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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Revised edition (May 14, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1452859663
  • ISBN-13: 978-1452859668
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 7.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
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About the Author

In 2002 Steven Norquist experienced that final and irrevocable event known as Awakening. The effects of this experience and the nature of its power were described by Steven a year later in his essay entitled, "What is Enlightenment, no, I mean really, like what is it?" This challenging essay found wide circulation on the internet where it was praised, debated and understood to be a profoundly clear and direct modern explanation of Enlightenment. In 2010, having lived in the Awakening for 8 years, Steven now offers "Haunted Universe - The True Knowledge of Enlightenment" a dark work that awakens the emptiness within that we all sense, but fear to acknowledge.

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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful By Peter R. Ramsey on February 16, 2012
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Having read Haunted Universe, I think it's claptrap. He's a whining pratekyabuddha - if that. He is self-proclaimed too much to take seriously. He is seduced by the frisson of nihilism, while moralistically maintaining a posture just above it. He ignores or is ignorant of the real truth of emptiness; that what isn't also is, and vice-versa. This is a trifling book, I think, not at all useful, and maybe harmful. It is full of self, despite how much and how dramatically the author decries the desolate death of everything, especially of "beautiful me."

If Steven Norquist has seen emptiness, it is only to complain about it: life is meaningless, he says, - waaah! He cannot see the pure and infinite freedom of action (or inaction) that comes from a joyous abandonment of meaning. That is anything but scary. And in an empty universe, what haunts? Instead of rejoicing in the absence of self, meaning, significance and all the suffering that arises from those concepts, Norquist stays angry, even petulant in a superior way about its absence and so is stifled by his anger. It is a burden that only he is large and strong enough to bear... and maybe you too if you are big and strong like him. Don't believe this stuff!

Steven Norquist has not abandoned self. He has merely constructed a greater Self - The Universe, The Ultimate Truth, and so on; and he has identified himself with that, giving up the little self to find himself reconstituted in The Great and Eternal Self. I think he is sadly full of hooey and is due for a hard landing when the exultation arisen from his experience expires.

Bottom line? Save your money, spare your patience and give this book the short shrift it deserves.
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27 of 32 people found the following review helpful By Amazon Customer on June 21, 2010
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The market for 'spirituality', enlightenment and the like is a huge thing these days. I have spent about twenty years of my life reading a lot of what is availabel. There are very few books I would truly recommend as having the goods instead of just being a sideshow to the main event.
This book is one of them.

Mr Norquist has presented the uncompromising truth that is often glossed over, ignored or avoided in spiritual books and circles these days. The truth has always been that enlightenment is the death of the illusion that we are our ego and that we exist and act in the way that is generally accepted.

In this book we aren't coddled or reassured. Mr Norquist doesn't pretend that it is all rosy to get people to like what he is saying. He tells us without a doubt that 'we' will be annihilated if we pursue the truth and life as we know it will irrevocably change.

If you are willing to pay the ultimate price for truth - If you must know what is really going on this is a book for you. Be warned it might not be to your liking.

If you can 'handle the truth' then buy this, read this and lose all meaning in your life, but paradoxically really live for once.

I can say no more read this and you will know too.

Enjoy
Sean Wardell
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful By tepi on January 3, 2011
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Potential readers should be warned that 'Haunted Universe', as offering us a profound account of the true nature of enlightenment, is a dangerous and disturbing book.

We tend to think of enlightenment as a highly desirable state of bliss, but in a lecture Norquist gave to 'The Self Inquiry Discussion Group of Raleigh' in October 2010 [...] he warns us that the experience of awakening, far from being blissful, is truly terrifying and can even lead to insanity in those without the strength or understanding to bear it.

He explains that it is rather like waking up to find oneself in a very large eerie house. As you explore this house, room by room, there is a growing unease and fear as you begin to realize that you are completely alone, that there is no-one else at all in the house except you; you begin to realize, as Sri Ramana Maharshi once said when asked why he wasn't out in the world helping others, "There are no others".

The final terror strikes when you realize that, not only do others not exist, but that you yourself do not exist either. There is only the house, the universe, a universe haunted by emptiness.

The Prajnaparamita sutras tell us that awakening (Nirvana) is the extinguishing and utter destruction of everything we hold dear and that the Bodhisattva, in the midst of this desolation, must be able to bear the absolute aloneness of his solitary spirit. This, I think, is what Norquist is grimly cautioning us about both in his lecture and in his book. Pursue awakening if you must, but be very aware of the heavy price you will have to pay if you succeed.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful By Michael Pavlovic on September 9, 2010
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Haunted Universe is a manual. A precise manual to the most important thing we can ever know - that we do not exist nor have we ever existed. There is no one writing this review. No one wrote Haunted Universe. It was spoken from the lips of the Dragon, utterances from the black Void that is the Universe. The Void that we constantly deceive ourselves from everyday of our nightmarish lives.

These utterances will rip your ego to shreds; the Dragon will awaken and burn it all to fiery ash. Leaving a charred husk remaining. An empty undead shell - a zombie, a vampire. But Ultimate Truth will be known. Follow this manual to the letter, read and re-read and all questions will indeed be answered.

The style is quick, confrontational, and brutal. Just like the Dragon. But it is efficient at what it does and always gets its way. Awaken the Dragon at your peril.
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