Summaries of the first 5 chapters:
Prologue – Introduction – Releasing – Needing – Seeing

“You may have expected that enlightenment would come Zap! instantaneous and permanent. This is unlikely.”
— Ram Dass

My book Instant Enlightenment, Awakening Your States of Mind, is finished. I’ve created a long summary—not that long really, only 10 pages—that reads quite differently from the book. Here is the first part of that summary, broken into three installments.

Chapter 0 — Prologue

Mind / State / Experience / Wisdom / Psychology

Chapter 1 — Introduction

Consciousness / Ego / Alters and Alternates / Addressing Personality / Expectations / Spirit / Learning / Herding the Flock / Avoiding Groupthink / The Value of Conflict / Playing the Game

Chapter 2 – Releasing

a Visualization Exercise

Chapter 3 – Needing

The Family System / Childhood / Recollection / The Social Self / Growing Up / The Scheme of Things / Reconstructing / Recollecting / Recreating

Chapter 4 – Seeing

Sounds and Shapes / Thoughts / Dreams / Feelings / Frequency / Brainwave States / Sleep / Emotion / Neurology / Feedback / Progress / Modes of Thought / Awareness / Altered State / Hypnotic Experience / Sudden Savant Syndrome / Inward Absorbed Attention / Self-Awareness / Psychedelics / Holism / Bliss and Horror


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