The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

by Michael A. Singer

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Sometimes to grow outward, you have to look inward. In Untethered Soul, you’ll receive insightful, yet endlessly practical advice on how to harness your source of energy, understand your own consciousness, and live life on the foundation of inner peace. It’s time to be the best you.

#1 New York Times bestseller

What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions.

Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. You’ll discover what you can do to put an end to the habitual thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness. By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, author and spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization.

Copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being.

The Untethered Soul has already touched the lives of more than a million readers, and is available in a special hardcover gift edition with ribbon bookmark—the perfect gift for yourself, a loved one, or anyone who wants a keepsake edition of this remarkable book.

Visit www.untetheredsoul.com for more information.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608820498
Publisher:	New Harbinger Publications
Publication date:	10/03/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	19,036
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Michael A. Singer is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul, which has also been published in Turkey, Brazil (in Portuguese), Switzerland (in German), Spain, Japan, China, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Poland, and Italy.

Singer received a master's degree in economics from the University of Florida in 1971. During his doctoral work, he had a deep inner awakening and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. Through the years, Singer has made major contributions in the areas of business, the arts, education, healthcare, and environmental protection. He previously authored two books on the integration of Eastern and Western philosophy: The Search for Truth and Three Essays on Universal Law: Karma, Will and Love. Visit www.untetheredsoul.com for more information.

Michael A. Singer is author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul, and the New York Times bestseller, The Surrender Experiment, which have both been published worldwide. He had a deep inner awakening in 1971 while working on his doctorate in economics, and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. He is also creator of a leading-edge software package that transformed the medical practice management industry, and founding CEO of a billion-dollar public company whose achievements are archived in the Smithsonian Institution. Along with his more than four decades of spiritual teaching, Singer has made major contributions in the areas of business, education, health care, and environmental protection. He previously authored two books on the integration of Eastern and Western philosophy: The Search for Truth and Three Essays on Universal Law. Visit www.untetheredsoul.com for more information.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
Awakening Consciousness
The Voice Inside Your Head     7
Your Inner Roommate     15
Who Are You?     23
The Lucid Self     31
Experiencing Energy
Infinite Energy     41
The Secrets of the Spiritual Heart     49
Transcending the Tendency to Close     59
Freeing Yourself
Let Go Now or Fall     71
Removing Your Inner Thorn     81
Stealing Freedom for Your Soul     89
Pain, the Price of Freedom     99
Going Beyond
Taking Down the Walls     111
Far, Far Beyond     119
Letting Go of False Solidity     127
Living Life
The Path of Unconditional Happiness     141
The Spiritual Path of Nonresistance     149
Contemplating Death     157
The Secret of the Middle Way     165
The Loving Eyes of God     173
References     183

What People are Saying About This

Deepak Chopra

In the book, The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer takes you step-by-step through the process of Gyana, the Yoga of the Intellect, to the Source. Moreover, he does it with elegant simplicity. Read this book carefully and you will get more than a glimpse of eternity. --Deepak Chopra, Author, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof

Yogi Amrit Desai

This is a seminal book that quite frankly is in a class by itself. In a simple, yet paradoxically profound way, Michael Singer takes the reader on a journey that begins with consciousness tethered to the ego, and ends having taken us beyond our myopic, contained self-image to a state of inner freedom and liberation. Michael Singer's book is a priceless gift to all who have futilely searched and yearned for a richer, more meaningful, creative life. --Yogi Amrit Desai, internationally recognized pioneer of modern yoga

Ma Yoga Shakti Saraswati

This publication has released boundless joy for the hungry souls of the world. --Ma Yoga Shakti Saraswati, founder of Yogashakti International Mission, recipient of Hinduism Today 'Hindu of the Year 2000' award

Abdul Aziz Said

The Untethered Soul is a brilliant treatment of the path of spiritual consciousness. It is clearly and powerfully written. Michael Singer provides a firm step for those on a spiritual journey. --Abdul Aziz Said, Professor of Peace Studies, Chair of Islamic Peace, American University

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Deep spirituality is within your reach in this book. In it you will find the mirror to see your unconditional, holy Self. If you look for practical spirituality not encumbered by credo and ritual, read this book. --Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi: coauthor of Jewish With Feeling and From Age-ing To Sage-ing

Louis Chiavacci

Michael Singer has opened my mind to an entirely new dimension of thought. Through The Untethered Soul I have been challenged both psychologically and intellectually in a new and exciting way. It may take more than one reading and many hours of introspection but The Untethered Soul is a must read for anyone in search of greater understanding of themselves and of the truth. --Louis Chiavacci, Senior Vice-President, Merrill Lynch, ranked in Barron's top 15 U.S. Investment Managers

From the Publisher

"Read this book carefully and you will get more than a glimpse of eternity." —-Deepak Chopra

Bikram Choudhury

The Untethered Soul, in a clear practical manner, shows the reader how to achieve the real goal of human life—self-realization. --Bikram Choudhury, founder of Bikram Yoga and worldwide Yoga College of India

Ray Kurzweil

East is East and West is West, but Michael Singer bridges these two great traditions in a radiant treatise on how to succeed in life from our spiritual quest to our everyday tribulations. Freud said that life was composed of love and work. With great eloquence, wit, and compelling logic, Singer's brilliant book completes this thought by showing them to be two poles of the same selfless devotion. --Ray Kurzweil, inventor, National Medal of Technology recipient and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Singularity is Near, and other books

James O'Dea

In lucid, unadorned prose, Michael Singer delivers the essence of the great spiritual teachings of the Ages. Each chapter of The Untethered Soul is an instructive meditation on the binds of the human condition and how each and every knot can be gracefully untied so that our souls may fly. The accuracy and simplicity of this work is a measure of its pure mastery. --James O'Dea, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)

Editorial Reviews

This trade paperback and NOOK Book original has served as an introduction to meditation and mindfulness for thousands of grateful readers.

In the book The Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer takes you step-by-step through the process of Gyana, the yoga of the Intellect, to the Source. Moreover, he does it with elegant simplicity. Read this book carefully, and you will get more than a glimpse of eternity.”
—Deepak Chopra, author of Life After Death: The Burden of Proof


“In lucid, unadorned prose, Michael A. Singer delivers the essence of the great spiritual teachings of the Ages. Each chapter of The Untethered Soul is an instructive meditation on the binds of the human condition and how each and every knot can be gracefully untied so that our souls may fly. The accuracy and simplicity of this work is a measure of its pure mastery.”
—James O’Dea, past president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)


“The Untethered Soul is indeed one of the finest treatments of the nature and practice of the conscious use of consciousness that I have ever read…. It is the clearest statement I know of who we are and what we face in our emerging humanity.”
—Jean Houston, philosopher, psychologist, and author of A Mythic Life and Passion for the Possible


“Deep spirituality is within your reach in this book. In it you will find the mirror to see your unconditional, holy self. If you look for practical spirituality not encumbered by credo and ritual, read this book.”
—Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, coauthor of Jewish with Feeling and From Age-ing to Sage-ing



“Michael A. Singer has opened my mind to an entirely new dimension of thought. Through The Untethered Soul, I have been challenged both psychologically and intellectually in a new and exciting way. It may take more than one reading and many hours of introspection, but The Untethered Soul is a must-read for anyone in search of greater understanding of themselves and of the truth.”
—Louis Chiavacci, senior vice-president of Merrill Lynch, ranked in Barron’s top fifteen US Investment Advisors


“Psalm 42:8 says, ‘Deep calls unto deep.’ Within each human soul there is a longing for more, and the thirst can be quenched only by God. In The Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer helps the modern person who is seeking this experience to come to a better understanding of the action in their soul. I highly recommend this reflection of one soul to another on the journey.”
—Fr. Paul Wierichs, CP, director of the Passionist Monastery and Spiritual Center of Our Lady of Florida


“The Untethered Soul is a brilliant treatment of the path of spiritual consciousness. It is clearly and powerfully written. Michael A. Singer provides a firm step for those on a spiritual journey.”
—Abdul Aziz Said, professor of peace studies and chair of Islamic Peace at American University


“This publication has released boundless joy for the hungry souls of the world.”
—Ma Yoga Shakti Saraswati, founder of Yogashakti International Mission and recipient of Hinduism Today’s Hindu of the Year 2000 award

From the Publisher