HIM, Daniel Barron's third publication to date, creates a kind of trinity with his previous two works, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A NEGATIVE EMOTION and ENHEARTENMENT. The novel is the story of a disillusioned psychologist who is escaping some relationship trouble by vacationing in Mexico and fortuitously finds Jesus (who we learn goes by 'Hesh') drinking Coronas and eating quesadillas and beans. The next three days would change the psychologist's life forever as he deeply probes the mind and heart of Him and allows himself to be taken on a journey of the heart and soul. Hesh leaves no psychotherapeutic or spiritual stone unturned, exposing the limitations of religion and the very idea of faith, eastern dharma and modern Buddhistic adaptations, therapy of all kinds, all current bases of morality, atheistic empiricism, and any other approach toward healing or spiritual attainment. Hesh asserts an entirely new approach and criteria for deep emotional healing and its relationship to spirituality that flies in the face of 3,000 years of teaching. All of this unravels inside a remarkably witty and deeply heart-felt dialogue over three days between the two characters as they learn more about themselves, their shadows, and each other. Long-time spiritual and psychological seekers will find many questions answered in this book and may find themselves inquiring into an entirely different set. In the end, readers will encounter a surprising and thought provoking ending and will be able to judge for themselves whether the author's admonition on page one holds weight: "Warning: Deeply ingesting the contents of this book may be threatening or harmful to your philosophical, religious, or spiritual digestive systems!"
After his Nondual awakening in the tradition of Zen Buddhism in the 1980's, Daniel Barron realized almost all distortions and misunderstandings in psychological and spiritual teachings involved how neither ego-based nor non-ego-based paths that address the cause of suffering adequately understand the true nature and significance of the human emotional body.
As a result, Barron created an overall paradigm and personal practice for the enlightenment of the human emotional body called Emotional Body Enlightenment (EBE) that challenges 100 years of psychological premise and practice, and a new spiritual paradigm called Theohumanity that challenges 5000 years of eastern transcendental teaching about the criteria for attaining enlightenment, western models of what we call God, and the nature of Universal Oneness and Love.
Barron is founder of Project Theohumanity, and author of Enheartenment, Him, Gnospel, There's no such thing as a negative emotion, Heartbound, the Soil and the Seed, Doorway to the Dance and the theatrical play, Josie. Barron offers weeklong retreats, weekend teaching seminars, and individual healing sessions.
".......it is now that time in history for both western revelatory-based and eastern ego transcendence-based spiritual systems to see that their time in our evolution of consciousness is over, as both demonize the self's journey through flesh-expression in profound and limiting ways. It is now time for a humanistic-based spirituality that teaches us how to live into our humanity as divine in itself within new paradigmatic guidelines of self-discovery whose authority lies within the human heart and not without."
Daniel Barron
theohumanity.org
