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    An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life
    An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life
    An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life
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    An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life

    Written by Jeff Foster

    Narrated by Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr.

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    Jeff Foster invites you to forget everything you know, everything you’ve been taught, and everything you’ve ever read about spiritual awakening, Oneness, enlightenment, non-duality, and Advaita, and to consider a new possibility: the possibility of absolute freedom, right now, right here, in the midst of this very ordinary life. Using everyday language and drawing on both personal experience and age-old wisdom, Foster shares the possibility that all the seeking and longing of the mind can come to an absolute end with the falling away of the sense of being a separate individual, and a plunge into unconditional love. And in that plunge—which is totally beyond anything you have ever imagined—this so-called ordinary life reveals its great Secret. Written with stunning clarity and aliveness, this book is a love letter to the exhausted spiritual seeker who is simply longing to come Home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWetware Media
    Release dateSep 8, 2016
    ISBN9781509420940
    An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life
    Author

    Jeff Foster

    Jeff Foster shares from his own awakened experience a way out of seeking fulfillment in the future and into the acceptance of “all this, here and now.” He is the author of The Deepest Acceptance and The Way of Rest. Following a period of depression and physical illness, he embarked on an intensive spiritual search that came to an end with the discovery that life itself was what he had always been seeking. For more, see lifewithoutacentre.com.

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      The book is too dramatically introducing itself. I hope it arrived to the point by the end, for which I lost patience and conviction it could be there.

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