Book reviews:
“An exceptional piece of writing. Right from the book’s description, we learn author Randy Higgins, PH.D. has written this book in a state of Samadhi and on a cell phone, so I guess those were enough reasons to make me want to flick through SALVO’s pages and see what is going on here. Later on, I learned he wrote this book at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. All these things made me suppose author Higgins must have been in a deep state of concentration, which helped him give birth to a great metaphysical final product.
The main core of the book is actually ourselves from the future who are now able to make sense of the apocalypse and help others go through Apocalyptic labyrinth and come out safely.
This book is an exceptional piece of literature that really shows the work out into it.”
– Amazon review by Sol Tyler
Full Book synopsis/summary:
This book was written in the state of breathless Samadhi on a cell phone. Pithy mystical aphorisms began arriving from “ourselves in the future.” These future selves have survived the cataclysm we are currently undergoing and want to extend a hand to help us through the Apocalyptic labyrinth safely to the other side. This journey is not what is expected. The price of admission to the New Earth turns out to be the realization of every terror we’ve ever imagined. It turns out that we were afraid of only ourselves in the first place! The final reward is the acceptance and embracing of this glorious, terrifying Self. What we were looking for is what is looking for us.
EXCERPTS
1. “Love isn’t dependent upon other people. It’s just there, in the air you breathe.”
2. “Ordinary waking reality is the most psychedelic experience of all. Once you realize that, transcendence becomes moot.”
3. “The problem with “I love you” is the I and the you. Better to swim in an undifferentiated ocean of love.”
4. “The air you breathe is love. There is nothing that isn’t love.”
Beyond
nirbikalpa
the meditation that
is not a meditation
Beyond Nirbikalpa: The Meditation That is Not a Meditation
Synopsis:
If you’ve ever meditated, you probably noticed that it usually doesn’t go anywhere. Even if you grabbed mediation with both hands, it probably never grabbed you back! Well, all that’s about to change.
What if you had access to the same teachers that taught the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Ramakrishna, Christ? What if you forgot everything you ever learned about meditation and instead, got it straight from the horse’s mouth, direct from the Fountainhead, from the original TEACHERS FROM THE STARS, independent of any religion, creed or dogma? Well, buckle up because you’re about take a ride on your very own UFO. Explore the universe first hand. Stop relying on second-hand or third-hand sources. Become an explorer, an EXPERT based on you own direct, immediate, private experience.
Learn to see yourself, and your world, though eyes that are not of this world. You don’t need a new self, or a new world. Once you get this new pair of eyes, your world will never be the same again. In fact, you will ask, “World? What world?” Because now you will be dwelling among the stars, a proud citizen of this — or any — universe.
Glorious: Life on the Other Side of the Apocalypse
Synopsis:
The Apocalypse is a necessary catalyst for evolutionary leapfrogging. Despite appearances and misunderstandings, the Apocalypse is not a collective event, but rather, can only occur on an individual basis, one person at a time.
For some, the Apocalypse hasn’t begun. It isn’t even on the horizon. Of course the majority of people are in the terrifying midst of it. Over a million species are going extinct now, AND WE ARE ON THAT LIST. The world is getting sucked into a vortex, a whirlpool, getting flushed down the toilet, spinning faster and faster by the day. We are getting pulled into a black hole, and we are far past the event horizon. There is no escaping, no turning back. THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH.
For a few of us, THE APOCALYPSE IS LONG PAST. It happened to us individually, personally, privately. Trauma, illness, psychosis, existential disillusionment, a broken heart, or maybe just a good old-fashioned ENLIGHTENMENT – any of these can be the catalyst for a TRANSMORGRIFICATION of such magnitude that both who we are, and our entire world, undergo a death. The rug is yanked out from under our feet and everything we were, and everything we knew, is no more.
The tragedy is real. The loss is real. The death is real. But when you lose everything, the space is created for the miracle to appear. This book is about that miracle.
GLORIOUS
life on the other side
of the apocalypse
AFTER THE
RAPTURE
A REAL LIFE FABLE
After The Rapture: A Real Life Fable
Synopsis:
Journeys are rarely straight lines. Unlike a committed tradition such as, say, Buddhism or Catholicism, this is the spiritual path of “Whatever Life Throws At You.” In the tradition of Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi and Ram Das’s Be Here Now, this “little Baptist boy” leads you through the arduous spiritual journey of apostasy, mystical psychosis, sexual excess, drug addiction, homelessness and finally embracing death, all in a quest not only to know, but to ultimately become, all that is.
Holy Love: Relationship as Siddhi
Synopsis:
Can you imagine love without heartbreak? Love without jealousy? What if you met all of your own needs yourself, so you enter relationships based on what you could offer? What if relationships were simply a natural outpicturing, a manifestation, of the love you give yourself? Then your relationships would be as stable as your house, or your town, or the sun coming up in the morning. You wouldn’t have to peer around the mirror-frame to see yourself. You’ll be looking yourself straight in the eyes in the mirror that is your world.
HOLY LOVE
RELATIONSHIP AS SIDDHI
CELESTIALS
THE EMERGENT SPECIES
Celestials: The Emergent Species
Synopsis:
It’s time for something new. Something else. Five minutes of watching the news will show that a transition is occurring that is far more sweeping even than the last mass extinction event when the dinosaurs were wiped out. At that time, the blackboard got erased so that a new class could begin. This time, the blackboard itself is being removed. We have graduated from this class.
Physical reality was training wheels, for millions, even billions of years. What a school this has been! But contemporary physics is showing us that it never was what we thought it was. What we always thought was rock solid is now known to be energy, psychological. Virtual, even. More like watching a movie, or playing a video game. The world is beginning to resemble a holodeck, custom designed for each individual’s educational and entertainment needs. Showing us the contents of our conscious like a living, moving mirror. Every individual, every mountain, every star is simply showing us an aspect of ourselves. Even a holocaust, an apocalypse — even a mass extinction event — is simply showing us who and what and where we are. We are being told it is time to go. The final exam was, in fact, grasping the fact that THE WORLD IS WHO WE ARE.
From now on, wherever we go, we will know this truth. That our environment is simply an extension of us, like a second body. We will love this second body as we love ourselves. We will carry this world-self with us wherever we go now. Nothing is lost. A new meta-awareness has been bestowed upon us, like a new species. Heavenly, bright, not of this world. An ethereal embodiment of love. The dinosaurs had to be eradicated to make room for us. And we had to be eradicated to make room for: The Celestials.