Reading The Silent Witness Radically: Awakening Consciousness Beyond the Self

By Larry D. George

Every moment of your life has unfolded before a silent, unchanging presence - a witness beneath every joy, grief, doubt, and transformation. Reading the Silent Witness Radically: Awakening Consciousness Beyond the Self invites you to turn toward that presence and discover that awareness itself is your deepest identity, not a distant spiritual ideal.

Drawing on Christian mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, African American religious experience, depth psychology, and contemporary philosophy of mind, Larry D. George, Ph.D., guides readers into a contemplative journey from searching to seeing. Early chapters ask what consciousness really is, dismantling the common equations of the self with the body, personality, or neuron firing, and introducing "the witness" - the silent awareness that has accompanied every version of you you have ever been. Later chapters explore practices of Self-inquiry, Howard Thurman's "inward journey," and the challenge of living awake amid suffering, injustice, and ordinary fear.

This is not abstract theory and not spiritual bypass. It is a gentle yet rigorous invitation to remember what you already are: the awareness in which your entire story unfolds. For seekers, pastors, activists, and skeptics alike, Reading the Silent Witness Radically offers a clear path into the kingdom "within and among" - the depth of reality that has always been closer than your own breath.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6VX9QWG
• ISBN13: 9798184716756
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"