The nature of experience cannot be truly understood unless the  form of experience is first seen clearly.

Reality is not a complex of parts, but a simple whole;

whatever appears is not independent.

How then can mind be deceiving you when it is just another idea?

You must go deeper.

Experience is simple because Reality is simple:

there is no witness apart from what is witnessed.

Awareness is witness and witnessed:

One simple whole presence.

Come to understand the self truly and you will realize your true nature.

“An Introduction to Awareness” is a philosophical journey that takes the reader into the heart of the pure Presence of nondual reality – a reality in which the “spiritual” world and the “actual” world cannot be separate; in which the “physical” reality of science is a practical and imaginative fabrication of cause-and-effect mechanisms out of the spontaneously creative manifestation of nature, useful for manipulating the phenomenal world, yet not true reality. This real presence is Awareness, and it is this irrefutable Truth that is used as the starting point for the journey on a path along which our ideas about existence and self are analyzed and shown to be erroneously constructed out of a most basic misunderstanding of what experience is.


It is not an easy thing to change how one views the world. It is, in fact, a very difficult thing to do. Conceptual thought is part of the nature of being human, yet we forget that concepts are merely imaginative models of reality and are not real themselves. We can be misled by concepts, as we are misled by the apparent independent reality of things. But it is possible for each one of us to have the necessary insight to overcome these errors – to use reason to undermine its own erroneous conclusions – on its own terms. This book shows how to change how you view the world and your thoughts about it, in order to realize the wholeness of Reality, while still retaining the practical means of living that the modern world has given us. It teaches you how to use concepts in a way that does not endanger true understanding.


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