Shining in Plain View [Paperback]

John Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2005

John Wheeler attracts a growing audience of seekers who are moving beyond traditional spiritual disciplines towards direct understanding. This book contains further dialogues and correspondence in the style of John's first book 'Awakening to the Natural State' (also published by Non-Duality Press). The emphasis is on pure non-duality (or Advaita), which points directly to the true nature of the one who is seeking. This approach reveals what is real and true about who we are and clearly exposes the false ideas and beliefs that generate doubts, problems and suffering. The result, as shown in the dialogues in this book, is that those who are willing to explore these pointers come to a direct experience of freedom and the end of seeking and suffering.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Non-Duality Press (September 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0954779266
• ISBN-13: 978-0954779269
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,253,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who are you?, November 30, 2005

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Advaitin for the Rest of the World (middle village, ny United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shining in Plain View (Paperback)

Boy! This is indeed a strange book and if you don't know anything about pure Advaita just move on to Ramesh Balsekar or something. This is a sort of operating manual for folks at the end of the Advaitic rainbow. At this point you know who you are and you're sure about it and there's a knowing it's time to drop out of the play. This book is a collection of brief dialogues of "people" ready and willing to return home. If you like Stephen Wolinsky, Tony Parsons, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Bob Adamson, you'll see this is the absolute bare bones of Advaitic teaching, all fluff is totally and radically removed. This is kind of like meeting Joe Friday from the Dragnet TV series....just the facts Maam.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm not sure I'm qualified...., July 10, 2006

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Zopa (Colorado) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Shining in Plain View (Paperback)

John Wheeler has the ability to point out what we are always seeking, in a way that leaves only the doubts that we are unwilling to examine in the light of unborn awareness. The book is the second in a trilogy (so far) of dialogs between John and many of those who have been wise enough to communicate with him. If you have an appreciation for the Advaita teachings but feel you haven't quite "got it" yet, this may be your chance...

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shook my foundations and made me take another look at the easily overlooked obvious, February 3, 2007

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David Trindle (New Hope, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shining in Plain View (Paperback)

I have read hundreds of spiritual books and followed several traditional practices including vipassana and zen. Nothing has ever 'hit home" as the writings of John Wheeler, which combine a truly extraordinary talent for simple expression, a rock-solid foundation in non-dual principles, and an astonishing talent for connecting with people.