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A review by jdhacker
Monument Eternal by Alice Coltrane
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
1.5
I'm familiar with Alice Coltrane both as a Detroit native aware of some larger figures in our local history, and as a jazz fan. I feel like the blurb/description for Monument Eternal is a little misleading. I expected something a bit more akin to an autobiography about Coltrane's journey away from Christianity and into a different spiritualism, through the lens and in the context of broader events in her life and likely the culture of the local area, country, and world at the time.
Instead I got what is, unequivocally, nothing but a straight forward religious text, communicating her specific spiritual beliefs and myths. Even at that, its not a particularly accessible text.
If you're looking for interesting history or biography, this is most definitely not for you. If you're already a fan of religious conversion texts, or even some more pop spiritualism like the Celestine Prophecy, this might be for you.
Instead I got what is, unequivocally, nothing but a straight forward religious text, communicating her specific spiritual beliefs and myths. Even at that, its not a particularly accessible text.
If you're looking for interesting history or biography, this is most definitely not for you. If you're already a fan of religious conversion texts, or even some more pop spiritualism like the Celestine Prophecy, this might be for you.