Summary of Rupert Spira & Peter Russell's The Transparency of Things

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#1 The clear seeing of the essential nature of experience has a profound effect on the appearance of the mind, the body, and the world. It is not an intellectual understanding, but rather a direct, intimate, and immediate knowing of ourselves and the world.

#2 The contemplations in this book are like MRI scans of our experience. They look at experience from many angles, spread it out, and open it up. However, it is always one experience. The appearance of physical objects continues, but it is no longer mistaken for Reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669377306

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The clear seeing of the essential nature of experience has a profound effect on the appearance of the mind, the body, and the world. It is not an intellectual understanding, but rather a direct, intimate, and immediate knowing of ourselves and the world.

#2

The contemplations in this book are like MRI scans of our experience. They look at experience from many angles, spread it out, and open it up. However, it is always one experience. The appearance of physical objects continues, but it is no longer mistaken for Reality.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

We can only know what something is if we do not know what Consciousness is. We cannot know anything objective about Consciousness, because if it had any objective qualities, it would be the Knower of those qualities and therefore independent of them.

#2

The mind has built a powerful edifice of concepts about Reality that is very different from the reality of our experience. These concepts are built out of the mind and therefore their deconstruction is one way through which Consciousness can recognize itself again - to know itself again.

#3

The truth of the matter is that the mind cannot grasp the truth of the matter. It is a tool that can be used to explore the nature of Consciousness and Reality, and as a result, it is valid.

#4

The world is what Consciousness projects outside of itself. It is a series of revelations that dismantle parts of the previous edifice of dualistic thinking. And the unfolding of this revelation has a profound impact on the appearance of the