Product Description

This is a book about the utterly obvious. It's about the spiritual search, and the frustrations surrounding it. It's about those ultimate goals we set ourselves: enlightenment, awakening, liberation, and how those goals can never actually be reached, because - and here's the great discovery ¿ the person who seeks them has no more reality than a presently-arising belief. That is to say, "you" are just a thought, happening now. A sequel to the bestselling " Life Without A Centre: Awakening from the Dream of Separation", this book is packed with clear and vibrant expressions of nonduality. Time and time again, the text gently points back to the futility of both the spiritual search, and the "search to end the search" (another game the mind loves to play). With great humour, compassion and clarity, the book will draw you into a direct confrontation with your own absence, an absence which, paradoxically, is also a perfect presence. This may be the last book a spiritual seeker will ever need.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27200 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 141 pages

About the Author
Jeff Foster graduated in astrophysics from Cambridge University. Soon after graduation, life events lead him to an intense two-year spiritual search, culminating in the realisation that there was never anything to find in the first place. He currently writes and talks on what some people have called "non-duality", but which he just refers to as "the utterly, utterly obvious".

Customer Reviews

Short and direct
An indescribable book on an indescribable subject, but the author comes as close as any that I've read.

As for your awakening, how can you wake up what doesn't exist? If that makes sense to you, buy the book.

Stunning Simplicity, Shared from The Heart
O I do LOVE this lad! Jeff and I have talked, and it is crystal clear that the Self of You - That One Self of All - shines brightly through this young man and his sharing - and so it arises that these words and spaces are beautiful reflections of that Timeless Mirror of infinite love. Judge not, but imbibe. Along with John Wheeler's You Were Never Born, Jeff's book is among a few favorites that are savored here like a great Chateau Lafite Rothschild. Sip and savor slowly, allow these gems to erase the false.

Some of the best of the best - authored by no one out of nowhere, as in: "Right now, everything you take yourself to be has already faded into memory. In a sense, you are already dead. And yet, there is apparent life. Life and death: no difference really".

So Jeff POINTS to That which never dies, That which is never born. That is the empty fullness of that Unconditioned Love which is in fact the only Eternal Reality. As Jeff writes, "There is only love, only that has any meaning at all. All else is illusion". That is YOU full stop. When this potent book hits Home (when? NOW) That is seen - once and for good - by no one.

Just stunning!

Thanks, Jeff. With Love (The Only Reality,) from Charlie Hayes, author of Life After Death, No Way Out: The Gift Of Absolute Freedom, and other books on Nonduality, the newest of which is Paradise Found: Recognizing and Living AS the Infinite Love That You Are.

Beyond the Void
It's always so exciting to have an armchair experience of 'awakening.' After reading Jeff Foster's, Beyond Awakening, I decided to comment on it and other books of it's ilk. But since I haven't had the experience of 'awakening' myself, what I'm about to write is not my own experience but, rather, a comment on other literature.
I've spent a lot of my life studying spiritual literature. It seems that most of the 'awakened' or enlightened guys end up like Jeff Foster, in some sort of discussion of the Void, seemingly concluding that the Void is the ultimate reality.
I just wanted to add a little footnote to all travelers on the path. Literature such as Disappearance of the Universe, Devotional Nonduality - Discovery of the Presence of God, A Course in Miracles, writings of the early saints and early advaita vedantists conclude: God is the only truth. They caution that the Void is another (beautiful ineffable) reality to be surrendered to the Divine in order for the experience of God to become the singular reality.