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As I See It (Hardcover)
Douglas Edison Harding; Edited by Richard Lang
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This book begins with the question 'Who am I?' and immediately sets
off in an astonishingly original direction. Why didn't anyone
before Harding think of responding to this question like this? It's
so obvious, once you see it. Harding presents a new vision of our
place in the universe that uses the scientific method of looking to
see what is true. It turns out that the truth about ourselves is
not only true but also very good, and breathtakingly beautiful. We
live in a sacred, many-layered, living universe - or rather it
lives in us. Though it was completed in 1950, this book is still
ahead of its time. One day it will surely be widely recognised for
its greatness: its all-encompassing vision, its originality and
freshness, its depth of insight, its wide-ranging knowledge, the
clarity and poetry of its language, its humanity. It is a
world-view not dependent on local culture or religion, but on
universally verifiable facts. It is also a world-view that respects
our manifest differences whilst celebrating our underlying unity -
the unity not just of oneself with other people but with all of
life, indeed with the whole universe. Harding died in 2007 aged 97,
leaving behind him an impressive body of work. He was a highly
creative person who was passionate about - he was in love with -
this living universe and the immortal treasure that abides at its
centre - at our centre. "A work of the highest genius." C. S.
Lewis.
'Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down... I
forgot my name, my humanness, my thingness, all that could be
called me or mine. Past and future dropped away... Lighter than
air, clearer than glass, altogether released from myself, I was
nowhere around.' Thus Douglas Harding describes his first
experience of headlessness, or no self. First published in 1961,
this is a classic work which conveys the experience that mystics of
all times have tried to put words to.
This book, by the author of the well-known spiritual classic On
Having No Head, is a kind of Pilgrim's Progress for the Third
Millennium. It is also a condensation, in the form of a romantic
adventure story, of Harding's major work, The Hierarchy of Heaven
and Earth. Concerning which, C.S.Lewis wrote to the author: "Hang
it all, you've made me drunk, roaring drunk... My sensation is that
you have written a book of the highest genius. Thanks to the nth "
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