BOOK REVIEW - How It Is

How It Is by George D. Stewart © 2007 BookSurge Publishing
Company ISBN 1424324068 114 pages Paperback
$18.00 (U.S.)



How do you relate to a book which states on its second page: "This is not a
religious book, but one of science and reality. It neither raises nor
lowers any religion or set of beliefs." And then states, three pages later;
"Slightly less than 14 billion years ago, all matter, and energy came into
existence. In that beginning, the universe was confined to a sphere
slightly more than 62 centimeters in diameter, with a mass in excess of
5.925x10 to the 70th power kilograms.It had consciousness. This was God."
I am sure that there are large numbers of folks who might feel that
statement is more religious than scientific. How does the author know that
the sphere was slightly more than 62 centimeters in diameter? How does he
know it had consciousness? These statements smack of dogma, and religious
dogma at that.



How does the author know that the contents of his book are reality? In a
footnote on page 8 he writes: "As I wrote these words, God spoke to me
saying.", so he has his knowledge as a result of direct revelation from the
Universal Source. For those with a Gnostic approach to divinity that is an
unimpeachable source of reality; for those with other approaches questions
remain.



Thanks to the author we now know that "God learned more than 99% of what
there was to learn in the first 20 hours of His existence." After about 50
hours of existence God became very bored (short attention span?). It then
took God ".close to 300 million years to formulate a plan for what God would
do next." "Within a few moments of when God felt that planning was
completed, He spun up to nearly 160 revolutions per second, and used the
resulting angular momentum to assist in greatly expanding His own size.
Then, He collapsed to subatomic size, which resulted in the greatest
explosion ever known. The entire expansion-compression maneuver lasted less
than two seconds. Ever since that moment, the universe has been expanding."
Although that may be an attractive theory, I have not seen any proof offered
other than personal revolution.



Additionally, the statement (on page 13): "We are like pets to Him." will
undoubtedly offend a great many people. I have to admit that before I
progressed very far into this book, I had already begun to dismiss the
author and his conclusions. I am sure that there are readers for whom this
work will resonate. I am not, however, one of them. By the time he stated
that a brain is not ".for any other purpose than the download/upload of
information to/from the organism's spirit." I was ready to put the book
aside and move on to other reading. However, in fairness to the author, I
finished the book. I did not change my opinions or feelings in the least.



Personally, I did not find this book to be beneficial. For a book of
science and reality, it is far to involved with sin, time spent in hell, and
other topics more suited to a religious work. Statements are made which
appear to be scientific but which are inherently unproveable (e.g., ".all
the spirit life combined has a mass no greater than 50kg (in effect
nothing). God's spirit mass slightly exceeds 21,000kg, a small amount when
considering the mass of the rest of the universe.") How can you prove a
statement like that?