Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity

by Charlie Awbery, Jared Janes (Illustrator)

Opening Awareness is a practical manual for a method of accurate perception, leading to passionate engagement and productive action. Opening awareness, the method, provides panoramic vision and connection with whatever is happening.

Spacious clarity , the result, reveals dynamic creative space around thinking, making previously inhibited choices available. It empowers creative, effective individuals to live and lead with courage, kindness, and grace.

As opening awareness pervades your experience, you may

• Confidence in meaning and purpose
• Courage to stay present and engaged in any situation, however unexpected or challenging
• Heightened awareness of sounds, sights, sensations—your world becomes colorful, vibrant, and clear
• New spontaneity and responsible autonomy in family, work, projects, and society
• General contentedness punctuated by moments of irrationally exuberant joy

You may be familiar with some form of meditation, such as vipassana. This guide is for you! The book explains why the method, goals, and effects of opening awareness are different.

You may be coming to opening awareness without having meditated before. This guide is also for you! It is a detailed, practical manual with no prerequisites. It is written in plain language with no jargon.

Genres: Meditation, Spirituality

102 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2023

Reviews

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awbery shares a clear and unpretentious guide to a kind of meditation grounded in awareness of whatever's happening, rather than suppression of thoughts and emotions. The language in this book is beautifully precise, and the methods are clear. It's a short read, with references to resources outside the book to help the novice progress in their practice. A community has sprung up around this practice at evolvingground.org.

[Rich Nash · Rating 5 out of 5]

Astonishing Clarity

This radical approach to meditation utilises the infinite power of remaining uninvolved, and paradoxically unleashes an infinite sense of worldly engagement. Full of sage, practical guidance on steering a path to spacious liberation, this is inner-eye-opening!

[Edgar O. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eye opening

This book offers a concept that is new to me and I enjoyed the “learning” part of it. “Opening Awareness” is something that I’ll explore more because of this book. Nice one.

[L. Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting Read

There is a lot of interesting information about what it means by opening awareness. Different methodology is discussed on how one can increase their awareness.

Note to author, I think the cover is very plain. An eye-catching cover will reach more audiences.

[Kiri Pohatu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inspiring Book

A very informative and inspiring book. Spacious clarity is a new concept to me and I found this a very interesting read.

[Frankie Pendles · Rating 4 out of 5]

High level

I've read a few books like this one. Compared to others, this one is high level. Good content, but less direct, personal chat with the reader.

[Anhad Gill · Rating 5 out of 5]

I stumbled on this less known book on Twitter and it might be a one of the best practical meditation guides out there. Short, to the point and radical.

[Karen Elaine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thorough comparative analysis of meditation practices

"Opening Awareness" is a detailed step by step process to add meditation as a daily practice or transition from other meditation disciplines.
An excellent read for a reader interested in starting a serious mindfulness practice.