the uncommon path
awakening the wisdom within

The Introduction:
Awakening to the uncommon path
The aim of this book is to dispel any possibility that concealed 
conditioning is commanding your quest to awaken. Your 
subsequent willingness to express your awakening—in 
communion with other people beyond conditioning—holds 
the key to a new world. Awakened love is the capacity to 
evolve consciousness by affording the spiritual development 
of humanity. The clarity of this intention implies that parts of 
this book are likely to go “against the grain” of inconspicuous 
patterning. Should sensations of trepidation or tension arise, 
remember that this book was written exclusively to help you 
rediscover your natural states of peace and potential —nothing 
more, nothing less.


Chapter 1:
The Wisdom Insights - An Overview
This chapter is an overview of the Four Insights of Awakening
that create and sustain the conditions for your awakened life.
They are: Renounce; Reclaim; Recall; and Relate. The 4 R’s guide 
you in identifying concealed conditioning that may be affecting 
the outcome of your quest to awaken. They also show you how to 
unhinge the shadow from your decision-making process, thus 
ending its reappearance in your future. The Four Insights are 
the cornerstones of Power and Grace. This chapter prepares you 
for the exercises included later in the individual chapters on each 
of the Four Insights (Chapters 8-11.)


Chapter 2:
The Two Forms of Affliction
Most of us unknowingly suffer from unconsciousness before coffee. 
By the time we get out of bed in the morning much of our attention 
is consumed by a litany of conditioned fears and cravings, the 
majority of which are a product of our time and place of birth. 
The second chapter identifies and clarifies the impersonal ego
―the part of us motivated by trepidation and desire and 
compounded by long-term interactions with family, media, 
culture, and the world. This chapter offers twenty-five ways to 
observe this independent force of conditioning, beginning with 
behaviors in which conditioning and unconsciousness are most 
obvious. Identifying the universal ego simultaneously reveals the 
awakened choices that allow us to transcend it.  


Chapter 3:
The Grace of Resistance
The third chapter reveals that fear of change is felt as resistance
to a new direction in life for which you are already prepared. Here
we see that trust in transformation transmutes turmoil into truth,
and that on the spiritual path, all limiting fears dissolve once you
obtain objectivity on the opposition―the ego. Your suffering, as well 
as the pain and distress you cause others, comes mostly from your 
inability to recognize resistance as the invitation of consciousness to 
evolve. We will see how anguish is not really caused by things that 
happen to you; it is a result of your conscious or unconscious 
opposition to your birthright of evolution. Often it takes more energy
to pretend you are happy than it does to let go of unnecessary
suffering. Emotional and psychological struggles are a manifestation
of mediocrity masquerading as contentment.


Chapter 4:
Who You Are is not Your Thoughts
Spontaneous right-action is the ability to act, free of conditioned 
limitation. Since the past always appears as thoughts, this chapter 
shows that spontaneous right-action emerges upon the realization 
that this activity is consuming most of your attention. The ego loves 
rampant cognition; when you recognize the ego’s hand in your 
thinking, you learn to invite spontaneous right-action in your life. 
Spontaneous right-action begins with the understanding that 
thoughts are a mechanical process of a healthy mind. The third 
chapter reveals that interpretation is key; simply because a thought 
is present in your awareness does not mean it has any significance 
for you or the world. 


Chapter 5:
Transcending Karma and the Dharma of the Lesser-Self
The fifth chapter provides a viewpoint on karma (the consequences 
of the past) that applies to contemporary living. This chapter begins 
by outlining the relationship between action and karma in a way 
that appeals to both the neophyte and the often jaded advanced 
seeker. Since we are all inclined to act in particular ways because of 
our past deeds, we naturally assume that karma has to do with our 
actions. This chapter reveals that it is not the act that establishes 
karma, because doing nothing can also create karma. Karma is often 
interpreted as cause and effect, or action and result, hence directly 
related to doing something. We will see how this conditioned under
-standing of karma tends to lead us in circles as we create “good” 
karma and avoid “bad” karma. In this way the ego keeps us busy 
and well clear of the fruits of our spiritual path.


Chapter 6:
Awakening Conversations
Your words have tremendous power—far beyond that which you
assume. Your words either support or degrade the conditions for 
awakened living. Many of the words you use keep you separated 
from authentic joy. In this chapter, we will see how your conversations 
determine your destiny. Most interpersonal exchanges are heavily 
laden with the topics and words of the lesser-mind. This means that 
many so-called “meaningful” conversations are nothing more than 
the ego in one person talking with the same ego in another person. 
This chapter uses over 200 statements to help you identify the lesser-
mind in everyday conversations. The purpose is to show you where 
concealed conditioning is alive and thriving in dialogue so that 
you can transcend it. 


Chapter 7:
Awakening Relationships
In this chapter the types of relationships relevant to awakening are 
defined (as all are not). The goal of this chapter is to prepare you to 
relate to others as an awakened person. For the sake of this work, 
we define relevant relationships as those that are most pertinent to 
your search for, or progression along, the spiritual path. This chapter 
shows you how to evolve the basis of your relationship. We will 
discuss twenty qualities of character to determine if an individual 
with whom you wish to develop a new relationship may inhibit or 
enhance your awakening. Some of these include: how he/she treats 
others; parental relationships; open-mindedness; sense of humor; 
clutter; and scrutiny under group circumstances.


Chapter 8:
The First Insight - Renounce Conditioned Motives 
Ridding yourself of all opinions formerly accepted begins by creating 
new permanent structures in consciousness through which your 
awakening can be expressed with effervescent splendor. Bringing 
the influences of conditioning to your attention is one half of this task. 
The other half is to consent to letting go of these influences. This 
process of identification and renunciation—free of all requests to 
overcome or conquer— brings the ego into the light of awareness, 
where it cannot survive. The First Insight contains a six-part exercise 
comprising of 150 statements. Each one brings you to a point of 
objectivity on the presence of concealed conditioning in everyday 
circumstances. All major aspects of life are addressed, including: 
Family, Relationships, Career, and Money. 


Chapter 9:
The Second Insight - Reclaim your Awareness 
In this chapter we discuss values, Intentions for Doing and Intentions 
of Being. Values are core psychological structures by which you make 
all major decisions, whether or not you are conscious of the process. 
You value what you consider to be important. The more essential 
something is to you, the more that value will be evidenced in your 
life and actions. Since you already possess the qualities necessary for 
your awakening, the arrangement of those existing values is key to 
manifesting that outcome. We will see that to evolve as a conscious 
person, the arrangement of your values can be shifted slightly from 
an emphasis on individual needs to a focus on inclusiveness and 
expansion. To create and sustain freedom, the arrangement of your 
values must be capable of directing such a pure intention. Inherited 
arrangements of your values do not allow for, or create, the space 
for awakening; therefore they are incapable of delivering an 
awakened outcome. 


Chapter 10:
The Third Insight - Recall Your Origin of Joy
The Third Insight describes the simple practices of selective silence and 
stillness meditation. It reveals that your true nature is not so much the
constant movement of the mind, but one of great peace in which all 
creativity arises. Stillness meditation is often the first place you will 
come face-to-face with the true force of the impersonal ego. In stillness 
meditation, you can practice recognizing and disregarding the lesser
-mind so that when you encounter it in your daily life you will have the
self-confidence and will to let it be. Stillness meditation is a metaphor 
for awakened living.


Chapter 11:
The Fourth Insight - Relate as Your Full Potential
The Fourth Insight spontaneously interrupts the conditioned trance and 
supplants it with the sweet intimacy of awakening―freedom from all 
emotional and psychological suffering. Spontaneity, however, implies a 
certain degree of preparedness; therefore the extent of this unfolding is 
dependent upon your engagement with the preceding three Insights. 
For this reason, the Fourth Insight appears as the closing chapter of the 
book. The Fourth Insight confirms your availability to merge with, 
evolve, and expand the waves of unity consciousness that are appearing 
in our world—not so much for your personal good, but for the sake of 
humanity. 

*To distinguish between the Freudian ego and the ego you wish to
 identify and awaken to in your spiritual work, I will refer to this 
particular cognitive construct as the ego.

*Adapted from Divine Revelations in Pali Buddhism by Peter Masefield:
Allen & Unwin, London, 1986.

*Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 
- Harper Perennial, 1991.

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