I often recommend Segal's "Collision with the Infinite" because it has a peculiar and often beneficial effect upon seekers. Her writing about her loss of selfhood helps many people see-through various deeply-held beliefs and thoughts about selfhood and/or existence. How this happens I don't know, but I can think of many people who have been strongly affected by her book, and all of them were affected in what I would call a positive way.
UG has always struck me as an odd character--sort of an ultimate contrarian with a chip on his shoulder about Jiddu and several other teachers. At the same time he's kinda funny, and there is probably some value in considering what he has to say, if only to challenge whatever beliefs someone may have.
Bernadette Roberts's first two books interested me, but then she sort of wandered off into some mindset where she felt obligated to reconcile her interior experiences in some quasi-Christian way. I lost interest in her because she never seemed to have reached any kind of psychologically-unified way of being. For whatever reason she seemed to overlook the fact that ordinary everyday life (free from the dominance of thought or special experiences) is what this path is all about.
UG has always struck me as an odd character--sort of an ultimate contrarian with a chip on his shoulder about Jiddu and several other teachers. At the same time he's kinda funny, and there is probably some value in considering what he has to say, if only to challenge whatever beliefs someone may have.
Bernadette Roberts's first two books interested me, but then she sort of wandered off into some mindset where she felt obligated to reconcile her interior experiences in some quasi-Christian way. I lost interest in her because she never seemed to have reached any kind of psychologically-unified way of being. For whatever reason she seemed to overlook the fact that ordinary everyday life (free from the dominance of thought or special experiences) is what this path is all about.
