This is Unimaginable and Unavoidable (subtitle) Irresponsible Writings on Non-Duality By Guy Smith Foreword by Tony Parsons This first book by Guy Smith addresses the appearance of separation from first-hand experience in an original series of prose, verse and 'notices'. Challenging and original, it constitutes a blast of freedom written in the period six months after awakening. Guy Smith is 24 years old and lives in Bristol. "I love this book! It is passionate, uncompromising, irreverent, intimately openhanded and wonderfully without any sense of order or progression. Throughout the whole work there is very little that the cunning guru mind can get hold of and turn into a belief system. There is a powerful invitation within these outpourings which seems to harbour and generate a feeling of the sensuous, the impersonal, the unbounded mystery that lies beyond the words. This is not a book to wade through steadily, but rather a deep pool in which to dip one's foot . . . and maybe fall in. There is a proliferation of so-called Advaita/Non-dual literature available today, and virtually all of it is borne out of a fundamental misconception about the nature of being. However, during the last decade some rare, clear voices have emerged out of the mist, and Guy's work is surely an inspiring and unique confirmation of this wonderful message." From the Foreword by Tony Parsons
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Written in an outburst of almost impudent ecstasy in the period six months after awakening (it says here on the back cover), Guy Smith communicates the message of pure non-duality with joyous passion, intelligence and humour.
Rather than merely being just another book about non-duality, this work actually manages to evoke the `taste' of non-duality through it's varied use of literary devices, prose, poetry and `notices' (shots or shocks of expression designed to provoke immediate, present examination). A unique and refreshing articulation of the sense of being itself - which manages to push way beyond the text. Top marks to Non-Duality Press for having the bottle to publish this work in its raw and exuberant state.
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Out of all of the non-dualistic literature there is nothing as much as this book that challenges and delights me so much. This book challenges every assumption and concept that I have ever had and delights me in the sheer, radiant and carefree expression. This book does not play into the hands of convention or popular concepts about enlightenment as the whole experience of awakening and non-duality is expressed so finely. The writing is as light as a feather and falls into no traps of didactism - all is breathtakingly open - often leaving the reader in a flat spin with nowhere to go, nowhere to hide but with a beautiful wry smile stretching from ear to ear.
A book to dip into and to dip into and to dip into - long after many `other' books will doubtless have shrunk in attraction. The narrator or `voice' is nowhere to pin down and is expansive and unpredictable as the weather. Beautifully fresh, exhilarating and timelessly alive.
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That's the sound of how the "this is unimaginable..." squiggles impacted the
tidy, oblivious, sense of "me." This isn't some rehash of what has come down from some lineage. This stuff is FRESH and obviously is expressed from direct experience. Don't get me wrong, I love the classics and nisargadatta and all, but this young kid has taken it to a whole new 21st century level. His writing is more "vertical" like poetry (not flowery, though) than traditional, flat prose, and reading it is like falling down a waterfall. Read it. You won't be bored.
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