The Enlightenment Process: A Guide to Embodied Spiritual Awakening (Revised and Expanded) - Softcover

Blackstone PhD, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557788731 ISBN 13: 9781557788733

Publisher: Paragon House, 2008

Synopsis

The Enlightenment Process describes the process of enlightenment as the gradual realization of our most subtle dimension of unified, all-pervasive consciousness. It also explains how we uncover our authentic selfhood and embodiment at the same time as we arrive at our spiritual oneness with other people, the world, and cosmos.
Using a set of simple but effective meditational and physical exercises for "subtle self" work, Judith Blackstone clearly and expertly indicates the way in which we can deepen our spiritual awareness, develop our capacity for contact with other people, and reconnect with the world. Her lifetime of experience in depth-psychology, bodywork, and Kundalini yoga gives this book a distinctive authority and clarity.

This revised and expanded version of The Enlightenment Process is an invaluable guide that will lead readers in navigating the confusing or conflicting teachings on enlightenment. It does this by giving a more comprehensive description of the enlightened state. Anyone who has already started on the spiritual path or has a background in psychotherapy will be able to appreciate The Enlightenment Process more fully as it is a significant contribution to our understanding of the more advanced stages of personal growth. Included in the book are 18 practical exercises that will assist readers on this path to self-awareness.

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About the Author

Judith Blackstone, Ph.D. is an innovative teacher in the contemporary spiritual and psychotherapy fields. She developed Realization Process, a method of realizing fundamental (non-dual) consciousness, and applying it to psychological and physical healing, and has taught it for twenty-five years throughout the United States and at Esalen Institute in California since 1987. She is on the faculty of The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and SUNY Empire State College. She has her Masters in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Union Institute & University. She trained at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City. She has twenty-five years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and is licensed in New York. She has been a meditation practitioner and student of contemplative traditions for over thirty years.

From the Back Cover

This new revised and expanded version of The Enlightenment Process describes the process of enlightenment as the gradual realization of our most subtle dimension of being as unified, all-pervasive consciousness. It also explains how we uncover our authentic selfhood and embodiment at the same time as we arrive at our spiritual oneness with other people, the world, and the cosmos.

"Judith Blackstone's The Enlightenment Process carves a clear path through the confusing nature of human life, cutting away the underbrush of our own misconceptions about and resistance to the practice of awakening. I recommend it to anyone, newcomers to the path of meditation and consciousness work, and those who have been studying for years. What a gem of a book, written by one of those rare authors who writes beautifully, from the core of her own experience, and in service of the reader's most noble self."
--Elizabeth Lesser, Cofounder, Omega Institute, Author of The New American Spirituality and Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

"Judith Blackstone's book is an important contribution to the field of `applied spirituality,' shedding light on human possibilities, clarifying many areas that are often confused, and offering practical exercises to explore the nature of consciousness and the human soul. ...there is much in this book that corresponds with my own experience on the Sufi path."
--Kabir Helminski, Translator of Rumi and author of Living Presence and The Knowing Heart

Edition details

• Publisher: Paragon House
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557788731
• ISBN 13: 9781557788733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192