Thursday, May 08, 2008

INFORMATION ON THE LATEST BOOK BEING RELEASED BY DENNIS WAITE

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F.: Regulars to this site, along with Advaitin seekers worldwide, are familiar with Dennis Waite. He first offered pointers to site visitors nearly three years ago and has continued to do so as a periodic guest columnist. His insights regarding the non-duality teachings have been enlightening seekers worldwide for decades. For others, this information is offered:

Dennis Waite has been a student of Advaita for well over twenty-three years and maintains one of the most visited websites on the subject. He served as the 2007 Chief Moderator of the Advaitin group and has published several books, including The Book of One and Back to the Truth: 5000 Years of Advaita.

For information about all of his books, together with endorsements and many extracts, you may visit http://www.advaita.org.uk/.

Now, his latest work is being introduced to visitors to this site. Some have asked, “You have books explicating these Teachings. Why do you recommend the books of another Advaitin teacher?”

First, there are various methods of teachings (five in total + whatever "modified or individualized" versions outside those five that other persons are presenting) as well as various yogas. While some might “get it” via the Direct Method and the nisarga yoga offered here, others might only “get it” via the methods and explication offered by that speck called “Dennis.” The means is of no significance here.

Thus, here is information regarding the latest written version by which that speck is speaking, a book entitled, Enlightenment: the Path through the Jungle:

What is enlightenment? What is it not? Dennis Waite’s latest work exposes the myths and defines this misused term.


Which teaching methods will get you there? And which will not? Enlightenment: the Path Through the Jungle clearly explains how the traditional methods work and why the modern, Western approaches are most unlikely to.


This book is one of the clearest and most powerful works to date on the subject of enlightenment. It provides a detailed examination of the satsang phenomenon (and its more extreme, neo-advaita variant), contrasting these approaches with the traditional methods passed down from teacher to disciple for over a thousand years.


Waite’s lucid and engaging writing indicates what is needed in the way of preparation and methodology in order to gain enlightenment, with special attention given to the problems created by modern teachers’ statements to the effect that there is ‘no person’ and ‘nothing to do’.


The work includes a Foreword by Dr. Greg Goode, philosophical counselor and a recognized expert on the subject of non-duality.


Read the extracts on the links provided and, if you want to read more, e-mail Dennis via the link on the Home Page and he will send you a free E-Book containing many more extracts from the book (as well as some of his digitally manipulated, flower photographs). Dennis said, “For those of you who are familiar with the ‘Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’, this is not quite so bad as the Vogon reading poetry!”


Book Details:

Enlightenment: the Path through the Jungle

Published by O-Books

Enlightenment: the Path through the Jungle (Paperback), Dennis Waite, O Books, May 2008, ISBN-13: 978-1-84694-118-4.

May be ordered now from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. US cover price $22.95, currently $15.61 and additional 5% off for pre-order; UK cover price £11.99, currently £7.91.

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