Product Description

The secrets to living a life of peace and happiness through spiritual awakening

In Wake Up Now, bestselling meditation expert Stephan Bodian offers you a step-by-step roadmap to every stage of your spiritual journey. While other books end with awakening, this book breaks new ground by guiding you through the process of integrating and actualizing the awakening into everyday life. Customized exercises, personalized Q&A sections, and other tools invite you to awaken right now-- without all the jargon or elaborate practices--to the peace, love, and joy of your essential nature.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #347579 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover

“Both profound and practical, Wake Up Now guides the reader through the intricacies of awakening as only someone who has walked the walk themselves can do. The clarity and compassion it offers are both rare and welcome.”
--Adyashanti, author of The Impact of Awakening and Emptiness Dancing

By simply picking up this book, you've stumbled onto a path that's been hidden from you--until now. It's the path to enlightenment, and it has been traveled by countless individuals through the ages. But this path is a pathless one, a road that keeps changing as your own journey endlessly unfolds. Wake Up Now is your guide for this incredible journey. It won't tell you how many miles you must travel or whether the path will fork left or right, but it will offer you direct pointers that invite you to awaken now and navigate the obstacles, whether external or internal, that might block your path.

Whether you're new to the path of awakening or an accomplished seeker in search of further guidance, this book will show you that enlightenment is always available, right here and right now--just open your eyes.

About the Author

Stephan Bodian is the former editor-in-chief of Yoga Journal, author of the bestselling guidebook Meditation for Dummies, and coauthor of Buddhism for Dummies. Founder and director of the School for Awakening, he has studied with some of the great spiritual masters of our age. After a series of deepening awakenings, his life is now devoted to igniting and fostering the flame of truth in others through his counseling, mentoring, teaching, and writing. For more information, visit his website at www.stephanbodian.org.

Customer Reviews

diving into - and through - the confusion
I found this book clear and concise; at last, a book which makes interconnections between spirituality and psychology/conditioning, and which is written in plain English! OK, so I admit a little bias - I speak to Stephan on a weekly basis - nonetheless I can't believe that many people who have an interest in this area will find the text as mysterious as has been suggested by the previous reviewer. This is no new age monstrosity - it's down to earth, straightforward talk about the process of feeling your way to your natural state (note: feeling/experiencing, not just thinking). Whilst written in a modern style, it is not in any way divorced from more traditional teachings, as ample quotations from other teachers are included. Go on, give it a try!

Not as easy as you may think
Mr Bodian has authored two books in the 'Dummies' series which are excellent.This is a different matter -those who experience the allegedly spiritual 'enlightenment' cannot transmit it because they do not know how they attained it themselves. Some meditate for a lifetime with no success and others get it in the bath. It may even be a physiological occurrence in the brain -a synapse short circuit, a genetic predisposition. If enlightenment were attainable by book, we would all be in that condition and wouldn't the world be a different place! One of the illuminated even claims that the world is as it should be. Hmm.
The obscure and inpenetrable nature of this book is shown in its last sentences, which are ;
'Rest in the limitless spaciousness and emptiness of innocent looking don't-know-mind....Nothing else is needed and nothing is left out.You are already what you seek. Just be it!'
Its full of this. What on earth is conceptual thinking to make of it?