From Here to Here: Turning Toward Enlightenment
by Gary Crowley
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Author: Gary CrowleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-27
ISBN: 1933983019
Number of pages: 102
Publisher: GL Design
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Book Review: Through the looking glass
Summary: 5 Stars
Through a series of very precise pointers this book brings the seeker to the very edge of the non-dual looking glass and all that remains is to see through it - for englightenment to be re-cognised.
In the case of the ambiguous perceptual diagrams used in the book, whether the alternative view is seen depends on the clues given. The clues need to be just enough to nudge the brain to flip over and interpret the perceptual image the other way. Once this happens it is possible to flip back and forwards between both views by focusing on different cues in the image.
Gary's uses these images as a metaphor for seeing through the illusion of an individual separate self. In the same way he provides a number of clues as to the non-existence of a separate "me": the pre-conscious functioning of the body, the inability to actually locate any "me" entity and then Douglas Harding's "having no head" view.
Armed with these clues Gary is inviting the seeker to look very carefully at what awareness really is and what it contains - this is the face of the looking glass - the very illusion of reality itself. If the clues are sufficient to dislodge the false spectacles of a separate self, the whole perceptual basis of seeing the world "out there" by a "me in here" can flip and be seen instead as the world in here, arising within the empty space of awareness that I am, the whole world is seen to be what "I am" is, no "me", no boundaries, just oneness, just as it is.
Just like the perceptual diagrams, however, flipping back into the view of separation can still happen and probably will until the belief in the separate "me" is weakened or not. Unfortunately for most seekers the separate "me" view is very strong as a result of a lifetime of neurological conditioning and so that is why it makes it so hard to see through the non-dual looking glass even though you have always been standing right in front of it.
This book is certainly worth reading to help loosen some of that conditioning and perhaps as a result seeing things are they really are.
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