Reviews for End of Suffering

The average rating for End of Suffering based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-12 00:00:00 Vincent Handal I thought I was reading a Philip K. Dick book when I flipped this open to the chapter about the CIA secret-project that succeeded (!?) in applying psychic non-local viewing powers to Cold War data collection of a Soviet research site. This is an exerpt from Russell Targ's author biography: "At the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 1980s, Targ and his colleague Harold E. Puthoff co-founded a 23-year, $25-million program of research into psychic abilities and their operational use for the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Intelligence. These abilities are referred to collectively as "remote viewing". Targ and Puthoff both expressed the belief that Uri Geller, retired police commissioner Pat Price and artist Ingo Swann all had genuine psychic abilities. They published their findings in Nature and the Proceedings of the IEEE. From 1972 to 1995 the program was classified SECRET and compartmentalized with Limited Access. That is to say, the program was not only classified, but every single person who was informed about the program had to personally sign a so-called bigot list, to acknowledge that they had been exposed to the program data." I question whether it was kept secret because it held valuable and sensitive information, or if it was rather out of sheer embarrassment that such a program was actually funded. This is the kind of book that makes me vomit. How did it end up in my library pulls? Then the next chapter offered a very compelling critique of Aristotle and a sober application of the thought of Nagarjuna and Einstein's musings on the interconnection of consciousness and the universe, so maybe I'll keep reading? I just hope they don't say AIDS and Cancer are false manifestations of Aristotelian logic (as though Bowie wasn't an enlightened man). Kill me now, Cancer is more real than J.J. Hurtak's two Ph.Ds Update: While there was nothing offensive here, the authors continuously backed off from the title. The suffering they refer to there is more the emotional or existential suffering we get from thoughts like, "why is everyone against me? Why am I not successful?" and so on. There was a lot of fluff here. Essentially Aristotle teaches us of the excluded middle. Everything is either black or not black. This leads, the author says, to slavery/racism and strange political claims like when Bush says, "you're either with us or your a terrorist". Nagarjuna, an ancient Buddhist philosopher, claims that there is no absolutely true or absolutely false - everything is middle ground. It follows that there is no Me and Them - everyone is in this together and we are all connected. The authors then make an extraordinary leap into some hocus-pocus about curing all diseases. Next time perhaps the authors could publish a pamphlet.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-26 00:00:00 Donna Pack After so many years of spiritual, physics, and psychic study, I rarely encounter new concepts. It is more likely that the concept will touch me in a new way by showing me something new because of the timing of my current exposure to it. What makes this book exceptional is that it taught me new ways of thinking. I learned who Russell Targ is, as well as the fact that he is a talented physicist, when I read Jim Schnabel's book on remote viewing. Targ has been part of psi research for decades, and has personal success with earning money using quantum physics combined with remote viewing. He impressed me, which is why I added him to my author list and sought out this book to read more of his work. There is a lot of rewarding reading in this book. J.J. Hurtak, Ph.D., is an expert in ancient Asian history. The details he provided into the cultures that birthed so many spiritual concepts added amazing depth to the book. Standout features of the book are that it lives up to its title; if you follow the practices in the book, you can end your personal suffering. Another standout feature is the clear writing style the authors have. In different hands, this could have been a dry, confusing, vague read. Perhaps my favorite feature in the book was reading about psychic studies which were new to me. A true treat. Without the glossary in the back, and the word etymology the authors included, I wouldn't have been able to make connections between concepts and cultures the way I did because of their thoroughness. I highly recommend this book to spiritual seekers, fans of quantum physics, and those interested in psychic studies. If you have read it, I'd love to hear your opinion.