The Light Behind Consciousness [Paperback]

John Wheeler (Author), Stephen Wingate (Foreword)

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• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Non-Duality Press (September 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0955829062
• ISBN-13: 978-0955829062
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,870 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You already are what you seek, October 20, 2008

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Jaizon (NH United States) - See all my reviews

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John Wheeler's words have been a relentless direct pointing and this latest book is no exception. In these pages there is a constant dismantling of the distractions and concepts that misdirect us from the truth of what we truly are. Arising from peace, freedom and love, the writing is clear, concise and straightforward. Fair warning...this is strong stuff and John pulls no punches. There is no future attainment, no enlightenment, no teachers, no students, no path, no suffering (except in the mind) and there is no future and no past, except as thought. There is only here and now, this ever fresh moment manifesting in consciousness, which arises in awareness. If you're looking for a laundry list of prescriptions to action, or some holy grail of enlightenment, you won't find it in these pages, which is, interestingly enough, one reason why this book can actually help "you",(insert your name), finally get past the endless seeking of the "me" character (insert your name again), see the truth of what you really are and realize that you already are what you seek. A life of absolute freedom and an end to suffering is available right here, right now...impossible??? Read this book.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JUST THE FACTS, November 16, 2008

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R. laird "cyberpainter" (New City,NY USA) - See all my reviews
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Several months ago I stumbled upon a book by John Wheeler "Right Here,Right Now". Being new to the literture on non-duality (though not new to spiritual seeking)the book just blew away years of misunderstanding, misinformation and doubt about the nature of being.Since then I've read several other books on the subject, both by John and other authors and I can say with total clarity that John Wheeler has a special gift for expressing the inexpressible. His new book
"The Light Behind Consciousness" continues his theme of relentless redirecting of his questioners focus back to to the utter simplicity
of ones natural state of present awareness, no rituals, special practices, Sanskrit mumbo-jumbo or other New Age nonsense, just the fact of being.There are so many ways to be misled, so many paths that lead nowhere, practices that keep one trapped in dualistic ideas for years,
promises that "it" will happen (maybe) in the "future" if rigorous discipline and dedicated sacrifice is followed. JW's writing bypass's all of that and this book is an exceptional example of his clear and relentless pointing to the fact that you are already everything that you've been seeking.Excellant book,a permenant place on the bookshelf.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John Wheeler IS The Light - And So, Dear One, Are YOU, November 2, 2008

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Charlie Hayes "Charlie Hayes" (Reno, NV, USA) - See all my reviews

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This latest book from John Wheeler is like a PhD thesis on Nonduality - if there could ever be such a thing... the very idea of a PhD on Nondual seeing is, of course, an oxymoron as NO words, no matter how well formed and eloquently expressed, can ever capture the essence of our True Nature.

That stated, the essays, dialogues and pointers in this work by one who speaks from your own Natural, Original State, directly from One to One so to say, CAN and no doubt WILL make a huge difference for those readers who are still kind of stuck in seeking for the True Self and moving from book to book, satsang to satsang, website to website - not because of it's elegance, nor because arcane spiritual concepts are explained with more concepts, but because of its stark simplicity.

For me, the thing than makes John's pointing to the naked obviousness and inescapable Isness that "we" truly are, with concepts like being, awareness, peace, timelessness, presence etc. starts from the fact - the FACT, NOT the concept, that you and I already ARE what the seeker mechanism, usually called "my mind" ... seeks.

As many have pointed out, FACTS are pretty stubborn. And as John distinguishes in many ways, the FACT of your very already always eixtence as Being-Awareness-Peace is what all that appears comes from - and this gives these writings a palpable sense that you are Oneness talking to yourself. And the Consciousness-Intelligence - that which exists as this whole production of Divine Light And Shadow - is bringing the self back home to The Self.

Gawd, this is a superb book! Yet, as John tends to point out often, reading about nonduality can just become an endless loop-the-loop of conceptual avoidance of a direct and simple message that is best shared One on One. He urges the reader to talk directly with the author of whatever YOUR favorite expression of nonduality or concept-free spirituality. This is how it happened for me; meeting John after thirty years of futile practices and endless books and satsangs, John Wheeler quickly and kindly answered all my questions and made certain that all my doubts were resolved. The clarity and love of light of John's Being was the final key to unlocking a gate that was never locked and recognizing the clear obviousness presence of the Self that was never lost!

If you assume you are a seeker separated from the light of being, and that thought-form were to ask my advice regarding the possibility of recovering the home in freedom that you never left, I would, from this timeless locationless sense of being-living-peace, say, please read this book and then get in touch with John Wheeler to resolve and dissolve any remaining confusion abut who and what you are, and equally importantly, who and what you are not.

Let The Light of your True nature set you free from false beliefs and erroneous concepts once and forever. This I wish for you. - With Great Love, Charlie Hayes, author of Paradise Found: Recognizing and Living AS the Infinite Love That You Are