eye, mind and perineum opening

lovely narrator! thank you for sharing! ❤
heard it 3 times now and it probably wont be the last

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The ordinary grace of being

In Philip Shepherd's second book, he stands like a poet on the battlefield singing the song of our times. Exploring the way we have arrived at this place, this retreat into a culture of abstract thinking, crowning the decisive top-down 'knowledge knows best' society that allows us, as a culture, to consume our world with mere lip service to any consequences. To the point where we have become blind to our sense of the wholeness of everything, our participation in this wholeness, and can only theorize about it. We no longer feel it, or know it in our bones. We no longer feel our place in the world, except as a sense of entitlement. Philip explores this with an uncanny clarity, recognizing the way our body has been treated in the same way, and how we suffer the separation from the whole in our experience. Our sense of being.
And at the same time he also does a wonderful thing: he speaks about all of this from the experience of wholeness, from a deeply grounded awareness of the differing qualities of thinking we can access. He encourages our awareness back into a bodily sensitivity (there are exercises to play with) where we can begin to recover our partnership with our physical self, and through this, with the world around us.
A wonderful book, that opens the door to perhaps the only place you will specifically explore the support our heads cannot provide: wholeness. Philip Shepherd's work is a much needed missing piece in the puzzle of what it is to be embodied, conscious, grounded, and alive, and this book will help you unlock all of these ideas. Read it, and give it some time to sink in, and then read it again and find how your relationship with the world has begun to deepen. Your experience will make more sense!

Philip teaches/facilitates workshops that explore our body's awareness of the themes explored in the book, and one of the themes is the difference between presence and presentation. Presence as a state of mutual relationship, and presentation as an attempt to make someone receive our information. It's why we listen to a sample before we buy an audiobook: sometimes we can hardly hear the book for the efforts of the narrator. Philip's narration is rather, his sharing of his understanding and actually adds clarity to the text. It's a beautiful gift.

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revelation, loved this.

explains the environmental crises and the spiritual malaise we are suffering as humanity hurtles along creating it's own extinction. this book is a gift

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This book changed my life

A beautiful journey into existence that had me rethink the way I relate to myself, others, and the world in profound ways. Wonderfully narrated by the author and a delight to take in.

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The Compleat journey to Wholeness

Stunning subtlety nuanced reading of such authenticity- listen & feel it’s message deeply resonate within.. touching hidden truths about ourselves and reality.

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Excellent

An important book, beautifully read. A guide on how to take our place as part of the natural world and to embody our full humanity.

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Excellent

A great book for anyone interested in self improvement and deeper understanding of life and your place and real purpose in the world.
Full of gems of information aswell as practises to help you on your path to wholeness. Im looking forward to listening to it again as once isnt enough to take everything in to enable you to fully integrate.
I highly recommend.

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What a relief finding someone adressing Wholeness

What a lovely poets voice speaking to what I 'seefeel' more and more: Wholeness. With so few others talking about this essential topic Philip Shepherd's voice of wisdom invites me into relaxing into Wholeness more easily in a more convinced and less self-censuring way. It is good to recognise that noticing Wholeness is not 'just in my imagination' and definately not 'just in my head'. Thank you, Mar

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Life changing

Outstanding, wisdom from 'the whole'...I didn't want this to end, I will read this every day

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Life Changing

I always feel drawn to books, and this one was no exception. I'm looking for something, aren't we all? I usually find the sense of something that feels right but I'm still not quite there, always outside looking in.
This book took me right to the centre of my search, and it's no surprise to find that I met myself there. However, there are different ways to meet self and Phillip brings you home in the truest sense of the word.
I'm starting to sense parts of myself that have been dormant for years and I can feel old unhelpful patterns fading for the first time in decades.
This is only the start of my journey and I will be forever grateful that this book crossed my path.
Thank you Philip.

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