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Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul
by
Robert K. C. Forman (Goodreads Author)
Award Winning Finalist USA Best Book: Spirituality, 2011!
What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong placeover a long time? It’s happening right now to millions of seekers around the world. That’s why Dr. Robert Forman has written his revolutionary book. Told in often poetic prose, it offers new direction for people...more
What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong placeover a long time? It’s happening right now to millions of seekers around the world. That’s why Dr. Robert Forman has written his revolutionary book. Told in often poetic prose, it offers new direction for people...more
Paperback, 214 pages
Published
October 16th 2011
by John Hunt Publishing
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I want to Robert Forman for writing his book. It is one of its kind: so open, paring to the truth in all its nitty-grittiness. But most it spoke to my experience, chapter by chapter – not literally, but in real ways. He describes what so many of us have learned, how all religions in their literal senses are false or incomplete. He avoids easy answers, which I find refreshing. As I read of his experiences of oneness or merging, I was reminded of Schopenhauer’s noumena, which is remarkable. In sho...more
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I know I'm the author, but this is by far the best book I've ever written. Not that all my academic books give it much competition.
As a scholar of mysticism, I've probably read 2000 books on spirituality. I got frustrated with them all because there is waaaay too much fiction and telling of just so stories in them. So I attempted to tell the real truth here, warts and all: about the path. About what Enlightenment actually feels like and is. About the goal that we're actually after. It is part m...more
As a scholar of mysticism, I've probably read 2000 books on spirituality. I got frustrated with them all because there is waaaay too much fiction and telling of just so stories in them. So I attempted to tell the real truth here, warts and all: about the path. About what Enlightenment actually feels like and is. About the goal that we're actually after. It is part m...more
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Forty years of daily meditation practice led me to become professor of comparative religions, (CUNY), to found both the Forge Institute & The Journal of Consciousness Studies, and to a rethinking of the spiritual goal in our complex modern lives. That's why I wrote
Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be: A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul
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