The News for October, 2003....
Reviews
George Bendall was
in every way impressive -- tall, ruggedly good-looking, a brilliant metaphysician
and a storehouse of intimate knowledge of Ernest Holmes and the Religious Science
movement. His life was a continuous dedication to the memory and legacy of his
teacher. This collection of essays represents his ministry to congregations
spanning several decades and a wide geography of pulpits and classrooms. They
are his keen metaphysics translated into the art of living, where the unity
of heart, mind, and spirit find a kind of intense celebration.
He gives an interesting
exercise in the chapter titled WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. Stand in front of a mirror
and say, “I am a living, loving, worthy expression of God.”(The first time you
say to yourself “I don’t really believe this”; then, along about the second
or third week, you will find that your whole facial expression changes: the
mirror is reflecting back the conviction of thought.) So the whole system that
we’re talking about works by a law of reflection--a response that corresponds
identically to what we’re thinking and feeling.
Dr. Bendall has
moved onward and upward into a new life, but leaving a “little bit” of himself
behind. What he left behind is like a shining star--a symbol of the faith, the
kindness, and the dignity he represented. Truly he found the Kingdom,
for the peace, serenity, and understanding love he radiated came from within.
What a privilege we have to share that through his essays. Softcover, 132 pp., $9.95
Hold on to your hat and sit back in your rocking chair,
for you are about to embark on the most thrilling and satisfying of adventures.
And, of coarse, You are the adventure! Rarely has such a concise little book
given me such a high. Stressing four ancient verities
that most human beings have a way of overlooking with almost flawless consistency.
They are such splendid taking-off points for thumbing-out, rocking-chair adventures.
- LIFE IS FOR LIVING.
- YOU CAN THINK
- YOU HAVE BEEN PLACED IN CHARGE OF AN INDIVIDUAL LIFE, FOR WHICH YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE.
- YOU ARE EQUIPPED AND DESTINED FOR UN-LIMITED ACHIEVEMENT AND BLESSEDNESS, YOUR ONLY BOUNDARIES
BEING THOSE YOU SET FOR YOURSELF OR PERMIT OTHER
TO SET FOR YOU.
Mr. Boone says, "In order
to accomplish this program in a effective way, I should like to wave my invisible
magic wand in a certain secret manner known only to a few, and conjure up a
great array of colored floodlights and spotlights, and with them the largest
and most powerful public-address amplifier obtainable. Then over the latter
I should have announced a very special presentation, the presentation of one
of the most important, indispensable, and unique individuals in all the world,
and in the breathtaking pause that followed, introduce You, with lights, the
blare of trumpets, and everything!"
The book has a beginning, but unlike the ordinary run of books it has no
ending. When you reach the last page, you go straight through the back cover as though
it wasn’t there. That is, you do so , provided you have accumulated sufficient
mental velocity, altitude, and visibility on the way through. And when you reach
that point, you keep right on going throughout time, space, and even eternity
itself. And that’s traveling! Softcover, 135 pp., $8.00
The purpose of this book
is to convince you that there is always an answer to prayer, when you have learned
how to pray.
Harold Sherman suggests that
to get the right answer to prayer, you must know how to prepare your mind and
heart so that you can enter consciously into the God-presence which exists within.
Once this is accomplished, once you have felt this indescribable union
with God, the Great Intelligence, if only for a fleeting, transcendent second,
you will never be the same again. You will know that God exists
for you, the God of your faith, the God for whom you have searched, the one
and only Power in this great and wonderful universe. Mr. Sherman gives us exercises,
affirmations, meditations and examples on how to prepare our minds for prayer,
how to pray for others, prayers for business, prayers for family, peace of mind
through prayer, and more. Besides having published
over sixty books, the author was the founder of ESP Research Associates Foundation
in Little Rock, Arkansas, an organization devoted to the exploration of the
origin and nature of extrasensory perception. Hardcover, 216 pp., $8.95
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