Seeing Your True Nature : The First-Person Science of Consciousness and the Headless Way
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Overview
Seeing Your True Nature investigates a simple but radical hypothesis: when we carefully examine our experience, we do not find a self located behind our face, but an open space in which the world appears.
Drawing on Douglas Harding's Headless Way methods, this book argues that first-person experiments can function as rigorous methods for investigating consciousness. Through experiential exercises, philosophical analysis, and qualitative research, it shows how ordinary perception can undergo a profound experiential shift in which the self or mind is recognised as void-like - a direct experience often described as awakening.
Bringing these phenomenological findings into dialogue with Chinese Zen Buddhism (Chan) and contemporary accounts of pure awareness and embodiment, this book challenges the common-sense assumption that consciousness is located in the head and divided from the world. Most importantly, it invites readers to directly test these claims for themselves.
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- ISBN-13: 9781788361491
- ISBN-10: 1788361490
- Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
- Publish Date: December 2026
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.13 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.94 pounds
- Page Count: 302
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