The Light of "I"
This remarkable short guide to meditation is the fruit of many years of meditative experience as well as thirty years
of teaching meditation. Through exercises and meditation sentences it delineates an accessible, systematic process of
inner work by which a person can come to experience both the “I,” or Self, and the miraculous nature of that Light that,
as inner Light, we call attention.
Beginning with simple meditation sentences that illuminate the role of attention in perception, the person wishing to take this
path is led gradually to the reality and experience of form-free attention. Kühlewind offers step by step concentration exercises,
sentence meditations, visualizations (image or symbol meditations), and perceptual meditations for guidance on the path.
He also offers advice and help with the difficulties and problems that can arise.
Each stage of the path—in itself and in relation to the whole sequence—is presented in a way to be understood through meditative
thinking. Deepened in this way, it becomes, as well, a work of philosophy—but philosophy understood as a transformative way of life,
an inner path
“This intriguing book is quite suitable for general interest readers. It will appeal to anyone attempting to more fully understand and
appreciate the underlying symbolism and cultural significance of Ice Age cave art. In addition to providing a theoretical framework
within which to interpret such art, this book reflects the lifelong odyssey of one rock art researcher’s own journey to discover
humanity’s distant origins. In this regard, it is both a scientific treatise and a personal narrative.
Recommended. All levels/libraries.” -Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Vol. 46, No. 09, May 2009.
