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Reactions from readers about the book "The Whole Elephant"
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For the first time the feeling that I understand how the universe works
October 1, 2009: "I only came to read 'The Whole Elephant' last summer during my holiday. I am impressed and while reading I got a real feeling of awe. Some parts are written in a rather abstract way and therefore a little difficult to grasp. But for the first time in my life I have the feeling that I really understand how the universe works, especially because of the scientific foundations of the ancient universal laws. When I read an interview with entrepreneur Henny van der Most recently in the Volkskrant I understood, based on the universal laws in your book, why Hennie is a successful entrepreneur. Thank you, Marja, for this beautiful gift to the world!"
= Ageeth Veenemans, co-founder Scheppersunie; author of ‘Ik hou van twee mannen. Polyamorie, liefhebben zonder grenzen’
The most beautiful book I have been able to find so far
September 28, 2009: "With a lot of pleasure and admiration I have read the book "The Whole Elephant". This is the most beautiful book I have been able to find so far. All the questions I asked myself about life during the passing years are covered in this book. You have the gift to convey such complicated matter in a clear and simple way on paper as well as in spoken words. I want to compliment you wholeheartedly on your work. We all can be very happy with a person like you among us!"
= Danette Albers
The most special book I ever read
September 2, 2009: "I want to thank you for the most special book I ever read. The book 'The Whole Elephant' has made me see and feel the light. I bought your book last Sunday and just now, not even three days later, I read the last pages. I spent years with all kinds of spiritual searching, I read bookcases filled with books to respond to that empty feeling that there must be more. I tried to find it in Kabbalah, which certainly has a lot of knowledge, is difficult to understand, and an absolute challenge to keep searching. I tried to find it in Buddhism which to me is too unclear and to soft. Your book brings together the beautiful aspects of all these belief systems and religious movements and all of that founded on many scientific findings which gives a marvelous balance. I hope you will write many more beautiful books and make many human hearts shine by doing so!"
= Julian
It has given me an undescribable amount of insights and inspiration
August 21, 2009: "Thank you very much for writing your beautiful book 'The Whole Elephant'. It has given me an indescribable amount of insights and inspiration. I spelled your book as well as your website. You brought something very special into the world. This book is asking to be translated into English, so a much larger group can become aware of this immense wisdom.
= Herma Wichman, Proxima Coaching & Communication
Inspiration and strength to re-establish the 'forgotten' female principle
August 7, 2009: "From the bottom of my heart: Thank you for The Whole Elephant! I have become very happy because of the recognition and affirmation, the connection and oneness, the love and clarity. For me the clarity about the Dynamic Balance between the female and male principle is the confirmation of what I consider to be my own red thread. It gives inspiration and strength to continue re-establishing the 'forgotten' female principle in myself and because of that also to contribute to that process in others."
= Jenny Menheere, Resonance Healer/Teacher
Experiencing all what can emerge when you surrender to it…!
July 31, 2009: "I am so happy with your work, I try every time to find that opening with people to make them more conscious of the working of the universal laws. My partner (choirmaster) and I have been able to experience during the last two months all what can emerge when you surrender to it. Never before it took so little effort as what happened with the creation of the choir Vocal Group Transparant from Venray. So many things happened all together. Three sisters conceived the idea to start a special choir. What started with 3 people became 30 and in the end more than one hundred. Now we have a waiting list!! Look for a sounding and visual result of one of the songs at their first concert after 8 repetitions at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdq5ot0pEOI ."
= Wilmy van der Helm, zingzorg
Compliments!
June 10, 2009: "With much pleasure and respect I have read The Whole Elephant at one sitting during a short holiday in Zeeland. I am grateful for all your investigation and the conscientious way you give your bibliography, summarize briefly and brings in clear connection with one another. I did write some books. Being a student of Prof. G. Quispel, especially knowledge of the heart is very dear to my heart. The information about that was very clarifying and new for me. Meanwhile I am promoting your book by mentioning it at presentations and workshops for our academy PanSophia knowledge-center matriarchy and consciousness of oneness. Compliments!"
= Dr. Annine van der Meer, religion historian and theologian and author of the book 'From Venus to Madonna, an hidden history'
While reading your book already the exercises appear from within me ...
May 14, 2009: "I am kindly disposed towards education and in fact everything which and everyone who has something to do with 'learning'. I worked in education for 27 years and from 2002 I give trainings, personal development and I coach people in their personal development as supervisor. Based on personal experience I know that everything is connected with everything. This is what touched me in your book and my deep desire and passion is to guide more and more my fellow humans in this. When I am reading in your book already the exercises appear from within me to make people familiar with these beautiful universal laws. I really like to help spreading this information and coaching other people, possibly in the form of workshops."
= Joke Vermeer, dejas-personal coaching
An astonishing clarity, clear organization and serenity ... EXCELLENT!!
April 15, 2009: "I like to thank you for writing the splendid book "The Whole Elephant". For me you have described exactly the path of my personal journey of exploration and development and all that with an astonishing clarity, clear organization and serenity. So much recognition ... EXCELLENT!! No education program should be without this book.
= Wemmerke Kattenberg, Spirit it! Kattenberg counselling
Everything written in an understandable way, so it opens a whole new world
March 29, 2009: "I am so glad, I have attended the Inspiration-day, march 22 in Ede. I did read already parts of your book, but your presentation makes the content even more meaningful for me. I like to thank you for writing everything in an understandable way, so it opens a whole new world for me. At the moment I am again 'studying' as I call it myself. With lots of pleasure and interest. Thanks to you. So once again, thank you very much."
= Peti de Boer-Groen
My greatest desire is to bring this all back again to public education
March 27, 2009: "At the end of last year I was in the bookshop and discovered your book there. I had not heard of you before. The title appealed to me and especially because you wrote about the Universal Laws made me decide to buy your book. Reading your book was one great recognition. As if you describe parts of the Antagram, I have developed, without having seen it! I have not yet experienced that someone came so close to "my truth". Like you founding and describing the Laws beautifully, I use them practically and have shaped them into a teachable form. They are woven in theory and exercise. The Antagram is a way to give people insight into themselves, to give a perspective of the Whole and how we create our reality within that Greater Whole. By becoming conscious aware we are able to be in harmony with All That Is. My greatest desire is to bring this matter back again to public education. Insight into the Greater Whole and the influence of it, is in my opinion essential to bring yourself into balance and to create your life in harmony. I write 'to bring back again' because I realize that many, many centuries ago insight into the Universal Laws was a normal part of our daily life."
= Barbara van Meerhove
It would be good for the world when many people read this book
March 5, 2009: "What a beautiful and fascinating book have you written. After your presentation I have begun reading it straight away. It is very clarifying that you have given a complete description of the 'working' of the universe. The pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. It would be good for the world when many people read this book. So, it is my intention to make many people aware of the existence and importance of this book. Thank you very much and I am curious to find out that your next steps will be."
= Hester Kiestra
Definitely recommended!!!
February 6, 2009: "For a spiritual doubter like me (rational, analytic minded), it is a relief to read The Whole Elephant. For me many things are now placed in a greater context which makes that I am able to understand and accept them easier. And the connections with Western scientific research made in the book have been a great support. We don't need to prove everything scientifically, but when there happens to be in some cases some scientific support for spiritual insights, for me as a science-oriented person that is very valuable. For me this book has been an extra motivation to continue my spiritual journey of discovery."
= Koen Warner, a hopeful and inspired sceptic
Intuitively coming home
January 16, 2009: "I have read your book (The Whole Elephant). It is a book I have searched for during a long time and now it really does exist. To read your book and to take it in all has been a kind of intuitively coming home."
= Leo van Beek
The Whole Elephant and ECOtherapy
Sept. 8, 2008: “ I have read your book with very much interest and pleasure. It was a feast of recognition. There are few books in which I have underlined so many (for me) important sentences and fold over so many edges of pages. The subjects you describe are familiar for me, but you have placed them in a new, coherent light. This way it has provided even more insights and coherence in our method. We apply a lot of what you describe in practice. Our method is called ECOtherapy. We use it to balance large eco- and company-systems from a distance. Our theoretical background fits closely in with 'The Whole Elephant'.”
= Hans Andeweg, Centre for ECOtherapy and author of the book 'In resonantie met de natuur' ('In resonance with nature')
A ‘paradigm leap’
Sept. 7, 2008: “I was already underway, I already did understand that ‘dharma’ is a natural law... a inevitable intrinsic characteristic which exists or happens whether you want it or not. But it is the book 'The Whole Elephant' that clarified innumerable things a human being knows at a deep level. Marja de Vries makes visible the inevitable link between the understandings of the world of Western science as they are developing at the moment, and the spiritual dimensions, things all people with mystic experiences already talk about for ten thousand years. The meeting moment between, let's keep it contemporarily, Osho and Einstein. The book is a manner of summarizing of 7 Universal Laws, which are the same for science at the material level and at the spiritual level. It is a 'paradigm leap' based on the insight that everything is energy, also that which we call up till now matter. It shines new light, creates order in apparent chaos and makes innumerable things understandable. She compares it with how the microscope and the telescope once opened up new worlds for us and the computer still does today, in view of making these processes visible.
= Josje Steur, psychologist
Very clarifying and sometimes also a confirmation
August 28, 2008: “There are these moments in your life in which things happen which you initially can't explain and only later understand. This happened also with your book and now I have read it and have taken it, again things have fallen into place. Some laws you describe in your book were not completely new for me. I knew already much about them, but I was not able to put it all together. Through your book slowly I got a better insight in it and also a better understanding. So, your book is and has been very clarifying for me and sometimes also a confirmation of things I knew or suspected already for a long time. Now I understand some laws much better, I can apply them in my personal life. Of course there are also things in your book I still need to understand better and I consider that as my learning process. So I will often read again parts of the book or even the whole book once again. I like to thank you for publishing your book and for the clear language and way of writing and the accessibility of it. A book which reads easy and offers enough to keep thinking about and to apply in your own life, but also in the greater whole and worldview. Therefore I do hope that your book will open a gate for many people.”
= Onno Kiviet, Almere
Acute, well-balanched, exactly something for this moment
August 15, 2008: “The author is well-balanced and wise. That is necessary to make a connection between the understandings of modern science and the insights of the spiritual wisdom traditions. An useful contribution to the growing consciousness the younger generation longs for. And for that matter the whole modern world.”
= Louis Sommeling, Groningen, drs.theology and psychology, at bol.com - 5 stars
A Marvelous book!!!
August 9, 2008: “The Whole Elephant is a marvelous book. Good because it is bright and clear written, marvelous because it sketches an image of the universe in which everything is alive and intermingles, attracts and bounces off, breathes in and out, always changing and always developing! The most overwhelming though is the insight that everything and everyone is connected with each other and that you are part of this marvelous whole yourself. You are not separated from it! This book should become a part of our education system!”
= Deurne, anonymus at bol.com - 5 stars
From part to whole
July 8, 2008: “In this book is emphasized that indigenous peoples, the own intuition and modern way of thinking have common ground on which new understandings and new practical acting can be based. So we can function healthier as human beings and in relation to the earth. An excellent book as far as I am concerned!”
= Barbara, Alkmaar, at www.bol.com - 5 stars
Sublime integrative & inspiring
July 5, 2008: “This inspiring book brings much of my knowledge, understanding and experience in connection with each other and besides offers so much new wisdom that most likely I will keep it the rest of my life within reach.”
= Eersel, anonymus, at www.bol.com - 5 stars
An aquisition to strengthen the feeling with the complete coherence of All that is
July 4, 2008: “With excitement and full of passion I am enjoying your book “The Whole Elephant”! Although there sure are parts I don't understand, I just keep reading and feel I stay connected with the content and the insight I get becomes strengthened this way. I have learned the MerKaBa, followed a training with Drunvalo Melchizedek, read a lot of books about Sacred Geometry. I experience your book as very informative, practical, well-organized and full of insights. I have not read it completely yet, until now chapter 10 appealed the most to me though. Your book is an acquisition in this new time, to strengthen the feeling with and to enhance the insight into the complete coherence of All that is, Hurra!”
= Liesbeth van den Brandhof, Bureau Sta Op
An inspiring symphony of harmonious ideas
July 3, 2008: “Yes to the author’s concepts of Reality. Yes to her personal experience in the matrix of Divine Design. Yes to her demonstrated ability to create an inspiring symphony of harmonious ideas. Yes to the personal growth she inspires in her readers. This 85 year old perennial student of expanding awareness is celebrating my good fortune in discovering a website featuring an English language translation of chapters 1-3 of ‘The Whole Elephant’ by Marja de Vries. Most of the books Marja recommends or quotes from are on my personal bookshelves. However, my personal enthusiasm for ‘The Whole Elephant’ will motivate me to purchase several copies as soon as an English Language edition is in publication.”
= Rev. Jim Hazen
Your book as inspiration for training projects
June 19, 2008: “I devote myself to people who ask themselves the right questions and search for inner peace by getting in touch with themselves again. I do this by means of individual coaching, team coaching or by culture-transformation-projects. Right now I am giving shape to a purpose-and-meaning-project for managers, leaders and executives who have a lot of experience already. They have done already a lot, know all the processes but then what….. They find that they make their decisions mostly based on thinking and less on feeling and intuition. How can you draw on more qualities in yourself and put to use than those you know already? These people I like to reach very much. For this I have been very much inspired by your book ‘The Whole Elephant’. It is beautiful to reach this group with a project based on the 7 Universal Laws. I can join in with their thinking and at the same time prepare them to do more with their whole being.”
= Karin Lombarts, ‘Toonaard’
An important contribution to finding the path from head to heart
May 20, 2008: “ I have read your book “The Whole Elephant” with great delight. Bits and pieces of information you get during your life all fell into place. And the picture that emerges this way is that of an infinite intelligent and loving ruling of the Universe. I have to say that it has intensified immensely my confidence in the goodness of creation. I have great admiration for the idea which you have given shape in your book, but maybe even more for the way in which you have done that. Thank you very much for this important contribution to finding the path from head to heart that so many people are involved with at the moment.”
= W. P. Kruseman, Langbroek
A founder for all forms of personal and social growth
April 21, 2008: “Thank you for your inspiring talk in Hoogwoud. I had read your book already, a very successful attempt to put a whole universe in 300 pages. I have been looking for such a book already more than 10 years but always had to make do with sometimes very inspiring books about a part of the elephant, coming all the time to the conclusion that everything that is written is correct, but not complete. Finally there is now a book that can serve as a founder for all other books. And more than that, that can serve as a founder for all forms of personal and social growth. By the way, our wallhangings are very beautiful too. There is so little food in the field of connecting with nature and the female power, except of course to be as a women in nature, what I love doing. Once again, thank you for the inspiration.
= drs. Monique Zomer, psychologist
It was about time that this book emerged, it will definitely cause a furore
April 9, 2008: “After reading about the way this book came into being, I have to conclude that you have been guided. It was about time that this book emerged. It will definitely cause a furore because you have been able to place difficult subjects in a broad spectrum and so make it very accessible. You also combine everything with everything. Thinking with feeling, conscious with subconscious aspects, the heart with the brain and the image with the formula. A very great achievement. Especially the elementary particles as donuts, as mini white holes and as basis of our (and of all) physical existence in contact with everything else is formidable. Also the coherence with the Golden Ratio. Remains the question though who has guided you… I thank you for writing this book. Lots of success with your book.”
= Boy Boer, designer of the atomflowers
Through your book I am rediscovering the feeling that as a child I knew much more than I do now
March 19, 2008: “I am bewildered by it. I am carrying your book with me all the time and take it with small bites. More than once I have the feeling that as a child I knew much more than I do now. Experiences of Oneness and conversations with God, ware much more natural. I am very grateful that through your book I am rediscovering that.”
= Henk Hofman, Training with Theater BV
The clear and enthusiast explanation of the connection of everything with everything
March 5, 2008: “With great joy I read your book ‘The Whole Elephant’. The subject has my interest already for years and your clear and enthusiast explanation of the connection of everything with everything has touched me. You also quoted Plotinus somewhere in your book. I have translated the Enneads of Plotinus in Dutch (Damon 2005) and I found the same insights there. He is a difficult philosopher, but his insights into the essence of the world, without knowledge of modern biology and physics, are astounding. Thank you for your beautiful book.”
= Rein Ferwerda, classicist/translator
This book will make history!
Febr. 29, 2008: “Marja de Vries has written a spiritual masterpiece. Spiritual in the sense of broadening consciousness! It is the fundament and at the same time the umbrella of transcendent knowledge. Marja, thank you very much! ”
= Amsterdam, anonymus at www.bol.com - 5 stars
Your book has caught on well and has caused a brainquake
Febr. 24. 2008: “I have read your book with great fascination, I think it is wildly interesting for everyone. Your book has caught on well and had cause a brainquake. I am applying the chaos theory for non-linear shifts in the public opinion… Lots of success with the writing of your second book.
= Misha de Sterke, Agora Advice, Communication office
This book is recommended at our website as our favorite!
Febr. 21. 2008: “An few months ago we have mailed with each other about the marvelous connection between Quantum-Touch and 'The Whole Elephant'. We give the workshop Quantum-Touch (healing with your hands) in The Netherlands and refer among others to your book and your website. Meanwhile quite a number of our students have already bought the book and everyone is wildly enthusiastic about the insights, described in the book and the way it is written and on top of that how it connects with the background philosophy of Quantum-Touch. The book is recommended at our website as our favorite!”
= Linda Menkhorst, QTouch Trainings
You book awakens in me the trust to surface again with a mission
Febr. 17, 2008: “I have to get it from my chest that I am very grateful to you for the foundation that your book has offered me. It gives reflecting splendor to my quest to reach authorities and to inspire organizations to move between classical (psycho)analysis and morphogenetic (socio)dynamics, like systemic constellations. You awakens (with your book) in me the trust to surface again with a mission. Of course I was deeply touched by your vision quest. [see 'the story behind my name' at this website] Now you have birthed your first fruit, much more Starchildren can see their authenticity in the mirror, and start walking their own trail.”
=anonymus
Understanding of natural relations for any one accessible or how love of Nature expresses itself in all her mightly...
Febr. 7, 2008: “..How should Jung and Einstein have met each other 'retroactively? Marja de Vries sublimates the classic series 'A magnificent accident' of the VPRO-broadcasting in such a way, that I can imagine the connection of their ideas in a lively way! She outdates the wrong track after Descartes and develops this by proposing a synthesis between classic sciences and wisdom traditions as a quantum leap to a higher level, in a Natural spiraling way, seemingly effortlessly balancing from the female to the male principle and vice versa, eternal circulating toward growth with heart and soul in the mind of the all-embracing thought... In short: 'The Whole Elephant' leads intention to consciousness that can expand itself toward a meaningful art of living!”
= Amsterdam, anonymus at www.bol.com - 5 stars
It was hard not to send you an email from China ... it is a masterpiece
Febr. 7, 2008: “A few months ago I told a friend that my biggest wish is to help change the (primary) education in The Netherlands so it would be more holistic, more complete. She then told me about you and your book - she was just reading at the time - and said that you are working toward that goal too. A week later I visited your website, bought your book and did not do read it... Three weeks ago though I went to China to learn more about Qigong and took your book with me. It was hard not to send you an email from China, because the correspondences between what I read in your book and what my Qigong master told me, were incredible. When I just read in your book about vibrations, he told about that subject in the evening. When he told something about the qi, what is present all around us but also deep within ourselves, I read in your book about so above, so below. The Law of Attraction, the manifestation of matter from consciousness, there were many correspondences. Not to speak about the synchronicity that it was exactly your book, that I took with me, while I had seven other books waiting to be read... Thank you for your book, is what I want to say to you. It is a masterpiece and very clarifying.”
= Tex Rijnders, PER DIGITALE, idealistic office for concept and communication
Clear connections which give me a very good feeling
Jan. 15, 2008: “I almost finished reading you book and I think it is marvelous, the clarity gives me so much. I always have been very interested in the Golden Mean and you explain that very extensively. This way clear connections are made which give me a very good feeling, as if they fall into place. Very great, so thank you for that!”
= Lilian van Bennekom, actress/writer/storyteller/consciousness-coach
'An artwork more eternal than bronze'...
Dec. 10, 2007: “The recent years I have been searching rather intensely for insights into the coherence and meaning of things and from may 1 even full-time. I stopped my work to give myself time and space to first build a coherent existential frame to be able to find within that a new challenge with meaning for me and others. So I did read and heard already quite a lot. But what you achieved in this perspective is phenomenal! Horace wrote after finishing his Odes: "Exigi monumentum aere perennius" (I have created an artwork more eternal than bronze). Your monumental work exceeds this in many ways. It is an unlikely clear structured and fascinatingly written complete overview of how we, our cosmos and even God 'are organised' and what is the purpose of this all. From the depth of my being I want to thank you. This is for me gefundenes fressen!”
= Peter Vereecke, Gent
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. Woow, 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! Marvelous how Marja de Vries brings faith and science together without showing through all to much her own opinion. Sometimes a little bit 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 - 5 stars
A sound work
Nov. 30, 2007: “In my opinion a sound 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 reaction 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 confirmation 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 happiness and amazement.”
= Joke Lunsing, teacher CMD Leeuwarden
A standard work that I have already recommended 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 recommended 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 belief systems, 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. Truly a recommendation!!”
= Amsterdam, anonymus at www.bol.com - 5 stars
This book has surpassed my wildest dreams!
Oct. 7, 2007: “The Sufi-story and your clear explanation 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 explanation, 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 intertwined. 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
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Symbolic visualizion of the seven universal laws by Len Zoetemeijer |
This book is to bring heaven on earth
Oct. 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 accessible book that you have written and I consider it a very special present! ”
= Jefke Vink, Trainer/ Master Coach NLP/ Psychologist NIP
The eye-opener 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 were 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 the eye-opener 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, marvelous! 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 recommended 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 extension. 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 recommendation, 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. Marvelous, 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: “Every time 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 already 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 marvelous 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 success 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
Energetically 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 organizing 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 energetically 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 Golden 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, isolated entity and live like that. It confirms my understanding that we are part of a very subtle tuned ecosystem, in which every part is connected 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, each other 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