Being infinite - imagining otherwise: why nothing is the way it seems - including you

by Peter Baker

This book offers a collection of insights, musings, and enquiries into the non-dual or undivided nature of reality. It doesn’t make concessions to conventional beliefs or align with any particular tradition but is based instead on a radically direct and uncompromising investigation into the mind-blowing implications of the non-dual realisation. It delves deeper into these than many others have felt comfortable doing.

This initially elusive realisation is evoked by exploring the many interrelated themes which point towards it, including the nature of being, imagination, emptiness, science, and identity. It is expressed through a variety of forms including essays, aphorisms, quotes, enquiries and verse.

The revolution in seeing being invited here is profoundly liberating, yet this book contains no ‘hidden’ knowledge or insights which are not directly verifiable through authentic self-enquiry, and which are therefore surprisingly familiar and almost laughably obvious once remembered.

The truth of who we are is already intimately known by everyone but is often obscured by the thoughts and theories with which our minds tend to complicate it.
In the clear light of non-dual realisation confusing philosophical issues and existential problems are either resolved or dissolved.

Written with clarity, attitude and heart this book plays with boundaries and genres rather than within them.

It encourages the questioning and seeing through of illusions – without creating new ones to replace them.

Containing a wealth of razor-sharp non-dual pointers it will make you think – and then remind you of that which is beyond both thinking and imagination – the unconditional presence and peace of your infinite beingness.

164 pages, Paperback

Published July 22, 2025

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Peter Baker has been a journalist for the Washington Post and the New York Times. He covered President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, resulting in the book The Breach. As the Post's Moscow bureau chief, he wrote the book Kremlin Rising. He is married to the journalist Susan Glasser.

Reviews

[Peter Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is like a breath of fresh air. Peter Baker strips the nondual teachings down to the bare bones and tells it like it is. The language is uncluttered and accessible, the philosophical arguments are straightforward and clear, the quotations are wonderful and the whole text is well-informed and deeply insightful. An antidote to the idea that mysticism is complicated. An intellectual study of the nondual teachings will become complex as we pursue their ramifications through psychology, metaphysics and the sciences, but it all comes down to ‘I Am’ and how complicated could this be?

I found Being Infinite – Imagining Otherwise helpful in all sorts of ways, particularly for Baker’s simplicity of expression. Recommended for any reader, since we all wonder who we are and would benefit from knowing.