A new book started!

I take you on a journey to Self-Realisation. For many this will be a spiritual adventure, but not necessarily. Benefits of this practice can be practical. Maybe not becoming rich and famous? The possibilities though are endless.

I will take you through the steps and stages.

The steps will be practical, and the stages will be wayside markers, like where you have arrived and how far it is to go.

However, before starting, a little bit about my philosophy derived from my own human and spiritual journey.

The beginning is also the end. Because that is in my view of ultimate reality. No journey then?

Yes, it seems that way, just as  life events seem real to us. Just as a bodily pain seems real, but who else can see of feel this pain, and where is the pain?

Sometimes a medical procedure or test can actually discover and define the pain. Sometimes. If not then your doctor, (or psychiatrist), may say it’s all in the head. If they are cruel they will say it’s your own illusion or delusion!

Well, that’s kind of true, as I have written about the illusory nature of Life and the Universe in my six previous books. However those books were very focused on the outcomes and immersion from my ten years in India as a Hindu monk. What I haven’t written about, is this journey in terms of my practice as a therapist and counsellor. I am also a registered mental health practitioner at the time of writing, though at age seventy six I’m unclear what the future holds in this respect.

Regarding the illusions of life, there is a bit of an analogy here what with our dreams and when things change all the time. Well, at the end of the dream, we understand it wasn’t real. It was a dream. Sometimes we see life events just so. We may even see the whole process of living, (which has a death outcome), as so. Is life then really, to some degree, a bit of a dream or some other kind of manifestation? What happened here and where did it all go? In your life what is happening now as far as past youthfulness, marriage, money, health? It is presumably a movable feast or famine depending on your circumstance. Ultimately, it all ends in that what we have and had experienced disappears. Or does it really all end? Is there just a continuum which carries on way past human death?

This book has a topic of surrounding the concept of a place where Self-Realisation sits in its perfection and fullness. It being addressed here, but not from my Hindu perspective. That is where in my books I elucidated the use of mantras/kundalini/chakras/yoga etc., to seek recourse to spiritual sanity. This book will be about using a therapeutic approach with a very Westernised format, although a mantra or two may be mentioned! The therapeutic approach here will have a strong spiritual flavour at times. Getting to Self-Realisation does carry a lot of spiritual connotations not to speak of the baggage!

So, just a warning here about such a journey, because there is a Self-Realised Enlightenment perspective that negates all of it. Seemingly, due to awareness or viewpoints about the illusory nature of experience within Life and the Universe. This can result potentially a futility of all endeavours. Yet, without going on the journey, it seemingly is also impossible to reach the state of Self-Realisation. It may seem like all dualism and dichotomy, but that’s how it is, and having said that we can now forget about all the philosophy and get down to the practicality.

To be continued…..