The Sun Rises in the Evening
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1908664304 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 222 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Watercourse Way to Standing As Awareness" according to Jerry Katz. Book's purpose:Gary Nixon says, "This book is an invitation to you to find completion and wholeness, to work through second stage recovery fully, including a necessary descent to let go of the separate self, and to embrace third stage recovery and abide in non-dual being."Although second stage, or stage two recovery, is never defined (nor is stage one), periodically Gary refers to addiction recovery pioneer Earnie Larsen who apparently made up the term "Stage II recovery." Therefore I'll quote from Larsen's website for these definitions. They come from [] :"Stage I is about arresting the addiction or surviving the crisis. . Brian Theriault said Mind, the ultimate addiction. I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Sun Rises in the Evening! The title itself captures the transformational opportunity found in the trenches of addiction where the eternal light of our Being can be found even in the most difficult of states. The prelude was explosive and totally pulled me in as the reader. In many ways, the book read as a direct invitation for the reader, for me, to look at my own addictive acting out, particularly to the fixation of the self-identity project. Gary brings a nice mixture of heartfeltness and wildness throughout the book. His ability to be vulnerable in sharing his own journey, both peaks and. Profound Shane M. Keher I loved this book and am in the process of rereading it, doing the exercises this time round - the exercises and meditations are great, they really open up and make the content vivid and profound. I believe this book is an important contribution to the growing titles on non duality and addiction. I'm a former alcoholic with a love of the 12 steps, and was introduced to Presence, a "higher power" through the program of recovery. That has led to my current love of non duality. Gary reminds us there are "no half measures", and the unresolved trauma and pain, buried deep in our bodies and psyches has to be faced. I loved the e
In The Sun Rises in the Evening: Beyond addiction and limited recovery to embracing wholeness, Gary Nixon PhD gives us a specific framework for dealing with recovery from addiction, focusing on the issues that arise after the first stages of recovery. About the author Gary Nixon is Director of the Addictions Counselling Program at University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, where he is an Associate Professor. At age twenty-three and qualified in law, he felt a call to make the transformational journey his career path and completed a Masters and a Doctorate in psychology with a focus on the integration of Western transpersonal psychology and Eastern contemplative traditions. He pursued 'spiritual enlightenment' with the same vigour and dedication that he gave to his academic career, only to find that intense striving and seeking for spiritual success brought him to a place of 'absolute hopelessness and total failurehood.' Thus it was he came to understand that in seeking a spiritual goal he was merely reinforcing the illusion of a narcissistic separate self. He hosts the annual Paradoxica Nondual Psychology Conference.. We are not the s