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Examines the direct perception of nondual reality and shows its implications for navigating ordinary reality in an open compassionate and evermaturing way

Shares the authors most significant awakening experiences and explores their psychoemotional and psychospiritual foundations

Offers practical teachings for spiritual understanding emotional development and the cultivation of compassion

Exploring the direct perception of nondual nonordinary reality Paul Weiss shares guidance for navigating ordinary reality in an open compassionate and evermaturing way He affirms our shared human potential for the direct experience of realityunmediated by our more relativistic mental facultiesand reveals this experience as an essential dimension of our conscious capacity for growth He shares his most significant awakening experiences and the circumstances leading up to them exploring the personal and transpersonal dimensions of the experiences and their psychoemotional and psycho spiritual foundations He points to such experiences as part of our ongoing integration as human beings and the essential path of practice that supports our availability to them

Interweaving perspectives from psychology and neuroscience with important lessons from spiritual traditions around the world Weiss explores how to live a life of integrity reciprocity and openness to reality offering practical teachings for spiritual understanding emotional development and the cultivation of compassion viewed by ancient Buddhist sages as the true meaning of existence He addresses such human qualities as vulnerability empathy reciprocity openness and intimacy and shows how they express and participate in deeper conscious truths The author also examines practical wisdom teachings within both Buddhist and Christian paths to realization

Combining engaged mysticism with transcendent humanism along with thought provoking poetry Weiss offers a living vision of a nondual way of experiencing the world a path that supports our functional emotional and spiritual maturity