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DOWNLOAD: Complete Blog Dialogues in Book Form, 2005-2010 Paperback or free download of Autobiography of a Jnani in English This website translated into Italian New Page on Deep Sleep and Enlightenment TALKS TRANSCRIPTS AND ARTICLES ABOUT ABOUT ROBERT ADAMS: Collected Works of Robert Adams, Volumes 1&2 New Talk by Robert Adams: Awareness of Consciousness New Robert Talk Added March 10, 2009 on How the Jnani Sees the World 1998 Yoga Journal Article About Robert Now Online Robert's Cosmic Joke Talk Now Downloadable
A few academics realize that the subject matter of their studies has no physical existence, it is just thoughts. Fewer ever realize that the entire world is just thoughts. Yet, as studies of the apparently real, appear to be able to accomplish things, such as nuclear energy and psychological healing. About 15 years into studying self, I ran into the conceptual mind field called "Object Relations Theory," which is a subset of psychoanalytic theory. Object relations theory's (ORT) primary concept was that the self, that is the primary identification set of a person, was actually an apparently structured set of fantasies, images, thoughts, identifications, etc., structured through a process of sequential identifications and cognitive skill development beginning in the first months of life, and eventuating in the "birth" of the self approximately around the age of three. It should be noted that this is exactly the age Nisargadatta says is the time of the birth of I Am. Nisargadatta asks us to explore the time before that I AM came into existence, while psychoanalysis asks us to explore a more limited period between the birth of the body and the birth of the self in order to understand the building process and to learn how to do better therapy as we understand the building processes and failures of optimal building in order to fix things that went wrong in development, so as to diminish pain and increase functionality in the apparent world. In 1985 I returned to school at a graduate college offering doctorates in psychology. I did this not because I wanted to, but I needed to do it to get a job. This was a college (Sierra University) that basically allowed self-guided studies of topics the student wanted to explore under the guidance of a mentor, in my case, Eric Reitz, a brilliant psychotherapist. Posted below is one of the journal articles and chapters from two books I wrote during that time. I think some object relations theorists may find these works helpful in creating new models that can be used for more effective psychotherapy. Anyway, the page http://itisnotreal.com/gpage4.html will be expanding as chapters from those books are added.
March 30, 2009 A free download of Nisargadatta's I Am That is available here.
April 1, 2009 Nityananda will be coming to Los Angeles in late April. I highly recommend you see him when he is in town and experience the bliss of chanting in the presence of a master of that medium. http://www.shantimandir.com/calendar/cali_09/cali_usa09.htm For a little more background on Muktananda and Siddha Yoga go to: October 14, 2009 An old Yoga Journal article about Robert is now online:
November 25, 2009 A new, downloadable booklet of dialogues with a Kriya Yoga student, is available here. The student makes very rapid progress in just a very short time, which clearly demonstrates how concentration and meditation can be decisive in reaching the ultimate understanding of who and what you are. This flies in the face of many modern Advaita teachers who say you only have to listen to the teachings. In fact, Robert Adams strongly recommended both formal and informal meditation on self and self-inquiry. Nisargadatta highly recommends paying attention to one's beingness. Downloadable booklet on Self-Knowledge and Liberation for meditation practitioners. December 5, 2009 Collected works of Robert Adams. This is a 421 page download of his original transcripts. They are better than the book Silence of the Heart because they are not edited. Collected Works of Robert Adams, Volumes 1&2 December 22, 2009 Cosmic Joke, a 1992 talk can now be downloaded here. January 12, 2010 Something exciting is happening. During the past three month some highly developed Kriya Yoga practitioners have discovered this site and been deeply impacted by Advaita philosophy and the practice of self-inquiry as taught by Robert Adams, Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta. Very soon after their shift from Kriya style meditation to self-inquiry, they made extremely rapid progress. Some of the dialogues with these remarkable students is posted on the blog associated with this site, http://itisnotreal.blogspot.com. I highly urge readers of this site to check this blog for pointers on practice and states encountered during practice. Also download this small booklet on Self-Knowledge and Liberation for meditation practitioners.
February 3, 2010 A new, UPDATED downloadable book on the practice of meditation on the I Am is posted here. It is entitled, Autobiography of a Jnani, and contains dialogues with an advanced yogi practitioner on how to change kriya meditation into an understanding of one's true self. It outlines the pitfalls and the pathway both. February 4, 2010 An updated version of "Hunting the I" is posted here. It is a long intro on the practice of self-inquiry and accompanies Autobiography of a Jnani as a complete teaching text on self-inquiry and self-abidance.
March 12, 2010 Autobiography of a Jnani has been updated again today. New material added. This is the most complete and detailed guide to self-inquiry I have ever read.
May 3, 2010 Hardbound copy of Autobiography of a Jnani is now available. It includes Hunting the I.
May 15, 2010 ROBERT ADAMS MOVIE PROJECT
The script is very powerful and moving, but the next step is a challenge. The project would require extensive financing and a professional team with the appropriate resources. If any reader of this site is in film production or knows someone who is and would be interested in helping to make this project a reality, please email satsang(dot)online(at)gmail.com. I am posting this to see if Consciousness wants this to happen. JUNE 27, 2010 A reader has very, very graciously compiled the complete teaching dialogues from the companion blog to this site, http://itisnotrea.blogspot.com. It is now downloadable as a 315 page document with entries starting in 2005 to present. This is over 200,000 words in a pdf document. From 2005 to 2009 I was answering all sorts of general and specific questions. In 2009 I began focusing solely on self-inquiry, self-abidance and questions about practice. It is called http://itisnotreal.com/Ed_Muzika_Complete_Netlogues.pdf.
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