A 'Simple Guide to Awakening' by investigation of one's moment to moment experience, which leads to one becoming 'aware of awareness'. Awakening is becoming fully established in, and identified with, awareness. This book is designed to help its readers go 'beyond the separate self'; that is to free oneself from obsessive thinking and worrying about one's self-image, health, wealth, status, achievements, lack of achievements, past, future and ultimate survival. These are all caused by identifying oneself as an individual object in a universe of multiple objects, and also by comparing oneself...

Having spent 15 years as a financial advisor for some of the nation's wealthiest people, Colin Drake debunks one of our most prevalent cultural myths: that when we finally have enough money, we'll be living the life we've always wanted. Deep down, we believe that being rich will make us happy. So, rather than work on being happy, we work on getting rich. Yet most people never become wealthy, and most people lack aliveness. This book explores why we are failing at wealth and why we are lacking in vitality, and offers a powerful strategy for creating both. Our desire to be rich is our desire to...

This book is about the innate happiness and joy that can be discovered on awakening by becoming 'Aware of' and 'identifying with' Awareness. This is to be achieved by direct investigation of moment-to-moment experience which readily reveals the Pure Awareness that underlies our existence. This leads to discovering the happiness that needs nothing external to ourselves, but which is revealed as we undertake deeper investigations into this Awareness. Many of the following chapters give the format for some of these and how what is discovered applies to day to day living.

The main aim of this book is to act as a stand-alone guide to Awakening; which is synonymous with Enlightenment when maintained. The title comes from an internet discussion about Enlightenment, and my own conviction that it is available to all who truly want it and are prepared to investigate with an open mind. This book is composed of articles, resulting from my further investigations (and contemplations) into the nature of Reality. The thrust of the book is that beneath the surface appearance of thoughts (including all mental activity) and sensations there is a deeper level of being, which...