January 09, 2023

The Complete Book of Awakening -Talking to the Authors

53 minutes

This podcast series explores a game-changing understanding of the human mind that operates ''before psychology'' - that can exponentially increase the performance, resourcefulness and well-being for any individual or organisation.

Piers chats with the authors of a new wonderfully helpful book on the subject of exploring Non Duality (which forms the foundation of Quality of Mind). Helen Amery the co-author, has been a regular on the show and she is joined by Sara Priestley to discuss how they developed 'The Complete Book of Awakening'.

In this episode we discuss:

How the book – The Complete Book of Awakening - came about

Why the book is called “Complete”

The definition of awakening

Who the book is for -Why this isn’t a book to ‘read for gist’

Why the book removes all spiritual dogma and paradox

Why direct inquiry and logic are a powerful combination

The three levels of experience and putting them in their right order

Why our conceptual labels don’t reflect reality

Why resistance arises during an awakening inquiry and why that’s OK

Why this inquiry is your own – you have to see it for yourself – and why the outcome isn’t a life floating in bliss as many imagine it to be

Why goals of a nicer life must be put secondary to seeing your essential nature

How do you know if you’ve recognsied your essential nature – awakened?

Why awakening results in the behaviour changes that we usually ‘try’ to make happen in business

Curious - want to know more?

Go to the Thoughtful Raven website for free resources that go with the book, purchasing links for the book and journal, and links to courses and a community, as well as to get in touch with Helen and Sara.

Thoughtful Raven – The home of practical spirituality books

You can buy the book on Amazon and also The Complete Book of Awakening – Exploration Journal

Check out our other Quality of Mind podcast episodes, a curated list here

Helens initial appearance on the Quality of Mind podcast, and her experience of being coached in this understanding, and more recently talking about 'Does the Mind really work Inside Out'

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