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Beyond Recovery, first and foremost, is a non-technical, easy to read, structured introduction to Nondual teachings. It uses my spiritual story and recovery's step program to explain and explore those teachings, but I've found that more than half of the readers are not involved in recovery in any way, and never have been. The structure is seen as being helpful in "getting people's mind's around" the teachings so that they can move beyond them. People inside and outside of recovery are reporting that they're coming to the Understanding--finding their own true nature--while reading it.
The Story Behind Beyond Recovery |
"THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK. Fred Davis is steeped in the
knowledge of non duality, and this text is marvelously written for those
in or out of Twelve Step programs. Clear, intelligent, well written
and lots of fun to read!"
~JAMES BRAHA, author, Living Reality: My Extraordinary Summer with 'Sailor' Bob Adamson
"BRAVO TO FRED FOR WRITING WITH SUCH CLARITY. I hope 12 steppers reading this review really get the delicious paradox of that and find themselves picking up this book. Addiction tends to keep us seeking, even if we are seeking recovery. Fred's book has the ability to really bring the timeless wisdom that freedom is in the here and now into the 12 step movement. Great book. I loved it."
~SCOTT KILOBY, author, Natural Rest for Addiction: A Revolutionary Way to Recover through Presence.
"IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness."
~RUPERT SPIRA author, Presence: The Art of Peace and Happiness
"THIS BOOK BY FRED DAVIS extends the culture of [Twelve Step Recovery] and contributes to the current shift in Western civilization, which is one from attending to religion, philosophy, art, history, music, and science as pointers to our true nature, to true nature itself. In other words, it is a shift toward attending to attention, or to the one attending, rather than to the creative outcomes of that kind of attention."
~JERRY KATZ, editor, One: Essential Writings on Nonduality
"THIS IS NOT A BOOK ABOUT RECOVERY. It is a beautiful, profound book on Nonduality. I love its simplicity and honesty, its directness, its clarity. Rather than mere recovery from drugs or alcoholism, this is a great guide of recovery from our addiction to misery, our addiction to patterns of suffering and delusion, in one word, our addiction to the mind and the dreams of separation from Oneness."
~PETRICA VERDES, translator of Ilie Cioara's books
~JAMES BRAHA, author, Living Reality: My Extraordinary Summer with 'Sailor' Bob Adamson
"BRAVO TO FRED FOR WRITING WITH SUCH CLARITY. I hope 12 steppers reading this review really get the delicious paradox of that and find themselves picking up this book. Addiction tends to keep us seeking, even if we are seeking recovery. Fred's book has the ability to really bring the timeless wisdom that freedom is in the here and now into the 12 step movement. Great book. I loved it."
~SCOTT KILOBY, author, Natural Rest for Addiction: A Revolutionary Way to Recover through Presence.
"IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness."
~RUPERT SPIRA author, Presence: The Art of Peace and Happiness
"THIS BOOK BY FRED DAVIS extends the culture of [Twelve Step Recovery] and contributes to the current shift in Western civilization, which is one from attending to religion, philosophy, art, history, music, and science as pointers to our true nature, to true nature itself. In other words, it is a shift toward attending to attention, or to the one attending, rather than to the creative outcomes of that kind of attention."
~JERRY KATZ, editor, One: Essential Writings on Nonduality
"THIS IS NOT A BOOK ABOUT RECOVERY. It is a beautiful, profound book on Nonduality. I love its simplicity and honesty, its directness, its clarity. Rather than mere recovery from drugs or alcoholism, this is a great guide of recovery from our addiction to misery, our addiction to patterns of suffering and delusion, in one word, our addiction to the mind and the dreams of separation from Oneness."
~PETRICA VERDES, translator of Ilie Cioara's books
"I LEARNED A LOT about the 12 Step program by reading Beyond Recovery. One of the takeaways was the feeling, "You've got to spill everything. Let it all go. You can't withhold anything." The author exemplifies that with his writing, too. Whether openly sharing personal tragedies or perennial wisdom--nothing is withheld--and you really feel that. To feel that unwithholding-ness is to taste it within yourself, and feel that you can do it, too. All because the author really cares. In sports, before a big game, there is a saying they use to motivate and inspire: 'Leave it all on the field.' Fred Davis has left it all in this book."
PETER FRANCIS DZIUBAN, author of Consciousness Is All
From the Author
THE ADDICTION THAT BEYOND RECOVERY really addresses is the addiction to a separate self, a make-believe entity who's carving out its own destiny with or without the help of a Higher Power. The book was begun as a "bridge book" between the Twelve Step and Nondual communities, something I'd been working on in my mind--and in my community--for years. However, what it really attempts to bridge is the apparent gulf between organized insanity--what we call 'normalcy'--and the great, boundless ocean of still, silent, causeless bliss that is our True Nature. We can come to know this for our very own selves. I hope you'll join me in this ongoing exploration. I hope you'll tell someone else about it. Together we can bring a new peace, and new hope for survival to our planet--and to all One of us.
BEYOND RECOVERY
Non-Duality and the Twelve Steps
Beyond Recovery is a “bridge book” for those of us who’ve found ourselves seeking a deeper level of spirituality. We may be recovering from addiction, our war with life, or both. One way or another, we’ve come to notice that the spiritual viewpoints from which we’ve been operating are not taking us where we intuitively feel we are being drawn. We know we need “something else,” but we’re not sure what, why, or how. Beyond Recovery will help to answer all of those questions, and then suggest many more.
The
book uses the well-known structure of the Twelve Steps to introduce
these concepts. Recovering or recovered addicts may find it particularly
useful. This is not a typical recovery book; this is the next step.
It assumes the reader is already abstinent, but does not assume any
background in Nonduality. However, if you are already familiar with
oneness teachings, so much the better.
There
is a fundamental shift occurring: the universe is waking up to itself.
Once you have eyes to see and ears to hear, you’ll discover this is already happening all around you–and within you. I hope you’ll join me in exploring it; it’s no accident that you’re here
Beyond Recovery is not just a description of a deeper understanding of life, it’s a prescription
for directly experiencing this for yourself. We let go of our beliefs
into the free-fall of liberation. Ultimately, this new awareness is distinctly
different from the personal view we’ve heretofore lived with. The
breakthrough is self-evident and self-confirming. Life becomes an
adventure in the unfolding of the extraordinary ordinary.
The addiction that Beyond Recovery really addresses is the addiction to a separate self, a make-believe entity who's carving out its own destiny with or without the help of a Higher Power. The book was begun as a "bridge book" between the Twelve Step and Nonduality communities, something I'd been working on in my mind--and in my community--for years. However, what it really attempts to bridge is the apparent gulf between organized insanity--what we call 'normalcy'--and the great, boundless ocean of still, silent, causeless bliss that is our True Nature. We can come to know this for our very own selves. I hope you'll join me in this ongoing exploration. I hope you'll tell someone else about it. Together we can bring a new peace, and new hope for survival to our planet--all One of us.
The addiction that Beyond Recovery really addresses is the addiction to a separate self, a make-believe entity who's carving out its own destiny with or without the help of a Higher Power. The book was begun as a "bridge book" between the Twelve Step and Nonduality communities, something I'd been working on in my mind--and in my community--for years. However, what it really attempts to bridge is the apparent gulf between organized insanity--what we call 'normalcy'--and the great, boundless ocean of still, silent, causeless bliss that is our True Nature. We can come to know this for our very own selves. I hope you'll join me in this ongoing exploration. I hope you'll tell someone else about it. Together we can bring a new peace, and new hope for survival to our planet--all One of us.
The
book and the blog on its website, Beyond-Recovery.org, are both directed toward gently leading you from
the lost world of thought into the present knowing of Being. This is authentic spirituality. Welcome to the next step, and the next level of human adventure.
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