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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