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Beyond Vision - Going Blind, Inner Seeing, and the Nature of the Self (Hardcover)
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Beyond Vision - Going Blind, Inner Seeing, and the Nature of the Self (Hardcover)
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In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones -
Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an
untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most
challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how
he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indian philosophy
that changed his life. Advaita Vedanta, the most iconoclastic and
liberating of the classical Indian philosophies, profoundly altered
the author's experience of self and world. He found that the true
self, as distinct from the individual ego, far exceeds the
boundaries of individuality. It lies beneath sightedness or
blindness and is absolutely unaffected by the latter. This welcome
shift of perspective was reinforced by startling discoveries in
contemporary physics, evolutionary biology, and developmental
psychology that are fully consistent with Advaitic metaphysics. As
for the practical applications of metaphysics, this book
demonstrates step by step how Advaitic insight and practice
significantly reduce physical and psychological tension. The most
telling examples have to do with adjustments compelled by extreme
circumstances. Thus Jones describes how he drew upon Advaitic
mindfulness techniques to maintain his white cane mobility skills
in the teeth of permanent spinal, nerve, and muscle pain. The arc
of Beyond Vision moves from the claustrophobically personal to the
openness of the transpersonal. It begins in a dysfunctional family
background, breaking out into a full life encompassing an
adventurous foreign service career, spiritual exploration, and an
unconventional kind of marital love.
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