It can be found on Amazon on paper or electrons. (Be sure to get the right one, by Richard Maurice Bucke, it's a century old.)
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About spirituality and coming home to Source. By Eolake Stobblehouse, studying multiple branches of spirituality for 30+ years.
"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God”
- A Course In Miracles
About Me
- Eolake Stobblehouse
- Born in Denmark, living currently in England. I write about creativity and communication and technology which supports those. And about spirituality/metaphysics.
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Jeff and I love this book. Very inspiring.
Laurie
Yes.
I've only read a bit yet, but a couple of things I find very interesting: 1) how long there has been solid evidence of higher consciousness. 2) how certainly he declares it to mean there are no accidents or evil in the world, and that the world is unsubstantial. 3) the declaration that the mind above the Conceptual Mind is an intuitive one. This has long been a strong belief of mine.
Also that religion or any spirituality seems to be accidental to people getting these experiences.
BTW, McKenna poo-poo's such experiences unless they are "abiding". I think he's a bit hard-headed. OK, they may not be Enlightenment yet, but obviously they have to be very important milestone on the road.
yes, re. McKenna. And very nicely done, your synopsis Mr. Stobblehouse. I particularly liked the story of Jacob Boehme. I question a bit his adoration of Walt Whitman, although Whitman was no doubt very very clear. Jeff came upon this book at a crisis point in his life about 15 years ago and it rather saved him. He recognized his own (to a certain extent) experiences, and felt not alone.
Laurie
Funny, somebody just posted a spam comment with a link to replicas of very expensive fashion handbags. Under *this* post of all places. :-)
I wouldn't know about such things, lol...
note: one of McKenna's comments on Richard Bucke (whom he admired in his own way.) His comment also refers to Frank, of his third book, father of Lisa:
"Neither Bucke nor Frank ever traveled that road (the road of Awakening.) They both dug in and became self-appointed spokesmen for a journey they never took, making optimistic guesses and extrapolating futures they would never see."
interesting. I would say this is largely true of many writers who write a lot about exceedingly difficult passageways with seeming ease. Ken Wilbur, for example. It's just an intuition when you read them that they themselves didn't come as far as they write about. My sense, anyway.
L.
That might explain why one so rarely hears about the extreme hardship it can entail.
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