Spiritual seekers are chronically crippled by the belief that there is a definite, though vaguely defined state that can be reached only by an elect few. Teachers needing followers are disinclined to tell them different. Douglass Harding speaks with a fresh voice and a unique method of questioning that assumption. He tells us that awakening is nothing special but our common human birthright.I'll leave it to the reader to judge for him or her self. I spent years laboring under the delusion that if I spent enough time and effort I would reach a state that could be called "enlightened." Harding's simple experiments turn attention to the reality that who I think myself to be emerges from a state that is perfectly clear and perfectly imperturbable. That simple shift in perspective makes a difference. And he writes without a whiff of piety.