Welcome, and thank you for joining A Cosmic Journey. Here is your free library: eight short pieces on the self, awareness, meditation and freedom, plus free course materials and sample chapters from the Freedom books. Download any or all of them, keep them, and share them with anyone who might enjoy them.
Psychology of Self
The Self and Self-Actualization
The Art of Self-Actualization
The Nature of the Moment
Smoking, Self-Actualization, and the Freedom to Choose
Peace, Conflict and Sustainability
Easy Candle Meditation for Beginners
River Meditation: A Simple Visualization Practice for a Quiet Mind
Psychology of the Self: Free Chapters and Course Materials
Five complete chapters (2 through 6) from the current edition of the first Freedom book, together with the opening lecture of the Psychology of Meditation course Richard E. Bradshaw taught for the Osher Institute at the University of Hawaii. The chapters are from the current edition of Freedom: What It Is & How to Achieve It, Volume 1: Freedom & the Self.
Lecture 1: A Tale of Two Selves
Meditation as a gateway to an expanded reality: the conditioned self and the unconditioned self. A narrated video presentation.
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Chapter 2: Freedom & Self-actualization: History
Is the growth of consciousness toward freedom built into evolution itself? Teleological philosophers and cosmologists, East and West.
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Chapter 3: The ‘Self’ in Self-Process
If everything is in constant flux, what is this self that feels so stable? Yogacara Buddhism, William James, the experiencing and narrative selves, and the question of a real self.
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Chapter 4: Freedom and the Holistic Self
The theories of self drawn into one holistic picture, and why inner and outer freedom let that self keep growing.
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Chapter 5: Self, Consciousness & Relationship
The ever-changing self, perception as cosmology, and freedom East and West.
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Chapter 6: What Is This Experience Called Freedom?
The avenues of freedom, the nature of autonomy, and the four pillars of freedom.
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When you’re ready to go deeper
These articles are small doorways into the larger works. Each series takes the same questions much further.
