This book explores the experience of radical inclusivity - the direct recognition that everything is always included as part of a larger whole. Radical inclusivity opens a perceptual awareness that is grounded in non-separation, wholeness and continuity, and offers an essential antidote to many of the challenges that our world currently faces. This view offers the foundation for an ecological vision that can move us beyond an exclusively human perspective by demonstrating that we are one with everything. We are inseparable from the whole that surrounds us because we are that whole. We are the environment that we exist within. What happens to our surroundings is happening to us, and what happens to us, happens to everything around us. This potential shift in perspective offers a new way to think about who we are and how we affect the world around us. The writing style is personal, fluid, fast moving, and at times poetic because a new consciousness can only be articulated using words that point beyond their literal meaning. This book is meant to initiate an inquiry and inspire you to examine your own experience more deeply than you ever have before.
Jeff Carreira is an author, mystical philosopher and meditation teacher. His novels use the powerful medium of story to illuminate the mysterious ways in which we can awaken to the invisible realms and hidden truths that always lie just beyond the familiar world around us. His stories challenge our fundamental notions about what is real, by presenting characters who find themselves having experiences, or landing in circumstances, that force them to question everything they ever thought. What they discover, in a variety of ways, is that reality is much different than they could have imagined.
This very short book (booklet?) handles incredibly difficult subjects (the nature of reality, non-human consciousness) with such clarity that one almost feels capable of "getting them". Wherein lies the danger, of course, because "getting them" with our rational mind is not the point. Reading this book will probably not get you any closer to the state of consciousness the author hints at, but the notion that we are already in it, we just don't know it (yet), is a profound insight that may change your spiritual path. Indeed, why torture yourself trying to get to a place you are already in? The examples and metaphors in the book are incredibly well thought out, and sometimes almost poetic ("dancing at the edge of a wormhole"). At the very least the book will let you relax - you do not end at the boundary of your body, at the edge of your perception, or at the cessation of your life. Like a drop of water, you are a part of an ocean, you are that ocean, and you will return to being that, no matter what.
I liked that the book was short. The author doesn't pretend to know. The reading invited me into a question. The question had Me dancing on the edge of a wormhole. I fell in.
Reading this book (in one afternoon) was an Extraordinary experience.