Seeing, Knowing, Being: A Guide to Sacred Awakenings
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER. Seeing, Knowing, Being has won the 2013 Nautilus Silver Book Award in Spirituality/Religion."Shows an author who has wrestled with the truly difficult questions of a spiritual life and who has emerged with grace and insight. Greer bases his work on the great spiritual systems, but he then leads the way to a significant understanding beyond tradition."--DENG MING-DAO,365 Tao: Daily MeditationsandChronicles of Tao"Skillfully penetrates the core issues and endless possibilities that welcome us on our personal spiritual quest....A beautiful and genuine work that touches both heart and spirit and gently helps us break through old ways of thinking to the wonder of what's real." --PATRICIA SPADARO,Honor Yourself: The Inner Art of Giving and Receiving"A beautifully written and comprehensive guide to the best of the wisdom traditions.Seeing, Knowing, Beingabounds with images, metaphors, and stories to help the reader perceive the unseen, grasp the ephemeral."--CATHERINE INGRAM, author ofPassionate Presence, In the Footsteps of Gandhi,andA Crack in Everything"This book draws on the great mystical traditions and philosophies of the West and East and shows, in an extremely artful way, how spiritual realization can be lived in the fullest and most inclusive way possible. . . . I highly recommend it."--PETER FENNER, PH.D., author ofRadiant Mind: Awakening Unconditioned Awareness"Wise and serene."--Publishers Weekly"An intelligent and truly transformative book."--Library Journal"Books often describe journeys.Seeing, Knowing, Beingactually takes you on one. . . . A profound expedition into the true nature of life."  --MATTHEW FLICKSTEIN, author and producer of the award-winning filmWith One Voice“Carl Jung described Gnostic Intermediaries as people who imbibe a wisdom tradition so deeply that they are able to translate and transmit its ideas to another culture. John Greer is a Gnostic Intermediary who has imbibed core ideas from the world’s major spiritual traditions and transmits them beautifully.”—ROGER WALSH, M.D., Ph.D., author ofEssential Spirituality