Enlightenment: the Path Through the Jungle: A Criticism of Non-Traditional Teaching Methods in Advaita

What is enlightenment? What is it not? – Dennis Waite’s latest work exposes the myths and defines this misused term.Which teaching methods will get you there? And which will not? – Enlightenment: the Path Through the Jungle clearly explains how the traditional methods work and why the modern, Western approaches are most unlikely to.This book is one of the clearest and most powerful works to date on the subject of enlightenment ­- it provides a detailed examination of the satsang phenomenon (and its more extreme, neo-advaita variant), contrasting these approaches with the traditional methods passed down from teacher to disciple for over a thousand years. Waite’s lucid and engaging writing indicates what is needed in the way of preparation and methodology in order to gain enlightenment, with special attention given to the problems created by modern teachers’ statements to the effect that there is ‘no person’ and ‘nothing to do’.With a Foreword by Dr. Greg Goode, philosophical counselor and a recognized expert on the subject of non-duality.Read the extracts on the following pages (links at the bottom of this page) and, if you want to read more, email me via the link on the Home Page and I will send you a free E-Book containing many more extracts from the book (as well as some of my digitally manipulated, flower photographs). [For those of you who are familiar with 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', this is not quite so bad as the Vogon reading poetry!] The clearest book that has ever been written on the subject of enlightenment, it provides a detailed examination of the satsang phenomenon (and its more extreme, neo-Advaita variant), contrasting these approaches with the traditional methods passed down from teacher to disciple for over a thousand years. What is enlightenment? What is it not? - exposes the myths and defines this misused term once and for all. What is enlightenment? What is it not? Which teaching methods will help you get there? This book provides the answers to these, and many more pressing questions about enlightenment in the global age. This is not the complete book but some important extracts from it. What is enlightenment? What is it not? This book examines the satsang phenomenon (and its more extreme, neo-Advaita variant), contrasting these approaches with the traditional methods passed down from teacher to disciple for over a thousand years.