The Direct Path, Greg Goode
The Direct Path, Greg Goode
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The Direct Path
A User Guide

Author: Greg Goode

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/19/2021

Synopsis

Have you ever done non-dual inquiry and said to yourself, "I understand it intellectually, but I don't feel it. It's not my experience!" If so, The Direct Path, inspired by Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon), could be for you.

This book is the "missing manual" to the Direct Path. Direct-Path inquiry is presented from beginning to end and beyond, in a user-friendly way. The core of this book is a set of forty experiments designed to help dissolve the most common non-dual sticking points, from simple to subtle. The experiments cover the world, the body, the mind, abstract objects, and witnessing awareness. You are taken step-by-step from the simple perception of a physical object all the way to the collapse of the witness into pure consciousness. Your takeaway is that there's no experiential doubt that you and all things are awareness, openness, and love.

Also included are a section on teaching and the notion of a "post-nondual realization."

This book can be utilized on its own or as a companion to the author's Standing as Awareness.

About Greg Goode

Greg Goode is known for a unique combination of penetrating insight, comfort with both Eastern and Western sources, and a down-to-earth sense of humor. He is the author of Standing as Awareness, The Direct Path, and After Awareness, and coauthor of Emptiness and Joyful Freedom. He became drawn to self-inquiry through the work of Brand Blanshard, George Berkeley, the Chinmaya Mission, and the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam. Goode is a member of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA). He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William on September 23, 2014

Greg Goode recently posted a cartoon by John Spooner of two doors on a cloud. A sign on one door read, “Heaven;” the other read, “Lecture about heaven.” The line for the lecture about heaven rivaled Starbucks on a Friday morning, but there wasn’t a single person waiting at the door to heaven. Nothing......more

Goodreads review by Siddharth on October 31, 2017

Brilliant look at non duality from another view point Greg exposes the unreality of the material and existent world through skill full techniques. I initially found this book boring and irrelevant when I read it, but it was only after I went deeper into non duality and Advaita did I realise that thes......more

Goodreads review by André on August 03, 2021

A very thorough and profound inquiry into experience. Perhaps the pinnacle of non-dual inquiry. Advaitic in flavor, but somewhat compatible with Buddhist views (the author is familiar with, and as co-written a book on, Buddhism). Highly recommended, along side with Rupert Spira and Francis Lucille.......more

Goodreads review by Sara on November 18, 2018

Very interested and practical book for experiencing and internalising the "here and now", perceptions and non duality.......more

Goodreads review by leon adrian on January 04, 2025

The Direct Path: Over Before It Began The Direct Path: A User's Guide By: Greg Goode I feel like I am waisting my time with this book. The author starts out by saying he will prove that everything is awareness, and that nothing exists seperately and independantly from one another. He explains that he w......more

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