Tuesday, October 02, 2007

OUT OF TOWN UNTIL FRIDAY TO CONDUCT AN ADVAITA RETREAT

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F.: Friday, responses will be offered to several e-mails dealing with questions at the relative and noumenal levels. Until then, here are three packages that are now available at discounted rates:

(NOTE: If you’ve read some of these books but know that a firm foundation and review is indicated or if you merely want to engage in some non-duality entertainment, go to
http://floydhenderson.com/order.htm ,
provide your information, and in the “Special Message” box, indicate which of the three Advaita packages you want. Then, begin reading all of the books in their logical in order. Your multi-book discounted price will be applied. If interested in buying the CD and all of the non-duality books, write for a special rate for the entire Advaita set.)

AN OVERVIEW:
Here is the order in which the books are to be read:

Consider the Meditation CD, the Meditation Guides, Bullshit, and Spiritual Sobriety to be a “Beginner’s Package,” providing a foundation from which persons can begin to consider realities that are beyond the beliefs which they accept unquestioningly as a result of their enculturation. Used as a group, the works encourage inquiry (which is at the core of the Advaita approach) where questioning has not occurred before. The CD increases the ability to relax and offers a visualization of the seven steps from identification with the false "I" to Realization. [See MAKE YOUR OWN PACKAGE below.]

Consider Peace of Mind, Liberation, What Happens When I Die? and The Essence of the Teachings to be a “Mid-Level Seekers” Package. One of the books can free seekers of body identification; another encourages abandonment of the content of the mind; another can free seekers of the effects of personality; and the fourth explains the "Five Stages" the early sages spoke of and also clarifies the terminology that must be understood before moving to the advanced teachings. [See MAKE YOUR OWN PACKAGE below.]

Consider From the I to the Absolute, Consciousness/Awareness, and From the Absolute to the Nothingness to be an “Advanced Seekers” Package. From the I to the Absolute is a guide for earnest and capable seekers, putting the teachings into an orderly context that reveals the exact steps that must be taken in an exact order to move through all seven of the degrees of separation from Reality, moving the reader step-by-step from belief in the false “I” to Realization.
NOTE: This book is a series of transcribed tapes that allow the reader to "sit in on" an actual series of sessions in which a group of seekers were guided step-by-step from body identification to Realization. (So many began the sessions that a facility was arranged to accommodate the large crowd. By the end, the numbers had dwindled and the meetings were moved to "floyd's" house. As Maharaj said, few who begin the "journey" will be dedicated enough to reach a state of Realization.) You will see sincere questions from some, resistance from others, outright rebellion from one, and the eventual shifts that happened as "the light began to strike home" and remove the darkness among those who were dedicated enough to attend all of the sessions from beginning to end.
Consciousness/Awareness offers the next level of understanding, explaining that which is beyond the beingness and how happiness can manifest each day via the understanding. Finally, From the Absolute to the Nothingness will allow earnest and capable seekers to understand the state that is even prior to beingness and non-beingness, even prior to the Absolute. The seeker who understands the content of this book will realize how it is that—from a state of non-existence or nothingness—everything in this universe (and all universes) came to be. The reader will also understand why many of the earliest sages recommended that you reach a state of zero concepts and know the void...the nothingness. [See MAKE YOUR OWN PACKAGE below.]
MAKE YOUR OWN PACKAGE (FOR A LIMITED TIME): 10% OFF if two books are ordered at the same time; 15% OFF if three books are ordered at the same time; 20% OFF if four or more books are ordered at the same time. Visit http://www.floydhenderson.com/, click on the "Book Order" tab at the top, provide your information on the order page, and use the "Special Message" box to indicate which packages you want.

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