Post by stardustpilgrim on Jun 22, 2013 13:27:26 GMT -5
The name of the book is: Butterflies Are Free to Fly, A New and Radical Approach to Spiritual Evolution, Stephen Davis, October 13, 2010, Kindle-only, 404 pages, $2.99 but presently, $0.00/free.
You can read about 20% on Amazon, I browsed this a few days ago, and free seemed hard to resist. I've now read 42% and it's pretty good, pretty-much right up my alley. The beginning part (all you can read on Amazon) is an introduction to how Davis got where he is, the main body of the book he recommends not-reading unless you are very serious, because it leaves you in no-man's land, where one cannot return to consensus reality (Joseph Chilton Pearce's word, not used by Davis), and says he will tell you when that point comes. At about 30% Davis says, OK, here's the point to make a decision to stop or keep reading. I kept reading without blinking an eye (having already ceased living in consensus reality about 37 years ago).
Yes, he almost out-Jeds Jed. He quotes Jed favorably, but in a sense, goes beyond Jed. He uses Plato's Allegory of the Cave as primary metaphor for our reality. He switches it to our living in a movie theater where we are immersed in the current "film". Like Plato's allegory, we are stuck in out seats, but it turns out that we are not imprisoned but are free to move about, it's just that we are conditioned not-to. He also uses McKenna's language of Childhood or Hunan Adulthood, Adults are the ones who get up and move to the back of the theater, begin to explore the meaning of reality (that would be us according to Davis, but Jed might not wholly agree).
Now, he does get a little "What the Bleep Do We Know? & Down the Rabbit Hole way-out-there, which I don't buy the whole of (a matter of quantum physics interpretation which he goes in-to in a pretty detailed way, as in, our reality is not a solid out-there but a creation of consciousness, we live in a holographic universe. I can buy this technically, but in a practical manner of speaking, when you kick a rock, it's gonna hurt [in a Samuel Johnson vs Bishop Berkeley sort of way]. But that doesn't bother me).
He has a new word for the deepest aspect of self, Infinite I (by-passing God Self, Higher Self, etc...). That also resonates, he has good reasons for doing so. For this crowd, he has not used non-dualism language, so far.
Davis doesn't claim to be enlightened. He says that at the back of the theater there is a door marked, Do Not Enter, Dangerous. He figures that once going through that door (the point in the book of no return, stop reading or keep reading) it takes 2-3 years to complete the journey, get enlightened. Upon writing the book he figured he was close to completing the journey........(processing ego-stuff, getting rid of ego....stuff....., dying to ego....also down my alley.....hey laughter.... :-) .......
I will report further as I read further. I obviously like it so far or I would be putting it here. Unlike Jed, Stephen Davis is a real person who I'm sure you can goggle (although I haven't done so). What he says is from the heart, honest, real. 58 reviews on Amazon. When I went back and checked I was surprised at the 2010 date, surprised I hadn't run across the book earlier.........
sdp
You can read about 20% on Amazon, I browsed this a few days ago, and free seemed hard to resist. I've now read 42% and it's pretty good, pretty-much right up my alley. The beginning part (all you can read on Amazon) is an introduction to how Davis got where he is, the main body of the book he recommends not-reading unless you are very serious, because it leaves you in no-man's land, where one cannot return to consensus reality (Joseph Chilton Pearce's word, not used by Davis), and says he will tell you when that point comes. At about 30% Davis says, OK, here's the point to make a decision to stop or keep reading. I kept reading without blinking an eye (having already ceased living in consensus reality about 37 years ago).
Yes, he almost out-Jeds Jed. He quotes Jed favorably, but in a sense, goes beyond Jed. He uses Plato's Allegory of the Cave as primary metaphor for our reality. He switches it to our living in a movie theater where we are immersed in the current "film". Like Plato's allegory, we are stuck in out seats, but it turns out that we are not imprisoned but are free to move about, it's just that we are conditioned not-to. He also uses McKenna's language of Childhood or Hunan Adulthood, Adults are the ones who get up and move to the back of the theater, begin to explore the meaning of reality (that would be us according to Davis, but Jed might not wholly agree).
Now, he does get a little "What the Bleep Do We Know? & Down the Rabbit Hole way-out-there, which I don't buy the whole of (a matter of quantum physics interpretation which he goes in-to in a pretty detailed way, as in, our reality is not a solid out-there but a creation of consciousness, we live in a holographic universe. I can buy this technically, but in a practical manner of speaking, when you kick a rock, it's gonna hurt [in a Samuel Johnson vs Bishop Berkeley sort of way]. But that doesn't bother me).
He has a new word for the deepest aspect of self, Infinite I (by-passing God Self, Higher Self, etc...). That also resonates, he has good reasons for doing so. For this crowd, he has not used non-dualism language, so far.
Davis doesn't claim to be enlightened. He says that at the back of the theater there is a door marked, Do Not Enter, Dangerous. He figures that once going through that door (the point in the book of no return, stop reading or keep reading) it takes 2-3 years to complete the journey, get enlightened. Upon writing the book he figured he was close to completing the journey........(processing ego-stuff, getting rid of ego....stuff....., dying to ego....also down my alley.....hey laughter.... :-) .......
I will report further as I read further. I obviously like it so far or I would be putting it here. Unlike Jed, Stephen Davis is a real person who I'm sure you can goggle (although I haven't done so). What he says is from the heart, honest, real. 58 reviews on Amazon. When I went back and checked I was surprised at the 2010 date, surprised I hadn't run across the book earlier.........
sdp
