Rude Awakening: Perils, Pitfalls, and Hard Truths of the Spiritual Path

Don't believe the marketing hype. This book isn't about the universal spiritual path, it's just a glorified buddhist sermon. Sure let's reduce all mystical experience to vague platitudes about 'emptiness' and 'non-attachment'. Author apparently has a lot of experience selling his transformational bunk to new-agers, but any real spiritual seeker should avoid this kind of material. That is unless they want to be subjected to nihilistic buddhist teachings concealed as cosmic insights!

The Jon Hyman below who wrote a review of this book must have read another book because it has no relation to Rude Awakening what so ever. Seriously. This book is a good read for those interested in the path of mindfulness and what inner obstacles and self deceptions they may discover on that path toward clarity and presence. There’s interesting historical references, personal opinions derived from the author’s experiences and straight up talk with pinches of humor. There are some personal projections, and well thats up to the reader to gel with them or not, for beleifs arent necessarily fact. It’s not a book about consciousness which In my opinion is best. Though whom take stabs at explaining the how and how-nots about consciousness, miss it’s whole point. It’’s answers are best not aimed for and would be like trying to explain the origin of the Universe. Good book!