Bani Sodermark
Reviewer Bani Sodermark. Bani has a Ph.D in mathematical physics and has been a teacher of physics and mathematics at the university level in both India and Sweden. For the last decade, her interests have been spirituality, healthy living and self-development. She has written a number of reviews on Amazon. Bani is a mother to two children.
Author: Patrick J. Ricchiuti
Publisher: P. J.
Ricchiuti
ASIN:
B008B9458K
Glimpses
from a Different Reality
If there is a true story that is
unusual by any standards, one that would stretch your credulity to
its limits, this would be it.
The scene opens on a seven year
old boy (the author) waking up to see two women, one of whom he
recognizes to be his mother and the other, his grandmother. Only this
is not an account of any normal seven year old, waking up at some
time in the day/night. In the author’s own words, “My very first
remembrance of life was awakening as though I had gotten my eight
hours of sleep. In fact, I had wakened many years after almost dying.
It was 1944-45, almost seven years in a coma. I recall absolutely
nothing or anyone prior to opening my eyes for the first time.”
The
author was the first son of Italian parents, however his father was
an American citizen. He was drafted by the US military and he left
for the US in 1941, leaving behind his wife and son in the small,
fishing village of Vasto, where the author was born. They were to
join him later, after the end of World War II.
This book is
about the author’s experiences as a child in Vasto, the voyage to
America and his initial stay in Maryland with his father’s sister,
before their family reunited in Washington. The events and
experiences reported, could seriously stretch the limits of your
mind, yet they form an amazingly coherent description of the
functioning of a consciousness, not subject to the normal wear and
tear of our species. Some nuggets of the author’s extraordinary
abilities are as follows in his own words: “I didn’t eat or
drink. I could but didn’t desire it”, “I was always
comfortable”, “I conversed not in Italian, but unbelievably in
English. It could have been that when anyone spoke to me in Italian,
it was in Italian, I then heard it in English. When I spoke, it was
in English, the receiver then heard it in Italian.”
In this
book, the author also views the events of his life from the
consciousness of one truly anchored in the Divine Power: ”All I can
say for sure is that I spoke and heard only English, never Italian,
by virtue of the Divine Power.” This particular attribute did not
endear him to his relatives, who left him alone as they believed he
was being used by Satanic forces. However, since he did not need to
perform many of humanity’s basic physical functions, e.g. eating,
drinking and excretion, he was able to survive extreme familial
neglect during his formative years. One also gets a first hand
glimpse of how the Divine Power operates through the author, so that
his core energy and values are allowed to prevail over unsatisfactory
familial circumstances. As the author puts it, “It (this book) is a
report or story of a young boy, or a Power, not of Earth, if you
wish.”
If you have read Dolores Cannon’s series of books,
“The Convoluted Universe”, you will find some sort of parallel to
this account. Even so, this book surprised me. My personal guess is
this book is written by a consciousness, alien to this planet, having
incarnated among us in order to ground a particular energy that is
necessary on this planet. An energy of the future, where all
interactions between different beings are based on mutual respect and
trust.
This book documents only a part of the author’s life,
the part before their family was reunited in Washington. It would be
interesting to know what transpired later on, a sequel to this book
would be worth looking forward to.
As mentioned earlier, this
is a book that will stretch your credulity to the limit. However,
with the dawning of the Aquarian age, it is great to see such life
stories emerging from their hiding places in the deep recesses
of human memory, right out into the open. It is in order to hope that
more such people come out with their stories, thus inducing a more
open discussion on existential issues. This book is a valuable first
in the context of this debate.
Warmly recommended.
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