You are THIS

The interest in non-duality and universal spirituality is a striking feature of our time, and certainly more prevalent than 30 years ago. The message of this book and the next one is very similar in terms of recognising the universal self within (the subtitle is 'awakening to the living presence of your soul'), immediately, in the present, without thought. Indeed, thought gets in the way of being aware of THIS. Reading about it, however, is paradoxical as it is not an experience of THIS! It reminds me of the old story that many people prefer lectures on heaven to heaven. In the course of the book, the author coins a number of useful new terms: the 'mego' is individual human consciousness that denies our essential Oneness, a part without awareness of the Whole. Then 'One-duality' as the next stage of evolution towards the 'Unividual', one who lives the non-dual in the duality of the world, while ever conscious that all is one. An important part of the process, explained in part two, is the deconstruction of psychological patterns, and one comes to appreciate that the truth can only be expressed paradoxically, which the author expresses towards the end. Thus, 'only through Oneness can the unique persona of the Soul be expressed…. All opposites are complementary partial truths and simultaneously true… Souls are unique patterns of a singular Consciousness…. Fear arises in consciousness when love is forgotten…. Consciousness appears random, yet it is the Sole Cosmic Constant… Fulfilment follows surrender…. Non-duality is Awareness experiencing itself, which is duality.' Each of these finely chiselled statements is like a hologram containing all the others. A perceptive and penetrating account of spiritual unfolding.