Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought

At once extraordinarily wide-ranging and sharply focused, Into the Stillness offers several deceptively simple and informal conversations about life, existence, and identity in one book.

This is an important book. Don’t be misled by the casually graceful repartee and lightness of touch. Without dogma, without heavy shoulds and should nots, authors Gary Weber and Richard Doyle point toward something eternal, framed in our twenty-first-century understanding of neuroscience, spirituality, and something that arises from, and returns to, the Stillness and the Silence.

In Into the Stillness, Weber and Doyle offer a practical investigation and guidance toward “the sweetest, fullest, most loving, caring, and manifesting experience that anyone could ever wish for.” Chapter headings include “Using dialogue for awakening,” “Can you ‘do nothing’ and awaken?”, “Why do we fear emptiness, silence, and stillness?”, and “Functioning without thoughts: sex, psychedelics, and non-duality.”

As a journey, this collection of dialogues is inspiring, shifting, and full of little moments of insight that will linger for a long time afterward.

Gary Weber, PhD, has a doctorate in physical sciences and has worked in national labs, industry, and academia in research and development and management. He’s done over thirty thousand hours of self-inquiry, Zen meditation, and yoga, and has experienced the falling away of the “I” and the loss of self-referential thoughts, desires, and fears.

Richard Doyle, PhD, is liberal arts research professor at Pennsylvania State University. Ever since reading the work of futurist Alvin Toffler, Doyle has been on a quest to understand the effects of information technologies on the evolution of human culture and consciousness.