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Summary: Describing the Journey of the Human Soul
Review: This book came at the right time for me. I have just re-read it for the third time, each time more eagerly than the last. The universal soul journey you read about in the scriptures of all the great religions, Mrs. Roberts describes in her own words from her own experience. And she has a knack for rendering the indescribable into everyday language. This must be an all-time classic of its kind.
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Summary: Details of the movement toward nothingness.
Review: This book is of value to the spiritual seeker who questions and doubts everything, including spirituality, God, bliss, lights, visions, you name it. It's for the reader who questions and doubts their own existence, love and hate, compassion and responsibility, values and virtues and action itself. It is for the reader who has looked into the most sublime teachings and remains doubtful, unsatisfied, not quite empty ENOUGH. It is for one who questions their self, their identity, their very name, their Guru too, most especially their oneness with God. This book takes you beyond all that. What happened to the author was that her self and its oneness with God, disappeared. They were no more. The book is about the stages of the disappearance. Roberts talks about where Christ fits into the picture, Eucharist, and how it is ONLY Christ who dies and rises again. She reveals that Jesus on the cross, asking God why He forsakes him, was the same as her experience of the disappearance of the self's oneness with God, and that others can, must and will know both the union with God and the stage beyond that. Roberts exerts much effort in describing the self, which is what disappeared, and here the book falters for a short while before clarity is restored. This book is for the spiritual seeker who is not satisfied with promises of visions, love and bliss. It's for someone who intuits or has seen beyond.
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Summary: An extraordinary work
Review: This is an extraordinary account of our journey with God. In it, Bernadette talks of a milestone in the spiritual life that lies beyond union with God. After years of living a life united with God and given completely to God, she comes upon an event in which the entire self falls away. There is now no union, no center, and strictly speaking no experience at all. What remains is Christ and the Resurrection and a knowing (without subject) that to me speaks of the beginning of a beatific vision of God--a vision without mediator.In "The Path to No-Self" Berndette writes of the first part of our journey--the transformation where God replaces self at the very center of being. She speaks of this as the falling away of ego distinct from the later falling away of self. In "What is Self" a work that I hope will be printed again she speaks in much greater detail about what is known after the no-self event--about God, self, Christ, the Trinity and the Incarnation. There is no truer account of the spiritual life than these works by Bernadette Roberts. They profoundly illuminate the truth of the Christian revelation, and also provide insights for contemplatives of all backgrounds.
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Summary: An extraordinary work
Review: This is an extraordinary account of our journey with God. In it, Bernadette talks of a milestone in the spiritual life that lies beyond union with God. After years of living a life united with God and given completely to God, she comes upon an event in which the entire self falls away. There is now no union, no center, and strictly speaking no experience at all. What remains is Christ and the Resurrection and a knowing (without subject) that to me speaks of the beginning of a beatific vision of God--a vision without mediator. In "The Path to No-Self" Berndette writes of the first part of our journey--the transformation where God replaces self at the very center of being. She speaks of this as the falling away of ego distinct from the later falling away of self. In "What is Self" a work that I hope will be printed again she speaks in much greater detail about what is known after the no-self event--about God, self, Christ, the Trinity and the Incarnation. There is no truer account of the spiritual life than these works by Bernadette Roberts. They profoundly illuminate the truth of the Christian revelation, and also provide insights for contemplatives of all backgrounds.
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