The Insights of Higher Awareness - Understanding Spiritual Truth
Author: Rebecca Lilly
ISBN: 0893343951 (paperback)
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ISBN: 089334396X (hardcover)
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The Insights of Higher Awareness was inspired by the author’s intensive studies of philosophy, mysticism, and the writings of saints and sages of both past and present. The book offers in-depth, but concise, explanations of essential spiritual truths thought to be common to all religions and spiritual paths, as well as practical guidance on spiritual growth. The book is both a combination of theory and practice, founded on the premise that the nature of spirit, and spiritual growth, are manifestations of heightened awareness, an awareness that moves beyond the ego (or ordinary self) into higher, spiritual realms. Because our ordinary awareness is greatly restricted, spiritual growth is a matter of expanding that awareness beyond its usual or everyday boundaries through a process known as dis-identificatoin or witnessing. Spiritual development requires dis-identifying with the ego, and the heightened awareness that results is the means to eleiminate suffering, and live a happy life. Spiritual growth is the key to genuine happiness because it enables a person to overcome painful negative emotions, such as anger or hatred, and all forms of unhappiness that are the inevitable concomitants of restricted ego-awareness. Heightened awareness not only has great practical benefits, as the means of achieving happiness and peace, but also provides a way of understanding traditional spiritual problems, such as the problem of evil, and the meaning of life for human beings.