{"product_id":"collision-with-the-infinite-a-life-beyond-the-personal-self-9781884997273","title":"Collision With the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self","description":"\u003cp\u003e--She thought she had gone mad  but she was enlightened and didnt know it! Some people spend years in caves trying to experience what suddenly happened to Suzanne Segal. This is the incredible story of a young woman who irrevocably lost all sense of personal self  or an \"I\". It is the story of her minds desperate attempts to come to grips with -- or deny! -- her spiritual condition  a process which took eight years.-- Collision with the Infinite is an extraordinary work. One day over twelve years ago  Suzanne Segal  a young American woman living in Paris  stepped onto a city bus and suddenly and unexpectedly found herself egoless  stripped of any sense of a personal self. Struggling with the terror and confusion produced by that cataclysmic experience  for years she tried to make sense of it  seeking the help of therapist after therapist. Eventually  she turned to spiritual teachers  coming at last to understand that this was the egoless state  the Holy Grail of so many spiritual traditions  that elusive consciousness to which so many aspire. This book is her story  her own account of what such a terrifying event meant to her when it crashed into her everyday life  and what it means to her now. Her sense of the personal \"I\" has never returned  and she lives in that heightened spiritual awareness to this day. Stephen Bodian  the former editor of Yoga Journal who wrote the introduction  found her to be \"a fearless  joyful being who radiates love and whose spiritual wisdom was equal to that of the masters and sages I most respected.\" Unlike so many spiritual accounts  Collision with the Infinite is written in a completely lucid  nonmystical  straightforward manner  instantly understandable to Westerners and filled with luminous clarity. Nowhere in these pages  in fact  do we have the sense of invasive ego or self-promotion  and Ms. Segal presents us with a remarkable glimpse into \"the mystery in which all abides \" that egolessness which seekers have pursued since spiritual quests began. She thought she had gone mad  but she was enlightened and didnt know it! Some people spend years in caves trying to experience what suddenly happened to Suzanne Segal. This is the incredible story of a young woman who irrevocably lost all sense of personal self  or an \"I\". It is the story of her minds desperate attempts to come to grips with -- or deny! -- her spiritual condition  a process which took eight years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646916288565,"sku":"ByrdShop_1884997279","price":22.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781884997273.jpg?v=1781681619","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/collision-with-the-infinite-a-life-beyond-the-personal-self-9781884997273","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}