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American Jnani: A Personal Awakening and a Roadmap to Freedomby Jason Seymour What if enlightenment wasn't found in a cave or monastery, but in the middle of modern life-with its traffic, texts, heartbreaks, and bills? In American Jnani, Jason Seymour tells the story of his own awakening and offers a lucid, practical roadmap for anyone seeking the same freedom. Woven through memoir, philosophy, and lived experience, this book bridges the ancient wisdom of Ramana Maharshi and Advaita Vedanta with the restless, questioning spirit of the West. Seymour takes readers on an intimate journey-from early glimpses of transcendence to the shattering dissolution of ego identity and the long process of integration that follows. His language is grounded, poetic, and often startlingly direct. You'll find not abstract mysticism, but a manual for embodiment-a guide to staying awake in the marketplace of everyday life. At its heart lies a 14-Step Framework for awakening and embodiment. These ""Steps"" trace a full arc: Centering and Presence - learning to rest in stillness amid chaos Self-Inquiry and Insight - dissolving the false self through direct seeing Sweetening Memory - transforming pain and regret into compassion Surrender and Sahaja Nishta - living as awareness itself, natural and unforced Each chapter is rich with metaphors-rivers returning to the sea, tigers at rest after the hunt, wind over water-bringing abstract truths into visceral clarity. Drawing from neuroscience, quantum theory, and timeless mystic insight, Seymour shows how consciousness is not produced by the brain but is the field in which all experience arises. Matter itself, he writes, is ""the dream of mind made visible."" Yet American Jnani is never merely theoretical. It is deeply personal. Through moments of heartbreak, illness, loss, and grace, the author reveals how awakening unfolds through ordinary human experiences. What begins as a quest to transcend the world ends as a realization that the world itself-every sound, color, and breath-is divine. This is a book for seekers, skeptics, and modern mystics alike-anyone who senses there must be something more real, more luminous, beneath the noise of daily life. It doesn't demand belief; it invites direct experience. Readers are gently led from understanding toward seeing, from seeing toward being. By the final pages, the message is clear: enlightenment isn't a distant state reserved for saints. It's the natural recognition of what you already are-and have always been. ""The path disappears when you reach it. What remains is life itself-simple, awake, and free."" Whether you are just beginning your spiritual journey or integrating a profound awakening, American Jnani offers a clear mirror and compassionate companion for the road ahead.

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