Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self Book

"I believe, as did the Buddha," says Shirley Nicholson, "that to be ourselves and to find our way, we need to know who we are." Nicholson?s new release opens the doors to discovering the universe within ourselves. Drawing on both ancient wisdom and modern depth psychology, she lays out principles that are inherent in everyone?s psyche. These principles are not things, but rather powers or ways in which our consciousness can function. They include the physical body, emotions, the mind, intuition, and pure consciousness, or atma. Using lucid and anecdotal language, Nicholson explores each principle and shows us how to develop them. It?s in the course of this journey that we gradually begin to realize who we really are and slowly come to identify with atma. Atma is the true light of which all our various fields and powers are but luminous shadows, beautiful in themselves but only partial revelations of our essential being. "Our self-sense is transient and empty of any real, lasting core," says Nicholson. "But our deepest being lies in what the Buddha called the changeless, the unborn, the unconditioned?what we have been calling ?atma.?" Seven Human Powers is a guidebook to discovering our true selves, and beyond that, to discovering the nature of transpersonal self, which is both unique and universal.Read More