Rapture
- ISBN-10
- 1718090323
- ISBN-13
- 9781718090323
- Series
- Rapture
- Pages
- 397
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-08-13
- Author
- Jude LaHaye
Description
Rapture, or Heaven is one of the ten worlds that the Buddhist belief system says that human beings possess at any given time. Human beings may possess one or all of the the ten worlds simultaneously under the "Mutual Possession of the Ten Worlds" ideology. Rapture sounds great, but it's one of the lower six life conditions. That's because it's temporary. It's transitory. It is a pleasure which does not last.But it's a powerful world which presents huge obstacles for human beings who are seeking to become truly happy."Rapture" is a book about the Ten Worlds and their influence on just a few chosen human beings in a work of fiction. In this work of fiction, Rapture is represented as a temptress and a bully. The other Worlds vie for their chance to dominate the humans as well. They are: Hell, Hunger, Animality, Anger, Humanity, Rapture, Learning, Realization, Bodhisattva (altruistic mentorship) and Buddhahood (Enlightenment).Meet Peter Michael Blanton, a boy who has been adopted after experiencing a trauma in his infancy. The trauma, perpetrated by a close family member, was sexual in nature. Peter is growing up to be a vicious loner. He has the good fortune to find help in the form of psychiatrist Elizabeth Eggers. She encourages him to become self aware and to fight the inner demons which cause him to be anti-social and even violent. When Peter reaches maturity, he accidentally finds out about his origins. About the Trauma. He becomes obsessed with finding and confronting the deviant relative who abused him when he was just an infant. But, where there is one deviant in the gene pool, there are many, and Peter finds that his original assumptions were all wrong.Integral to this story is the proposition that every human being has an eternal self a True Self, which survives the death of the human body to be reborn again. And again.In "Rapture", the True Selves which dominate, guide, educate, and nurture the human beings are avatars. They are great apes.And, as with human beings, although most great apes are sane and rational beings, many others are deviant or perverted. Many of them are insane.Try Rapture. See if its perspective on human development changes the way you feel about human beings. And more particularly, about yourself.
