Book Reviews

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.

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.

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!

This book is astounding and simply brilliant, written from Pure Heart and deep Love that illuminates each and every page and transmits its timeless wisdom directly to the reader with its potent pointers, beautiful poetry, honest sharing.

I am deeply touched and refer to "Awake Joy" again and again and treasure also the extremely beautiful cover-the author's incredible sense of Beauty, being Beauty herself, leaves one with a sense of wonder and deep gratitude for sharing herself in absolute humbleness, always pointing to the Truth that the Reader IS that very same Self.

No separation at all is experienced in this rare volume!

Equally profound and valuable are the many beautiful resources on the web that dear Katie shares with us, her site http://www.katiedavis.org

that feels like a slice of Heaven, and leads to her inspiring blog, videos, Facebook site and more...

One is privy to receiving jewels of eternal wisdom like this one in one's inbox that dear Katie answered after someone's loving comment:

"In 'relationship' to the universe, I am pure beingness. In 'relationship' to consciousness, I am pure awareness.

However this is not a land of relationships. Pure 'I" (Heart) stands alone and is that which makes nothing and everything possible.
Without contradiction, Heart is all that is.

Thank you for pointing out that the life situation is always in variation and impermanent. Which is why when we seek happiness objectively in the life situation, we suffer.

Forget all other books, fellow searcher, you can end your search with just this one.
Rarely does an author manage to write from Pure Beingness, beyond the level of the mind, and therefore reach us on each page to remind of our true nature, Pure Consciousness before any veil of ignorance or any dream.

If you use this beautiful book as a tool for daily contemplation, you stay there, you live from Pure Being instead of dream character, and you "achieve" that by dropping any notions that you ever were anything but Pure Being.

The author has an exquisite gift with words and keeps one in the ever fresh Present, no trace of duality, extremely rare considering the ever growing book market on this subject, most of which serves at improving the illusory mind at best, rather than seeing and feeling perfection in the precious space beyond time and space, NOW.

My all time favorite reminder of this pure voice of Truth is that "Truth precludes the dream".

I have seen miracles happen by taking the author by his word and just going where he gently leads on each page, into the Eternal Now, fresh as well as wholly complete each second.

Thank you so much for this rare gift!

I would also like to add that Mr Dziuban's beautiful website is now up and running at http://www.consciousnessisall.com

I consider this the clearest, most helpful and enlightening site out there, a wealth of beautiful videos, a wonderful forum called "Reality Check" and many other gorgeous gems reflecting Pure Truth!