The Journey of Awakening... The Journey of Awakening is a simple but Radical Inquiry into the self-imposed illusion that creates individual suffering resulting from the experience of separateness. The experience of separateness results from the believing ourselves to be something other than what we actually are. This illusion can be dispelled by realizing the impermanence and illusory nature of the self. When this realization is profound, we are freed to live a life to its fullest as the Radiant Boundless Awareness that is our true nature. This book explores this real possibility through the actual journey made by the Author and the process as it unfolded in his life. "Several years ago my journey came to an abrupt end with the occurrence of a profound and permanent paradigm shift in my awareness. The old paradigm of experiencing myself as being an individual entity located and identified by a library of knowledge of who I believed myself to be, to an experience of a vast expansive sense of being connected with everything as a play of Radiant Being. Initially, profoundly disoriented by the impact of finding myself in this radically new dimension of Being, I began to write down my experience to help me understand and make sense out of what was apparently happening. Years later I was encouraged to share this experience with others. The Discovery of Presence... There are moments in most all of our lives when, quite unexpectedly and out of nowhere, some unknown force of Stillness abruptly interrupts the time and space of our normal stream of conscious experience, dropping us into a profound moment of Quietness; revealing a Silent sense of wonder and awe at the sheer beauty of existence Itself. It is as if some magical Presence from another realm has reached through a tear in the fabric of our personal reality, creating a portal of access through which to caress us and make Itself known. There is an ensuing shift in perception; an amplification of feeling; a kind of cl