The Revolution of the Mind.
I have been working a discipline for nine years. Every day, or nearly every day, I have written down what I have come to see. The accumulated lines now number nearly two thousand. This is the document where those daily lines are organized into a stated worldview — the most comprehensive piece I have written.
It is offered here as a free PDF. Thirty-nine pages, written to be read in one sitting and returned to in pieces. The button below opens the file.
What the book contains
The Revolution of the Mind is divided into two parts.
Part One — The Metaphysics asks what is actually here. The Source. Vibration and form. The observer and the observed. The illusion of separation. Reality as play. A reframing of karma as a pendulum we have been pushing for so long that we have forgotten we were pushing it. And the metaphysics of death.
Part Two — The Philosophy asks how to live within what is here. The egoless origin. The charge. The witness, developed through awareness and through contemplation of self. The practice of letting go. The four apertures the ego cannot fully guard. The Awakening. Compassion as default. Sovereignty and surrender. The way of action without egoic interference. And what this is for.
A line from the book
From section fourteen, on the Awakening:
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. The two inches are everything.
— D. T. Suzuki, quoted in §14
And the distinction the book is built around:
To believe is built on hope. Faith is knowing.
Who it is for
The treatise is written in connected reflective prose. It is not a book of techniques. It is the stated worldview from which the techniques follow. If you have been reading the daily reflections and have wondered where the deeper architecture sits — it sits here.
It is also the philosophical companion to the trilogy. Behind the Curtain opens the question; the Divine Journey Trilogy walks the path; this document explains the territory. The three pieces of writing form one body of work and are best read together over time.
— David