

"The Rose Codes: Book of Initiations" by Mariya Nurislamova:
Despite being an atheist-antitheist myself, I have a strong interest in New Age beliefs because I think they present an interesting glimpse into the way that people understand and make sense of themselves and the universe.
The funny thing is that I was agreeing with this reviewer for the first sentence, since I was also rather disappointed and annoyed that this book claims to be providing a new feminist, goddess-centered faith system to the reader only to shortly claim that its "goddess" is the creation of a male-pronouned "Architect" who created the universe. Seemed like a pretty egregious lapse in imagination and common sense to me. (The last few parts about the historical treatment of women and the need for women to forge their own paths isn't bad either.)
However, the subsequent spin into transphobic New Age babbling is absolutely sending me lol. I love how the reviewer sounds so much like an Evangelical preacher telling someone to repent to Christ to save their soul, yet from the complete opposite side of the spiritual political compass.
I don't know if describing men as "wormholes sucking the divine energy of the stars" was supposed to invoke the image of an Eldritch-Freudian penis-shaped Dune-esque space-worm-monster, but it did and I feel so blessed to now carry the knowledge of the funniest thing in the fucking universe with me. I hate the transphobia, but the transphobia is simply too crazy to truly get mad at.