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What is The Untethered<\/em> Soul <\/em>book about? What keeps most people from realizing their true self<\/a>, according to its author Michael Alan Singer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his book The Untethered Soul<\/em>, Michael Singer invites you on the journey beyond yourself and towards your true Self<\/a>. He believes that the main reason people feel existentially empty and fragmented is that they are overidentified with their internal monologue<\/a> and disconnected from their true Self. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a brief overview of Michael A. Singer’s book The Unterthered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Untethered Soul<\/em>: Book Premise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In his book The Untethered Soul<\/em>, spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer, founder of the Temple of the Universe meditation<\/a> center and a pioneering figure in the world of medical software, teaches you how to use your direct self-knowledge as an intuitive tool for awakening to your true identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Singer, most people lead unhappy and unfulfilling lives because they are overidentified with their internal monologue and disconnected from their true selves\u2014the awareness behind this voice. In his book The Untethered Soul<\/em>, he offers a series of metaphors to illustrate his teachings in a more accessible way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Metaphor of the Lucid Dream<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Your daily life is like sleepwalking<\/a>. You\u2019re essentially lost in a dream<\/strong>: When you focus your consciousness intensely on an object, you lose your sense of self-awareness in it. This happens not just with physical objects but with mental objects (thoughts and emotions<\/a>), which are often caused by outer events. It\u2019s like being immersed in an all-encompassing movie where your thoughts and emotions move in synchronization with your sensory experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phenomenon of lucid dreaming, where you become aware that you\u2019re in a dream, offers a useful analogy for spiritual awakening from this state of unconsciousness.<\/strong> You wake up in the dream of your life by learning to turn awareness back on itself. It\u2019s like being lost in a movie for hours and then suddenly \u201ccoming to yourself\u201d and remembering that you\u2019re watching a fictional melodrama on a screen. You realize that the person you\u2019ve always thought of as yourself is really just a movie titled [Insert Your Name]. Asking the master question \u201cWho am I?\u201d is one way to practice this discipline of self-awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Metaphor of the Inner Thorn<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For true spiritual growth<\/a>, you must come to peace with pain, because you\u2019ve built your whole life on it. Imagine your pain as a thorn.<\/strong> It\u2019s embedded in your arm, right on a nerve. Should you respond by removing the thorn or by making sure that nothing touches it? If you decide on the second option, protecting your pain will consume your life: You\u2019ll build a thorn-shaped life as your daily actions revolve around shielding the painful spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, you can extract your inner thorn. Use the events and encounters of your daily life as opportunities for doing this.<\/strong> Pay attention to your emotions<\/a>, mood, and relative sense of happiness and security. When you feel a disturbance, release the initial pain right away to avoid being trapped in the long term. Learn that it\u2019s okay to feel inner disturbances because they don\u2019t disturb the seat of your consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The very core of spiritual work is to become comfortable and free by letting pain pass through you. If you do this, you\u2019ll learn that in addition to stored-up pain, you also have joy, beauty, love, peace, freedom, and ecstasy inside you. They\u2019re on the other side of the pain. You have to go through it to find them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Metaphor of Inner Addiction<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

One way to describe your current relationship to your psyche is that you\u2019re addicted to it. <\/strong>You mistakenly think your psyche protects you from pain, so you\u2019ve devoted your life to meeting its constant demands. But in fact, your psyche is<\/em> pain. It\u2019s your crazy inner roommate. Realize that your psyche is very ill, as you know from your frequent feelings of mental and emotional disturbance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is that you can break the addiction: Wake up and realize that the trouble is in <\/strong>you<\/em><\/strong>, not the world.<\/strong> You can\u2019t solve your inner problems by rearranging the outer world and getting better at external games, because external changes don\u2019t address the root of your inner problem. Learn to notice when your mind is trying to \u201cmake everything okay,\u201d and gently let go of this. Eventually, your practice of disciplined awareness will lead to a persistently centered consciousness. Once you\u2019re free from your psyche\u2019s demands, you can wake up and face each day like a vacation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Metaphor of the Inner Prison<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

To discover the infinite reality beyond your psyche, recognize that your psyche is like a fortress or cage that you built for yourself long ago. <\/strong>You\u2019ve lived in this prison for so long that you\u2019ve mistaken it for the whole universe. You built it from thoughts and emotions, and ultimately from your self-concept, and then you turned it into a fortress. Now, you bump up against its invisible walls whenever you bump up against anything that threatens the comfort zone of your self-concept. Ultimately, you\u2019re an infinite being, so you hit your prison walls whenever you place any finite limit on yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most people devote their lives to constantly building, rebuilding, and maintaining their prisons.<\/strong> In other words, they live in constant resistance to life. This attempt to \u201chold everything together\u201d through clinging is a form of suffering. The very idea that you can <\/em>cling is ultimately an illusion, because life inevitably flows and changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who experience real spiritual awakenings wake up to the fact that they have imprisoned themselves.<\/strong> Instead of viewing your walls as protecting you from infinite darkness, see them as barriers that block out a beautiful, infinite light. Recognize the moments when your mental model of the world starts to crumble through inner turmoil as blessings, not threats. Let your prison collapse. Eventually, the turmoil will stop, and you\u2019ll rest in total, blessed stillness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you\u2019re liberated, you\u2019ll still have a self-concept and thoughts and emotions, but they\u2019ll be just one small part of your total being. You won\u2019t identify with them. Your only identity will be your sense of Self. Then you\u2019ll never have to worry about anything again. You will have aligned yourself with the forces of creation, and you\u2019ll be at rest in the infinitude of your true Being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Return to God<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The ultimate goal of Michael Singer’s teachings in his book The Untethered Soul <\/em>is to return to God. <\/strong>The real knowledge of God only comes from personal experience. You can only know God accurately from the absolute, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent center of Being itself\u2014that is, from God\u2019s own perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately<\/strong>, you have a direct inner connection that gives you access to God\u2019s perspective<\/strong>. You use this connection by employing the lessons outlined in The Untethered Soul<\/em> book. Through continued practice of these things, an experience of divine union emerges. The veils of your human mind and heart can fall away to reveal the infinite, ineffable joy beyond the finite walls of your psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full summary of Michael Singer’s book The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself<\/em> is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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