Told in often poetic prose, it offers new direction for people looking for a sane and healthy spiritual pathway in our increasingly confusing world. Traditional spiritual models are giving seekers a wrong and frustrating impression about spiritual enlightenment.
Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be
By exploring his own 39 year experience of spiritual enlightenment, Dr. Forman offers a remedy to folks who are: Forman's book offers newfound hope to spiritual seekers everywhere.
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Table of contents Robert K. Forman writes with the authority of a lifetime of personal mystical experience, and international renown for his books, articles and workshops about spiritual experience and the path. Review quote Enlightenment ain't what it's cracked up to beA" is a bone-deep description of the decades-long spiritual journey of Robert K.
Forman, one of America's most respected spiritual teachers. If ever a book was written from the heart, this is it.
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It is both a summation and an update of a work in progress. Enlightenment ain't what it's cracked up to be describes the dazzling heights of spiritual awareness, but it also lays bare the twists, turns, and surprises of spiritual maturation, warts and all. If you need your spiritual guide to be serious, elevated, reserved, and pious, go elsewhere. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. I know I'm the author, but this is by far the best book I've ever written.
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Not that all my academic books give it much competition. As a scholar of mysticism, I've probably read books on spirituality. I got frustrated with them all because there is waaaay too much fiction and telling of just so stories in them.
So I attempted to tell the real truth here, warts and all: About what Enlightenment actually feels like and is. About the goal that we're actually after. It is part m I know I'm the author, but this is by far the best book I've ever written. It is part memoir, part research into what enlightenment actually means, part exploration of the lacunae of the spiritual path, and all an exercise in telling the truth. And I like to think, and keep hearing, that readers can feel the thud of truth here.
Here's one of the reviews from Amazon: Forman's wonderful new book for the past few weeks Given the subject matter--"spiritual enlightenment"--and Dr. Forman's formidable background as a scholar of mysticism and religion, I had expected more of an erudite and opaque academic tome, like the writing of so many "spiritual teachers" who have been climbing the "stairway to heaven" for centuries! But, alas, to my great surprise -- and delight --instead of weighty "expertise" on a subject that, truth be told, no one fully understands or grasps not with scientific proof, anyway!
Forman has given us a candid --even raw -- expose on his thirty-odd year struggle with, what he calls, "the silence". I found myself, over and over again as I read, moved deeply by his humility and inspired by his courage. Very few of the "spiritual teacher" club will come down from the mountain very often or for very long, and especially not to publicly air out their dirty laundry let alone even acknowledge they ever soil any Forman's beautiful, simple and honest prose, and touched by the sweet sincerity of his vulnerability" Jeffry Hull View all 6 comments.
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I want to Robert Forman for writing his book. It is one of its kind: But most it spoke to my experience, chapter by chapter — not literally, but in real ways. He describes what so many of us have learned, how all religions in their literal senses are false or incomplete. He avoids easy answers, which I find refreshing. In sho I want to Robert Forman for writing his book. Nov 05, Alice Grist rated it it was amazing.
Really enjoyed the author's style and sense of humour. A fascinating insight into a spiritual journey. Manunyo Bhikkhu rated it it was ok Aug 04, Cecilia Dunbar Hernandez rated it it was amazing Mar 29, Kristen rated it it was amazing Aug 02, Don Mullen rated it liked it Dec 11, Joan Verla rated it really liked it Dec 19, Farid Tabatabaie rated it really liked it Apr 08, Middlethought rated it it was amazing Aug 05, Jenneke de Jong rated it it was amazing Feb 04, George rated it really liked it Jun 14, Marcelo Mendionde rated it it was amazing Sep 12, Barbara Stutz rated it liked it May 12,