Across Time: Mystery Of The Great Sphinx


by O. J. Harp, III
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Date Reviewed:  Nov 27, 2007

Time Waits for No One
 
O. J. HARP, III, in a most intellectually imaginative way, takes the mind of his patients, the characters, on a spiritual and subconscious voyage into the past based on ancient pre-Egyptian history.  In doing so, HARP brilliantly tells two stories simultaneously.

First, HARP guides the reader in the spiritual, mythical, magical, subconscious realm of ACROSS TIME through the specialized techniques of the character Dr. John Steele, an African-American psychologist.  The second story runs parallel to that as the voyage continues in the carnal realm with the characters in the story unknowingly transporting the Kemots and the Anu and the Heka and other mythical, sci-fi characters from early Egyptian history in their dreams.  In order to help bring closure to what is a battle of the pre-Egyptian ancestral spirits, Dr. Steele teaches his patients to overcome their fearful nightmares or end their disturbing,  re-occurring dreams through age-regression techniques.  Understanding they all have key roles in ACROSS TIME, the patients learn to look around their dreams for clues, messages, and supporting details.  This allows the characters to become active in their dreams which is a genius element of the story and subconscious. They are also empowered.  Certainly, readers will be dreaming differently after reading this exceptional mastermind story.  Awesome! 
 
With brief historical accounts at the outset of the story, the reader is benefited to understand and learn enough about prehistoric Egyptian ancestors to see the significance of the characters in the carnal story over time.  The plot unfolds in a sci-fi way to recreate unfinished business of love and power, good and evil, and wisdom and destiny.  The characters develop to perform their pre-assigned roles of the past for the future.  You will meet Mutshat Ma'at, the beautiful patient/lover of psychologist Dr. John Steele.  Ma'at suffers from memory loss and unknowingly holds the ultimate key to her civilization's pre-existence.  Then Harp delights readers with some unique boys who have a talented legacy of their own.  They are at-risk youths charged with great insight and power and full of humor to move the story along nicely.  Dr. Steele must prepare them for their rightful inheritance in the future ancient spiritual civilization.  Though a bit hurried, this story is awesomely tied together to accomplish that.  It is told very well in simple language, appropriate for varying levels of literacy and that is what makes this book especially perfect for the reader who likes to think and learn critically, consciously and subconsciously.


Reviewed by *Guest Reviewer Swaggie Coleman
of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers


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Freelance writer Swaggie Coleman resides in northern Maryland and just completed her first novel.  In addition, she maintains an online blogazine, Swaggie’s Voice, which includes her exclusive “thumbs-up” Reading List at:  http://swaggiecoleman.blogspot.com.


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