this is it
How the World Shows Up as Experience
This is it is a philosophical inquiry into how experience shows its world. It does not offer a path, a teaching, or a method. It looks closely at how experience appears, interprets itself, generates certainty, and dissolves that certainty again.
The book does not claim to reveal a deeper truth. It follows experience as it presents itself: as the world.
What the book examines
The following themes run through the book:
- how belief structures arise and take hold;
- why certainty keeps regenerating itself;
- how interpretation shapes the world we live in;
- how “non-duality” is simply one of many experiential configurations;
- how any experience, when taken as fundamental, becomes a worldview;
- what remains when no final ground can be found.
It is not a system.
There is no model to adopt, no framework to accept.
The book is a sustained look at the immediate and unresolvable:
this experience, this world.
Contents
- The Boundary of Experience
- The World as Construction
- Experience, Interpretation, and the Everyday Psychological
- Non-Duality as an Experiential Possibility
- The Demythologising of “Awakening”
- Hierarchism: the construction of rank
- Modern Voices
- Perspectives & Misunderstandings
- Counterpoints
Recommendation
“I want to say that this is an amazing book. I've have read WAY too many books dealing with non-duality and the intrinsic nature of experience, but this one is really special. I very enthusiastically recommend it.”
Sample passage
“The world shows up only as experience. And if experience is all that appears, then any search for a deeper foundation, something beneath or beyond it, cannot succeed.
What we call ‘reality’ is simply the shape experience takes while appearing as itself.”
Availability
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