Greatest Western Spiritual Teachers of Modern Times

What does it mean to actually wake up?Not as a metaphor. Not as a belief. Not as an idea borrowed from ancient texts but as a lived fact.In Greatest Western Spiritual Teachers of Modern Times, Art Ticknor explores the lives and teachings of three remarkable Western mystics who pursued the question of enlightenment to its furthest reaches: Richard Rose, Douglas Harding, and Franklin Merrell-Wolff.Richard Rose, the West Virginia mystic and founder of the TAT Foundation, developed a relentlessly practical approach to spiritual awakening, challenging seekers to look beyond beliefs and discover truth for themselves.Douglas Harding, the English architect and author of On Having No Head, found an astonishingly simple doorway into nonduality: the direct recognition of what we are before thought constructs a separate self.Franklin Merrell-Wolff, the mathematician and philosopher, went beyond intellectual inquiry to describe profound realizations of consciousness that transformed his understanding of existence itself.Their backgrounds were radically different. Their language was different. Their methods were different.Yet all three pointed toward the same possibility: that the separate self we take ourselves to be is not what we truly are, and that this can be discovered directly.For anyone drawn to nonduality, self-inquiry, enlightenment, mystical experience, consciousness, or spiritual awakening, these three teachers offer something rare: Western examples of people who did not merely talk about awakening, but claimed to have seen through the illusion of separation for themselves.This is not a book about adopting another spiritual philosophy.It is an invitation to investigate.Three temperaments. Three vocabularies. One discovery.What happens when you follow the question Who am I? All the way home?