Enlightenment is Not An Ego Project - Softcover

I thoroughly enjoyed Thomas Karl Galten's book, "Enlightenment is Not an Ego Project" on both a personal and professional basis. As a practicing school psychologist, the topic of spirituality has become an important part of my therapeutic work with older, at risk adolescents. This work definitely heightens my personal awareness and expertise of issues salient to this important topic. The chapter "Reaction is Bondage" was particularly prominent in relation to my own experience. I highly recommend this book to those interested in expanding their spiritual growth.

David Winter, Milwaukee WI

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Thomas Galten's book, Enlightenment is Not an Ego Project, described for me an entirely new way of being in the world, but one that I now realize was already present in me and simply looking for ways to make itself more conscious. Galten's book has done just that.

Perhaps most of us seekers need spiritual concepts, many of which can seem highly esoteric and "out there," to be made real to us by way of a simple, concise and clear use of language. Clarity then itself promotes the process of spiritual transformation. This is a key feature of Galten's book in that it makes ideas that otherwise might seem highly abstract and complex personal, meaningful and directly related to my everyday experience.

I have come away from reading Enlightenment is Not an Ego Project (which I probably will return to often) with a more secure and purposeful sense of my place in the universe, an augmented understanding of my ultimate identity and a reduced level of anxiety over how to "become more spiritual."

This book is perfect for those who feel that the process of Self awareness is just beginning in them, but those familiar with spiritual transformation would find it engaging, as well.

Galten clearly put himself passionately into this book and I think any reader drawn to it would find that it therefore carries with it a certain transformative energy, as do all spiritually oriented books which genuinely come from the heart.

Melanie Wasserman MSW, Clinical Therapist