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Graeme Hughes

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Description:This book describes the author's spiritual searching through psychology and comparitive religion. It concludes with a description of his own spiritual growth-experiences. This little book charts the pilgrimage of the author from "sense to soul." It is a mystical path as the author discovers the limits of thinking. The book condenses a wealth of information on psychology and comparitive religion before demonstrating that mystical growth can not be taught or described in word and concept. The author concludes with an account of his own experience. Graeme Hughes came to Canada in 1968 after practicing law in Australia. He has received senior degrees from York University in Toronto and from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in California, U.S.A. and he has also attended Canada's National Defense College in Kingston, Ontario. In Canada he undertook a business career but in order to continue and deepen his life-long interest in spiritual theory and practice he retired early and came to live in Vancouver, B.C. where he continues on his "Journey." He continues to travel extensively and finds his love of classical music and sculpture (he sculpts in stone) supports his spiritual practice. Prelude We are all on a " Journey " -- transiting space and time with a self - consciousness that tries to make sense of it all. We each make different stops and have different terrains to cover. We start and finish the same way -- alone. How do we make sense of this life journey? Especially as we grow old, this question can become insistent and infuriating because "doing" starts to lose its distracting grip. The easy answers don't really fit any more. It first comes upon us as a feeling -- a shadowy, questioning, dissatisfied, uncertainty -- and only with great effort can we translate it into a question. Even then, we sense that something has been left out. We ask, " Why am I here?" ( We might even ask, " who or what is this ' I', and what is ' here ' "? ) Perhaps our religion quickly replies, " You exist for the greater glory of God." We want to say, " What's so glorious about it?" or, " Who said so?" No longer are we satisfied by any one else's dogma or experience. At that point we might get a momentary flash when it all just seems insane. The flash disappears into the ordinariness of our experience, we put these inchoate feelings away ( again ), but we are left with a suspicion... or a fear... We want to know why do we even have the imagination to feel this way or think it all might be an insane game? I, too, have had these promptings. Nothing unusual in that, I suppose. I have come to suspect that for all of us life is a learning experience -- but not in some general, philosophical sense. I have come to suspect that this learning is really focused on only one, quite specific and basic thing -- and if my own experience is any guide, it is not what we might have first thought. It will be so basic it will be easy to overlook. It is different for each of us. I believe it will be about something that entirely permeates our consciousness so that it constitutes our attitude to life and, in effect, becomes the unconscious reflex conditioning our behaviour. Yet I do not believe it can be understood primarily in psychological terms. It is a lifetime learning -- at least it seems to be for me. In my own case I was perhaps half way through my life before the frequency of meeting the same issue became a " two by four " hitting me over my head to attract my attention. It is I must learn to stop the conscientious struggle, to cease the egoic effort, however well intentioned, to improve performance; in learning " to hold things lightly " I come to understand that the willing and doing is God's. For some people, this attitude is fairly easy to adopt. And so this is not their life - lesson. But it surely is for me! This will become clearer as you read on, and it is really the subtext of chapter 7. This little book partially describes how I have responded to this learning experience. Partially, only because I don't have the wit or the pen to make my response fully conscious to you or even to myself. And this, it seems to me, is perhaps the ultimate point of it all -- the expansion of consciousness... the getting of wisdom ... not simply knowledge of fact or theory, or the achieving of power or status. In Part 1 of this book I describe how I have been literally beset by certain questions which had to be answered before I could continue on my journey. The threshold question was, why should I worry about these questions? Why not just settle into some religious belief and coast along? Well, that was the whole point; my journey didn't and wouldn't go that way. The mind -- or at least my mind -- has a veto power! Until it is satisfied, it prevents me from moving forward. I don't mean to suggest that the mind is the most important part of me or anyone else. I recognize and try to use all of my faculties of consciousness such as intuition, f...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Spiritual Journey. To get started finding A Spiritual Journey, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book describes the author's spiritual searching through psychology and comparitive religion. It concludes with a description of his own spiritual growth-experiences. This little book charts the pilgrimage of the author from "sense to soul." It is a mystical path as the author discovers the limits of thinking. The book condenses a wealth of information on psychology and comparitive religion before demonstrating that mystical growth can not be taught or described in word and concept. The author concludes with an account of his own experience. Graeme Hughes came to Canada in 1968 after practicing law in Australia. He has received senior degrees from York University in Toronto and from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in California, U.S.A. and he has also attended Canada's National Defense College in Kingston, Ontario. In Canada he undertook a business career but in order to continue and deepen his life-long interest in spiritual theory and practice he retired early and came to live in Vancouver, B.C. where he continues on his "Journey." He continues to travel extensively and finds his love of classical music and sculpture (he sculpts in stone) supports his spiritual practice. Prelude We are all on a " Journey " -- transiting space and time with a self - consciousness that tries to make sense of it all. We each make different stops and have different terrains to cover. We start and finish the same way -- alone. How do we make sense of this life journey? Especially as we grow old, this question can become insistent and infuriating because "doing" starts to lose its distracting grip. The easy answers don't really fit any more. It first comes upon us as a feeling -- a shadowy, questioning, dissatisfied, uncertainty -- and only with great effort can we translate it into a question. Even then, we sense that something has been left out. We ask, " Why am I here?" ( We might even ask, " who or what is this ' I', and what is ' here ' "? ) Perhaps our religion quickly replies, " You exist for the greater glory of God." We want to say, " What's so glorious about it?" or, " Who said so?" No longer are we satisfied by any one else's dogma or experience. At that point we might get a momentary flash when it all just seems insane. The flash disappears into the ordinariness of our experience, we put these inchoate feelings away ( again ), but we are left with a suspicion... or a fear... We want to know why do we even have the imagination to feel this way or think it all might be an insane game? I, too, have had these promptings. Nothing unusual in that, I suppose. I have come to suspect that for all of us life is a learning experience -- but not in some general, philosophical sense. I have come to suspect that this learning is really focused on only one, quite specific and basic thing -- and if my own experience is any guide, it is not what we might have first thought. It will be so basic it will be easy to overlook. It is different for each of us. I believe it will be about something that entirely permeates our consciousness so that it constitutes our attitude to life and, in effect, becomes the unconscious reflex conditioning our behaviour. Yet I do not believe it can be understood primarily in psychological terms. It is a lifetime learning -- at least it seems to be for me. In my own case I was perhaps half way through my life before the frequency of meeting the same issue became a " two by four " hitting me over my head to attract my attention. It is I must learn to stop the conscientious struggle, to cease the egoic effort, however well intentioned, to improve performance; in learning " to hold things lightly " I come to understand that the willing and doing is God's. For some people, this attitude is fairly easy to adopt. And so this is not their life - lesson. But it surely is for me! This will become clearer as you read on, and it is really the subtext of chapter 7. This little book partially describes how I have responded to this learning experience. Partially, only because I don't have the wit or the pen to make my response fully conscious to you or even to myself. And this, it seems to me, is perhaps the ultimate point of it all -- the expansion of consciousness... the getting of wisdom ... not simply knowledge of fact or theory, or the achieving of power or status. In Part 1 of this book I describe how I have been literally beset by certain questions which had to be answered before I could continue on my journey. The threshold question was, why should I worry about these questions? Why not just settle into some religious belief and coast along? Well, that was the whole point; my journey didn't and wouldn't go that way. The mind -- or at least my mind -- has a veto power! Until it is satisfied, it prevents me from moving forward. I don't mean to suggest that the mind is the most important part of me or anyone else. I recognize and try to use all of my faculties of consciousness such as intuition, f...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Spiritual Journey. To get started finding A Spiritual Journey, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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