Fascinating, compelling, and insightful, Welwood's guide to personal and spiritual transformation is sure to become one of the most frequently revisited resources on my bookshelf, and is highly recommended for anyone interested in living a more meaningful life.

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I've been looking for a book like this for a long, long time. So many books offer advice on how to attain enlightenment, like the excellent The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, but there is so little about what to do after you do. Like how to bring what you realize back to your life and community in a safe, mature and responsible way. This book is the one to get if you need a guide to your enlightened experience....get it even before you have an enlightenment experience, it's THAT good.

This is the best book on integrating psychology and spirituality that I've read, written in both a clear and heartfelt way. I'm truly moved by the great depths that the author has touched. His ways of discussing how healing happens and the warmth and brilliance and range of his insight are quite inspiring. His way of discussing the ground of being is the clearest I've read, and he writes of it in many different ways that will reach a wider range of people, both in the healing professions and in ordinary life. I felt that everything he discussed came from his own realization. Each one of the therapy examples in the book moved me and focused on the larger field of how we are with our experience. This book will undoubtedly by a guide for brand new ways of practicing therapy.

John Welwood's new book deserves to become a sacred script for the new mellinium. Toward a Psychology of Awakening brings together the best of what the East and West have to offer the modern spiritual seeker.

There have been only a handful of books I've read that have really made an impact on me, and Toward a Psychology of Awakening is one of those. The book felt very rich to me, there was so much to digest and learn from. How can I begin to express what has been personally provoked by such huge ideas? Thank you for this book and what it has inspired within me.

Your book is a masterpiece, a work of genius. I could never thank you enough.

I have been practicing Zen Buddhism for the past 15 years as a lay person. I can not thank John Welwood enough for his book not only for its insightful and wise content but for his gentle and skilful way of starting a dialogue between western psychoanalysis and spiritual practice. This is a must book for anyone who has been practicing seriously any form of Buddhism or any psychotherapist who is open to explore beyond the traditional forms of psychotherapy.