Reading Club

Here is a Pdf of a review of Trigant Burrow, by D H Lawrence.  Burrow had written 80 years ago.  It is amazing that Burrow identified mankind's major malady of living life through a mental picture of himself, or one step removed from Life.  It is amazing that this was discovered and then ignored by the whole profession of psycology.

Burrow's method was to create a group of honest people that might interact with each other, attempting to see through the pictures that we all define as Normal, or "seeing before the stories of me".  We have been attempting such a group this month here in Chicago with a few selected people.  Please take a look at this Pdf of 6 pages.

http://www.nevernothere.com/sites/default/files/burrow_review.pdf

I posted these to share. There are 4 volumes to the overall Testament.

www.lulu.com/spotlight/dafirenexus

This is a link for the books. I also, offer them as free (digital) downloads. If you want a real book, you have to buy, just like me.

Here is a link to my main site, you can read at least one chapter from each book there. I welcome a discussion or questions anyone may have. God Bless.

http://enbrightenment.weebly.com/index.html

I can post quotes from each book, but that would make this original post very long, especially with 4 volumes.

God Bless.

Walden, by Thoreau
(I still regard Thoreau as genuine...ed)

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/hdthoreau/bl-hdtho-wald-2.htm

I AM THAT
Dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Link at:

http://www.nonduality.com/asmi.htm

Here is a relevant quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj in I Am That:

Q: How can I make out whom to follow and whom to mistrust?
N: Mistrust all, until you are convinced. The true Guru will never humiliate you, nor will he estrange you from yourself. He will constantly bring you back to the fact of your inherent perfection and encourage you to seek within. He knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of reminding you. The self-appointed Guru is more concerned with himself than with his disciples.

This book is awesome. Well written, it's like a Journey that takes many twists and turns, I love her writing style. Not Spiritual in the strict sense of the word, but it goes into the workings of the brain, which I'm finding to be so incredible, the complexity of the human brain. It's such an enjoyable read, and is leaving me with a greater respect and compassion for this human body.

Pehaps we have all heard of small loans to very poor women to buy a sewing machine or a cow or something to better their life.

To go further into it and read the story of how it all evolved, even with tremendous opposition, is quite interestng and quite touching.  It is called Grameen Bank (Grameen means rural).  Who would ever think about how many micro loans (that maybe net only $20 surplus per year each) would it take to support the structure to initiate those loans and to follow up with collection, documentaton and the organization of the financial institutions needed to keep the whole thing flowing. 

Fortunately one man, Muhammad Yunus didn't think about it, he just started making the loans.  Everyone else who ever did think about it said "no way is it possible".  The way Grameen Bank does it, the borrower payback percentage is higher than any commercial or developemental bank, higher than any bank.

Over the years I have read many many many books! Searching for truth I was, ha :) I read "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj not once but twice, the first time it took me a year, still didn't get it.... Jeff Foster's An Extraordinary Absence was the book that literally hit me over the head so to speak, within the first 3 chapters, I was gone!- In this book Jeff was able to make me be that what I had been searching for, which of course I did not find during my search. Need to "stop the search" he says. Jeff has a way of showing you how to stop the mind search and be as a child. This is a great book, well worth a read without all the concepts, truly a book for the exhausted spiritual seeker!

Evolution of Mind by Dr. Vijai S Shankar received two published reviews. June 2010

"A Primer in How Mind Shapes Our Perception of Reality." June 14, 2010
Reviewed By Kinetics Magazine review written by K Lawrence
http://www.kineticsmag.com/issue/2010june/page15.html

If you have ever wondered about the nature of reality and the role the human mind plays in shaping it, Evolution of Mind is definitely a book you won't want to miss. Authors, philosophers and teachers have long endeavored to articulate the essence and process of mind in one accessible teaching or text. Few, however, have managed to compile a survey of the full range of the human experience of mind in as comprehensive and digestible a treatise as Dr. Vijai S. Shankar has in his book Evolution of Mind.

Structured in an easy to follow 10 chapter format, the book walks readers through all the questions one might have about where mind originated and how language, thought, perception, feelings and memory impact our experience of life. Dr. Shankar leads the way through the morass of these age-old conundrums by meticulously revealing the layers of optical and auditory illusion we heap on each waking moment of the "timeless and thoughtless `now', which is life." By reflecting back the futility of basing our reality on the false constructs of past, present or future, he helps us understand that to let go of these mental concepts is to be free.

Hey friends,

I just was reading the living realization text, and tried the 3-2-1 shadow work. I did it different though: in the text a shadow is projected on a person, instead i tried it on some work I had to do. I identified the shadow in this work that I had to do. Then I literally talked to it, and then re-owned it. It worked all the same and it's valuable. I just wanted to share that!

Michiel

Richard J Miller

 Life moves the body from cradle to the grave. Watch the movement. Understand that life expresses experiences as thoughts in the mind and not in life.  Understand that life expresses many people in front of you, with all their minds, their duality, their past and their experiences, which confront your mind, to create a story of life!  Understand that language is merely a tool to communicate an illusory story.  Life happens and goes on happening; this happening is nevertheless a transformation of energy.  So enjoy the illusory story as it happens and while it lasts.  Enjoy life that is without a story every moment, as well as the illusory story of the moment!  Understand that the story will also contain making plans to enjoy a story!