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The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment Throughout Time—and How You Can Cultivate Them, 2nd Edition
By Craig Pearson, Ph.D.
Throughout history, great men and women have described exalted experiences of extraordinary wakefulness, freedom, and bliss—as different from our ordinary waking experience as waking is from dreaming. Laozi, Plato, Rūmī, St. Teresa of Avila, Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Black Elk, Einstein—people of all times and places have described experiences that rank among the most inspiring in all of literature.
The Supreme Awakening offers a rich collection of these experiences, and shows how ordinary men and women today are enjoying the same kinds of sublime experiences celebrated by the Buddha, Wordsworth, Thoreau, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and many others—simply by practicing the effortless technique of Transcendental Meditation.
This expanded second edition provides additional material as well as an extended interview with an individual about his experiences of higher states of consciousness.
Drawing on the work of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, The Supreme Awakening explains how these experiences arise and provides a systematic way of categorizing them.
Also, it describes a practical method—the effortless technique of Transcendental Meditation—that anyone can use to cultivate these remarkable experiences and enjoy the unparalleled benefits.
Finally, the book shows the immense practical benefits, for every area of life, of cultivating enlightenment.
About the Author
Craig Pearson is Academic Vice-President of Maharishi University of Management, in Fairfield, Iowa. He holds a Ph.D. in Maharishi Vedic Science and based his doctoral dissertation on the research he did for this book. He is also the author of The Complete Book of Yogic Flying.
