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Beyond vision : going blind, inner seeing, and the nature of the self /

"How does a young man who is losing his eyesight go about shaping a life? Such a dilemma is the stuff of "pathography," a dreary genre of literature that emphasizes suffering and loss. This literary convention and the misconceptions that fuel it are challenged by Allan Jones in his au...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Allan, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a "How does a young man who is losing his eyesight go about shaping a life? Such a dilemma is the stuff of "pathography," a dreary genre of literature that emphasizes suffering and loss. This literary convention and the misconceptions that fuel it are challenged by Allan Jones in his autobiography, Beyond Vision - Going Blind, Inner Seeing, and the Nature of the Self. Jones was Canada's first blind diplomat, and his vivid account of life and work in Tokyo, New Delhi and Ottawa is a testament to the blind person's native capacity for innovation and practical adjustment. But the deeper message of Beyond Vision is more radical and consequential: the self - the real self that is normally veiled - does not go blind. The deep self stands entirely apart from the experience of sightedness or blindness, as a centre of stable equanimity. This is what the author discovered through his study and assimilation of Indian Vedantic philosophy. Jones briefly describes the basic features of Advaita Vedanta, and identifies startling findings of contemporary science that are consonant with the Advaitic view of world and self. He then outlines practical applications of Advaita, for example the mindfulness practice that allowed him to retain his white cane mobility skills despite chronic and untreatable spinal and muscular pain. Beyond Vision is an intimate, many-sided personal and family biography. But the dominant feature of this book is the way the world changed out of all recognition, with the author as its fascinated explorer and laborialist."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
505 0 |a Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments Listening Hard and Writing Out Loud; Introduction Claiming the Terrain; 1 Can the self go blind?; 2 Finding a path; 3 Making sense of the pathfinder; 4 Where we are heading; 1 A Sheer White Cliff Face; 1 How things began to go missing; 2 The flight from the truth; 3 Inner acknowledgment; 4 Taking my prognosis on tour; 2 The Functionary and His Mask; 1 Eyeing the foreign service and angling for Tokyo; 2 Down from the plateau; 3 Three faces of the RP identity; 4 Trying to catch hold of myself; 3 India, the Visual Conundrum, and Letting Go. 
505 8 |a 1 The new Delhi sensorium2 Disentanglement from images; 3 A set of Mogul pictures; 4 Regarding facelessness; 4 Vedanta, the Ego, and the Flesh; 1 Re-enter Shiva; 2 The coils of the ego; 3 Factor X: the centripetal pull of the body; 5 Into the Pre-visual Centre; 1 Skirting the edge; 2 Just by walking; 3 Factor Y: the return of the repressed; 4 A burst of openness; 5 Looking for my others; 6 Vision, Science, and the World-Illusion; 1 Three unconventional perspectives on seeing; 2 Inside the mall: reality or appearance?; 3 The great light of consciousness; 7 Learning to Live an Ancient Teaching. 
505 8 |a 1 Taking it in and letting it work2 Spiritual practice as stress management; 3 The subtle arts of equimindedness; 8 The Challenge of Integration; 1 Factor Z, at long last; 2 Interzone, phantasmagoria, ownership; 3 Ordinary life as I find it; 9 Opening Up; 1 A humane transition; 2 A final af firmation of the sensory world; Notes. 
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