Listening from the Heart of Silence: Nondual Wisdom & Psychotherapy
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Editor: John J., Ph.D. PrendergastEditor: G. Kenneth, Ph.D. Bradford
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06
ISBN: 1557788626
Number of pages: 283
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
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Book Review: Awakening & Healing, Together Again
Summary: 5 Stars
Like its companion volume, The Sacred Mirror, Listening from the Heart of Silence is both inspiring and instructive. To be fully appreciated, it needs to be read slowly and thoughtfully, studied even, because it's breaking new conceptual and practical ground regarding the integration of psychotherapy and nondual wisdom.
We've understood for the last 50 years or so that the personhood of the therapist, his or her own maturity and authenticity, is extremely important to the healing process. But we're just starting to understand what it means when the mature and authentic psychotherapist is also a somewhat "awakened" being, when he or she can access a nondual state of awareness while sitting with their troubled client. That is the territory these two volumes explore. They offer us some valuable distinctions and language that will allow us to understand and discuss this new intersection more clearly.
The opening essay alone is worth the price of the book. It's titled: Toward and Embodied Nonduality: Introductory Remarks. It provides a sorely needed overview of this whole somewhat confusing territory of nondual consciousness and the process of awakening. Most of the books I've read concerning nondual awareness, while helpful to varying degrees, represent the experience and viewpoint of just one person, who usually isn't that interested in articulating his or her awakening within a larger social and cultural perspective. Listening from the Heart of Silence asks the important question: What happens, what is possible, when we listen to one another with the spacious mind and compassionate heart which accompany our awakening?
If you're only going to read one of the two volumes, read this one. But if you're trying to make sense of the nondual state of consciousness, and figuring out what difference it makes to the world, read Sacred Mirror as well. There isn't that much overlap, and we need to hear this stuff from as many directions as possible, to start making sense of it.
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