by Steven Harrison

"The global village can be sold Coke and Nike, but absolute truth is a bit trickier. It is too easy to switch channels to some other absolute truth. Or the made-for-TV absolute truth." ----from Getting to Where You Are

Sentient Publications, 2003 ISBN:1-59181-006-X (paperbk)207 pages $14.95 to order click here

A penetrating and wide-ranging journey through contemporary spirituality, meditation technology and post-modern culture, Getting to Where You Are challenges the very basis of contemporary spirituality and the consumer society that created it.

Harrison's book, Doing Nothing, which Utne Reader called "a caustic exploration of our psychospiritual obsessions" established him as one of the most insightful -- and provocative -- writers in the arena of spiritual inquiry. Yoga Journal characterized Harrison's voice as "uncompromising honesty" and New Age Journal calls his writing "persuasive."

Getting to Where You Are is a far reaching investigation of our ideas about life and our spirituality, in which Harrison challenges the notions of enlightenment as a way to happiness, zero-coupon bonds as the way to security and Stephen Hawking as the final arbiter of scientific reality.

What does all of this have to do with meditation? Everything. Because meditation is about everything. Harrison suggests that the only meditation which does not produce more mind clutter than it removes is the one which we are all doing already -- the active exploration of life --as it is -- free from the restraints of doctrine, religious belief, and technique-oriented practices...aAnd free from the embedded conceptual framework of our culture.

Getting To Where You Are explores what meditation actually is and, more important, what it is not and how it got that way. In a series of interlinked essays, filled with humor and insight, Harrison investigates the fabric of life as the very expression of our spirituality.

If CNN covers the breaking news live and no one is there to watch it, is it still news?

What if God spoke to us and directed us not to believe in God? What is awareness anyway, and why is it so hip?

If we are unhappy and create a feeling of love through our practice, are we what we feel or what we don't feel?

What do enlightened beings do with their free time? What is actuality, actually?

This one-of-a-kind spirituality book invites us all along for the ride, the twist and turns and the final collision with life itself. to order click here