this book is rubbish - Rated 
if you are questioning life and really want to find answers then you should pick up a copy of 'doing nothing' by steven harrison. harrison cuts straight to the truth, the nature of the mind. there are many imitators such as jeff foster who's book did absolutely nothing for me. on one page there are grainy images including a soldier in the trenches, next to it says "this is liberation". yeah right jeff! don't be fooled by the other reviews, go and get a harrison book instead, or even eckhart tolle, you will thank me.
As clear as it gets - Rated 
Over and over again Jeff points out that already what you are is 'this', 'presence' and any idea of being an individual, having and past and future, having anything at all in fact that is personal, that could constitute a 'you' is just a thought!!! That idea of a 'you' is not doing seeking but is in fact the seeking itself!! So this idea, this 'you' can not give up the seeking anymore than it can do anything else. All apparently happens, to no-one and the 'you' that may or may not seem so solid, is that seeking, is that looking for something more, something that is not 'this' 'presence'.
There's a great quote at the start of this book that sums the whole thing up....
"The life I am trying to grasp
is the me that is trying to grasp it."
You'll love this book if there is a resonance with any of the following ... Nathan Gill, Tony Parsons, Leo Hartong, Unmani, sailor bob etc
This book is brilliant!!!!
This book made me an ex- Buddhist! - Rated
If you are on any sort of search then this book will:-
1/ blow you away and
2/ show you how you've been wasting your time 'seeking' and 'searching'.
3/ Get you forgetting all about the trip to India
4/ Selling the Buddha ornaments
and
5/ awaken you once and for always
This is the Ram Dass 'Be Here Now' of the Noughties only without the paradoxical middle class Guru attachment and once read will change you more than any book has ever done before but the odd thing is it will only change you back to you - the unchangeable!
:))
The end of the road.... - Rated
Astonishing book. What else is there to say?! This really is the 'end of the spiritual search'.... the 'Bottom Line' of spirituality! If you've read everything else on nonduality this is the one to kill the whole thing stone dead. WOW.
something out of nothing - Rated 
This is not a bad book - but neither is it good, if only because it attempts the impossible (and should realise that) The problem with describing non-duality is that it unavoidably (if unintentionally) suggests there is something that might be done about it - even if that means doing nothing at all! The very naming of it, even when it claims to reject its own premise, invites intention. Putting words on paper breeds motives in both reader and writer, whether they like it or not. This book takes the line of so many other non-dual tomes: similar images, similar (non) concepts, all pretending to lead no-where (which is always "somewhere" when you write about it) If you must study the subject at all, try John Wheeler for a more refreshing angle. But, in the final analysis, beware of anyone who feels they have anything worthwhile to say on these matters. No real clarity ever emerged from description - however eloquent. After all, who in their right mind would want to write something about nothing! The only authentic response to "awakening" is to shut-up. All the answers are invented - so why bother with the questions?
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