Have you ever read The Untethered Soul, heard of the book or plan to read it? If so, this might be for you! On Wednesday, October 9 at 7pm Irish time, I am hosting a book club for The Untethered Soul with some folks in the online community over at The New Fatherhood.
And you are also welcome to join, if you aren’t already in Kevin’s community (tip: I highly recommend it!).
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So what is the book about? You can check out the details on Goodreads.
The book description you’ll find there is fine, but if you really want to get a feel for what you’ll get by reading it, I highly recommend reading this top comment in the Community Reviews section:
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I think I have never read a wiser, more intuitively grounded book than The Untethered Soul, by Michael Singer. Perhaps it is true that there is nothing new under the sun; that the same truths just get said in myriad ways that appeal to people at different places on the spiritual journey.
If that is true, then what Singer does in this book is to synthesize those truths in a way that are direct, crystal clear, and uniquely graspable.
In some regards, his book is a much shorter version of Eckhart Tolle’s books; more concise, more accessible.
Singer deals with the “two of us” that are within us–the experiencer of things, the monkey mind, the consciousness that is constantly feeding us information through our senses, our intellect–and the observer, buried deep behind the monkey mind that has the capacity to watch the parade in our heads–to step back behind and just watch, dispassionately all that is being projected onto the screen of our minds.
That is the great wisdom that underlies much of the new thought about consciousness–that there are, in fact two of us in there-one, out of control, spinning its daily dramas-and one, timeless and immortal, the true river of consciousness from which each our lives flows as tributaries. The brilliance of Singer is that he makes the awareness of that very clear–he quite literally walks us through the question of, “who are we” in a step-by-step process.
He calls the monkey mind our “inner roommate” that quite often borders on pure insanity. He invites us to imagine the monkey mind as a roommate, sitting next to us on the couch, and asking us to consider how long this roommate would be allowed to live with us when considering just how obnoxious and pestilent it can be.
W hat becomes quite obvious is that we live with a crazy person in our head that torments us with persistent, meaningless, repetitive dialogues that ultimately blind us to what is truly real–the world behind all the stimulus in our heads.
This is a brilliant book–just reading the praises written by many prominent people at the beginning of the book gives the reader a sense of just how profound the truths within are. One comment dares to suggest that this book can give the reader a glimpse of eternity. I have found this to be true.
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I hope you’ll join us on October 9! I recommend reading at least the first 80 pages of the book before joining the call. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.