作者小记

保罗•诺曼图特

等你读了这本书，你自会发现，我并不能算是真正的“作者”。因为，此时乃是透过通灵形式写成的。话说回来，由于它是经由我的嘴、我的声音口述，我的手指打字，以及我的愿心所完成，因此，让读者了解此书的背景因缘，似乎是我责无旁贷的事。

一九八二年二月，我的生命走到了死胡同，于是，我透过冥想与默祷的方式向老天求助，也诚心地静待答复。 我以前并没有任何关于通灵或接受高灵指引的知识与经验。熟料，两个礼拜后，我竟然“听到”了某个声音，来自于Rajpur——我的神圣向导。（我与他的早期对话已收录在一九八五年出版的书中，该书名为“You Are The Answer”（暂译为《你是一切答案》）

一九八二年十一月，有位朋友拿了一本名为《奇迹课程》的书给我看，想听听我的看法。我略读之后，得知该书作者是耶稣，为了确认它的真实性，我问Raj该书是谁写的，他竟回答说：“是我。“就这样Raj透露了自己的真实身分。后来，他告诉我，要是他一开始就让我知道他是耶稣的话，我大概就不会理睬他了。我至今仍称呼他“Raj”，如此，跟他的沟通会比较自在，因我知道，我对耶稣先入为主的概念与看法一定会阻碍我与坦诚的交流，而他也没有反对我这样称呼他。

尔后几年，我的生命有了极大的转变。一九八三年二月，在Raj指示下，我们开始个案咨商，也就是让个案透过我跟Raj对话，这后来成了我的“专职工作”，而（与Raj对话）这份通讯刊物也由此而生。到了一九八五年八月，我们开办了团体式的工作坊，至此书出版，期间约办过四十二场。

内人苏珊以及我儿克里斯，在我的工作中扮演着极为重要的角色，本书中也提及了他们二位。我想借次机会公开表达我对他们两位的感激。

我与Raj的这段经历，以及他所教导的一切，纯然出自我的主观经验。但我必须说，九年来的经历，让我发现，我是不可能独自一人觉醒的；而且我还可以理直气壮地说，一本具体教人“觉醒”的书，不会只是一篇篇谈玄说理的文章而已，它所表达的是一种关系，更好说是一种在现实生活中密切互动的神圣关系。

我不想假装自己已经快到家了，但我可以向诸位保证，我不会再回头了。

前言

这本书或许会成为你读过的书中最困难的一本，因为这本书毫不留情地质疑小我的存在，同时为你指出释放小我的唯一途径，并鼓励你依此修习。它并非故意刁难，事实上，你将发现阅读这本书并不费力的，有时还相当愉快，书中文句也不艰涩，只是它在你内激起的反应，会令你难以招架。

这本书要求你超越理性了解的层次，勇敢地活出那种心境！无论你是不是《奇迹课程的学员，它都把课程的原则大胆地作了诠释；无论你是不是基督科学教派的信徒，它都把基本教义大胆地作了诠释；无论你是否有意逃避生命的实相，它都把实相的运作原则大胆地作了诠释。它直接针对你的神性说："觉醒吧！"。它用人类的语言向你发言，好让你了解它所说的一切。

我曾经提过，当代有五本重要书籍，谈论人的神性，帮助人了解自己的真相，即协助人们觉悟。第一本书是艾迪夫人（Mary Baker Eddy）所写的《科学与健康》（Science and Health），第二本书是"The Urantia Book"，第三本书是《奇迹课程》，第四本书是 《人生毕业礼》，第五本书还未出现。

我之所以如此铁口直断，纯粹为了帮你节省时间，无意渲染本书的伟大。这本书全面揭示了觉悟“最后阶段”的本质与特性。无论你现在觉得它对你适用与否，总有一天，这一真理会与你超乎言诠的悟境相呼应，它单刀直入地将你领回自己与生俱来的“清明神智”，也就是你对真神造化的彻悟之境。这是我送给你的礼物，也是你的真我给你自己的礼物。

愿你享用

Raj（瑞吉）

夏威夷Princeville, 1991年6月29日

Author’s Note

The word “author,” as you will find, is a misnomer, since this book is a channeled work. But being the one with the mouth, the voice, the fingers to type the material, and the willingness to do it, it has fallen to me to give you some background.

In February of 1982, with no prior knowledge of channeling or of spiritual guides, but with a crisis on my hands, I reached out for help in meditation/prayer. The result, after two weeks of earnest listening, was the surprising experience of “hearing” words from someone who identified himself as Rajpur, my Guide. These early conversations became the book, You Are The Answer, published in 1985.

In November of 1982 a friend handed me a copy of A Course In Miracles to see what I thought of it. After browsing through it, I asked Raj who wrote it—meaning, should I accept the premise of the statements of the Course that the author was Jesus. His answer was, “I did.” It was in this way that Raj disclosed his real identity, later stating that if he had told me who he really was at the time of our first conversation, we would never have had a second conversation. I continue to call him Raj because it helps me be real with him, having discovered that my concepts and beliefs about Jesus are absolute impediments to relating genuinely. He has not objected.

During the years between then and now, my life has changed drastically. In February of 1983, at Raj’s direction, we began doing private conversations with Raj, which became my full-time “work.” This led to the publication of a newsletter, Conversations with Raj, and in August of 1985 we began doing public workshops—a total of forty-two so far.

My wife, Susan, and my son, Chris, have played a great part in the work—both of whom you will find mentioned in this book—and I take this opportunity to publicly express my gratitude to them both.

Obviously my experience with Raj and what he has been teaching me is totally subjective, but I will say this: I have found over the past nine years that it would be impossible for me to Awaken alone. It therefore seems utterly reasonable to me that a book dealing with actual engagement in Awakening would not be a treatise on or exposition of principles, but rather an express-ion of relationship—a holy relationship, if you will—with all of its dynamics present.

I do not pretend to have gone “all the way” yet, but I can guarantee you that I am not going back.

Foreword

This book will perhaps be the most difficult book you have ever read because it squarely calls the ego into question and gives you direction and encouragement regarding the only way to release it. It is not designed to be difficult. In fact, you will find the reading easy, palatable.

The words will not be difficult to understand, but the movement they will create in you will.

This book will require you to move beyond understanding and dare to live from there! It brings the principles of A Course In Miracles into bold relief, whether you are a Course student or not. It brings the principles of Christian Science into bold relief, whether you are a student or not. It brings the principles of Life into bold relief, whether you are avoiding It or not. It addresses you in terms of your divinity and says, wake up! And it addresses you in the language of your humanity so that you might comprehend it.

I have stated that there are five major books of the modern world which address the divinity of man and facilitate his realization of Reality—his Awakening. The first is Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. The second is The Urantia Book. The third is A Course In Miracles. The fourth is Graduation: The End of Illusions, and the fifth is yet to appear.

I make this statement in order to save you time, and not as a claim to greatness. In all ways this book embodies the nature and character of the last stages of Awakening. Whether you find it applicable to you or not, the time will come when its truth will be confirming of your own unexplainable experiences of Awakening, allowing you thereby to move with less distraction into your primitive (original) Sanity—the Conscious experience of Creation as God is being It.

It is my gift to you, and Your gift to yourself.

Enjoy!

Rajpur

Princeville, Hawaii

June 29, 1991