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This book has influenced me more than any book other than the Bible. If you are searching for answers this book will help. The book rings very true with the exception of Richard's future predictions and his fanciful history. I guess the motivation in 1963 to write predictions for the years 1976, 1999 and May 5, 2000 are to encourage everyone to make the most of their lifetimes, and work and strive toward worthy goals. 10 years ago I used SKYGLOBE computer software to check the alignment of the planets on May 5 2000 - and they do indeed align up in a nearly straight line! I wonder how Richard George Kieninger ( One of 9 defendants of Republic of Texas fraud case I believe ?) figured the planets will align in 1963? It's interesting that 5-5-2000 is my parents 50th anniversary. This is a book I have read in 1969,1972,1975,80... and get more out of it each time. Learn and Grow. Learn and Grow.
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When I first read this book 3-4 years ago, I had the sensation that I had "come home" to something familiar. It seemed to resonate with thoughts that hadn't even been articulated yet, but were already a part of my psyche. Since that time, I have re-read portions of the book several times. While I certainly don't buy into all of the prophecies and have felt no compulsion to sell everything and move to one of the author's "communities of the enlightened", I have found myself much more open to possibilities I might not have considered before.
I have a very open and curious mind and find great excitement in exploring questions to which I neither have the answer nor expect to have "the" answer in this lifetime. This book presented me with some options I had not thought much about before I read it. Reincarnation, a hierarchy of spiritual advancement, the parallels in the development of the world's major religions; all of these topics opened me up to a number of questions which have fueled my journeys in spiritual development in the years since my first encounter with the book.
For those who find as much joy as I do in exploring the questions, this book can be a valuable catalyst. For those who need "expert" answers and prefer to have someone hand "the truth" to them, this book can be troublesome or even downright dangerous.
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My parents bought a copy of this book when I was just a child. They believed the prophecies, so we sold our home and moved to the middle of a cornfield in Stelle, Illinois.
We had been solidly middle class. I was a happy, well-adjusted child--but after we moved to Stelle my life changed completely. There were only about 100 people there, yet everything outside the community described in The Ultimate Frontier was referred to as "the outside world."
I know the author of this book as Richard Kieninger; Eklal Kueshana is his pen name. Richard convinced my father to invest all his savings (money intended for college) in some crazy scheme. The money wasn't supposed to be any good anyway after the United States collapsed during the mid-1970's. By the time we left Stelle we were broke, my parents were disheartened, and I was afraid of everything in "the outside world."
None of the prophecies in The Ultimate Frontier came true. The United States didn't collapse during the mid-1970's, Stelle didn't grow to become a city of 250,000, nor did World War III bring nuclear holocaust in November, 1999. You can buy this book if you want, but please don't believe Richard or the prophecies.
I have talked to quite a few of the children of Stelle, and their experiences are similar to mine. I think it is dangerous to believe people who pretend to know the future, especially if you have children. My parents recovered somewhat--my father refers to Richard Kieninger as "God's cure for naivite." But I think some of us who spent our formative years in Stelle were permanently marked.
The Ultimate Frontier describes a beautiful dream. It says that people with a special destiny will create a new nation on land that will rise out of the Pacific Ocean on May 5, 2000. It may be surprising that intelligent people could believe this, but some do. This dream appeals to their vanity, and they set their common sense aside.
The philosophy described in The Ultimate Frontier is beautiful, but I think there are safer, cheaper ways to learn about it.
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Richard, aka Eklal, has put together a narrative of somewhat haphazardly revealed information from esoteric lore. While some of the information is valid, other parts present distortions which make me question the true intentions and wisdom of Richard's "Brotherhood" sources. You can get some more complete and accurate esoteric information for free on various websites. Meanwhile, I'd suggest taking up remote viewing to validate any esoteric information one encounters and plans to act on.
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I, too, am a former resident of Stelle, Illinois, and just recently I have reread my old review of The Ultimate Frontier here on Amazon, and read both new and rewritten reviews from old friends and neighbors. I still think it a remarkable accomplishment of the author to write this book and to found two communities. I still wonder why his towns never really grew, it all seemed so natural and evolutionary. As I wrote in my original review, Mr. Kieninger unfortunately did, as do more mainstream Christian leaders also, place the emphasis on externals rather than internals. Hence, negativity or "evil," was largely a product of "black mentalists" influencing us, rather than our genetic survival-based inherited drives, what I now call the "human nature."
Stelle was to grow as the economical/political reality of the USA became ever more chaotic, which, to this child of the sixties, seemed more than likely, even if the "ultimate" scenario of world destruction in the year 2000 did not seem likely. We always had to apologize for that one.
I found the book about 1976. Mr. Kieninger had already stated, following one of his "meetings" with a "Brotherhood representative," that he had been told that the US would not survive its 200th birthday. Well, that was a good stroke, because what was the US true birthday. Richard debated the point himself, with his associates.
I thought he was a pretty cool guy, definitely not very charismatic (except, apparently as it developed later, to several young female followers), but knowledgeable in a plethora of subjects, and certainly possessing a keen sense of humor.
Really I thought we were all going to work on each other and find a great freedom and camaraderie. Many of us actually did do "radix" therapy together for a few years. But Americans being what we are, individuality won out. The building, and hence more masculine years of the community had also largely ended by the mid-eighties. The larger society had also changed. Long gone were energy conservation and smaller homes, not to mention the idealism of the sixties. Stelle today is a focus for alternate energies, sustainable agriculture, and more.
Home schooling I hear is pretty big there, and it's a nice safe place for young children.
Stelle is a school, and I do not regret my years there. I used to wonder how someone could ever "graduate." I found out!
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