This book is for those who, like the astronauts, cannot look at this view of our planet without asking "WHY?" The search conducted within these pages is a logical journey into the fields of biology, psychology, physics, parapsychology, yogic science, and Eastern and Western religious philosophies. Are they merely viewing different aspects of the same Truth?
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"Prior to reading this work I had absolutely no idea of what the 'New Spiritual Movement' was all about, nor what it meant to 'alter one's state of consciousness.' This logically based, scientifically supported analysis finally makes it possible for the Western intellectual to view the contribution of the East from his own rational-minded perspective. What is more, many of the truths presented in this work are so deep that they quickly find their way into everyday life and can never again be ignored. I recommend The Search for Truth to all truth seekers -- young and old." --Irving J. Goffman Ph.D., former Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Florida, Deputy Assistant Secretary, HEW under President Ford
"Prior to reading this work I had absolutely no idea of what the 'New Spiritual Movement' was all about, nor what it meant to 'alter one's state of consciousness.' This logically based, scientifically supported analysis finally makes it possible for the Western intellectual to view the contribution of the East from his own rational-minded perspective. What is more, many of the truths presented in this work are so deep that they quickly find their way into everyday life and can never again be ignored. I recommend The Search for Truth to all truth seekers -- young and old." --Irving J. Goffman Ph.D., former Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Florida, Deputy Assistant Secretary, HEW under President Ford
"Prior to reading this work I had absolutely no idea of what the 'New Spiritual Movement' was all about, nor what it meant to 'alter one's state of consciousness.' This logically based, scientifically supported analysis finally makes it possible for the Western intellectual to view the contribution of the East from his own rational-minded perspective. What is more, many of the truths presented in this work are so deep that they quickly find their way into everyday life and can never again be ignored. I recommend The Search for Truth to all truth seekers -- young and old." --Irving J. Goffman Ph.D., former Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Florida, Deputy Assistant Secretary, HEW under President Ford
"Prior to reading this work I had absolutely no idea of what the 'New Spiritual Movement' was all about, nor what it meant to 'alter one's state of consciousness.' This logically based, scientifically supported analysis finally makes it possible for the Western intellectual to view the contribution of the East from his own rational-minded perspective. What is more, many of the truths presented in this work are so deep that they quickly find their way into everyday life and can never again be ignored. I recommend The Search for Truth to all truth seekers -- young and old." --Irving J. Goffman Ph.D., former Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Florida, Deputy Assistant Secretary, HEW under President Ford
"Prior to reading this work I had absolutely no idea of what the 'New Spiritual Movement' was all about, nor what it meant to 'alter one's state of consciousness.' This logically based, scientifically supported analysis finally makes it possible for the Western intellectual to view the contribution of the East from his own rational-minded perspective. What is more, many of the truths presented in this work are so deep that they quickly find their way into everyday life and can never again be ignored. I recommend The Search for Truth to all truth seekers -- young and old." --Irving J. Goffman Ph.D., former Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Florida, Deputy Assistant Secretary, HEW under President Ford
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Awakening to the voice within,
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I read The Search for Truth years ago and the underlying message still resonates with me today. Until reading this book I was never aware of the distinction between who I thought I was and the one who can actually sit back and watch the interplay of life without participating in its melodrama. What a freeing place to dwell. I have learned over time that this place is the very same as the Self of which Buddha speaks and the universal consciousness which is mentioned in the teachings of various religions. Mr. Singer does an excellent job in presenting another way to approach life that can lead to the ultimate happiness which we all seek.
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I bundled this book with IONS' first offering, The Untethered Soul, by the same author. My hope is that Mr. Singer makes up for the shortcomings of this much earlier text with his new one. As for 'The Search for Truth', I have to conclude "What a horrific end to such a promising work." The author 'had me' all the way to the final section entitled "Applying the results". The rest of this volume is brilliant and his Model of Man is an enlightening and, I believe, quite groundbreaking synthesis of psychology, physics and religion. However, one must bear in mind that it is possible to have a very deep knowledge and insight into certain facts, and at the same time vitiate the results of such knowledge by an entirely wrong assumption in regard to the law which binds these facts together in the Universal System. The author failed miserably to answer the question 'Why', which is promised on the back cover. In fact, as far as I can tell, he never tried.
I suspect Mr. Singer himself suspected as much during the composition of this final chapter as it contains none of the joy and exploration so prevalent in those previous. Instead, we are admonished to forsake all desire for what he would lead us to believe is our ultimate and inexorable fate - an eternal life free of all of life's pleasures! Where is the joy in his river of universal energy? Where is the love in this amalgamation of pure thought, the purpose of which he does not hesitate to offer? The universe is life, by its very nature, not death, and to think of all desire as 'illusory' at best is to deprive life of its reason for being, if not its very means of creating. That said, I will treasure this book for its valuable insights into our true nature and possibilities, the value of which I will determine by my own introspection and personal quest for 'enlightenment'. The search continues...
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