Peace, Power, and Presence: A Guide to Self Empowerment, Inner Peace, and Spiritual Enlightenment [Paperback]

Jonathan P. A. Evatt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 22, 2008

Why is your life the way it is? How do your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs affect your perception of the world around you? How does this perception influence your power, and therefore affect your state of Inner Peace? Most importantly, how can you approach your life--as it is right now--in such a way so as to liberate yourself from suffering and become established in a lasting state of Peace, in the Power to fulfill your purpose, and in absolute Presence to the perfection that you are?

In this groundbreaking new book Peace, Power, and Presence, Jonathan Evatt brings clarity to key principles and perspectives on these and other challenging questions. The result is nothing short of your becoming empowered to recognize the ultimate answers already emerging from the essence within you. You will pierce through the many veils of deception so prevalent in the world today, and step into a Life of Freedom defined not by some external source of knowledge but by the immaculate wisdom of your own Being.

Peace, Power, and Presence are the fulfillment of what each of us is striving to discover through all our many endeavours. Those people familiar with Jonathan's liberating approach to Life have been empowered by the realization that the fulfillment of Peace, Power, and Presence within them requires no beliefs, no dogma, no institutions, and no blind adherence to the many outdated religions and spiritual teachings in the world today. In what is set to become a key point of reference for those individuals interested in spiritual and human freedom, Jonathan makes no attempt to show you how to live your life. Instead, he shares with you a new way to approach the life you are already living--an approach that will bring into actualization your innate qualities of Enlightenment--for a Life of Freedom.


AWARDS:
- 2nd place in the Mind, Body, Spirit genre (2009) Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award (New Zealand)
- 1st place in the Reader Reviews regional category for Australia / New Zealand / Asia, in 2008

- Award-Winning Finalist in the Spirituality category of the USA National Best Books 2008 - Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.
- Winner of a Shortlisting Award in the Mind, Body, Spirit genre (2006) Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Unpublished Manuscript Award (New Zealand)

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Peace, Power, and Presence, is the first book in a series. The focus and title of that series is Wisdom for a Life of Freedom.

 

I actually started writing what is now to become the second book (The Seven Empowerments) in this series. Whilst writing The Seven Empowerments I realised it would be necessary to first explore the cosmology (world view and perspectives) I have lived with since I was a child. Only with this cosmology explained would the rest of the books in the series make full and complete sense. It puts them into context.
 

Freedom really is possible in this life-time. The greatest challenge, as I see it, in seeking freedom is that the vast majority of what claims to be about freedom is in fact just leading people into another level of bondage and loss of power. Most religions and spiritual paths fall pray to this issue. I've been active exploring many spiritual traditions and perspectives since I was a child, and in that time I have come to my own understanding of what a Path of Freedom really entails. First a foremost, it is a Path with Heart. Many people have not yet awoken into their heart, and most societies actively and subversively discourage such awakening. So long as the Heart is veiled our faculties of discernment and intelligence remain limited at best, and completely crippled in general.
 

Wisdom for a Life of Freedom is the essential information I have distilled from the many paths I have explored. Toltec Wisdom, Huna Wisdom, Yoga, Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Shamanism, Taoism, and a few others. I wrote Peace, Power, and Presence with the intention that by the time you finish reading it you will have a deep sense of known about how to approach to the world in such a way that every experience is step into your innate freedom and empowerment.
 

--Jonathan Evatt

From the Back Cover

Why is your life the way it is? How do your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs affect your perception of the world around you? How does this perception influence your power, and therefore affect your state of Inner Peace? Most importantly, how can you approach your life--as it is right now--in such a way so as to liberate yourself from suffering and become established in a lasting state of Peace, in the Power to fulfill your purpose, and in absolute Presence to the perfection that you are?

In this groundbreaking new book Peace, Power, and Presence, Jonathan Evatt brings clarity to key principles and perspectives on these and other challenging questions. The result is nothing short of your becoming empowered to recognize the ultimate answers already emerging from the essence within you. You will pierce through the many veils of deception so prevalent in the world today, and step into a Life of Freedom defined not by some external source of knowledge but by the immaculate wisdom of your own Being.

Peace, Power, and Presence are the fulfillment of what each of us is striving to discover through all our many endeavours. Those people familiar with Jonathan's liberating approach to Life have been empowered by the realization that the fulfillment of Peace, Power, and Presence within them requires no beliefs, no dogma, no institutions, and no blind adherence to the many outdated religions and spiritual teachings in the world today. In what is set to become a key point of reference for those individuals interested in spiritual and human freedom, Jonathan makes no attempt to show you how to live your life. Instead, he shares with you a new way to approach the life you are already living--an approach that will bring into actualization your innate qualities of Enlightenment--for a Life of Freedom. --(from back cover of the book)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: Inspired Earth Publishing House; North American ed. edition (April 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1877492000
• ISBN-13: 978-1877492006
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,477,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since childhood Jonathan has been aware of many profound and subtle aspects of Life and the true nature of Man. His approach to the world is through the natural Wisdom and Intelligence of the Heart. This approach has enabled Jonathan to see (or feel) into the nature of Life and Reality beyond the usual sense of separation, duality, and confusion many people find their perception veiled by. Through the spontaneous and on-going recollection of many so-called lifetimes, Jonathan innately understands and embodies a diverse spectrum of the empowering principles found within the art and science of Yoga, Tantra, Western Mysticism, Toltec Wisdom, Huna Wisdom, Ayurveda, Vedic Science, herbalism, traditional Naturopathy, and Shamanism.

Over the past 20 years Jonathan has lived and studied with teachers in numerous areas of Self mastery and human development. Those teachers include an enlightened Buddhist monk in the Swiss Alps, an Hawaiian Kahuna Shaman-Priest, enlightened Yogis in the mountains of Colorado and New Zealand, numerous healers, an ayahuasca shaman in the Amazon of Peru, a bush doctor on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean, Maori wisdom holders from the ancient ancestry of Aotearoa (New Zealand), numerous Beings and Ascended teachers on the Inner Planes, the Earth (through meditation and journeying to sacred sites in many areas around the world), and many other beautiful people too numerable to list. It was Jonathan's experience that these beautiful and wise teachers helped reflect to him the wisdom contained within the inner sanctuary of his Heart of Hearts, and to remind him of That which is in accordance with Reality. He refers to this wisdom as Wisdom for a Life of Freesom.

Jonathan's approach to Life is as pragmatic as it is esoteric. He is a firm advocate of people being real, authentic, and down-to-Earth, whilst actively exploring and participating in the more subtle aspects of Life and Reality.

Since the age of thirteen Jonathan has been living the intention to know and embody Freedom, and to assist other people in doing the same. This intention made itself known whilst he was pondering which subjects to study at school in early preparation for his potential University studies and future career. From the age of four was always certain he wanted to be a medical doctor, yet by thirteen Jonathan was well aware that the medical system was operating, overall, at a level of consciousness that was far from life-affirming. He later realised the impulse to be a doctor had been arising from the early emergence of his purpose, which is to serve as a healing Presence to those around him.

Jonathan is author of the award-winning book Peace, Power, and Presence, and he is in the process of writing at least seven more. He currently lectures, holds workshops, and facilitates private & public retreats in Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Costa Rica, and the USA on a wide range of empowering topics. People who have met Jonathan find him a joy to be around whilst also being an intense yet loving reflection of what is truly required for them to move forward into a greater expression and embodiment of their Divine Nature.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Kind of Condensed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Soul, September 11, 2008

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Brendan Edwards (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Peace, Power, and Presence: A Guide to Self Empowerment, Inner Peace, and Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback)

A wonderful range of very practical information, stories and questions pulled together with a sharp eye and an intense personal commitment to the material, to those with love of learning and to the world we all dream into manifestation with every breath. Jonathan is not on the bleachers and he is not interested in you being there either. I met him out in the field where the kind of searching, experimenting, dreaming, healing and loving, which this book seeks to explore, really takes place, in the flesh. This work comes from truth and is one enriching way to open ourselves further to that truth for which we seek. I recommend it to anyone who is in the throws of their own magnificent Becoming, or who might be considering it.

Blessings

B

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly Wise & Insightful...., August 24, 2010

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Alexa Nite (California) - See all my reviews

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This book was one of the most influential books in my own personal spiritual journey. The author is highly intelligent and writes extremely well. Be prepared however, it reads more like college reader than a story book, and is one of the most dense books spanning over 400 pages, that I have read...since college. It is not an easy read, but well worth the effort, especially for those seeking something that will stimulate and challenge you both intellectually and spiritually. This is the kind of book that will never get old or forgotten, lost and berried under piles of dust. I find new wisdom and insight every single time I open it!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ahhh.. oh yeah, October 25, 2009

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This book provides a solid framework of fundamental truth that I will surely use along the way. I highly recommend this book to any and everyone. Great tool filled with gems!