F.: Regulars to this site, along with dedicated Advaitin seekers worldwide, are familiar with Dennis Waite. He was a guest columnist on this site in June of 2005 and his insights regarding the non-duality teachings have been shared periodically ever since. For others, this information is offered:
Dennis Waite has been a student of Advaita for well over twenty 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, previews of Waite’s latest work Enlightenment: the Path through the Jungle are available. Here, Dennis reveals some of the questions that he addresses in his newest release, along with comments about additional content:
“What is enlightenment? What is it not? This book exposes the myths and defines this misused term once and for all.
“Which teaching methods will get you there? And which will not? This book clearly explains how the traditional methods work and why the modern, Western approaches are most unlikely to.
“Possibly the clearest book that has ever been written 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.
“It indicates what is needed in the way of preparation and path in order to gain enlightenment, given some modern teachers’ statements to the effect that there is ‘no person’ and ‘nothing to do’.
“The work also contains a Foreword by Dr. Greg Goode, philosophical counselor and one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on the subject of non-duality.”
For more details (or to see endorsements, Contents List and six pages of extracts) you may use this link:
http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/enlightenment/enlightenment.htm
If you want to read more, email the author via his home page by using the link http://www.advaita.org.uk/index.htm .
Then, Dennis 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 says: “For those of you who are familiar with 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', this is not quite so bad as the Vogon reading poetry!”
