ABOUT LYNDEN SWIFT

I've spent 40-odd years trying to see beyond myself. Through myself. Perceiving non-duality and losing myself, finding me way back to balance after that and then letting that awareness slowly sink into myself like a burning coal, transforming everything it touches and turning myself into simply a temporary location of ever-changing stability.

I feel like I am a comfortable set of clothes I have put on and at the same time those clothes are not at all me. I am a poor actor playing many roles, some well (I like to think), most badly probably. But inside, I feel 'right'. As in being in the right moment, being here, a certainty, a knowing, a feeling, of 'rightness'; it is very difficult to describe.

In my working life I hold down a job as a project manager and as an esoteric acupuncturist. I work with people from all walks of life. Each one teaches me something about myself because of course, we are all
splintered aspects of the same self. But I keep my feet on the ground. I wrestle with the world every day. It wrestles back. It's a pain in the arse often. But there is much wisdom around to help, if I just pay attention.

I forget often. Other people seem to always remember to do their exercises religiously many times a day. Often I am too tired. I can barely manage a couple of minutes. But even then, it is there. The awareness.

It's always there. Even just breathing awakens it. Become Your Desire is what I know. It's my slice of reality, of understanding. Some of it might be yours too. Some of it might be where you are heading anyway and it gets you there more easily. Some of it might be irrelevant for you. Some of it might push so many buttons you hate it. That seems entirely normal and appropriate to me.

I haven't written it because of something I have read or theorised. I have written it to explain what has happened. It's written for those who also want something real and for those who can sense, as if through an
invisible veil, something far more real, so close and yet just out of reach.So if a single line in it changes how you see yourself, the world or changes what you do: it has done it's job.

ABOUT BECOME YOUR DESIRE

Become Your Desire is about what waking up really means, what it actually demands and what life might be like afterwards. It's direct, to the point and honest. It often takes a very different view of what might be dearly held concepts and beliefs.

If you have even a passing interest in waking up, meditation or spirituality in general, I think you should read it.

It was written for me, through me, as my own guide back from the shock of non-dual awareness. Its still my active guide book or field-manual for keeping me on the path. It's a strict teacher!

So much of spiritual literature shocks me with how bad it is. There's so much padding, fluff, anecdotes, biographies; it makes me want to scream. Just get to the point! Become Your Desire wasn't written as a response to that but it has turned out to be a very welcome contrast to it. There's no fluff, no anecdotes, definitely no biographies. Just straight talking, to the point observations brought back from other states of consciousness.

It's short, pocket-sized, easy to read and each chapter can be referred to for years. The exercises are short, easy to do and yet extremely useful. There's nothing here that you can't blend into your existing practice but plenty that might add to it.