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Spiritual Enlightenment, Awakening, Pure Awareness or the Peace of God - What do you call this mysterious state of mind so many people throughout the world now seek for? In this hard hitting book the author Keith Loy, refers to the spiritually awakened mind as being the True Natural State of humanity. As a devout spiritual seeker for over ten years, he draws deeply from his own life experience, as he highlights many of the beliefs, teachings and distractions which once polluted his awakening to the Spiritual Reality. With a lot of humour he delves deeply (almost psychologically) into the mindset of the average spiritual seeker, uncovering many reasons why they remain as seekers and not `Finders'.

He has written this book in an everyday language for any seeker who is seriously interested and finally ready, to allow an awakening to what he now simply calls Reality. The author does not conform to any particular philosophy, including prevailing teachings of `Do Nothing' and 'Non Duality'. He tries to move the reader beyond all philosophies, to discuss awakening in a down-to-earth, simple and easy going manner.

In his own words: - "If we could only give up searching for the extraordinary - for the weird, the wonderful and the mysterious. If we could only come to our senses, attentive to the present, uniting our attention with life just as it is; then we would find much to our surprise, that the mystery which we have been seeking for all along - will no longer be a mystery!"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20160 in Books
• Published on: 2008
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 172 pages

Customer Reviews

knocks most of the non-dual books for six
This is a funny, enjoyable and interesting book. The message is clear, needed and for anyone interested in non dual teaching an essential read. This man tells it how it is, pulls no punches, and knocks most of the non-dual books for six.

Contains a message that's long overdue.
Awakenings simplicity is the central focus, there's no beating around the bush and a heavy hand is taken with any hurdles in the way of awakening. I think a book like this is long overdue because the words carry a strong impact, there's a lot of enthusiasm in it. I thought the book was very honest and expresses its message firmly and without the usual spiritual jargon ~ and that kept me glued to it. But the book will either resonate with you or conflict with you, because its got some hard truths in it, he won't let anything or anyone clutter the simplicity of present awareness.

K Loy reveals causes behind why people spend a long time seeking, and if you are especially into awakening then the causes should ring true for you. I'll end with the last line from the book which thoroughly resonated with me, it reads, ~ "It is not the peace of God which has been evading us all of this time - It is we who have been evading the peace of God"

If you want your spiritual uplifting fix, you won't get it here, but still helpful.
I found this book an up and down journey. The whole book is devoted to the author's annoyance at all the spiritual paths and journeys out there that didn't deliver for him immediate 'enlightenment'. We've got rants about spiritual gurus, we've got rants about how the author thinks he's an idiot he would of liked to clap around the head when he was younger. More rants about getting side-tracked on UFO Chasing, Aura chasing and other side-tracks.
These are good points but too much negativity and way too much attention goes into how he feels annoyed by this.
He goes on in great detail about being hypnotised by one's own depression :-
K.L. says 'let's be honest, we would not feel good, if we mulled over all of the negatives that happen in our lives, on a constant basis.
Yet this is what I did every day, up until I discovered spirituality'.

So his spiritual involvement and searching provided him with a starting point to begin clearing his head of hypnotic clutter. Yet the author doesn't see it this way. He expected to - discover immediately - just realise your thoughts are not who you really are. This can be a 20 year journey for some(10 for the author) to finally reach that point of letting go completely. To give up totally. To fall into a depression. A black pit of hopelessness. And then finally say I wash my hands of all the .....(insert your own mind clutter)'.

K.L. says 'I learned about how we are all conditioned (hypnotised) , and how easily we believed to be true, each thought that passed through our awareness. This was a major revelation.....'.

Now this is another very useful tip in the journey towards 'experiencing Reality'. Without that pointed out to you one will just continue in the dream-thoughts.

K.L. says 'little did I know that Reality was staring me in the face all along, and all of the head knowledge in the world, was of no use when it came to simply switching my attention, from thought to Reality. I came to grasp that I really didn't need a whole lot of spiritual head knowledge, in order to awaken to Reality.'

Yes Spiritual overload, becomes a fix. You get that buzz and thrill from the book, it all makes great sense. You try out a few things and then that becomes boring - so we order another book(I've got the t-shirt). This is very important to point out to everyone. How many books do you read around the subject? In the author's example he sites a man who only read 'Eckhart Tolle's' Power of Now, and he broke through in to the Real Reality, no other distracting books. Too much information feeds the monkey mind. These are very valid points but way too many chapters of negative ranting goes on and on.


good points

K.L. talks about if you're doing anything like dishes, watching TV, working reading, gardening do so with pure experiencing, we end up with no thinking but pure experiencing.
If we fully experience everything then our thoughts have no room to take us into another dream-like state of dialogue. By observing our thoughts they slow down because of the observing.(Eckhart Tolle 'The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment' is brilliant on this subject]

Buying into our own negative thoughts will keep you in an endless cycle of a depressed thinking mindset.

The spiritual fixation and substitute. This is about using spiritual seeking as a drug - giving us a high on each new topic, subject, step closer to 'enlightenment'. We do need to be very wary of this.

He tells the story of his sister with whom he discusses his own 'latest findings' of great cost and journey to California from Ireland. She phones a few days later after 'observing her own thoughts' and experiences massive energy surges and a spiritual experience of great magnitude. She expresses concerns. So K.L. brings her around to all things spiritual of which she was previously ignorant. He then muddles her head - she loses what she had and spends the next 6 years trying to figure it all out.(Got the T-shirt).
I think this experience affected the author deeply, because when he looked back, he could see that anyone can break through into enlightenment, immediately.
However, I feel one needs a layer of understanding, a readiness; an unwashing of the brainwashing to be ready to accept this greatest human revelation. It all depends where you are in your thoughts. If you've over-complicated things, then that needs to be unravelled. If you have no understanding, the experience can scare you because there's no modern 'crazy man up on the hill who lives alone - and lives to help others understand the meaning behind these experiences.'

My understanding of Eckhart Tolle's journey was to reach a point of hopelessness in living - then wake up a fresh new completely uncluttered being - THEN take 10 years out to figure it out and refine his interaction between being 'eternally present in great stillness' to nimbly engaging the mind as a tool for purposes of daily living and functioning. So after all this refinement he begins to write his book!

So overall some great points - they are however scattered throughout the book. I was hoping for the complete journey up to and after the great moment of shifting into 'awakened Reality'. A few chapters at the end to encaptulate, summarise and condense the 'uncluttered path'. Unfortunately we have the author still ranting about something negative on spirituality right up to page 151 in his final sub-heading 'eliminating the trash'. the book ends on Page 154. Far far too many chapters on negative rants(the points are sometimes good - but get smothered by the rants).
To get the best out of this book get some paper while you read and jot down the few good points as you go along. They are not summerised at the back in detail.

Finally - if you feel this review is too long for your taste then I offer this:- why just cheerlead a book without offering some kind of structured review? I've written a few of those in the past and they don't really offer anything. The book the 'Secret' has over 2000 reviews in America's Amazon.com , Far too many are 'get the book its great'. I ended up in a huge debate with someone who objected to my 'fluffy' review on the 'secret'. I learned something after that. And finally, if this review was too long then you gonna find 'finding reality' a long long read before you get to the end. I found the book gave me an unpleasant journey. Perhaps that was its intended purpose.

However, the book was a stepping stone. I read a one star review by [elsewhere "elsewhere"] of Wales[on Finding reality] and he mentions John Wheeler. So I used the search inside and read a few pages. I learnt so much from those few pages about 'awakening' P16 paragraph 2 Awakening to the Natural State. So if I hadn't read this book I might have not found John Wheeler straight away. I've ordered the book, but I'm already practicing what I learnt in the search inside!! Now that's brevity!