What do you do when two ascended beings materialize on your living room couch, tell you to write a book, publish it, and it becomes a hit!? You write a second book: Your Immortal Reality: How to Break the Cycle of Birth and Death.

In this second book Gary Renard picks up with his two teachers, Pursah and Arten, post the success of the first book, The Disappearance of the Universe. (reviewed in the BLEEPing Herald)

In many ways it’s more of the same, only “further down the rabbit hole”. Which is good news indeed. I won’t go into the basic setup, you can check out the earlier review for that. But the further development of topics covered in Your Immortal Reality is fascinating.

First-off, Gary is now a successful writer and teacher. In the first book he was someone wondering what to do with himself, and how to make enough money to get to Hawaii. The conversations about success and how to approach it and deal with it are really insightful. It’s fascinating to see how the ideas laid out in the first book have been incorporated into Gary’s life, and how they are proving themselves to him in day-to-day situations. In many senses he’s the “test case” of whether or not the philosophy and lessons really work or not.

For those of you who haven’t checked out the earlier book or the review, the teachings of Pursah and Arten primarily explain and support the information found in The Course in Miracles. To sum up the Course I’ll just say for me it has two main points: 1) Any duality in any form whatsoever is unreal; 2) The way out is through forgiveness.

Of all the literature I’ve read, the case for a strict non-dualistic view has never been more relentlessly put forward. Arten and Pursah just don’t budge on it. They strictly maintain that any thing, concept, idea, or perception that is separate from the divine is illusionary. Period. The question of course then becomes – how does this fit in with the “I create my reality” concept? This is a very great question to ponder. To create something – say a job – Arten and Pursah say you are assigning a reality to that thing – in this case a job. However you are trying to make something real that is intrinsically NOT REAL. This process, they say, substantiates the ego and causes all kinds of problems.

So does that mean you just sit around and do nothing because It’s all illusion? Another great question. Luckily for us Gary is the perfect foil. He asks the kind of questions you would ask if you were sitting in front of two ascended masters seated on your living room sofa. And he is a smart-ass about it. This makes the books a delight to read. It’s not lofty, spiritual, goody-goody mumbo-jumbo stuff. It’s lofty, spiritual hard-hitting stuff. And not only is Gary this way, but Arten and Pursah get into it too. They also take Gary on some pretty wild out-of-body-in-the-body adventures in time and space, as well as tell us about the 21 st century. (They are coming from the future – it’s history to them.)

These are great books. A most compelling view on Unity, and the error of separateness. Want to break the cycle of birth and death? Or is this planet still working out for you? Either way, Your Immortal Reality will rock your world.