Jan Frazier experienced a radical transformation of consciousness at age fifty, in 2003. Her first book, "When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening" (Weiser Books, 2007), is an account of her awakening, as it unfolded over the first eighteen months. "The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is" (Weiser Books, 2012) offers guidance toward the reduction of suffering and the prospect of radical freedom. Both books are available in paperback and eBook. <br><br>"Opening the Door: Jan Frazier Teachings on Awakening" is an eBook collection of essays on the nature of spiritual awakening. The book opens the reader's awareness to the possibility of a richly human life, beyond what appears possible to the ego and the mind. The teachings point to unresisting present-moment attention, where the truth of existence is known. Jan Frazier's teachings are drawn from direct experience, relying on no particular tradition or set of beliefs.
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Jan Inc. Frazier. Opening the Door: Jan Frazier Teachings On Awakening
The Elephant in the Room
Tuning Fork
Shut Door, Open Door
Spiritual Liberation: Top of the List
Conditioning
Where is the Beloved?
Time Enough
Breaking the Rules
To Live in Paradise
Already Free
The Choice to Carry a Thing
Tissue Paper Wall
The Certainty of Death
When Resistance Forgets to Start Up
Acceptance Brings a Flood of Peacefulness
God as Wafer, as Mother Rabbit
Be a Wasp
Coming Home
A Person is Not One but Two
For God’s Sake, Bow
Feeling Grief
The Eye of the Hurricane
The Coyote
Arm-Wrestling, Legos, and a Quiet Mind
Assumptions
The Beloved
Go Forward into Delight
Your Imperfect Self
Someone Asked About God
Bad Days, Bad Years
Watching Thoughts
Not Minding
Self-Inflicted Pain
A Room Full of Happy People
Unplugging the Mind
Feast of Losses
Getting Bad News
Kid in a Grown-Up’s Body
What Are We Made Of?
A More Peaceful Life
Letting a Thing Be Itself
Nothing to Look Forward To
Brick Wall
Getting Outside the Room Where You Are
How to Have a Peaceful Life
The Full Luscious Truth
Enough: In the Middle of a Miracle
Life After Death
Excruciating Tenderness
Just Do It
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People have always suspected there was something more, something beyond. Something before, at bottom, a fundamental from which all else sprang. A primordial. Not just an idea, not something to take notes on in a philosophy class, but a gut knowing in the middle of the night, when no one else is awake. What is it? What is it? We all silently agree to pretend things matter — to carry on as though the world as we have laid it out, life as we live it, makes perfect sense. Is enough. But secretly we know otherwise.
Some of us came up with God. Some of us got stuck in despair.
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Many years ago somebody asked me what I thought my life was about, what it was for, and I said I guessed it was about writing. I meant it. I believed that to be the case. Well, it was the best I could come up with. (I had to say something.) A ridiculous answer was better than saying I don’t know.
But to even ask the question! For a person to ask the question of self: this is a window being opened. Why was I born?
