Thankfully though, the scientific minds amongst us have never stopped working in the right direction, and since the scientific oppression more or less ended we've been busy making discoveries and providing real answers to the questions that nagged us for years, if not decades or even centuries.
However, as we found ways to explain various things our views on the subjects changed, allowing us to develop more accurate worldviews which allow us to better understand and interact with our reality. Pam Grout is someone who came up with her own worldview, and in E-Cubed she takes us deeper into it than before.
Like her previous book, E-Squared, this one is organized in the exact same fashion: nine stories and nine experiments that go along with each one of them. The goal here is to use each experiment to prove a life-affirming principle that pertains to Grout's worldview, ultimately testing their validity and encouraging you to include them in your life, should your tests go positively of course.
The premise itself is rather simple, but in my opinion the principles she tries to teach can be divided into two categories: childishly-naive and spiritually-interesting.
To begin with, she puts forth the kinds of principles you'd expect from a college freshman in introduction to philosophy, and those include: “there is nothing to fear”, “there is no reason to struggle”, “money isn't real” and “Everybody gets a happy ending”.
She also believes in the idea of each one of us creating their own reality, and being able to act on it completely, with failures being explained by our lack of belief.
It doesn't take much of a thinker to dismiss these concepts as being childish. Whether we like it or not, we live in the real, physical world and are grounded in it. It's senseless to believe that the chronic illnesses and tragedies that affect us are the results of our wants and imaginations.
We do have a certain amount of control over this world, but there are very real and physical limitations that come from the outside, events we simply have no way of controlling.
There are things to fear in this world, things that can cause pain without the hope of healing despite whatever we may do. Far from everyone gets a happy ending; simply look at the atrocities committed on the casualties of war, including children.
Money is very real on this Earth and though it is a concept we invented, it is still used to procure comfort and ensure our survival. Turning one's back on these obvious truths is a naive way of looking at the world, leaving one ungrounded and unprepared to face the fact that your dream life won't manifest no matter how hard you envision it.
As I said earlier though, there are also some spiritually-interesting affirmations, such as the existence of an invisible energy force field of infinite possibilities you can act upon, the idea that thoughts and consciousness have a certain impact on matter, and that God is a state of being, just to name a few.
The experiments she proposes can certainly be interesting, but their conclusions don't serve as indisputable proof of anything, and you have to make up your own mind in the end.
On the other hand, it does contain some interesting ideas and is written in a rather fun voice. If you do go into this book, I recommend doing so with a very healthy dose of skepticism... and don't expect any real depth or complexity here.
Favorite quote: "Toddlers, according to one research study, laugh 400 times a day. Adults laugh an average of four times. What happened?"
 | Pam GroutPersonal site Pam Grout is an American author with more than sixteen books under her belt already, in addition to which she also wrote screenplays, a soap opera, a television series and countless other magazine articles. She runs her own website and some of her more famous books include E-Squared and Living Big. |
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