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Your awakening has always been accessible, but to experience this, you must first identify the life 
you have unknowingly constructed because of concealed conditioning: those conversations; 
relationships; and responses to life that may be curbing your full potential.




© The Uncommon Path: 
O-Books Publishing, June 2009.
Also by the author: 
Poder Y Gracia, Spain, June 2007.













T A B L E   O F   C O N T E N T S

Foreword By Bob Weinstein

Preface

Acknowledgements
A Note to The Reader



Introduction

Intuiting Oneness
Untangling Free Will
Conceptual-Free-Will
Conscious-Free-Will
Concealed Conditioning
What is Consciousness?
The Two Sides of Narcissism
The Vice-Grip on Your Spirit
Verifying The Way
Relationships Free From Personal Conflict
Peter and Rebecca’s Story
Convenient and Awakened De-centering
The ego’s Dharma
Determining Your Interest
Missy’s Story


chapter 1 – An Overview of The Four Insights

The Four Insights of Awakening Conscious-Free-Will
The Dalai Lama’s Shoes
The First Insight - Renounce Conditioned Motives
The Second Insight - Reclaim Your Consciousness from Conditioning
The Third Insight - Recall Your Origin of Oneness
The Fourth Insight - Relate as Your Full Potential


chapter 2 – The Whole ‘I’

Toward Oneness
The Ego and The ‘I’
The Ego - Capital ‘E’
The ego - Small ‘e’
Suing The Buddha
The Unhealthy-Ego
Spirit Distracted?
The Ego-Mind Defends Itself
Tara’s Story
The Shadow’s Trap
April’s Story
Identifying The Shadow
Reintegrating The Shadow
Adrian’s Story
Christopher and Hazel’s Story
The Unconscious Becomes Conscious
The Declaration of Freedom
Jessica’s Story
I Am Buddha
Stepping on The Path
The Power to be Yourself
The Hand of Grace
The Source of Wisdom


chapter 3 – Two Ways to Joy

The Ego-Mind is 4,000 Years Old
The Timeless Lesser-Self
Unknowingly One with The Little-Self
The Relationship with Me
Me, Myself and I
Forming The Separate sense-of-self
The Culturally-Created-Self
True Individuality
Brenda’s Story
Two Forms of Affliction
Death and The Lesser-Self
Oops! I Must be Dead


chapter 4 – The Grace of Resistance

Change and Changelessness
Chaos and Serenity
Change and Clock Time
Measuring Global Change
Change and The Present Moment
Change and Psychotherapy
The Bright Side of The Road
The Doctor’s Story
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Numbing The Voice of God
The Way of Resistance
Melissa’s Story
Change is The Natural State


chapter 5 – Freeing Your Mind

The Courtesan of The Lesser-Self
Who You Are is Not Your Thoughts
Mick’s Story
Enlightenment – The Way You Relate
Paying Attention to Thoughts
Conditioned Attention to Thinking
No Attention to Thinking
Awakened Attention to Thinking
The Harmless Nature of Thought
Tom and Helen’s Story
Be Unmindful
Sir Lancelot’s Email
Liz’s Story
Unknowing Experts at Disregarding Thoughts
How You Relate to Your Mind
Discern, Decide and Disregard Consciously
Accessing Conscious-Free-Will


chapter 6 – Karma and Ego’s Dharma

The Relevance of Karma
The ‘X’ Factor of Karma
Jill’s Story
Back to Basics
Karma – A Steady Compulsion
Acting Without Creating Karma
Karma - The Spark of Release
Karma and Your Past and Future Lives
Finding Your Karma
Karma and Your Attention
Amy’s Story
Locating Your Attention


chapter 7 – Awakening Conversations

The Ego-Mind in Your Fifth-Chakra
A Word to The Wise
John’s Story
Kevin’s Story
The Unhealthy-Ego Snaps
The Soccer Captain
The Threshold in an Awakened Person
Choosing Your Words Carefully
Sarah’s Story
The Lesser-Self’s Favorite Topics of Conversation
Uncovering Concealed Conditioning in Conversations
Jennifer’s Story
Ryan’s Story
The Little-Mind Stands Up for Itself
Selective Silence
Taking the Truth Home


chapter 8 – Awakening Relationships

The True Nature of Your Relationships
Your Image in Relationships
         
Jasmine’s Story
Uncovering The Unhealthy-Ego

Shaking The Ground
Defining a Relevant Relationship
Identifying Relevant Relationships
Awakening Your Relationships

An Authentic Stand

Eric’s Story

The Greatest Expression of Love

Carla’s Story
A New Way of Interacting
Nefresh or Ruach/Animal or Spirit

Devora’s Story
Philanthropy as an Expression of Awakening

Peony’s Story


chapter 9 – The First Insight
Renounce Conditioned Motives

Identifying Conditioning in Everyday Life
      The Object of Your Desire
      Unconsciousness Before Coffee
      Motives of The Malicious Ego-Mind
      Uncovering Concealed Conditioning

Instructions for The Exercise
Q 1 Subjective: Thoughts, Emotions, Meditation and Introspection.
Q 2 Inter-Subjective: Relationships, Belief Systems and Culture.
Q 3 Objective: Home, Health, Possessions and the Sciences.
Q 4 Inter-Objective: Finances, Politics and Social Structures.

Analyzing Your Ratings
Transcending Conditioned Motives


chapter 10 – The Second Insight
Reclaim Your Consciousness

Knowing Your Values
Defining Values
Understanding Your Choices
The Choices You Make
Alex’s Story
Liberating Your Value Structures
Complexity and Transformation
Life Domains / Value Spheres
Josh and Diane’s Story

Aligning Your Values with the Awakened Life – A Ten-Part Exercise:

Part 1 Life Domains in the Four Quadrants
Values Within Your Life Domains
Amanda and Katie’s Story
Part 2 Identify Your Life Domains
Part 3 Identify Your Values
Part 4 Allocating Your Values into Your Life Domains
Part 5 Ordering Your Life Domains
Part 6 Ordering Your Values
Part 7 Confirming Your Life Domains

The New Delhi Taxi
Degrees of Giving
The Value of Money
Madison’s Story

Part 8 Evidence for Your Values
Part 9 Comparing Your Life Domains
Part 10 Comparing Your Values

The Values of an Awakened Person
The Conflict of Multiple Value Spheres
Karen’s Story
The Values of an Awakened Person – Part II
A Single Hierarchy of Values


chapter 11 – The Third Insight
Recall Your Origin of Oneness

      Being in Stillness
      The Practice of Stillness Meditation
      Meditation is Your Natural State
      The Story of The White House
      The Purpose of Meditation
      The Spiritual Encounter Junkie
      Going Beyond the Separate Self
      Elizabeth’s Story
      Be the Witness of the Ego-Mind
      Meditation and No Attention to Thinking
      Disregarding a Founding Thought
      Stillness Meditation
      Sanjeev’s Story
      An Instruction in Stillness Meditation
      Wisdom and Emptiness  


chapter 12 – The Fourth Insight
Relate as Your Full Potential  

      A New World
      Awakened Relationships
      A Continual State of Resolution
      The Beginning of Awakened Relationships
      Acknowledging Perspectives
      Nonviolent Communications and Awakened Compassion
      Awakened Love is Perfectly Conditional
      The Purpose of Awakened Relationships
      ‘What You Do’ versus ‘How You Feel’
      Natural Hierarchies
      Three Experiences of Collective Consciousness
      Event-Driven Collective Consciousness
      Restorative Collective Consciousness
      Spontaneous Collective Consciousness

      Spontaneous Right-Speech
      Spontaneous Right-Action
      Initiating Awakened Mind - Six Questions
      Daniel’s Story
      The Man in the Rain

      The Tears of the Bodhisattvas
      The Awakened Life        



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