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Title: The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey by Bernadette Roberts ISBN: 0-7914-1694-1 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Start with "The Journey to No-Self"
Comment: Bernadette Roberts is quite simply one of the most extraordinary contemplatives of our time. Her accounts of her experiences, and her reflections on them, are invaluable to anyone pursuing a similar path beyond the notions of God into the mystery of the divine nothingness. But this is not the Roberts' book to start with; for openers, one should read Roberts' "The Journey to No-Self," which traces Roberts' own dark night and emergence into Union, the preparatory stage, in her view, for the even more radical experience of no-self. There has been no Christian advaita philosopher, previously, that i know of--at least none that did not get burned at the stake. Meister Eckhart danced in this neighborhood, however. In any case, for anyone engaged in the emptying journey into God, Roberts' is crucial reading; her books are like the companionship of a wise and seasoned friend.
Rating: 5
Summary: Details of the movement toward nothingness.
Comment: This book is of value to the spiritual seeker who questions and doubts everything, including spirituality, God, bliss, lights, visions, you name it. It's for the reader who questions and doubts their own existence, love and hate, compassion and responsibility, values and virtues and action itself. It is for the reader who has looked into the most sublime teachings and remains doubtful, unsatisfied, not quite empty ENOUGH. It is for one who questions their self, their identity, their very name, their Guru too, most especially their oneness with God. This book takes you beyond all that. What happened to the author was that her self and its oneness with God, disappeared. They were no more. The book is about the stages of the disappearance. Roberts talks about where Christ fits into the picture, Eucharist, and how it is ONLY Christ who dies and rises again. She reveals that Jesus on the cross, asking God why He forsakes him, was the same as her experience of the disappearance of the self's oneness with God, and that others can, must and will know both the union with God and the stage beyond that. Roberts exerts much effort in describing the self, which is what disappeared, and here the book falters for a short while before clarity is restored. This book is for the spiritual seeker who is not satisfied with promises of visions, love and bliss. It's for someone who intuits or has seen beyond.
Rating: 4
Summary: A christian path to transcendence
Comment: Bernadette gives a very personal, if not somewhat choppy, story of her experience of self transcendence. Although not very well schooled in the terminology of the Eastern traditions she does an adequate job of describing the states and stages she goes through on her 2+ year ascent beyond self.
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Title: The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center by Bernadette Roberts ISBN: 0791411427 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: What Is Self: A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness by Bernadette Roberts ISBN: 0962399302 Publisher: DeVorss & Company Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Collision With the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self by Suzanne Segal ISBN: 1884997279 Publisher: Blue Dove Pr Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas E. Harding, Huston Smith, Gene R. Thursby ISBN: 1878019198 Publisher: Inner Directions Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna ISBN: 0971435235 Publisher: Wisefool Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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