Customer Rating: 
Summary: cautionary tale
Comment: $$$!?! buyer beware, gold's books are all self-published. he speaks the garbled jargon typical of cult leaders. there are much better books available on fourth way teachings, this reader recommends the earnest seeker stick to the well-travelled routes--check out ouspensky, gurdjieff, orage, bennett, etc...etc...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Search for Impedimenta
Comment: From the book: "What keeps the machine asleep is our fear of the discomfort of awakening."
As a society of comfort-seeking creatures this sentence from the book was quite disturbing to me. It appears that we are heavily invested in sedation thru comfort. It is almost as if there is a "conspiracy" to keep "us" asleep, or as the author indicates, not "us" but our "machines."
So what does the cultural pressure to not awaken have to do with me? Am I doing everything I can to awaken? I think I'll check out the authors other books to see if there are some answers there.
Customer Rating:
Summary: As much fun to read as
Comment: As much fun to read as a Philip Dick or Philip Farmer story only not written by a Philip.Is it science fiction, fantasy or reality... that's the predicament the reader may find themselves in similar to the Philip stories.
To (incorrectly) paraphrase Dr. John (Lilly) "What you believe to be true either is true or becomes true..."
I'll let the reader decide whether their world is one of macro dimensions that are either perceivable or potentially perceivable or that they have a real "will."
How could such luminaries such as Claudio Naranjo, the godfather of the human potential movement, Gestalt therapy and the Enneagram, along with Dr. John C. Lilly find themselves in the same sentence with the likes of Mr. Gold?
But one reader calling himself John Landon (does he work for Yoyodyne?), expert in psychology, metaphysics, and spirituality seems to think this book does not deserve a nod. His banal criticisms of Mr. Gold's books leaves one suspect as to his emotional state. The answer is as always, who will be remembered and who will be forgotten in future times?
Customer Rating:
Summary: A gem of a book!
Comment: The author provides a unique (to westerners) perspective that enables you to "assume" the position of a multi-dimensional traveler in order to gain knowledge and understanding through experience.
Thank you Mr. Gold for such an enlightening work!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wake up! This guy's a shark
Comment: Completely worthless piece of incoherent trash with the author's mixture of adolescent science fiction, rehashed Ouspensky, and the usual Gurdjieff pastiche. If the author were at least sincere, his faults would be one thing. Gold is either too far gone to write a book in this field, or else he doesn't care and is about the business of his flypaper routine to keep the newbies flowing with a la carte mystic junk. Remember these Gurdjieff people are no enlightened. Such people have to ply the 'Wake up' theme in ambiguous fashion at the lesser level of getting high on self-consciousness, your natural state. You may be an idiot, but you are already awake in this sense. Settle for nothing less than the real thing, which doesn't require these sufi hustlers.
This fellow is one of the cruelest and sadistic of the dog and pony trick occultists that fight over the Gurdjieff non-legacy in a sordid monopoly game in the last farce of the sufis. Give him a wide berth.
