—This book is an introduction to Holistic Liberation as a way of life. In brief, the Holistic Liberation Way is a path and lifestyle approach to freedom. In the bigger picture, it is everyone’s eventual destiny to know the ecstasy of the Divine, both internally and while dancing in all of creation. Why not begin now?
A key message of this spiritual autobiography is the reframing of the perception of the flow of our lives as a constant teaching and as an often-hidden awareness gift of the Divine. The early chapters address an appreciation of the paradox and mystery of birth, death, and all the moments in between as opportunities for spiritual growth and preparation for liberation. With this perspective, the challenges and everyday events of the course of our lives can be used for appreciating and understanding ourselves and expanding our consciousness from the multiple angles of our circumstances, including all the mundane happenings, from playing football to spiritual practices such as meditation.
I have discovered with a surprising sense of wonder and joy that in approaching my life in retrospect, I have found a new and expanded understanding that life is about the evolution of our consciousness toward God-merging/liberation. The rare experience of disappearing into the Nothing does not mean one is liberated. However, when one is sustained and established on a daily basis in this inner Nothing as one’s primary life experience, one evolves into the life of Self-Realization/Liberation. In the process of disappearing into the nothing one loses any identification with a separate ego-I awareness as we no longer exist as a separate identity from the One.
The teachings in this book are not the sharing of external teachings based on spiritual theory. They are the actual reality of my internal consciousness through ongoing pre-liberation and post-liberation awareness from meditation, football experiences, living by the Six Foundations and Sevenfold Peace (a non-sectarian natural living path), and the constant trial by fire of everyday life. All of these traditions and experiences have given rise to the Holistic Liberation Way.
Poetry is sprinkled throughout this book and the last chapter is composed entirely of my poetry. I feel verse can often express what our rational mind cannot understand. Poetry is the language of the heart and soul.
NOTHING TO WANT
Existing in the mind,
We want everything.
In the consciousness of Disappearing into the Nothing,
There is nothing to want.
All that is left is pure awareness prior to I-ness and I Am-ness.
Our lives are our teaching.
May you be blessed and may this sharing serve as teaching and inspiration for you to have the courage to regularly let go and keep Disappearing into the Nothing until there is no one left; and until eventually only awareness without an owner exists. As it says in the Torah (Exodus 33:20), “One cannot see God and live.” Are you ready?
Teaching: The Holistic Liberation Way is a path and lifestyle approach to freedom on every level. Ultimately, it is everyone’s destiny to know the ecstasy of the Divine, both internally and while dancing in all of creation.
