Awakening Into a Complete Human Being

Book excerpt: Profound and intimate, Awakening into a Complete Human Being addresses a second awakening, an awakening into form through the union of the lover and the Inner Beloved. It is a coming back to the front of the body under the full sovereignty of the One. Atreya Thomas is an extra-ordinary teacher who writes as he speaks. Having cut his own path from outside any particular "school," he speaks from experience and free of dogma, and the results are fresh and enlivening. His own life combines the duties of householder, devotee, and teacher in a lifestyle that focuses on being awake in the midst of ordinary life. This book addresses awakening in "ordinary" topics and questions by drawing out the nectar of timeless wisdom. Throughout, there are over fifty Practices that the author has discovered on his own journey into becoming a complete human being. They are fresh and of the times, and not burdened with dogmatic overtones.