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The Light That I Am

Notes from the Ground of Being

By: J.C. Amberchele

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The Light That I Am

Notes from the Ground of Being

By: J.C. Amberchele

J. C. Amberchele is the pseudonym of a man who found freedom—real freedom—during the long prison sentence he is still serving. This freedom is the same liberation or enlightenment that so many of us are seeking, but that we seek within the framework of a life where we can have access to all the paraphernalia of the spiritual search and the apparent comfort money can buy. If you are reading this, you probably have an inkling that the real freedom which Amberchele talks about is something different and has no relation to the external freedom that most of us enjoy. The “experiments” he used before his radical shift in perception seemed, in his own words, “crazy and childish, but I gave them a try. And there it was, as plain as day.” The Light That I Am is no mere prescriptive rehashing of techniques; it combines fascinating biographical material with uniquely accessible insights into the nature of who we really are and how a person continues to function after everything has changed, and yet nothing has changed.

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1626257809

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The Heavenly Backflip

Seeing and Being the Unfigureoutable

By: J.C. Amberchele

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The Heavenly Backflip

Seeing and Being the Unfigureoutable

By: J.C. Amberchele

J.C. Amberchele is a remarkably eloquent writer; the sixty-one succinct chapters of The Heavenly Backflip draw on conversations with fellow inmates and Buddhist group members and cover topics such as the nature of enlightenment, the Headless Way, the direct and the progressive path and the various concepts of Buddhism. Interspersed with these are taut chapters of prose informed by his own first-hand experience of Awakening. This is the Perennial Philosophy brought fully to life within the confines of a prison environment. This third book by Amberchele is made up of short chapters of alternating prose and dialogues with fellow prison inmates. A voracious reader and long-time Buddhist practitioner, his search found its conclusion in The Headless Way approach devised by Douglas Harding. As well as being an exposition of the Perennial Philosophy, Amberchele answers, via the dialogues, questions which come up along the path leading the reader towards a very practical seeing of one’s Original Face. Altogether, a concise, profound and exuberant text on the nature of identity.

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1626257779

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The Almighty Mackerel and His Holy Bootstraps

By: J.C. Amberchele

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The Almighty Mackerel and His Holy Bootstraps

By: J.C. Amberchele

Perhaps if something is said over and over a hundred different ways, it will finally sink in. And perhaps not. But if it is seen just once.... This book is an offering by the Absolute; an expression of a realization ultimately had by no one. Part I is comprised of 15 essays. The dialogues in Part II are based on conversations with five other incarcerated men over a period of four years. The author is indebted to these men, and to the English philosopher and spiritual teacher Douglas E. Harding for the awareness exercises and many of the terms presented in this book, and for his unique and incomparable expression of non-dual wisdom.

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The Heavenly Backflip

Seeing and Being the Unfigureoutable

By: J.C. Amberchele

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Seeing and Being the Unfigureoutable

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The Light That I Am

Notes from the Ground of Being

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Cracked Open

By: J.C. Amberchele

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Cracked Open

By: J.C. Amberchele

This book is a collection of reflections and observations about life before and after I came to prison, as currently seen from the perspective of this Awake Emptiness at my core. I am profoundly grateful to the late Douglas Harding and his friends for helping me to see Who I Really Am, and to thus break the bonds of contraction and confusion that defined my criminal past. Truly without deserving it, I have been blessed with the miracle of inner freedom, the turnaround of turnarounds, what Harding referred to as the no-meter path to heaven. This book is about living and failing to live the awakened life, and how discovering one's Emptiness—one's divinity—is the difference between the two, which, as it turns out, were never two to begin with. As Harding often said, you cannot fix yourself from the level of the self. Only the One who is Other and yet not other, who is both No-thing and Everything, who is at the very heart of you as Who You Really Are, can transform your life.

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1626257264

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The Almighty Mackerel and His Holy Bootstraps

By: J.C. Amberchele

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How You Lose

By: J. C. Amberchele

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How You Lose

By: J. C. Amberchele

A collection of interconnecting stories chronicles the life-altering repercussions of a terrible crime--for both the perpetrator and the victim--as it follows the lives of Melody, Alex, the man who shot her, and others, from the initial crime to Melody's visit to the prison a decade later to confront Alex to find out his motivations for the crime. Reprint.

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Carroll & Graf Pub

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0786711590

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