THIS IS IT! (John Wheeler's New Book: "The Light Beyond Consciousness")

HAPPY THANKGIVING TO ALL!!!

For seekers really serious about ending the search (for themselves), but not necessarily for everyone, I can’t recommend John Wheeler’s new book: The Light Beyond Consciousness: Radical Self-Knowledge and the end of Seeking, highly enough. I found it so “Right On!” that I was called to write the following Amazon review:

(1) Destined To Be A Modern Classic, November 25, 2008, by Rich HayTo recycle an old Alan Watts' title, "THIS IS IT"! If you are truly seeking an "unassailably logical exposition" of the "Absolute Truth and/or the True Nature of Being" (to the extent that THAT can be related in relative words), SELF to SELF (ONE to ONE) Communiqués, and "Clear Pointers" to the "Ultimate Reality I Am, You Are and All Is" (referred to by Tony Parson's as the "Open Secret"), you have found It in John Wheeler's latest Offering of the "Pure Grace of Being" in an exquisitely written and beautiful form. This Is Really It!!! Of course, "It's All It," but You already know That. [Rich Note: A Top-Ten, All-Time Favorite after only 14 pages.]

I also enjoyed my Buddy Charlie Hayes’ review (which is actually a “Teaching” in itself) so might that I wanted to share it as well:

(2) John Wheeler IS The Light - And So, Dear One, Are YOU, November 2, 2008 By Charlie Hayes "www.theeternalstate.org" (Enid, Oklahoma, United States):

This latest book from John Wheeler is like a PhD thesis on Non-duality - if there could ever be such a thing... the very idea of a PhD on Non-dual seeing is, of course, an oxymoron as NO words, no matter how well formed and eloquently expressed, can ever capture the essence of our True Nature.

That stated, the essays, dialogues and pointers in this work by one who speaks from your own Natural, Original State, directly from One to One so to say, CAN and no doubt WILL make a huge difference for those readers who are still kind of stuck in seeking for the True Self and moving from book to book, satsang to satsang, website to website - not because of it's elegance, nor because arcane spiritual concepts are explained with more concepts, but because of its stark simplicity. For me, the thing that makes John's pointing to the naked obviousness and inescapable Isness that "we" truly are, with concepts like being, awareness, peace, timelessness, presence etc. starts from the fact - the FACT, NOT the concept, that you and I already ARE what the seeker mechanism, usually called "my mind" ... seeks.

As many have pointed out, FACTS are pretty stubborn. And as John distinguishes in many ways, the FACT of your very already always existence as Being-Awareness-Peace is what all that appears comes from - and this gives these writings a palpable sense that you are Oneness talking to yourself. And the Consciousness-Intelligence - that which exists as this whole production of Divine Light And Shadow - is bringing the self back home to The Self. Gawd, this is a superb book! Yet, as John tends to point out often, reading about non-duality can just become an endless loop-the-loop of conceptual avoidance of a direct and simple message that is best shared One on One. He urges the reader to talk directly with the author of whatever YOUR favorite expression of non-duality or concept-free spirituality.

This is how it happened for me; meeting John after thirty years of futile practices and endless books and satsangs, John Wheeler quickly and kindly answered all my questions and made certain that all my doubts were resolved. The clarity and love of light of John's Being was the final key to unlocking a gate that was never locked and recognizing the clear obviousness presence of the Self that was never lost! If you assume you are a seeker separated from the light of being, and that thought-form were to ask my advice regarding the possibility of recovering the home in freedom that you never left, I would, from this timeless locationless sense of being-living-peace, say, please read this book and then get in touch with John Wheeler to resolve and dissolve any remaining confusion about who and what you are, and equally importantly, who and what you are not.

Let The Light of your True nature set you free from false beliefs and erroneous concepts once and forever. This I wish for you. - With Great Love, Charlie Hayes, author of Paradise Found: Recognizing and Living AS the Infinite Love That You Ar