1.1 Who should read this book?

Just as no one can eat your food for you, so no one can give you enlightenment. Only you can take yourself to the ultimate goal of realising the final stage of enlightenment. This book will provide you with practical advice and guidance on how to attain this unparalleled state of freedom. The determination and commitment to succeed must stem from you alone.

Any intelligent person can read this book, particularly this introductory chapter, and, after reflecting on its contents, be able to develop an intellectual understanding of the nature of reality and the experience of enlightenment. This will convey as much about reality and the experience of enlightenment as a chemical analysis of food content and nutritional value will convey about the experience of eating a tasty, well-cooked meal. Intellectual appreciation is no substitute for the understanding gained through experience.

In this secular Implicate Technology teaching, the first stage of actual spiritual understanding based on experience is called the psychological enlightenment. That state of mind, and the corresponding freedom from emotional and intellectual ties, is attainable by any ordinary, intelligent person willing to give one hundred days of committed daily practice to meditations for a minimum of fifteen minutes daily. This book’s precursor Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment teaches you how to attain psychological stage of enlightenment, which is a necessary prerequisite to the advanced meditations taught in this book.

Many who have attained this first stage of psychological enlightenment may find themselves resting at that point on the far journey to realisation of the final stage of enlightenment. There is no harm in that, provided that one who does so both continues with daily practice of meditation and uses the teachings in this book to understand the journey that lies ahead. Careful reflection on these teachings will help you to realise both what you have achieved and how far you have yet to travel.