Human Awakening: The source book for the three stages of awakening
This book explores the path of personal and spiritual unfolding, with all its challenges and joys, from initial stages to Self-realization. It is a comprehensive guide to the process of the psycho-spiritual journey, or to how we discover who we really are.
Work on the personality is commonly thought to be what therapy is all about. But personal work is only a part of inner exploration. Beyond personal change, lie the challenges of authentic transformation and real consciousness. The fulfilment of these three stages of human development is our innate capacity, and it is attained through a single connected process of awakening.
Many tales of therapeutic encounters, teaching stories, ancient and modern, case histories are used to amplify and illustrate the inner journey, and this book offers an introduction to the inner journey, to clarify and/or inspire you if you have already begun it and give a clear and accessible model of how you can realize your true potential.
This is also a travelogue of the journey through the inner landscape, a glimpse of real experiences, a series of sketches of the inner journey to illuminate, inspire and encourage you to awaken to a most welcome stranger, your deeper self, to a life of empowerment lived out of your authenticity and to a dazzling light beyond anything you could ever think possible, your True Self.
Sacred Attention Publishing, Second Edition, 2017
Pages: 494
PDF document (3.4MB)
This book explores the path of personal and spiritual unfolding, with all its challenges and joys, from initial stages to Self-realization. It is a comprehensive guide to the process of the psycho-spiritual journey, or to how we discover who we really are.
Work on the personality is commonly thought to be what therapy is all about. But personal work is only a part of inner exploration. Beyond personal change, lie the challenges of authentic transformation and real consciousness. The fulfilment of these three stages of human development is our innate capacity, and it is attained through a single connected process of awakening.
Many tales of therapeutic encounters, teaching stories, ancient and modern, case histories are used to amplify and illustrate the inner journey, and this book offers an introduction to the inner journey, to clarify and/or inspire you if you have already begun it and give a clear and accessible model of how you can realize your true potential.
This is also a travelogue of the journey through the inner landscape, a glimpse of real experiences, a series of sketches of the inner journey to illuminate, inspire and encourage you to awaken to a most welcome stranger, your deeper self, to a life of empowerment lived out of your authenticity and to a dazzling light beyond anything you could ever think possible, your True Self.
Sacred Attention Publishing, Second Edition, 2017
Pages: 494
PDF document (3.4MB)
This book explores the path of personal and spiritual unfolding, with all its challenges and joys, from initial stages to Self-realization. It is a comprehensive guide to the process of the psycho-spiritual journey, or to how we discover who we really are.
Work on the personality is commonly thought to be what therapy is all about. But personal work is only a part of inner exploration. Beyond personal change, lie the challenges of authentic transformation and real consciousness. The fulfilment of these three stages of human development is our innate capacity, and it is attained through a single connected process of awakening.
Many tales of therapeutic encounters, teaching stories, ancient and modern, case histories are used to amplify and illustrate the inner journey, and this book offers an introduction to the inner journey, to clarify and/or inspire you if you have already begun it and give a clear and accessible model of how you can realize your true potential.
This is also a travelogue of the journey through the inner landscape, a glimpse of real experiences, a series of sketches of the inner journey to illuminate, inspire and encourage you to awaken to a most welcome stranger, your deeper self, to a life of empowerment lived out of your authenticity and to a dazzling light beyond anything you could ever think possible, your True Self.
Sacred Attention Publishing, Second Edition, 2017
Pages: 494
PDF document (3.4MB)
Human Awakening is the source book for the Three Stages of Awakening. I wrote it over a ten-year period from 2002 to 2012. As I wrote it I distilled the rich experience of my many years of psycho-spiritual work and my experience of clinical practice with individuals, couples, and groups.
In 2012, following fifteen months of approaching publishers with the book, Llewellyn Publications, the longest running MBS publishing house in the world, took the book on condition that I shortened it by half its length. In a production meeting they settled on the alternative title Your Essential Self, and in a pleasurable and professional series of exchanges with the editors we restructured, rewrote, and re-presented the manuscript in its by now highly shortened form.
Over the last three years since Your Essential Self was published I have often found myself quoting or referring seekers and students to passages from Human Awakening which had been cut from the published version. I felt increasingly that I should make the original manuscript available. In its original form, structure, and content the book is more poetic, less well ordered, diverse and varied. Ultimately it is the book through which I arrived at the Three Stages of Awakening.
So here in its entirety—the book that will shed light on the Three Stages of Awakening for those who are interested, enthused, and motivated enough to rise to the challenge of the times and realize their true nature.
What reader say
“Reading this book is witnessing consciousness crafted in the hands of Richard Harvey. Each page is a mystic map for the inner journey to reveal itself in an evocative and piercing way. This book is a must for any seeker of truth.”