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Anthony Demello on Self Observation

4/28/2012

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The Jesuit psychologist Anthony Demello has some very good words of wisdom relative to awakening, awareness and spirituality. Influenced by Hindu, Buddhist and Christian streams of thinking, he defines spirituality as waking up.  Enlightenment means being woken up, aware and fully conscious. He offers a specific prescription for attainment of it through a process of self observation.  You can hear him in the selection below.

He contrasts self-observation with self-absorption. Self-absorption is is self-preoccupation.. You are concerned about yourself, worried about yourself. Self-observation means watching everything in you and around you as far as possible and watch it as if it were happening to someone else. You look at yourself and the situation as if you have no connection with them whatsoever. "Don't interfere, don't fix anything - watch and observe".

Great book that I will return to in the next two months. It is available on line on here: Awareness.


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