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The Insights of Higher Awareness - Understanding Spiritual Truth
Author: Rebecca Lilly
ISBN: 0893343951 (paperback)
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 089334396X (hardcover)
Price: $27.95
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. |