Tuning the Diamonds - Electromagnetism and Spiritual Evolution
by Susan Joy Rennison.
A Dire Gnosis Review.
The author is English (- a graduate in physics and geophysics), currently living in Norway. She recently visited Glastonbury, and we spent an evening discussing the forthcoming shift.
The book explores fringe and little-known scientific discoveries and shows how these compliment and explain channelled material - mainly from the Seth material, and Kryon. In this respect it is similar to the work of David Wilcock, who cross-references Russian and other scientific papers with the Ra channellings of the Law of One. Many of Rennison's conclusions echo my own conclusions in Beyond 2012 - Catastrophe or Ecstasy ( I include the subtitle, since there are now other Beyond 2012 books out ). In fact, she includes some of the same NASA pictures in her colour section as in the colour plates of Beyond 2012.
I must take issue with the Maya section - mainly p.58-61, in which Willard Van de Bogart's online reviews of John Major Jenkins' books, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, and Galactic Alignment are cited - a long quote from Jenkins is actually quoted verbatim from the de Bogart review, but there is no evidence she has read either book, (the notes referring to de Bogart's review are not next to the quotes, thereby disguising their origin, and the page numbers of the book are not referenced). **See below for more information supporting this. The comment that "Scholars who study galactic cosmology and cultural heritage, accept that the Mayan elders and priests maintain a highly creditable body of knowledge" is a misunderstanding - as far as the 260-day Tzolkin goes, it is correct - as stated by Jim Reed at the end of de Bogart's review - but there is no evidence that the Maya retained any knowledge of the Long Count and 13-baktun cycle after the Classic Era ended around 900 AD (Carlos Barrios has hinted that some isolated groups have preserved the odd codex, but we have yet to see the evidence).
The book describes the current changes in Sun and Earths magnetic fields and explores plasma physics in some detail, citing some little-known Norwegian research, and also includes the whole of Dmitriev's Planetophysical State of the Earth and Life as an appendix. She sees a connection between the incoming "Space Weather" and Maya prophecy, concluding that the electromagnetic changes will drive an evolutionary shift for mankind. Plasma, says Rennison, was apparently discovered by Tesla, and called "radiant energy" (p.174), yet on p. 218, she says that Tesla's radiant energy is known as Scalar energy in the West, and Torsion energy by the Russians. I must ask her to clarify this point when I see her at the Sunrise festival and the Glastonbury Symposium this year.
The book is quite science-dense, but the author has tried to put the more complex parts in marked areas so that they can be skipped by those who don't like too much science. It is well-written and quite compelling reading, but hasn't been properly proof-read, and there are a lot of typos, which are quite irritating. Rennison recently told me in an email that many of these have now been eradicated, and they are only printed in small batches, so when I give her my annotated copy in a few weeks, they should be virtually eliminated (update: these were refused, so the typos and other errors remain).
Rennison claims that the human energy field is octohedral - a diamond body - as mentioned by Ananda, and this has a relationship to the Earth, symbolised in the Great Pyramid (as Northern hemisphere, with implied southern hemisphere underneath it), and can be used to protect our psyches from the effects of the "space weather" and Earth changes.
The book cover implies that the book explains ""New Energy" techniques to empower humans , who choose to raise their level of consciousness and take more responsibility for what happens on Earth." However, this seems to boil down to a meditation summed up in two lines:
1. Imagine yourself inside a huge octahedron (2 pyramids base to base) with the center at your waist.
2. Imagine feelings of safety and comfort. (p.193).
In summary, the book is full of fascinating fringe science discoveries about space weather, solar physics, energy, the human aura and Earth's energy grid, but lacks a good conclusion. There is a huge amount of information that needs summarising at the end, to put it all in perspective, but we are left convinced that an exciting evolutionary leap is imminent, but are only told to imagine we are in a safe octahedron in preparation...and we are told that the "EMF Balancing Technique" practitioners will be able to help us further (the author being one of these).
The book is well illustrated, has appendices, very extensive notes and references section, that gives it authority, plus a glossary and an index. It is an important book, and quite large and thick, at 360 pages, but seems like it just needs finishing off. Since the author is self-published, and the book is still being perfected, it is getting better all the time...I want to read it again!
VERDICT: Well worth buying!
NOTE THE LAST 3 PARAGRAPHS OF THE REVIEW! I AM NOT TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE OFF BUYING THIS BOOK, AS HAS BEEN SUGGESTED, NOR HAS MY HELP WITH GETTING THE AUTHOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND GIVING HER LIFTS BEEN A SMOKESCREEN TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM MY EVIL PLAN! NOR AM I TRYING TO STEAL HER WORK, OR JEALOUS OF HER SUCCESS. THIS: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R13A82Q56HXUCZ/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R13A82Q56HXUCZ Amazon comment in response to Hodgson's slamming review was in defence of Rennison's work,...though, like this review, the comment acknowledges the imperfections of Tuning the Diamonds. Perhaps I shouldn't have bothered...anyway below I have answered her queery as to how the Jenkins quotes could have been obtained without the books to hand. My letter to SJR verbatim
GETTING IT ALL IN PERSPECTIVE: Why self-published authors get more angry about bad reviews
Helpful advice for how to cope with bad reviews
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** Regarding the quotes from John Major Jenkins, appearing in Tuning the Diamonds p.59, p.60 & p.179: Although de Bogart is referenced in the notes, it is not immediately obvious that the note refers to the Jenkins quotes, (since the relevent note is in the middle of another paragraph), until De Bogart's review is examined. This reveals that the chapter heading quote is also from the Bogart review, but this has no reference note - it can be found in paragraph 21 of Bogart's review of Jenkin's Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 page, here: http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/izapa.html (N.B. paragraph numbers given here and below vary according to how many solitary lines are counted as paragraphs) .
The same review of MC2012 by de Bogart was the source for the next two Jenkins quotes - see paragraphs 17 and 20 in the review linked above.
The fourth Jenkins quote is from de Bogart's review of John Major Jenkins' book, Galactic Alignment, which is online here: http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/izapa.html - see paragraph 16.
Upon realizing that these four Jenkins quotes were all from de Bogart's two reviews of Jenkins' books, I wondered why anyone who had read the books would quote most of their quotes from another source. Perhaps, if the author didn't have a copy of either book, she might use other people's selections - this would also save time, trouble and cost, of course. The fact that the notes were not next to the quotes reinforced this impression, so that, although the source is referenced, it is not immediately obvious unless you go to the nearest note - then it is still not obvious, until the reviews are looked at.
So this leaves two other Jenkins quotes, that were not sourced from de Bogart's review. I was disappointed to find that not only is this quote available online - it is also in a review of Jenkins' Galactic Alignment - a reader review on Amazon.com - review number 3, paragraph 4 on this page; http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1879181843
That just leaves one quote unaccounted for. Jenkins quotes a passage from Valentia Straiton's rare 1927 book, The Celestial Ship of the North, in Galactic Alignment p.140. So, how would someone who did not have access to Jenkins's books come across this obscure quote, and be able to give the full reference for it? Someone who didn't have time to read the Jenkins books or couldn't afford to buy them, or didn't have time to wait for libraries to provide them, would undoubtedly look at Jenkins' website. Well, the entire quote is on his website here: http://www.alignment2012.com/Chapter12.html but the reference is incomplete...however, in the text it says it is from Valentia Straiton's 1927 book, The Celestial Ship of the North, and that she is quoting Edgar Conrow. If the seeker put the book title and author into Google, the original publisher appears, along with information about a recent reprint:
E. Valentia Straiton, The Celestial Ship of the North (New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927; reprint ed., Montana: Kessinger Publishing Company, ...
By cutting and pasting a section of the quote into Google, the person would find that the entire reprinted edition of Straiton's book is available online, and one click will take the surfer straight to the quote, thus providing the page numbers:
I am not saying that this is how these quotes were produced, but I have been challenged by Susan to answer this question, and it is actually quite simple, as you can see. It is also possible that William Henry could have provided the reference, since Rennison has many references from William Henry concerning the "serpent rope" (incidentally, not a "well-known Mayan prophecy", but a theory of William Henry, based on one page of Jenkins' MC2012) and Henry quotes extensively from Straiton's book in his Oracle of the Illuminati.