Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be

by Forman, Robert K. C., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9781846946745
• ISBN10: 1846946743
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-16
• Publisher: Changemakers Books

Summary

What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong place? It's happening right now to millions of seekers around the world.

Author Biography

Dr. Robert Forman writes with the authority of a lifetime of personal mystical experience, and international renown for his books, articles and worksops about spiritual experience and the path.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Prologue	p. 1
Discovering It, Dismissing It	p. 5
Engaging It
Both/And It	p. 6
Waiting for Enlightenment	p. 8
Its Context	p. 11
Seeking It	p. 17
Longing for Enlightenment	p. 20
It Enters	p. 25
Becoming It	p. 31
Dismissing Its Illusions
Disillusionment, Part I	p. 42
Full Catastrophe Disillusionment	p. 47
This is it
Locus Classicus	p. 56
Hindu Enlightenment	p. 57
Buddhist Enlightenment	p. 60
Christianity	p. 63
Enlightenment: a Definition	p. 69
Confirmation	p. 72
Quo Vadis	p. 77
The Question	p. 78
Learning to Live It
Working in It	p. 81
Coming Up to the Line	p. 87
Feeling it
It and Ducks	p. 90
It and Sexuality	p. 94
It And Dragons	p. 103
It in the World	p. 111
Sensing It	p. 112
It and Ethics	p. 115
The Cloud of Unknowing	p. 115
The Peculiarly Spiritual Life	p. 127
It in Relationships
Buddha Alone in It	p. 129
It in a Group	p. 135
It in Duet	p. 143
It in Marriage	p. 149
Letting go of the But	p. 156
Walking with It	p. 161
It in the World
Unresistant to It	p. 163
Success and Failure in It	p. 167
Yawning the world into It	p. 173
Working in It
A Team in It	p. 177
Silence at Work, Writ Large	p. 185
Reflecting On It	p. 189
Living In It
Standing up Straight in It	p. 190
Craving It	p. 193
Its Fluidity	p. 197
Alone	p. 201
Endnotes	p. 205
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