This workbook presents very practical theory and voice leading problems in order to help you practice the theories outlined in the textbook, unfortunately there are no answers contained in the workbook. Unless you have someone who can correct your work it is not a particularly useful book- especially if you are working on your own.

This book has an accurate philosophy with Creation Science, but is very short on the specifics, and statistics. It list sources, but never gives the location of the source. Good Book for those uneducated scholars looking for more information on Creationism.

This is volume 1 of a 3 volume set, covering Matthew, Mark, Luke, and apparently also James and Jude. It appears that amazon.com doesn't have the other two volumes, so unless you are interested only in the first part of the Gospels, you may find this volume a problem. Fortunately, amazon.co.uk carries all three volumes. Look for author first word = Calvin, title word = Harmony It won't be immediately obvious that the first volume is the same as this book, because the set is jointly published by Eerdmans and Paternoster. This is volume 1 from Eerdmans; amazon UK has all three volumes from Paternoster.

Project Powell ends off with a whimper. It took me awhile to get through this last volume in the "Dance to the Music of Time" series. Now that I've read all twelve, I think I can make some sweeping generalizations about the series.

Although the first book implies that the series is about four people, basically it is just about two: Nicholas Jenkins, the narrator, who is a rough stand in for the author himself; and Kenneth Widmerpool, the man who rises above his station and falls off the ladder. I like Jenkins. His demeanor and outlook on life is wry, sophisticated, and inimitable. Just how an author would like to be seen. However, I did not like Widmerpool, and I felt mad with myself for falling into Powell's trap. I get the feeling that you aren't supposed to like Widmerpool for a single reason: he does things the wrong way. He's pushy, self-centered, and vain, or at least that's the words we use for people who are failures. If Widmerpool had been successful (that is, if we were to speak of him before his fall), we would have said that he was aggressive, driven, and eccentric.

In this last book, Powell tries to pull in the loose ends, updating us on a little bit of all the characters we have met in the past, while trying to put the finishing touches on his comments on this generation. I found it anti-climatic. The climax came in the last book with Pamela Widmerpool dropping the horrible revelation about Kenneth's sexual habits. The wind out of his sails, he floats about afterwards, his previous accomplishments now meaning- less. It's a sad story, alright.

I'm not inclined to read more by Powell. While I found the series interesting, and do not regret having taken the time to work my way through it, his style was a little too "laid back" for me to enjoy.

I have read every HUNA book that I could lay my hands on.

I read Allan P. Lewis's first book "Clearing Your Lifepath Through Kahuna Wisdom", and consider it to be a step by step 14 lesson guide to practising HUNA, and I wanted to read this book too.

Since "Clearing Your Lifepath Through Kahuna Wisdom" is out of print; the best HUNA books available in my opinion is "Fundamentals Of Hawaiian Mysticism" Charlotte Berney. If you want to see a more complete list of HUNA material; please see my two HUNA listmania lists or my HUNA "So you want to" comments.

Page 9: Allan P. Lewis made some nice comments about the 52 years of HUNA research done by Max Freedom Long.

It IS true that Max was a tireless researcher; but Max did not have the entire picture. He went to the islands in 1917 to teach School. Occasionaly he would overhear the Hawaiians comment about miraculous feats performed by various Kahunas. When he would ask the Hawaiians for more details they would stop talking for fear of persecution from a ha'ole. Max did a wonderful job in reclaiming as much as he did under the circumstances.

Max made two major mistakes. His "christian" beliefs caused him to believe Jesus was an initiated kahuna. He completely overlooked the role of the Akua (gods and goddesses as in Hina, Kane, Kanaloa, Ku, Lono, Pele).

You have to understand; this was only 97 years after the "christians" did their good deed of trying to destroy the native Hawaiian culture, and outlawed practises performed by the kahunas because of fear.

Ha'ole means breathless one: This is in regard to the missionary priests that did not breathe deeply to accumulate a surcharge of mana before prayer to help the prayer come into manifestation, as the Kahuna Pule (prayer kahunas) did.

Page 10: Mr. Lewis is absolutely correct about the 10 parts of a human being.

The 10 parts are; The three selves (Unihipili, Uhane, and Aumakua), three aka bodies, three voltages of mana (mana, mana mana, and mana loa, and the physical body; 3+3+3+1=10.

Page 82. Mr. Lewis is in error about the alpha brainwave pattern being higher than beta.

The four brainwave patterns that I am aware of are listed below.

Delta: 4-7 HTZ. This is deep sleep.

Theta: 7-11 HTZ. A tiny amount of meditation occurs here.

Alpha: 11-16 HTZ. Most meditation occurs here.

Beta: 16-22 HTZ. This is the normal wakeful state of consciousness.

Page 111: Mr: Lewis comments about all magick being the same. and the only thing that seperated black and white magick was the intent of the practitioner.

This is absolutely correct.

I enjoyed the book. It just doesn't convey enough information to be useful.

E-Mail if you have questions or comments; Two Bears.

Aloha nui loa (I love you very much)

Interesting concept. Very easy to read. The mouse

I'm not sure about all editions of this book but the one that I own (paperback...) has NO color inside at all! Who ever heard of a book on the subject of color that didn't include any? What were they thinking? I'm sure it's a fascinating read but if someone is interested enough in color to read this hefty tome, you've got to think they might also enjoy looking at it too. This is an oversized thick book which is at least 95% text. There are very few black & white diagrams either.

I read the book and got the basic life essence 4 CD sound set that is suppoed to use sound to simulate vitamins as well as stimulate HGH as well as other vitamins and minerals (including toxic flouride, which apparently she doesn't know about, assuming that the CD's could do this). The book is basically her life story, an instruction manual of sorts on the CD's she sells, as well as testimonials from people. I'm somewhat dissapointed by the science (or lack of) which is presented by the web site and the book. While the web site does seem to have interesting information, some of the information has only a cursorarly scientific link with her book and CD's. She doesn't mention how she determined which frequencies or sounds correspond to what effect(s) it has on the body (did she use her intuition, guessing, dousing, or was their some sort of secret scientific method). After doing some searching on the internet, it seems as if all she did, in fact, was take a student's research about sound therapy, mix them up and print them on CD's. The CD's are in my opinion, way overpriced even if the do what the book and her website says they do (which I doubt, and even if they do, some of these substances can be toxic at certain levels). She also makes the claim that if you try to replicate the CD's that the exact 'frequencies' won't be replicated and the health/etc effect(s) will be lost on the recorded CDs (This doesn't make sense to me.). There are other products out there that should probably be research and could perhaps replicate the frequencies used on the CD's without paying the exhorbitant fees (get a Nord modular synth if you're into that kind of stuff, or perhaps a plasma rife machine if you are into healing frequencies. Although with the latter, you will have to do research as well, as there are, from what I can tell, con jobs and overpriced equipment). After playing the CD's on my computer for a while, I have noticed some benefit admittedly. The benefit is minor however (and needs time), and definately, from what I can tell, does not replicate to the full extent the use of certain chemicals or vitamins (especially her claim of HGH stimulate, which I have used. And her CD does not appear to do replicate the effects of it to any significant degree). My advice is to do some research and if you do have to buy these CD's for whatever reason, try to get them used if possible. There is some benefit to these CD's as well as well to other sites that base their healing on frequency research (such as Rife or other sound therapy sites). I suspect, however, that there is very little science behind the production of these CD's and the health benefit that comes from these CD's is similar to that caused by rife/clark machines that are set to high frequency (though I'm guessing here). It's a shame she charges so much money for these CD's since obviously the majority of people out there cannot afford them.

This classic analysis of Schonberg's Suite Op. 29 is essntial for anybody concerned with atonal harmony, or the study of Schoenberg. This great study presents us with the ideas behind Schoenberg's use of the twelve-tone row, and how he achieved large-scale coherence and small-scale progression. The real value of this work is Hyde's work with Schoenberg's rhythmically devices and how Schoenberg maintained a certain harmonic rhythms to lay out his use of the row. This is a rare study in serial music and should be read by any serious scholar of the subject.

The first thing I would change about this book is its title. It should have been "Essays on Evolution and Mormonism." I wouldn't change the subtitle, though. This book has everything to do with apologetics, and very little to do with the search for truth. There is nothing in the book, for example, about the scientific problems with the Book of Mormon or the Book of Abraham. Neither is there any discussion about such things as the scientific problems associated with Mormonism's belief in a literal, worldwide flood or the literal tower of Babel.

Since there are so many contributors, it's difficult to assign an overall score to the book. Some of the essays are particularly insightful, don't draw unwarranted conclusions, and provide useful references and historical data. On the other hand, It's pretty hard to take some of the essays seriously. I found the editor's introduction to be among the most interesting parts of the book, with some quotations from Mormon leaders, and statistics I've not seen before. For the most part I found the editors fairly honest in their portrayals, with a notable exception. In the introduction they portray Ezra Taft Benson as being open minded and embracing of science. I find this hard to believe of a man who once said:

"Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the book [of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth." (Ezra Taft Benson, "A Witness and a Warning, page 6.]

Another problem I found with the editors, and with almost all the essays in the book, is a pervasive tendency for Mormon apologists to define evolution as something it is not. Instead of using the scientific definition of evolution, they tend to redefine the subject as something they can believe, and then claim (with no explanation) that evolution and Mormonism are compatible. For example, apostle Widtsoe said:

The law of evolution .... Does not require that all things, all life, shall have a common origin. It merely declares that everything in the universe is moving onward." [page xi].

I'm sure this statement will come as a complete surprise to any evolutionary biologist.

Other Mormon apologists define a type of "divine" evolution, in which they allow the evolution of one species into another, but only through the guidance of deity. Both these definitions are without any basis in the scientific theory of evolution, however. Consequently, the "definition thing" becomes a real stumbling block when trying to have a meaningful conversation with Mormon apologists who insist they believe in evolution, only to find that what they really believe is a smattering of real scientific principles that are hopelessly mixed in a morass of mythology.

Not all the essays deal with semantics, double meanings, and denial, however. A number of them are quite informative. Chapter 3, for example, outlines the evolution controversy at Brigham Young University, and the firing of three professors who taught evolution on campus and refused to stop. The chapter is very detailed, with lots of interesting historical highlights, and is well referenced.

Essay 5 raises some interesting ideas I've not seen in the apologetic literature before, but unfortunately the author (Richard Sherlock) did not see fit to carry the discussion through on any of the really interesting concepts. For example, on page 71 he says:

"Furthermore Mormon anthropomorphism made God the prototype of man; Adam was literally his offspring. To think of a being made in the literal image of God as the result of decent from other forms of life was a difficult move indeed."

In fact, the problem goes much deeper than this. According to the theory of evolution, people share a common ancestor with apes. That means Jesus (through is mother, Mary) also has a common evolutionary ancestor with the apes. It seems the vast majority of Mormons, and certainly all Mormon leaders, would reject such a conclusion, yet the author simply drops the discussion at this point, and never picks it back up. Mormonism is quite specific on the origin of humans and their literal image of God. The persistent problem with virtually all Mormon apologetics on the subject of evolution is that it tends to deal with the opinions of the shrinking pool of intellectuals within the Mormon community, while ignoring the opinions and beliefs of common Mormons. Though the book points out that 75% of Salt Lake City Mormons reject evolution, the authors never delve more into that issue, or why Mormons, more than almost any other religion, are so likely to believe in creationism.

Another problem is the persistent reliance upon assertion and opinion. Many of the essayists assert that Mormonism is compatible with evolution, but none of them explain how or why - especially in light of the very strong statements against evolution made by Mormon ecclesiastical leaders when interpreting Mormon scripture. I don't recall a single specific reference to any Mormon scriptures in all the essays I read.

So, this is basically a book written by Mormon apologists, for Mormon apologists who want to remain in the Mormon Church, and need some way out of the conundrum created by the anti-evolutionary rhetoric of Mormon ecclesiastical leaders. If that's you, the book will probably be worth while.

One last thing. The book lacks an index, so make sure to have your yellow marker, red pen, and sticky highlighter ready.