The Bright Messenger
A Mystical Journey Into Realms Beyond the Human Mind

Note: Endurance and concentration necessary, not for the faint of heart. If you’ve read his smaller works The Regeneration of Lord Ernie, the human chord, the centaur, or simply appreciate Blackwood’s prose, I recommend this food for thought to your collection. There is an essence, I feel, from all hi......more

I'd never read anything by Blackwood, but he was mentioned as one of a group of British authors who were influenced by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. The mention was in a Phd. Thesis that I came across online, by a woman named Helen L. Green. The thesis, titled Middlebrow Mystics; Henri Bergs......more

One star because this was painfully tedious. Two stars because he had the balls to write it.......more

Terribly happy to have discovered this book and author who pushes the envelope of reality, allowing us all, for a time, to experience other more glorious dimensions.......more

Too "wordy." I like Algernon Blackwood. I don't like this book. It repeats the same incident over and over from different points of view, maddeningly slow. It's repetitious and builds too slowly to keep my interest. Toward the end it got interesting. Kind of reminded me of K-PAX.......more