The purpose of a book review is to give a potential reader a sense of what the book is about and an appraisal of its quality and purpose. With this particular book, Not-Two Is Peace by World-Friend Adi Da, this assignment is particularly challenging because the themes presented here and the depths of their reach are almost impossible to render without exposing one’s personal consciousness to the Divine Light at the core of everything. See! Right away we are in unfathomable waters. The beauty of this book is that it has the ring of Truth that if truly heard at the roots of one’s consciousness can ring the hearts and minds of many other beings across our planet.Whoever chooses to read this book should be prepared for its resonance to reach into unexplored depths of one’s being. On the surface, its message sounds crystal clear and perfectly understandable. Simply put it goes like this: The reason humanity is poised to destroy itself is that individually and collectively we simply do not have a grasp on the true nature of reality. That’s it. Through our ego identities, which are never questioned as a way of knowing the world even by the most perceptive, we see a world and cosmos filled with separate beings and things organized in a deceptively unified way. In that constricted, ego-defined reality, human beings seek desperately throughout their entire lives to find a way to put the pieces into some kind of whole that will bring peace to the collective and personal fulfilment to individuals. This total objectification of reality into carefully defined and interacting “things” has already come to an end as a valid perception of reality, and either we as a collective awaken to this truth, or self-destruction is inevitable. Look around if you want to see what that self-destruction through egoic-consciousness looks like.Adi Da’s message in this book is that such a false assessment of reality will absolutely never bring peace to humankind or personal fulfillment. Indeed, human beings are so lost they do not even know how to question this most fundamental lens through which the world and self are known, and how conceptions of God are generated. Unless, through some overriding realization arising out of the profoundest of awakenings in all of us all at once to this devastating Truth that egoic consciousness is totally false and destructive at its root, there is no chance that humanity or indeed Earth itself will survive beyond currently living generations. That is what World-Friend Adi Da says, and he is truly a friend who can deliver such raw truth without blinking. As long as we presume that reality is comprised of struggling, competitive, egocentric beings willing to do anything to assert and preserve their tribal identities, there is no hope. End of story. No hope.However, if we each,--and this is the real message of the book--through the realization of Prior Unity, that is, the realization of existence itself as Unity, not unity pieced together by an ego out of objectivized parts, but realized as already whole, existing “prior” to all division and separation, Reality which always already exists as Itself—if we each recognize Reality as whole, indivisible, egoless, eternal, and right now, as It Is, then there is no limit to the possibilities for human existence to thrive and profoundly address its connection to the cosmic whole. It is, of course, easier to say what is wrong with the human condition than it is to “locate” Prior Unity. This mystery is the compelling core of the book.Not-Two Is Peace can be easy to read and can even be rationally discussed. Taking on a willingness to penetrate its depths, however, in order to realize its Truth is a life altering decision. But if its depths are truly grasped, one will never ever turn away from it until its Reality is realized by all humankind.