The true enlightening or awakening state does not split the human being into pieces -personal vs. transcendent, egoic vs non-egoic- but sees all of them as vital and useful parts of the great totality of being human. Enlightenment seeks to heal rather than divide. In this groundbreaking book, Jason Shulman shows how our egoic self, with its flaws and imperfections, is the perfect vehicle for manifesting the universal consciousness we all long for. The personal self and the larger transcendent or impersonal self actually need each other to exist. They are born together as co-dependently arising phenomena. Jason Shulman’s great work of kindness has helped thousands of people walk the path of healing the human spirit and return to their “perfectly imperfect,” loving nature. Through this true path of awakening, we heal ourselves, and in this way, help heal the world. Praise for Jason Shulman's Work and Books ."Jason Shulman is a true adept of the inner teachings. He offers a very sophisticated and dynamic account of what happens between the Kabbalah and the great, luminous transparency. To engage with Jason Shulman's mind is to enter into the reality where true healing can occur." - Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement " The Instruction Manual for Receiving God contains exactly the type of common sense wisdom required for a person to live a good old fashioned grounded life in a society that encourages us to do things faster while multi-tasking. This book is a magnificent breath of tranquil air." -Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Sacred Contracts "Jason Shulman offers us a profoundly simple guide to the obviousness of awakening to our deepest Self. Lucid, contemporary, and most of all kind, this is a beautiful book which goes to the very heart of the human condition, by encouraging us to embrace both the impersonal oneness of all things and the richness of the personal life." - Timothy Freke, author of Lucid Living "This little book is a real jewel. Jason's expression of nonduality includes duality. It includes being a person. It includes everyday life. It includes shadows and uncertainties. And it includes suffering and desire, not as problems we can eventually transcend, but as integral aspects of the very fabric of existence. Instead of seeing desire, or clinging, as something we must transcend, Jason sees it as how the universe holds together and functions. The cessation of suffering, in his view, "has todo with the integration of light and dark." Instead of the transcendent, idealized, purist vision that views certain aspects of reality as superior to others, this is a down-to-earth, all-inclusive, fully-embodied approach. "In a world of uncertainty, awakening does not bring the hoped-for certainty we longed for. Mystery remains. Wildness remains. Danger remains. Vitality and freedom remain as well." And awakening is never finished. It is on-going. I highly recommend this little book." -Joan Tollifson Author of Nothing to Grasp . "I think there was a book some yearsback called "All I really needed to know I learned in kindergarten." It turnsout that the goal of the spiritual path, whether it is a path of surrender to ahigher power or one of nonduality, is the integration of our personal, mortal,human side with all its flaws and limitations, with the transcendent,forever-ongoing aspect that is not personal but universal.  When those two possibilities of human potential arejoined in awareness--leaving neither out--the answers to life become very simple.You might even say they are the kindergarten-level "commonsensical" things welearned as we interacted with the world as a young child. We need to re-learnthose simple things which have gotten lost in many of the approaches to spirituallearning which have taken on the coloration of our acquisitive approach toliving, perspectives that have gotten more and more immaterial and substitutedabstract concepts for the down-to-earthy thing that enlightenment and awakeningactually are. It is always the time to set the record straight." Jason Shulman, author of Beyond the Now; Essays On The Heart Of Enlightenment. "A Dharma teacher and Kabbalist, Jason Shulman has succeeded in creating a down-to-earth guide which makes the quest to find God into a realizable possibility." ―Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of Life After Death: The Burden of Proof. ."Beautiful lessons and brilliant insights on the divine nature of humanity and how we connect with God and ourselves. Enlightening and inspirational." - Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness..Jason Shulman takes the Buddha's Four Noble Truths as hismusical score, and riffs on them like an inspired jazz singer. His music isimmediate, yet timeless. I found myself humming along, and I'm sure you couldeven dance to it. ―Eric Utne, founder, Utne Reader Jason Shulman is a wonderful spiritual teacher an