Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20216 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-06
• Released on: 2006-09-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 348 pages

Customer Reviews

This review is unreal
According to Peter Francis Dziuban, ALL finite phenomena (walking your dog, eating a sandwich, reading this review) are unreal.

Well OK, Vedanta might seem to agree with that. Vedanta might say that they neither real nor unreal, they are mithya, name and form of the One substratum which is pure being - Brahman. But, according to Dziuban, they are not real in any sense (or indeed no sense) - they are not even afforded the status of illusion - even as an illusion they are utterly non-existent.

Consiousness is All presents a series of pointers and arguments to support and verify this sort of assertion (of course this verification must also be non-existent).

Already there may be suspicion that a sleight of logic is at work (in fact some of the reasoning here would make Zeno the ancient philosopher of paradox blush.)

The central claim that Consciousness is all is presented with clarity, but Dziuban's ultimate conclusions regarding finite reality are just so much logic based on abstraction and conjecture.

Oh, and the book is far too long and repetitive.

Speaks from the Self!
I've read many books on non-duality. This one describes what Being Is and what 'is' non-being. There is nothing about any teachers, masters, gurus, nor various non-dual approaches, only What Is, As It Is, using words to express the wordless. This can sound repetative to the 'thinking mind', but that's what it has going for it. This book isn't meant to be an 'intellectual' read, but to be absorbed by the Self, from Self to Self, so to speak. The mind cannot grasp it.

Pure nonsense from start to finish
I do like books about enlightenment and non-duality and I've enjoyed and learned from many of them. Not this one. This author doesn't know how to form a coherent argument. If it seems like the reasoning that he uses doesn't quite make sense, its not because you don't get it. Its because it doesn't make sense.