Review by Ann Ulrich
If you are searching for Total View, be sure to get hold of a copy of Universal Vision by Dr. Scott Mandelker, a counselor who holds a Ph.D. in East-West psychology, and who spent 20 years of his life in Buddhist study and meditation. His first book, From Elsewhere: Being ET in America, helped thousands of people awaken to their true cosmic identity. He has expanded on those principles to bring us the tools for better understanding the "Big Picture," which includes life here on Earth, and how we can self-heal and grow in body, mind and spirit.
The book is divided into four parts, the first two comprising more than two-thirds of the book. Part I, "The Cosmic Plan," tells about ET souls and the UFO presence, and Humanity and the Global Process. Mandelker does an outstanding job of defining the various kinds of lightworkers, including Wanderers, Walk-ins and ET souls. He provides a convenient questionnaire to help the reader determine if he or she just could be what they may have suspected to be all along.
In describing ET souls, he uses the terms "Walk-in" and "Wanderer," the latter term signifying Star People, Star Born or Star Children, while "Walk-in" refers more to soul exchange either of an interdimensional or interplanetary kind. The poetic term of "Wanderer," he explains, comes from George Hunt Williamson and other UFO contactees in the 1950s, who describes a process of soul transfer, in which a higher dimensional ET soul incarnates normally (such as being born a baby), and then agrees to forget any memories of ET identity and purpose in order to assist humanity’s evolution. Soul-wandering, he says, has occurred since humans began to experience Earth and is a common practice throughout the Universe. "Walk-ins" enter a voluntarily surrendered body and personality of a human being in order to better serve humanity and Earth.
I found Part I of the book the most interesting as it explained why there are ET souls on Earth, what it is like for extraterrestrials to live on Earth, the feeling of alienation they feel, as well as insights into the Confederation, and the Law of Free Will. He discusses the New Age in comparison to the Apocalypse, earth changes and survival, the Phoenix sightings and why the media laughs at UFOs, and what happened with the cult Heaven’s Gate. He covers the extraordinary gifts in the Children of Today. At the end of each part there is a chapter containing questions and answers, presumably gathered from his many talks and workshops, and I found these to be as interesting and inspiring as the preceding chapters.
In Part II of the book, Mandelker gives an excellent overview of healing, self-transformation and Buddhism and meditation. Although it got to be a little over my head, he made some excellent points that would be worth going back to some day. His emphasis on making meditation a daily, mandatory practice in order to raise our consciousness made me realize that just reading about all of this stuff isn’t enough.
Finally, he includes a collection of personal stories in the way of letters from his publication, The ET Journal, which he produced from 1995-1999. These stories were not all the same and really gave a diversified taste of lightworker experiences around the world.
An excellent list of sources can be found in Part IV, "Appendices," in which he lists associations of healers, researchers, counselors, books and publishers, audio cassettes and Web sites.
The reason I enjoyed this book as much as I did is not because I agreed with everything -- actually, I was uncertain about his opinion on the Orions having ulterior motives -- but because he promoted love and light so often. The theme of love and light ran throughout the book, and he wasn’t afraid to criticize (in a kind way) the shortcomings of some famous ufologists and researchers who appear to be doing more of a disservice to humanity by harping on the old "negative alien" theme we hear over and over again at big conferences. In fact, Mandelker told of the small conferences he had participated in as being some of the most worthwhile he’d attended. (Hey, Scott, wanna be a speaker at LLC-3?)
Even if you do not consider yourself to be a Star Person, an ET soul, Wanderer or Walk-in, you will get something out of reading this book. It will create for you a better understanding of metaphysical priniciples and of what is taking place now on Planet Earth. If you want to read about doom and gloom and sensational phenomena, you won’t find such in Universal Vision.