EUROTAS - The European Transpersonal Association (newsletter review by Zak Pieterson).
An ordinary man tells an extraordinary story. This book, written in just six days following a near death experience, shares the insights of the author's meeting with universal consciousness. Using simple language and everyday examples, he reveals how the present global spiritual awakening is revolutionizing our understanding of the links between mind, matter and spirit, reflecting upon the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective future reality of our species.
"When you venture beyond identity, you realize that what you are is awakened consciousness. No longer a separate piece of the puzzle of life, but interconnected existence itself." writes the author. His message is that through consciously aligning with the spiritual truism "We are all one" we can learn to access our true selves with increasing frequency, gradually overcoming our addiction to the "I", eventually entering a new realm where oneness is a living reality.
J.M.Harrison is a spiritual guide, intuitive healer, and mystic. We Are All One, his first publication, offers followers of the path of self-realization a doorway to the deepening of awareness by sharing his experiences of awakening. This book is original, pure and a blessing to all spiritual truth seekers.
Manuela Mesco - Literary Review.
He wrote "We are all one", an involving account of his holistic vision and a personal experience of "oneness" as a reminder of where truth lies. A simple truth that we just fail to see because we are too involved in our daily routine, too busy in making our lives busy.
Harrison says that he fully realised the existence of "something else" in the very moment when life was just slipping away from him. He lived through a near-death experience, which made him see "the misconception of death and the reality of eternity."
His background as an author is gained from personal experience combined with a set of sacred values which inspire the basic idea the book is built around: altruism, total renunciation of the self in order to awaken to a dimension of truth where giving is just form of receiving.
All this comes from a very old theory: classical pantheism which finds a new actuality in the modern world through the increased interest in the school of non-dual thought, all of which receives a perfect explanation in Harrison's text.
Although being related to a variety of ancient philosophies everything is clearly explained and sensitively treated, positively dealt with and well constructed.
This holistic vision of reality is flavoured by positive thinking and inner strength which may further enhance the quality of your life.
Book Description
Contrary to the modern non-dual school of thought, J.M.Harrison explains oneness as being a wholeness, a state of consciousness arrived at by transcending the intellect, allowing us to fully engage in all aspects of being human.
He explains how oneness naturally utilises the combined loving interaction of both heart and soul, thereby allowing us to make a positive contribution to our lives and the lives of others.
From the Publisher
"A sacred book of spirituality combined with a transformative power that transcends ordinary consciousness. Oneness in words."
-A Lawren O'Lee Publications
From the Author
If you could have any `thing' that you wanted, over time your requirements would change. You would eventually become bored with those material `things' that you had previously desired and would want to replace them with others. But then one day you might want different `things' altogether; the infinite things that are the true needs of your being.
My responsibility is to publish and share the truth and power contained in `We Are All One' with the growing number of spiritual seekers in the world today.
I hope and pray that `We Are All One' provides you with the inspiration you require at this point in your life and that it plays a role in your conscious evolution to a higher state of being, reawakening you to the incredible miracle that you are.
JMH Dubon, France 2007.
About the Author
J.M.Harrison is a mystic, author and innovative healer who has developed the ability to reveal a pathway to true being. He describes his role as "a sharer of signposts, a guide in the process of self-realisation." A radical spiritual awakening in 2002 propelled him into a sequence of life changing mystical episodes, and a near death experience launched his consciousness into an awakened state whereby the interconnectedness of all things was no longer a concept, but an experienced reality. Part of the process was the giving up of all `business' interests in 2005 becoming the co-founder along with his wife Wendy and fellow truth-seeker Sharon Jeffries of `The Dubon Centre of Healing and Awareness' in Gascony, France from where they conduct life changing retreats.
Excerpted from We Are All One: A Call to Spiritual Uprising by J. M. Harrison. Copyright © 2007. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
"We Are All One" enables an alignment of consciousness with our highest potential, not just the potential of the "you," the singular one, but of the "us," the all. It is an evolutionary transformational process redefining the concept of the ego-based "we," applying it not to an elite or separate group, but to everyone who exists, has existed or will exist. "We Are All One" is a state of consciousness that if put into practice will reveal the true nature of our selves to our individual "self," for it will bring out the spiritual essence, providing a system of understanding, release and expression. The methodology does not require that you undertake decades of philosophical or intellectual study, or that you be especially gifted; neither does it require a large financial investment. It does not require membership to a secret society or adherence to a religion. No, all it requires is the initial willingness to understand that on the spiritual level we are all the same.
We can admit that we all look different from one another and come to terms with the fact that our minds can provide interesting doors to a wide variety of mental states, from madness to genius. But deep inside, really deep at the core of our being, we understand that we are the same and this causes us confusion, for the body seeks individuality in the form of appearance; and the mind seeks a stage from where to display its uniqueness and capacity, yet the spirit seeks unity with all, with itself.
This is the human dilemma, the mystery of mysteries since the beginning of time. We feel we are not just the body that we see and not purely the mind we utilize, that we are part of something much greater and there is nothing greater than our spiritual nature, because it is inclusive, it cannot exclude or discriminate, it is One and is indivisible.