Beyond Vision
Going Blind, Inner Seeing, and the Nature of the Self
1st Edition
Published on 6. June 2018
329 pages
978-0-7735-5379-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indian philosophy that changed his life.
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Allan Jones is a former diplomat who served in Tokyo, New Delhi, and Ottawa. He lives in Ottawa.Allan Jones is a former diplomat who served in Tokyo, New Delhi, and Ottawa. He lives in Ottawa.
Allan Jones is a former diplomat who served in Tokyo, New Delhi, and Ottawa. He lives in Ottawa.Allan Jones is a former diplomat who served in Tokyo, New Delhi, and Ottawa. He lives in Ottawa.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments Listening Hard and Writing Out Loud
- Introduction Claiming the Terrain
- 1 Can the self go blind?
- 2 Finding a path
- 3 Making sense of the pathfinder
- 4 Where we are heading
- 1 A Sheer White Cliff Face
- 1 How things began to go missing
- 2 The flight from the truth
- 3 Inner acknowledgment
- 4 Taking my prognosis on tour
- 2 The Functionary and His Mask
- 1 Eyeing the foreign service and angling for Tokyo
- 2 Down from the plateau
- 3 Three faces of the RP identity
- 4 Trying to catch hold of myself
- 3 India, the Visual Conundrum, and Letting Go
- 1 The new Delhi sensorium
- 2 Disentanglement from images
- 3 A set of Mogul pictures
- 4 Regarding facelessness
- 4 Vedanta, the Ego, and the Flesh
- 1 Re-enter Shiva
- 2 The coils of the ego
- 3 Factor X: the centripetal pull of the body
- 5 Into the Pre-visual Centre
- 1 Skirting the edge
- 2 Just by walking
- 3 Factor Y: the return of the repressed
- 4 A burst of openness
- 5 Looking for my others
- 6 Vision, Science, and the World-Illusion
- 1 Three unconventional perspectives on seeing
- 2 Inside the mall: reality or appearance?
- 3 The great light of consciousness
- 7 Learning to Live an Ancient Teaching
- 1 Taking it in and letting it work
- 2 Spiritual practice as stress management
- 3 The subtle arts of equimindedness
- 8 The Challenge of Integration
- 1 Factor Z, at long last
- 2 Interzone, phantasmagoria, ownership
- 3 Ordinary life as I find it
- 9 Opening Up
- 1 A humane transition
- 2 A final af firmation of the sensory world
- Notes
