Uncommon Path: Awakening Authentic Joy
1st Edition
Published on 11. May 2010
458 pages
978-1-84694-655-4 (ISBN)
Description
Through his simple yet profound message in The Uncommon Path, author Mick Quinn offers a compelling guide to uncovering and growing beyond concealed conditioning on the road to awakening our full potential. Clearly exposing the kaleidoscope of metaphysical distractions orchestrated by concealed conditioning that keep us well clear of an authentic path, Quinn directly points us to our next level of individual and cultural development.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Mick Quinn
Uncommon Path, The - Awakening Authentic Joy: an integral guide to uncovering concealed conditioning
Awakening Authentic Joy
Book
07/2009
John Hunt Publishing
€24.00
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Persons
By Quinn and Miller
Content
- Intro
- FOREWORD
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A note to the reader
- INTRODUCTION
- Intuiting Oneness
- Untangling Free Will
- Conceptual-Free-Will:
- Conscious-Free-Will:
- Concealed Conditioning
- Consciousness
- Before the Beginning
- The Two Sides of Narcissism
- The Vice-Grip on Your Spirit
- Verifying The Way
- Relationships Free From Personal Conflict
- Peter and Rebecca's Story:
- Convenient and Awakened Decentering
- The ego's Dharma7
- Determining Your Interest
- Missy's Story:
- Chapter 1 AN OVERVIEW OF THE FOUR INSIGHTS
- The Four Insights of Awakening Conscious-Free-Will
- The Dalai Lama's Shoes
- The First Insight - Renounce Conditioned Motives
- The Second Insight - Reclaim Your Consciousness
- The Third Insight - Recall Your Origin of Oneness
- The Fourth Insight - Relate as Your Full Potential
- Chapter 2 THE WHOLE 'I'
- Toward Oneness
- The Ego and the 'I'
- The Ego - with a Capital 'E'
- The ego - with a Small 'e'
- Suing the Buddha:
- The Unhealthy-ego
- Spirit Distracted?
- The Ego-Mind Defends Itself
- Tara's Story:
- The Shadow's Trap - Making the 'I' Whole7
- April's Story:
- Identifying the Shadow
- Reintegrating the Shadow
- Adrian's Story:
- Christopher and Hazel's Story:
- The Unconscious Becomes Conscious
- The Declaration of Freedom
- Jessica's Story:
- I Am Buddha
- Stepping on the Path
- The Power to be Yourself
- The Hand of Grace
- The Source of Wisdom
- Chapter 3 TWO WAYS TO JOY
- The Ego-Mind is 4,000 Years Old
- The Timeless Lesser-Self
- Unknowingly One with the Little-Self
- The Relationship with Me
- Me, Myself and I
- Forming the Separate Sense-of-Self
- The Culturally-Created-Self
- True Individuality
- Brenda's Story:
- Two Forms of Affliction
- Death and the Lesser-Self
- Oops! I Must be Dead
- Chapter 4 THE GRACE OF RESISTANCE
- Change and Changelessness
- Chaos and Serenity
- Change and Clock Time
- Measuring Global Change
- Change and the Present Moment
- Change, Death and Psychotherapy
- The Bright Side of the Road
- The Doctor's Story:
- Don't Worry, Be Happy
- Numbing the Voice of God
- The Way of Resistance
- Melissa's Story:
- Change is the Natural State
- Chapter 5 FREEING YOUR MIND
- The Courtesan of the Lesser-Self
- Who You Are is Not Your Thoughts
- Mick's Story:
- Enlightenment - The Way You Relate
- Paying Attention to Thoughts
- The Harmless Nature of Thought
- Tom and Helen's Story:
- Be Unmindful
- Sir Lancelot's Email
- Liz's Story:
- Unknowing Experts at Disregarding Thoughts
- How You Relate to Your Mind
- Discern, Decide and Disregard Consciously
- Accessing Conscious-Free-Will
- Chapter 6 KARMA AND THE EGO'S DHARMA
- The Relevance of Karma
- The 'X' Factor of Karma
- Jill's Story:
- Back to Basics
- Karma - A Steady Compulsion
- Acting Without Creating Karma
- Karma - The Spark of Release
- Karma and Your Past and Future Lives
- Finding Your Karma
- Karma and Your Attention
- Amy's Story:
- Locating Your Attention
- Chapter 7 AWAKENING CONVERSATIONS
- Concealed Conditioning and Your Fifth-Chakra
- A Word to the Wise
- John's Story:
- Kevin's Story:
- The Unhealthy-Ego Snaps
- The Soccer Captain:
- The Threshold in an Awakened Person
- Choosing Your Words Carefully
- Sarah's Story:
- The Lesser-Self's Favorite Topics of Conversation
- Uncovering Concealed Conditioning in Conversations
- Jennifer's Story:
- Ryan's Story:
- The Little-Mind Stands Up for Itself
- Selective Silence
- Taking the Truth Home
- Chapter 8 AWAKENING RELATIONSHIPS
- The True Nature of Your Relationships
- Your Image in Relationships
- Jasmine's Story:
- Uncovering the Unhealthy-Ego
- Shaking the Ground
- Defining a Relevant Relationship
- Identifying Relevant Relationships
- Awakening Your Relationships
- An Authentic Stand
- Eric's Story:
- The Greatest Expression of Love
- Carla's Story:
- A New Way of Interacting
- Nefesh or Ruach2-Animal or Spirit?
- Devora's Story:
- Philanthropy as the Expression of Awakening
- Peony's Story:
- Chapter 9 THE FIRST INSIGHT RENOUNCE CONDITIONED MOTIVES
- Unconsciousness Before Coffee
- Identifying Conditioning in Everyday Life
- The Object of Your Desire
- Motives of the Malicious Ego-Mind
- Uncovering Concealed Conditioning
- Instructions for the Exercise
- Quadrant 1 - Subjective: Thoughts, Emotions, Meditation and Introspection
- Quadrant 2 - Inter-Subjective: Relationships, Belief Systems and Culture
- Quadrant 3 - The Objective: Body, Energy, Health, Medicine and the Sciences:
- Q 4 - Inter-Objective: Economics, Environment and Social Structures
- Analyzing Your Ratings
- Transcending Conditioned Motives
- Chapter 10 THE SECOND INSIGHT RECLAIM YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
- Knowing Your Values
- Defining Your Values
- Understanding Your Choices
- The Choices You Make
- Alex's Story:
- Liberating Your Value Structures
- Complexity and Transformation
- Life Domains / Value Spheres
- Josh and Diane's Story:
- Aligning Your Values with the Awakened Life - A Ten-Part Exercise
- PART 1 - Life Domains in The Four Quadrants7:
- Values Within Your Life Domains
- Amanda and Katie's Story:
- PART 2 - Identify Your Life Domains:
- PART 3 - Identify Your Values:
- PART 4 - Allocating Your Values into Your Life Domains:
- PART 5 - Ordering Your Life Domains:
- PART 6 - Ordering Your Values:
- PART 7 - Confirming Your Life Domains:
- The New Delhi Cab:
- Degrees of Giving
- The Value of Money
- Madison's Story:
- PART 8 - Evidence for Your Values:
- PART 9 - Comparing Your Life Domains:
- PART 10 - Comparing Your Values:
- The Values of an Awakened Person
- The Conflict of Multiple Value Spheres
- Karen's Story:
- The Values of an Awakened Person - Part II:
- A Single Hierarchy of Values:
- Chapter 11 THE THIRD INSIGHT RECALL YOUR ORIGIN OF ONENESS
- Being in Stillness
- The Practice of Stillness Meditation
- Meditation is Your Natural State
- The Story of the White House:
- The Purpose of Meditation
- The Spiritual Encounter Junkie
- Going Beyond the Separate Self
- Elizabeth's Story:
- Be the Witness of the Ego-Mind
- Meditation and No Attention to Thinking
- Disregarding a Founding Thought
- Stillness Meditation
- Sanjeev's Story:
- An Instruction in Stillness Meditation
- Wisdom and Emptiness
- Chapter 12 THE FOURTH INSIGHT RELATE AS YOUR FULL POTENTIAL
- A New World
- Awakened Relationships
- A Continual State of Resolution
- The Beginning of Awakened Relationships
- Acknowledging Perspectives
- The Retriever's Story:
- Nonviolent Communications and Awakened Compassion
- Awakened Love is Perfectly Conditional
- The Purpose of Awakened Relationships
- 'What You Do' versus 'How You Feel'
- Natural Hierarchies
- Three Experiences of Collective Consciousness
- Event-Driven Collective Consciousness
- Restorative Collective Consciousness
- Spontaneous Collective Consciousness
- 'Flow' and Awakened Mind
- Spontaneous Right-Speech
- Spontaneous Right-Action
- Initiating Awakened Mind - Six Questions
- Daniel's Story:
- God and the Goal of Evolution
- The Man in the Rain
- The Tears of the Bodhisattvas
- The Awakened Life
- Selected Bibliography
