Not in His Image: 15th Anniversary Edition - Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Power of Belief for the Future

Rob MRob M: Califico para señalar el mal estado en el que me vino este libro...

Mexico on Jan 15, 2022

Missmeggie: This is the most important book you will EVER read

Canada on Dec 14, 2021

Ollie W.: I can’t stress enough how important it is for as many people as possible to read this book as soon as possible. The only reason not enough people are aware of such a book is likely the acts of suppression by authorities due to their desire to continue their evil agenda and their resistance to the eventual and inevitable retribution that must take place in order for beauty and truth to reign supreme again within the perception of the Human species and across the planet.

United Kingdom on Nov 14, 2021

Mark A. Frazer: After reading the negative reviews and the claims that Lash was merely making things up I want to recommend this book based on my own experience and studies. The main point or comparison Lash makes in his effort to focus on reconnecting humanity to the earth and creation is to contrast the salvationist-redeemer male creator complex to the Gnostic(Pagan/Initiate/Mystery/Indigenous) models of creation and the cosmos. This book will rub you the wrong way if you are new to the topic or have never thought about the problem or if you have any ties or investment, even a little remaining belief, in the Abrahamic religions. Many are jumping to the conclusion that this critique is anti-Semitic when it isn't.

The key contrast is that between what the Judeo-Christian-Islamic faiths promise for following Their God versus what the Gnostics believed and knew about humanity and the cosmos. With the Abrahamic Yahweh believers you get a reward in a heaven after death. You get to inherit the earth or parts of the earth. We should focus on Christianity given the way history was essentially driven by the Roman Catholic then the Protestant branches and dogma. We are facing a potential end to...

United States on Sep 10, 2021

rickey: 5 star for the simple language used to explain the gnostics pov. Anyone who's not familiar with gnostic beliefs, this is the book to read. Spirituality, nature worship, pagans, Christianity, and extra terrestrials, anyone interested in any of these topics will surely love this book. Highly recommended.

India on May 13, 2014

Jan: Hard going, stimulating, never, never dull. The only book I've ever read a second time as soon as I'd finished the first read.
John presents to us a documented history of the effect religion has had on society, its origins and our morals by revealing our belief system from before 'religion' and the Church took hold and turned us into who we are today.
Crammed with information, John does not back away from telling us how it was, and how it is now, which clearly demonstrates why we need to change our mindset towards as to why we are on planet Earth.

Ecology, consciousness, 'quantum' energy fields, and hundreds of years of genocide are just a few of the subjects affected by the way religion has caused us to see our place on this planet.
Anyone who has ridiculed the idea of alien visitations in our past will find themselves re-evaluating their concepts.
Similarly if you are sitting on the fence regarding this idea or have some knowledge of the Gnostics, Dead sea scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts, the 44 omitted Biblical gospels, this book brings them all together in a way that is a real wake up call.

I highly recommend this to anyone who has even the tiniest...

France on Nov 24, 2013

Cleveland Confidential: Prospective readers will do well to examine all customer reviews here; buy this book, and then think a bit more for yourself. This is a book that I have waited over fifty years to read -- and it was only published in 2006.(!)

If you're like me, here you will find the confirmation of many things you already Know; the explanation of certain things you have deeply wondered about; and the tying together of yet other things that once seemed quite unrelated. And example of the latter is what Gurdjieff called the several varieties of "Hasnamuss" and the different types of psychopathic personalities that have recently come under broad general discussion.Particularly interesting is the idea that the more powerful psychpaths are able to convert normal people into a secondary grade of psychopath. Is there a one-to-one correspondence here between "hasnamuss and "psychopath?" And are these the souls that the Archons "steal by night" as Jonh Lash mentions?

There's an old adage that when studying new ideas it's wise to attempt to connect each one to at least two other things you already know about. This establishes a broad and tripod-like understanding, not to mention the obvious...

United States on Nov 02, 2011