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Seeing the Unseen by John Collins

Seeing the Unseen

Opening the Closed Circuit of Everyday Consciousness

by John Collins

Pages: 82

Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5

Category
  • RELIGION - Spirituality
  • PHILOSOPHY - General
  • PSYCHOLOGY - General

Type : Paperback

ISBN : 9781609570316

Price : $12.49


Abandoning at age 30 what promised to be a lucrative law practice, John Collins
escaped to Spain for a three-year sabbatical to search for the meaning of life. In
SEEING THE UNSEEN: Opening the Closed Circuit of Everyday Consciousness,
he relates his fi ndings in maxims and identifi es seven impediments that
commonly hinder our capacity to render our everyday experience of people,
places and things intelligible, meaningful and joyful. Collins believes the
greatest obstacle to realizing personal fulfi llment, or salvation or the Kingdom
of God is psychological. Living our lives almost entirely on the conscious
surface of Self, we neglect the unconscious core of our being, resulting in the
inability of the whole Self to truly see and know reality. Collins suggests that
religion’s fi nest hour may come when it assumes responsibility for healing this
rupture in our innermost being, allowing us to achieve greater understanding
of ourselves, of the world and ultimately, of God.

John Collins is a nearly retired general practice attorney in Bucks County, Pa.,
who graduated with honors in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, and
was subsequently awarded a law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1957.
He also attended the Sorbonne, Catholic University, Princeton Theological
Seminary and Villanova University for special studies. He served with the 82nd
Airborne Division during the Korean War. He also served as a public defender,
as an assistant district attorney, and as an unsuccessful candidate for the
Pennsylvania state legislature. He is married and the father of three children.

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