Getting to Where You Are: The Life of Meditation/Steven Harrison. New
Delhi, New Age Books, 2005, x, 210 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-7822-202-7.
Getting to Where You Are: The Life of Meditation/Steven Harrison. New
Delhi, New Age Books, 2005, x, 210 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-7822-202-7.
Contents: Introduction. I. Is it time to wake up?: 1. How did we get here? 2. Getting through with getting through. 3. Is this all there is? II. Meditations on meditation: 1. Meditation--what it is, what it isn't, and how it got that way. 2. Techniques for exploring the mind. 3. Concentration meditation--the scarecrow goes to the wizard for a brain. 4. Awareness meditation--pay attention, this is important. 5. Devotional meditation--if I loved you. 6. Authority and the search for security. 7. Actuality meditation. 8. Breath and body in actuality. 9. Actuality meditation without really trying. III. Walking-around meditation and everyday life: 1. Our thoughts seem to have a mind of their own. IV. Getting here from there: 1. In the end it's the beginning. 2. Expressing the universal in what is. Afterword.
"A penetrating and wide-ranging journey through spirituality, meditation technology, and post-modern culture, Getting to Where You Are challenges the very basis of contemporary spirituality and the consumer society that created it. Steven Harrison explores what meditation actually is, and more important, what is not, and how it got that way. In a series of interlinked essays filled with humor and insight, he investigates full-contact living, free from doctrine and belief, as the expression of our day to day spirituality. In a direct and irreverent style, this one of a kind spirituality book invites us all along for the ride, the twist and turns--and the final collision with life itself."