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Reactions from readers about the book "The Whole Elephant"
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Of all the many spiritual books I have in my bookcase this is one of the bests
Dec. 5, 2007: “What an unbelievable special book did you write. Wauw, what a gift that you have been allowed to do this. Of all the many spiritual books I have in my bookcase - some of which are very dear and special to me - this is one of the bests. Congratulations with that achievement. I will give several as a present to friends in the time to come, I promise!”
= Miems Tjeek Willink, spiritual healer
Maybe the best book available about the universal laws
Dec. 3. 2007: “I finished reading this book two weeks ago and will read it soon again! What a great book! Marvellous how Marja de Vries brings faith and science together without showing through all to much her own opinion. Sometimes a littlebit hard to read because of all the (source)references, but in my opinion very much worth reading and maybe the best book available about the universal laws of the universe and the explication of them! Anyway it helped me a lot with some questions of life and dead!!”
= Amersfoort, anonymus at www.bol.com
A sound work
Nov. 30, 2007: “In my opinion a sund work, consistently written in a pleasantly abundant way. As in a fugue the information is repeated a few times in a different tonality, reducing the information-density, so is becomes a readable whole. Besides, this is an interpretation/illustration of the second law, the Law of Correspondence. This about the form. About the content - I agree with the cover-endorsements.”
= Reinout Oosterveld, secretary of the Foundation for Nature- and Implosiontechnics.
Additional pieces of the puzzle for making my furniture
Nov. 29, 2007: “Thank you very much for your beautiful book! A clear overview, recognizable but so much more! The book came for me just at the right moment, and - together with the book of Michael Schneider, "A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe", that also came my way - both of you have brought me additional pieces of the puzzle so I can go on with my plan. I make cupboards and I am in the process of translating the enneagram story in cupboards. My intent is to portray the human development in furniture. So, I am looking forward to your next book, because human development and education go hand in hand. Thank you for your enriching contribution.”
= Ronald Spruit, designer of furniture
I think you have written a masterpiece
Nov. 15, 2007: “I want to thank you very much for this book. My pieces of the puzzle are now falling into place. It is a confirmation for me and an important support. I have consciously chosen for this innovative HBO education (I work for the training Communication & Multimedia Design of the Noordelijke Hoge School at Leeuwarden) and to pass on the insight into these universal laws to students, who have ears to understand. Thanks to your book I am able now to find words. The passing on happens in a playful way and at moments, which fit in with the experiences of these young people. I wrap it sometimes with humor and sometimes with serious feedback. And I really enjoy doing that. Your book is laying at my workplace and students even ask about it and react to it. One rection of student caused that I will go to one of your talks. Why? Because I am wildly curious and think you have written a masterpiece, that is accessible for a very broad target group. Very clever piece of work!! Your book is for me also a conformation that I go with the right stream and that this stream is going to bring me even much more. I meet more and more people who go with me in this stream. And that gives me happinez and amazement.”
= anonymous (known by me - Marja)
A standard work that I have already recommanded to many
Nov. 14, 2007: “I have read your beautiful book ‘The Whole Elephant’. For me a standard work giving me a lot of valuable information. I have already recommanded the book to many. Many things you describe are very interesting for people who work with energy. I think it is really valuable that you give a clear picture of the universal laws from the different wisdom traditions and understandings of scientists. What I only could assume and feel as Truth till now, but which was sometimes to extensive or vague to comprehend, is now combined and described by you in clear language, that is really a gift!”
= Pauline Napjus
I will use the book in my work connecting communication (management) and spirituality
Nov. 14, 2007: “I bought your book immediately and started reading it right away. It fits in with exactly with what I am doing. I can use the book absolutely by making the connection between communication (management) and spirituality.”
= Marieke Duyvestijn
As far as I am concerned this book needs to go all around the world!
Oct. 30, 2007: “Thank you for your beautiful book! It makes me really happy! I have almost finished reading it, now reading the last chapter. A few thing I knew already (I am already reading about these things for a long time) but also a lot I did not know yet. What I like so very much about the book is the structure. The connections and coherence become clear. The picture is complete. I hope it will be translated into english? And Chinese? As far as I am concerned it needs to go all around the world!”
= Monique van Dommele
You have been successful in writing a convincing story
Oct. 24, 2007: “I have read your book. I think it is very good. It is a brave try to capture the insights if different wisdom traditions and scientific understandings in one theoretical reflection. You have been successful in writing a convincing story. I have always been averse to esoteric things. With your book I had for the first time the feeling that there are interfaces with the so called 'exact science'.”
= Han Westelaken, architect
This will become a classic! Finally everything makes sense
Oct. 21, 2007: “In this book the universal principles and laws of the universe, which can be found in many ancient beliefsystems, are described and ordered in a very clear and understandable way. It is really a joy that the author has listed all these points; finally everything makes sense. Everything I knew already and considered true intuitively has now been described in a clear way from many points of view (among other things those of mystics and quantum physics). Already now it has become my favorite book and I have not even finished it. It feels very complete and universal; as if also your own consciousness makes a quantum leap by reading it. Truely a recommandation!!”
= Amsterdam, anonymus at www.bol.com
This book has surpassed my wildest dreams!
Okt. 7, 2007: “The Sufi-story and your clear explination that everything simply operates according seven Universal Laws, really is an eye-opener for me. I have read the book already two times and I have to confess that the book had surpassed my wildest dreams! My compliments for your very clear explination, which gave me a good insight into the existence and the operation of the Universal Laws and the Golden Ratio. Already for years I have been fascinated by Sacred Geometry and the Golden Ratio and your book has caused a very welcome inner broadening and deepening. I have come to the conclusion that when you start to observe the events around you from the perspective of these laws you will understand better and better which laws are behind those events and how everything is intertwinded. A few weeks ago I suddenly felt the inner urge to visualize the described Universal Laws and the The Golden Ratio. These symbolic interpretation is really full of symbolism.”
= Len Zoetemeijer
This book is to bring heaven on earth
Okt. 2, 2007: “I saw your book at a friends place and felt intuitively that it is important to me.
What I like so much about your book is not just the whole, but also especially the sacred geometry. It is a subject in which I have my heart and which I as a sculptress can show though my sculptures I am making these days. I will buy The Whole Elephant also for my two children. This book is to bring heaven on earth.”
= Geny Titus, sculptress
A very special present
Sept. 28, 2007: “I was given the beautiful and accessable book that you have writen and I consider it a very special present! ”
= Jefke Vink, Trainer/ Master Coach NLP/ Psychologist NIP
Thé eyeopener of the century and this book doesn't need marketing at all
Sept. 20, 2007: “The overview given in this book is overwhelming simple and complete. The result is a picture of the universe, that is watertight reasoning, while nowhere in the book you get the feeling that something is preached. (we where talking about) the marketing of your book. I have been thinking of that often, also while reading. More and more I reach the conclusion that this book doesn't need marketing at all; I would think that the news about your book spreads like wildfire. I am looking forward to the many pages I still have to read in your beautiful book. For me it is thé eyeopener of the century.”
= Erik de Vries, Concept, Copy & Communication
Your book as thread for teaching ‘Trust and Contact’
Sept. 13, 2007: “Fanny Koerts from Pentascope and the Nieuwe Garde Groningen brought your book to my attention. And I did buy it immediately; in fact quite special that I did act straight away. Already for a while I am in the process of searching and often I feel I don't have 'words' to explain to people around me what I feel and know inside of me. And your book and your workshop gave me those words. A touching experience, thanks a lot for that.
At the NHL, Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden, I have suggested to teach 'Trust and Contact'. And there was no doubt at all for me: I do know that your book will be the thread for this. Everything can be given shape from that perspective, marvallous! I feel more and more that I want to give the youth tools to get to know the path inward, into themselves, so they will be able to tidy up the feelings they encounter there. Especially young people are able to pick up new things very easily. And just now I think it is important for them to stay in touch with the Universal Truth. So, thank you more than twice!”
= Jeltine Zijlstra, initiator, inspirator and connector and Associated Partner at Pentascope
A revelation, this book will play a very important role
Sept. 10, 2007: “First of all I want to thank you very much for the terrific masterpiece that appeared in the bookstores. I am not a scientist, professor or something like that but my whole life I have been very much interested in this matter. The commercial books of the well known gentlemen did not get past some vague allegations, though. Your book is beautifully well-founded and I have already recommanded it many times to my friends. Many of them come, after reading your book, back with the same reaction: now they have the feeling as if starting once again... a revelation. Daily we have discussions about the covered subjects. Everything inside of me tells me that this book will play a very important role.”
= Marco Bartelsman, Corporate IT Manager
Using the laws as trainer/coach ánd as father
Aug. 31, 2007: “I really liked reading your book, my compliments. Two years ago I also did read The Kybalion and was very impressed. I consider your book a very inspiring completion and extention. Several times I was able to feel that it was right and at other moments it was still a rational exercise for me. So, I still do have to develop some. In my work as trainer/coach I can combine things beautifully and, more important, I am now looking for ways how I can apply the laws as a father. Once again, my respect for your book and I am looking forward reading the articles mentioned at your website.”
= Arno Ramakers, Courses Coaching Consultancy
As if I have crowled through a summary of the library of my husband
Aug. 14, 2007: “We have soaked up the book. We meaning my husband and I. For me it was as if I have crowled through a summary of the library of my husband and for him it was a beautiful summary and more!! You see, we do work in this area. We work with new forms of Healing, Water and Energy. Everything based on the Universal Laws!
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= Dominique and Kees
As if the book contains an all-encompassing energy
Aug. 12, 2007: “The Whole Elephant is in many ways an impressive book. It collects a lot of knowledge in a new more encompassing frame of concept. Reading the book also is kind of coming home because it puts into words my own essential experiences in a new way. While reading I experience the oneness the book describes. It is as if the book carries an all-encompassing energy. The special thing is that it brings me in contact again with the experience of oneness, which is so essential and direction indicating for me. Besides it adds aspects to this experience and my understanding about it. Definitely a recommandation, a book you must have read when you take the spiritual path seriously.”
= Sanny Uitentuis, GZ-psychologist
Not one word to much, so it is easy to read from the heart
Aug. 12, 2007: “Daily I enjoy reading in The Whole Elephant. Marvellous, all this information and the interconnection in clear sentences. This is really a pleasure. The pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. While reading I feel how the vibration of the book for a moment harmoniously illuminates lower frequencies in me! I experience during my work with my clients that positive thoughts really can get things going. Now so clearly explained and illustrated with all kinds of research. In your book there is not one word or one name too much, which makes it much easier to read it less with the rational mind and more from the heart.”
= André Heine, coach ahAvontuur
It deserves a reading public as the Aquarius Conspiracy by Marylin Ferguson
Aug. 11, 2007: “Everytime I took a break while renovating my house I plunged into the elephant and I do read it with particular great interest and growing respect for your achievement. I have to confess that, when you told me what kind of book you were writing, I was afraid that your project could collapse under its own ambition: not only to deduce the essence from all the big religions and mystical traditions, but also on top of that from the newest discoveries of science. Although I have not yet finished reading the book, I do want to send you alreay now my great respect for the fact that you did it! I enjoy! I think you have written a book that deserves (and I think will get) a readers public as the Aquarius Conspiracy by Marylin Ferguson.”
= Pieter van Veen, Antiquarian book trade van Veen: books with heart and soul
The incredible 'clear' way of explaining
Aug. 6, 2007: “During my holiday I have read your book 'The Whole Elephant'. In one word, a marvellous book!!! Although I have read already a lot about the subjects in your book, I was completely surprised by the incredible 'clear' way of explaining the theme's in your book. You write expertly and convincing. I was especially impressed by the interconnections you are able to make between all the literature you read. You seem to make effortlessly these connections between the huge pile of literature on which your book is based. Also the structure of your book, using the universal Hermetic principles as steppingstones is evidence of an ordered approach. This way your book became a logical succession of concepts that work as guide for the reader. You have succeeded brilliantly in your intention to put the universal truth in the perspective of contemporary scientific research!
I have learned a lot (despite the fact that I did read many of the same sources of literature as you did) and I definitely will read your book one more time, because it really has impressed me. I wish you good luck with this book and with your next book. I am glad you went off the road with your purpose to write a book about education, otherwise this beautiful book would never have seen the light of day. Therefore I know for sure that your next book will be a succes too.”
= Jan Wicherink, author of the e-book 'Souls of Distortion', 2006
A spiritual audit for humanity as a whole…
Aug.5, 2007: “I consider The Whole Elephant a very good book. I mention this book during my conferences and I will also cover it during my teachings in 2008 as professor of Business Spirituality at the Business University Nyenrode. The story you write about Walter Russell can be found too almost literally in the biography of Ignatius of Loyola. In my Ignatian spirituality it is called the contemplation of being by doing. So what is my conclusion after reading your book: Isn't your book a spiritual audit for humanity as a whole and so to be used as a prototype?”
= Paul de Blot SJ, professor of Business Spirituality at the Business University Nyenrode, The Netherlands
A masterpiece
July 17, 2007: “I have read your book 'The Whole Elephant' with much admiration and enthousiasm. I consider it as a masterpiece. It is written so clear, plain and well-organized. In my opinion this book is a very complete and inspiring piece of work. It is a must for insight and understanding on the path to a better world for all and everything.”
= Aad Hermann, dentist, coach and trainer
Energeticly or synchronously doing business
July 11, 2007: "I read your book and think it is great. I guess you heard already more often that it made many pieces falling into place. I am organising a kind of conference about socially sound enterprises. But by reading your book finally everything makes sense and I am now thinking about something like energeticly or synchronously doing business, a much more logical form of connected and respectful being. One time I would like to make a story about is."
= Titus Bovenberg
The importance of the Gulden Ratio and the female principle
July 8, 2007: “What touches me the most in the book is that I realize more and more that it is of great importance that the balance in the world between the male and female principle will be restored. With the explanation about the importance of the Golden Ratio, Marja makes clear in her book how important the female principle is and how everything in nature and in us operates in line with the Golden Ratio.”
= Ineke van Westrienen
Every part is connected with the other parts
July 8, 2007: “The book The Whole Elephant helps me to understand better that I am wrong when I think that I am a separate, isloated entity and live like that. It conferms my understanding that we are part of a very subtle tuned ecosystem, in which every part is contected with all the other parts and all parts influence each other.”
= Martine Vijverberg
I will use this book for my lectures
July 5, 2007: “It is a beautiful book and you have used The Kybalion wonderfully and made brilliantly the connections with the current state of science. I teach Mysticism at the College for Psycho-Social Welfare in Utrecht and one of my courses covers The Kybalion. I will use your book for these classes, because your book is very dear to my heart.”
= Drs. C.J.Th. Gunsing, teacher on the permanent staff of the College for Psycho-Social Welfare, Utrecht.
This book is a guide
July 4, 2007: “Yesterday I started reading The Whole Elephant and already now I am addicted to it. Already for years I am bringing these universal insights toward the attention of educators, because that really is necessary in our superficial society. This book by Marja is a guide. The Law of Polarity says all pairs of opposites may be reconciled - how important for education, this awareness. I will bring this book to the university libraries and to people who have political influence.”
= Hanneke Bijl
Suddenly everything becomes clearer
June 19, 2007: “I realized that actually you do not tell me something new, but yet suddenly everything becomes clearer. Funny how things work. The information I had already but because of the ordening of the information I suddenly saw things that were not clear to me until then. As if you give the mystical side a scientific touch which makes it easier to understand. Everything beautifully ordered and well-organized. I advise everything who wants to know more about themselves, eachother and the world in which we live to read this book. Because it really is miraculous!”
= Rozemarijn Knollema
Everything made more and more sense
June 15, 2007: “While reading the book The Whole Elephant it felt as if I won the jackpot, coins kept falling and everything made more and more sense.”
= Fanny Koerts
Warm and good
Juni 15, 2007: “… I enjoy reading your book ... your book feels so warm and good for me. Really nice. Your book attributes to personal change and because of that to social transformation too. ”
= Pauline Petrie