Angela mentioned this book a few months ago, and yesterday it arrived in my mailbox! Huzzah! How did that happen?
Anyway I'm nearly finished, and so far it's a wonderful distillation on the concept of reality as pure illusion, and also how to relate to a reality that is pure illusion, something which is often left out of other teachings. We know from a million sources, and personal experience, that the world conspires with us in mind, and that the world is extremely self-centered. But it's not often that we see clearly how to relate to that world, to that concept.
Sure, the pain is an illusion, but it still hurts, right?
To me this is a really solid and complete Western version of the essential nature of what I would call Vipassana Meditation, which is the core of Buddhism, the real workhorse. Be conscious of your discomfort, go into that discomfort, see it as the illusion that it is and reclaim your power from it, expanding more and more into infinite joy and abundance.
The downside of importing Eastern teachings is that even when you spend a lot of time on them, they are still foreign and strange and can be hard to really integrate into Western culture. That is why I love this book.
I feel like I've been in Phase 2 for awhile now and The Process is bound to springboard me forward.
I'd love to hear about some of the experiences you Phase 2ers out there have had reclaiming Eggs.
The metaphysical traditions I'm familiar with call it "grist for the mill". The concept of Phase 1 and Phase 2 is something I've read from many sources, but they don't put it nearly as well as this guy does.
You spend a lot of your life feeling pain and becoming convinced that you are separated, then at a certain point the Adept learns that all pain is grist for the mill of personal growth and evolution.
Anyone else here reading, or has read, this book?