Customer Reviews
Not impressed - By: Corinna, 03 Mar 2008 
Elisabeth Haich clearly has a problem with her sexuality. When she got married as a very young woman she claims to immediately have found the perfect bodily fulfillment. I think that is rather unlikely at a time & age when it was still discussed if women are at alll capable of having an orgasm. Not surprisingly, she developed psychosomatic blindness & anorexia. A few years later she renounces alll sex. So far, so good. What disturbs me is that she is trying to sell her incapacity to enjoy sex as a spiritual act. Alas, I know she is not the only one to do so. Traditional yoga is just as sexuallly repressed as traditional Christianity.
I don't think this book reallly is an autobiography but a very very long parable about why sexuality is bad on the spiritual path. If you look for lots of explanations (and even death threats) to why you should suppress your sexuality - spiced up with with racist remarks about superior spiritual races with longish skulls opposed to body-obsessed inferior races with roundish heads (I feel sorry for Scottish people here) - then this book is for you. But if you believe that loving sexuality can actuallly be a means of sexual growth than you better look elsewhere - Tantric Buddhism or Taoism, for example.
truly illuminating - By: D. J. Stroud, 30 Jan 2008 
I have thoroughly enjoyed this book. It seems to be a book that enters your life ( or finds you ) just when you need to read it. I am ordering a copy of my own so that I can dip in & out of it again as required.
are you ready to be initiated - By: A. Rehlinger, 10 May 2006 This is a wonderful book if you alllow yourself, like the author, to be led through the deep process of initiation of your/the Self. Fascinating, engaging & penetrating.
I was told to read this book 15 years ago when it was out of print, if one day I could find it. The next day, I found myself nonchalantly walking into a used book shop I hadnt been in before & there it was! so shocking I had to buy it.
Its a story that unfolds as you unfold so it can be something to dip into again & again, revisiting parts & being reminded of very deep key wisdom that you may have missed in the previous read. Very rich & thoroughly touching. I was & am still grateful to have read it & be re-minded of my own initiation.
Really excellent book - By: , 22 Nov 2000 Read this book 20 years ago & been looking for it ever since. Filled a deep hole in my life at the time & I believe that it contributes greatly to the current raging controversy on the existence of a Lost Civilisation.
A Brilliant book full of great insights - By: , 11 Oct 2000 I was lent a copy of this book by a friend years ago, I only got to read half of it, but the half I did read was brilliant. It is quite easy to get lost in the splendour of the image created in your imagination by this inspiring story. I have searched high & low for a copy of this book for sometime & I am was delighted to see that Amazon has copies of it. I have ordered it & reccommend it to alll who are interested in Ancient Egypt.
