From Separation to Oneness: Exploring Spiritual Teachings and a Path Toward Non-Duality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798171793180)

What if the boundaries that separate us are not as absolute as they appear?

Across cultures and centuries, spiritual teachers have approached some of the same fundamental questions from very different directions. Jesus spoke of love, forgiveness, surrender, and the Kingdom of God. The Buddha examined suffering, attachment, compassion, and the nature of the self. Taoism explored harmony and action without forcing. Advaita questioned the separation between the individual and ultimate reality, while Jewish and Christian contemplative traditions offered their own approaches to oneness and the divine.

From Separation to Oneness places these teachings beside one another-not to erase their differences or claim that they all teach the same thing, but to explore where their insights may meet.

Beginning with our ordinary experience of being a separate individual, Jerry Pannone follows a path through conditioning, judgment, attachment, surrender, presence, forgiveness, compassion, and the question of the separate self. Along the way, insights from psychology, biology, and neuroscience add a contemporary perspective to ancient questions about identity, free will, and human behavior.

The journey eventually leads to a deceptively simple question:

Who-or what-is the "I" behind our experience?

Rather than offering another doctrine to believe, this short book invites the reader to look directly at ordinary life: at our relationships, our conflicts, our judgments, our need to control, and our assumptions about ourselves and others.

Perhaps oneness does not require us to become someone different.

Perhaps it begins by seeing more clearly what has been here all along.