Howdie Mickoski’s 2022 publication Exit the Cave: Ending the Reincarnation Trap takes us right to the core of what spirituality really is.
Unfortunately, to understand what spirituality really is generally requires a re-wiring of the brain as a result of the relentless programming and conditioning we have undergone since the day we arrived in this realm.
It is not the sort of book that is going to be well received by those who have strong, inflexible belief-systems, as the book is designed to strip away all belief-systems.
It makes this clear on the very first page: What if everything we have ever been told is in fact a lie, deception so extreme that everything is shockingly different from what we have been taught?
The starting point of this ‘deception’ is that the “god-creator” of this world is not a loving god. This “god” in fact desires that we suffer continuously, as it (the so-called “god”) benefits from our misery. And death is the moment of greatest benefit, as this “god” can then consume all the energy we amassed over our lifetime and then recycles us back again in a new body to start the energy gathering process all over again. This energy-gathering keeps its creation running.
Moreover, all the experiences gathered over this lifetime are lost, as our memory is wiped clean. We start all over again making all the same mistakes, purposely set up that way by this god-controller.
That memory wipe is very necessary, so that when we die, some artificial being can put us through a ‘life review’, which we will purposely be set up to fail, as we will undoubtedly have “sinned” during our just-ended life (according to the judgment of this artificial being who operates a no-win “karma rules system”).
Failure is assured, as we will be ‘judged’ to have failed to learn the lessons since the last time we died and did a ‘life review’ [because we had our memory wiped]. So we are ‘sent back’ for another go-around in a new body. We are told when we incarnate that we have ‘free will’, but then we are judged on the choices we made. Sounds fair?
Something is wrong with this world, and we need to leave and go back to where our Essence derives from, away from the miserable trap we are stuck in.
Mickoski suggests ways we can help ourselves to find the exit door, but the most important way is simply to prepare ourselves for the time when our body dies, and we find ourselves without a body.
The question on death we need to answer is: Do we wish to return again, or head somewhere else, away from this world of misery and suffering?
This is the key question, and it is a hard one. Most people at the time of death have failed to discard connections with loved ones; the attachment to physicality; the image they created in this life; and everything related to the material world.
So-called ‘spiritual leaders’ persuade us to go on expensive courses to learn more about how to make our ‘prison-life’ more bearable, rather than how to leave it behind.
These spiritual leaders teach us practices such as meditation, yoga and mindfulness which are of little benefit to help us leave this insane realm. They are solely designed to make our prison stay more comfortable.
Mickoski’s book is more than simply recommended reading. Rather, it is essential reading for anyone who would like the blinkers ripped off and finally see the potential exit road ahead.
This is the true spiritual road: leading us back to where we belong. Home. Where our truly loving God resides.
1 July 2024
[Book review: Howdie Mickoski – “Exit the Cave: Ending the Reincarnation Trap”]