Back in 2007, I wrote a post about the book The Open Door, by Theon Wright, which had been recommended by a reader. I described the book as
the detailed record of experiments in automatic writing carried out by Wright's parents, Nella and George, and later by Theon's brother Stowell and by Theon himself. The unusual thing about these experiments is that little effort was made to obtain verifiable evidence of identity, the usual procedure in mediumship, particularly in the days when Wright's parents were at work. Instead, the focus was on obtaining wisdom, what the Wrights called the Philosophy of Self, essentially a version of nondualistic mysticism in which the development of one's higher Self contributes to the overall development of Cosmic Consciousness.
To be honest, I've mostly forgotten the book by now, but I recently received an email from Paul Smith, who said that he became fascinated with The Open Door after reading my post. He told me,
The attraction of the book’s message is that it marries in a single vision a monistic idealist metaphysics of the emanation of the Divine Source into creation and the subsequent return of that creation to its Source to a cosmological understanding of human becoming that encompasses both incarnate and posthumous existence.
He added that he had undertaken a project based on the book's contents:
I have completed a reconstruction from The Open Door of what Theon Wright’s father assembled, bound in green leather and called The Green Book, which forms, in essence, a course of instruction in essential metaphysics, very much along the lines of Advaita Vedanta or similar non-dualist teachings, as delivered – as close as I can presently determine – from a discarnate being, once bodily human, who has realized the Self. The content of the included reconstruction should be more or less identical to that of the actual “Green Book”, barring the absence of personal family matters, but without the attempt at subject ordering of the actual volume, which is now lost. I did write to Theon Wright’s son, George Wright, a few years back in an attempt to obtain a copy of the actual Green Book, but never received a reply.
He sent me his reconstruction of the apparently lost text, but as I explained in my reply, the material was too long for a blog post, and there could be copyright issues associated with reproducing so much of The Open Door's text, even though the book is long out of print. Appreciating these concerns, Paul has chosen to put up his reconstruction of The Green Book on ScribD, while, he tells me, continuing to try to contact the copyright holder(s).
Readers who are interested in channeled literature, especially literature that focuses on philosophical issues rather than proof of identity, may want to check out this very interesting project.
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