: David James Pritchard
: Feel The Rain: An Introduction to the Complexity and Expansion of Conscious
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: 9781667800837
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'Feel The Rain' explores the enigmatic and long disputed nature of consciousness as well as best practices for expansion of consciousness. There is nothing more essential for living an authentic life, yet nothing more difficult to understand, much less achieve. The subjects and challenges involved are complex, subtle, and constantly evolving. Pritchard has a gift for explaining seemingly ineffable concepts and processes. He deftly weaves together the teachings of the great mystics from both Western and Eastern cultures, historical scholars, cutting edge scientific research, and his own unique experiences to meet this challenge. He brings a deeper understanding to the learning process, including matters you were sure you already understood. This is a book for anyone searching for life's deeper meanings, whether you are just beginning to search, or if you have been on the path for some time.
INTRODUCTION
The unexamined life is not worth living.
—Socrates1
Tradition holds that these were among the last words spoken by Socrates (470-399 BCE) before being sentenced to death. Although this quote seems quite apt to introduce a book on the complexity and expansion of consciousness, I hesitated to use it because of its tinge of egoism. Socrates argued that it is only the pursuit of wisdom (philosophy) that raises human beings above animals that live only through instinct. Does this mean those of us struggling and overwhelmed by work, bill paying, and child raising are not leading lives worth living? Of course not. So what makes life worth living? At least for me, it doesn’t get any better than the welcoming smile of a grandchild, a cold beer after working a long day in the yard, or the embrace of my wife at night. It is a promise of this book that these precious life pleasures as well as life’s challenges will become more vivid, less fearful, and more meaningful as your consciousness expands.
Understanding the nature of consciousness and expanding its temporary and false boundaries provides the potential for you to see and relate to yourself and to the world as if from a new dimension. You discover new values, new realities. . .a more authentic plane of awareness and existence. This is accomplished in large part through a new freedom from habits and fears. These are often deeply penetrating habits and fears of which you are not even aware. This new freedom of expanded consciousness welcomes you into an accessible lightness of being.
The promising benefits of meaningful expansion of consciousness certainly sound awe-inspiring, and indeed they are. Yet they cannot be achieved by the widespread “magical thinking” of our so-called New Age. If we hope to change/expand our consciousness, a bit of academic rigor is first required to get a better understanding of the enigmatic nature of consciousness. After all, the essential first step in attempting to change something is to first try to understand how that “something” operates. Understanding the nature of consciousness is no easy task. For example, it may surprise you to learn that the definition and significance of the nature of consciousness have been disputed for more than three thousand years. The disputed theories about consciousness are numerous and contain extreme differences. At one end, there are those who believe there is no such thing as individual human consciousness, and that we are all essentially biologic automatons responding only to our instinctual evolutionary needs. At the other end, there are those who believe that the entir