The Untethered Soul

What book are you reading right now?

Right now and still, I’m stuck on ‘The Untethered Soul’ by Michael Singer. I started reading a couple of other books too, but keep returning to that one.

(here’s something weird. The last few days I’ve been able to answer the prompt question directly)

Today after yoga and the meditation class that followed, we got talking about mind chatter, thoughts that won’t stop and all, which led to throwing around the term ‘non duality’. Along with its apparent opposite, duality’.

My mind usually starts to wander and I’m pretty sure my eyes glaze over when things get too philosophical, so I’m not sure I was paying enough attention when I blurted out that I didn’t know which team I was on.

This led to our instructor giving a pretty clear definition of both, which after reading about consciousness repeatedly in the ‘Untethered soul’, I was able to wrap my head around.

I don’t really recommend this book. The more times I read it, and talk to people who’ve read it, the more I think it can be taken in too many ways, not all of them helpful. So unless it comes along on its own and you can’t stop yourself from reading it, don’t bother.

There are plenty of interesting things to read out there, no need to open this can of worms.

Plus, I didn’t even know that these two perspectives were so opposing. I feel like we have enough reasons to disagree with each other on earth right now, no one needs to explain AND defend philosophy perspectives. We can surely save that for another time.

Meanwhile, I’m oddly comforted by what I’m getting from these pages. I need these concepts right now. Remembering that I am an observer. Observing my thoughts and feelings. Not trying to not have them, just falling back into a place of nonjudgmental observation. Even finding compassion for myself and others because aren’t we all a little lost in the dramas that surround us?

Like Dr Sueuss pointed out in ‘The Lorax’ “it’s hard to be a human”… There’s a book I haven’t read in a while