Contents & Sample Chapters
The Story of You
| PROLOGUE | |||||
|
BEGINNINGS |
|||||
| 1 | ONENESS Before energy becomes something, it starts out as the undivided, potential energy of everything |
||||
| 2 | DUALITY When Oneness manifests as Two-ness |
||||
| 3 | THE ABSOLUTE & RELATIVE LEVELS The interplay of two levels of reality |
||||
| THE NATURAL STATE | |||||
| 4 | OUR ORIGINAL RELATIONSHIP TO LIFE Before we relate to any human, our primary relationship is with life itself |
||||
| 5 | BEING How the Original Relationship to Life manifests in a person |
||||
| THE WORLD OF MAN | |||||
| 6 | SURVIVORS We are all survivors of having lost the Natural State |
||||
| 7 | THE GROUP PERSONALITY How our tribe informs the development of our Personality |
||||
| 8 | FAMILY Its parts in influencing the development of our Personality |
||||
| 9 | GENDER The influence of gender on Personality |
||||
| CHILDHOOD | |||||
| 10 | THE SELF How the Natural State develops an operating centre |
||||
| 11 | IDENTIFICATION The appearance of an ‘I’ |
||||
| 12 | FORGETTING How we lose touch with the Natural State |
||||
| 13 | THE WOUND The moment we first experience estrangement from Love |
||||
| 14 | THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE How we learn that, in the world of man, love is conditional |
||||
| 15 | CONTRACTION How we learn to contract from love to protect ourselves from being hurt |
||||
| 16 | REPRESSION How the Personality consigns unwanted feelings to the sub-conscious |
||||
| 17 | EMOTION The difference between an Emotion and a feeling. |
||||
| 18 | GAINING ATTENTION What we substitute for Love |
||||
| PERSONALITY | |||||
| 19 | PERSONALITY The self grows in relation to the Wound and crystallises into our Personality. |
||||
| 20 | PERSONALITY IN THE WORLD How the Personality interprets the world according to its beliefs. |
||||
| 21 | PERSONALITY AWARENESS How Personality edits our experience of life |
||||
| 22 | BELIEF The foundation of Personality |
||||
| 23 | THE DREAM How our beliefs create the Dream of the Personality |
||||
| 24 | MIND How we identify the mind as the centre of who we are |
||||
| 25 | THOUGHT How we become addicted to thinking as way to avoid feeling |
||||
| 26 | THE MASK What we wear to hide the parts of ourselves that we don’t want to be seen |
||||
| 27 | THE SHADOW The hidden side of Personality |
||||
| OUTCOMES | |||||
| 28 | SUFFERING The outcome of identifying with Personality |
||||
| 29 | HEALTH The effect of identifying as the Personality on our health |
||||
| 30 | PERSONAL LOVE How, in our personal relationships, we seek to replace the Love we have lost |
||||
| 31 | RELATIONSHIP How our Personalities get played out in our relationships |
||||
| 32 | DISTRACTION How the Personality distracts itself from unhappiness |
||||
| 33 | CHASING HAPPINESS How we pursue fulfilment in the world |
||||
| PERSONAL GROWTH | |||||
| 34 | PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT How we try to find happiness by rearranging the Personality |
||||
| 35 | SPIRITUAL PRACTICE What is it and does it work? |
||||
| LIFE BEYOND PERSONALITY | |||||
| 36 | TEACHING THE UNTEACHABLE Pointing to what you already know |
||||
| 37 | RESISTANCE The habit of not feeling |
||||
| 38 | AWARENESS Consciousness encountering what is |
||||
| 39 | WHO ARE YOU? The ultimate question |
||||
| GLOSSARY | |||||
The Infinite Journey
| Prologue | |||||
|
REMEMBERING |
|||||
| 1 | OPENINGS A glimpse beyond Personality |
||||
| 2 | CONSCIOUSNESS The difference between universal Consciousness and Personal consciousness |
||||
| 3 | CHOICE-LESS AWARENESS Awareness from beyond Personality |
||||
| 4 | A YEARNING A deep longing to return to the original state of Being |
||||
| 5 | SEEING When Choice-less Awareness leads to Understanding |
||||
| 6 | READINESS When an apple is ripe nothing can stop it falling from the tree |
||||
| 7 | BREAKING DOWN The Personality is dismantled |
||||
| WAKING UP | |||||
| 8 | AN AWAKENING A profound experience of life beyond Personality |
||||
| 9 | SURRENDER When the Personality loses its control |
||||
| 10 | THE SHIFT – Part One When Identification with Personality drops away permanently |
||||
| 11 | THE SHIFT – Part Two Synthesis of the Absolute and Relative Levels |
||||
| 12 | ENLIGHTENMENT MYTHS Exposing the idea of human perfection |
||||
| 13 | WHAT REMAINS The idea of a ‘you’ is played out in the Relative Level |
||||
| BEING | |||||
| 14 | UNCONDITIONAL LOVE Love that is untouched by Suffering |
||||
| 15 | STILLNESS The inactive, passive expression of the original state of Being |
||||
| 16 | PURPOSE Does it exist after the Shift? |
||||
| 17 | CHOICE Choosing happens, but there’s no chooser |
||||
| 18 | NON-DOING Action which arises from Being is effortless |
||||
| 19 | FEELING A return to full feeling engagement with life |
||||
| ADAPTATION | |||||
| 20 | ADAPTATION The changes that happen after the Shift |
||||
| 21 | RESIDUE The energetic memory of the Personality in the body mind |
||||
| 22 | HEALING The history of the Personality is spontaneously cleared from the bodymind system |
||||
| TEACHING | |||||
| 23 | TRUTH Is there such a thing as objective truth? |
||||
| 24 | ENERGETIC SOURCE Everything carries an imprint of its source |
||||
| 25 | PERSONAL GROWTH TEACHINGS Self help, therapy & Human Potential teachings |
||||
| 26 | PSEUDO-SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS How the genuinely spiritual is neutralized |
||||
| AWAKENING TEACHINGS | |||||
| 27 | EMPTINESS & FULLNESS Manifestations of the Absolute appearing in the Relative Level |
||||
| 28 | DEVOTIONAL TEACHINGS The way of the heart |
||||
| 29 | ABSOLUTIST TEACHINGS Aw |
||||
| 30 | SPIRITUAL PERSONALITIES Aw |
||||
| 31 | CULTS Aw |
||||
| SHIFT TEACHING | |||||
| 32 | check numbers! | ||||
| 34 | |||||
| 35 | |||||
| 36 | |||||
| 37 | |||||
| 38 | |||||
| 39 | |||||
| GLOSSARY | |||||
