The essences is good but!

The overall learning is there if you can make it through the double talk, talking around in circles and excessive over explaining.

if you don’t have the benefit of a higher education and have a very rudimentary understanding of the subject matter to begin with, then this is a great book to start on.

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Reads like a really long essay

I'm 2 hours from finish. It reads like a science report. No wonder in the beginning the author says "you will need to reread this many times". There are many lists and many abbreviations to memorise. The words are overly complex. There's a lot of information here, but I'm not looking forward to doing it again for the next two books.

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interesting

yes it is. ..looking forward to the next two books. ...that Sums up everything for me. Tom is a pleasure and open in his narration giving the listener pretty tio contemplate and more

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Enough genuine insight to make a real impact.

Big picture stuff. Important background information for your metaphysical adventures. Needs a rewrite by a professional writer. Enough genuine awakening moments to recommend it. Look up his website. 5 stars for deep insight.

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interesting

I'm definitely interested in the subject material in this book, but it certainly was challenging to follow what was being discussed, I completed it and I am moving on to the second book in the trilogy. Hopefully it makes more sense to my non scientific ears.

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Not all scientist are good writers

6 hours into the book and still waiting for the book to start. Author has spent too much energy in explaining the things that people already know. He is just getting too much theoretical about things that are easy to feel even with a sentence. I think he has underestimated the readers.

He looses himself in the explanations and forgets that he has written more about how to read the subject rather than the subject itself. Even ‘how to read’ part is annoyingly overdone.

I believe he went too deep into his own philosophical thoughts and forgot to write about the subject. Whole book could have been just 2-3 chapters if he understood that.

He assumes that what he is explaining is very complicated and common people wont get it. He even mentions this multiple times, even audible tells you to make use of the reverse button because topics may be complicated. But in relaity, it is just bad writing skills.

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Extremely frustrating to read

As others have said, this book does contain some of the content we came here for, but 95%! Is total mansplaining and lecturing. It needs a total rewrite. I wasn’t going to go all Karen, but at the end of this book I got a lecture on acronyms, now here we are.

Advice to the author, ditch your asides, lecturing, and focus on an epistemology / cosmology - help us understand your first hand experience.

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Repetitive narrative that doesn't really go anywhere.

7 hours in, I still can't really grasp what he is trying to put across. It reads more like a manual how to read the book and constantly iterates the need to have an open mind to understand the concepts, but feels like no concepts are ever actually fully presented... hurry up and get to the point. I agree with others reviews that he greatly underestimates the audience who have likely previously done deep dives into the nature of reality and consciousness. Stop beating around the bush.

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