St. Paul, MN (PRWEB) April 29, 2014

Rich with insights drawn from his own experience, J.K. Bailey shows readers how, by stopping and turning to a simple inner presence, they can find serenity and an absence of emotional suffering. This, he says, is the remarkable gift of presence.

"Already on Holy Ground: Beyond Bliss, Awakening & Enlightenment" reveals how to experience the presence in ordinary life. The presence, Bailey suggests, is available to all. Its not, he says, about some remote spiritual awakening for the select few. Nor is it about getting caught up in what he calls "the enlightenment game," with its chakras, guardian angels, and robe-wearing gurus.

As Bailey puts it, The potential for awareness of presence is as much there with mechanics in the grease and grime at the local Amoco station as it is with Zen monks at a monastery in Kyoto.

Why pay attention to presence, some might ask? When we abide in presence, we discover a profound inner serenity, says the author. In my case, lifes roller coaster of ups and downs smoothed out. Old worries, fears, and judgments faded. Overall, theres an ongoing sense all is well.

In the first chapter of his book, Bailey tackles the enlightenment myth. About the quest for spiritual awakening, the author should know. On his 30-year journey, Bailey did it all: Workshops on how to get enlightened,desert treks with shamans at midnight, balancing the chakras with charismatic gurus, watching auras and past lives unfoldthis was the stuff of his journey.

But the bliss rarely lasted more than a day or two, at most a few weeks. Then hed be back full of doubts and worries, looking for the next spiritual book or awakening seminar. Or the most enlightened spiritual teacher.

Ultimately, the mind-blowing experiences fell short. Wonders that at first seemed breathtaking and exotic, turned out to be as short-lived as an evening breeze. The more gurus I met, the more New Age fireworks I witnessed, the emptier I felt, he says. Something was missing.

What was missing, says Bailey, was the simple presence. It doesnt matter how many miraculous experiences or glimpses of enlightenment weve had. None of it is worth the price of an iTunes download if theres no awareness of presence. Yet right now its available to us all. At first it may seem remote. Yet if we abide in it, we can know without doubt that its real. Whats more, it can radically change us so we feel that nothing is wrong anymore.

Bailey's new website and blog also explore awareness of presence.

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