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Authentic Knowing

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This is an interesting thought experiment by a Canadian professor of psychology. The experiment is in coming to a new understanding of authenticity and then applying it in an exploration of existential questions. His presentation of authenticity provokes the question "what is real?" particularly with regard to schemas we may be filtering life through.

His eclectic blend of divergent ideas from Franklin Merrill-Wolf, psychosynthesis and theosophy make for a more Western; less Eastern approach to these questions than most similar books that rely on English translations of Eastern spiritual texts.

Baruss takes up the question of multiple "levels" of reality and multiple "bodies" similar to some ideas found in Integral theory. His idea that we are in an age of reason and that reason must be used to explore mystery is compelling and picked up in his latest book "Science as a Spiritual Practice." In a way, this book is a new type of "pointing out instruction" but I'll have to read this one again and check out some of the source material. Perhaps synchronistic with the topic of the book, it came to me at a good time - when I feel stuck in an existential quagmire.