This book is about the innate happiness and joy that can be discovered on awakening by becoming 'Aware of' and 'identifying with' Awareness. This is to be achieved by direct investigation of moment-to-moment experience which readily reveals the Pure Awareness that underlies our existence. This leads to discovering the happiness that needs nothing external to ourselves to manifest. Here are some reviews by my readers: Years of searching and mental suffering melted away in one evening. With ...

This book is designed to help its readers awaken by becoming 'Aware of Awareness' and then through investigation of each moment of experience come to a valid conclusion of self-identity. That is to discover, and identify with, That which is deeper than the body/mind. The book also investigates the outcomes of awakening. It is the author's fifth book on this subject and is based on 40 years of spiritual search, meditations and contemplations.

The main aim of this book is to act as a stand-alone guide to, and practices for, Awakening from the dream of being a separate object in a universe of such by following ‘The Direct Path'. It is composed of articles, resulting from my further investigations (and contemplations) into the nature of Reality and replies to questions since the publication of 'Enlightenment Is For All'. The secondary theme of the book is to answer the five big fundamental questions : 1. God: Is there a God, or an...

The main aim of this book is to act as a stand-alone guide to Awakening; which is synonymous with Enlightenment when maintained. The title comes from an internet discussion about Enlightenment,and my own conviction that it is available to all who truly want it and are prepared to investigate with an open mind. This book is composed of articles, resulting from my further investigations (and contemplations) into the nature of Reality. The thrust of the book is that beneath the surface appear...

This book has two aims, the first as a stand-alone guide to, and practices for, Awakening. Once this has taken place then anxiety and unnecessary mental suffering disappear, for these are caused by misidentifying oneself as a separate object in a world of separate objects. This causes us to see each other, and the world, through a murky filter of self-interest, self-concern, self-promotion etc. On Awakening one discovers that there truly is no separate self and so this filter is removed al...

This book shows how Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism view the place of humanity in the universe. Each religion is investigated by considering how the it answers the five big existential questions: 1/ Is there a God, or an Absolute Reality, and if so what is His (Its) nature? 2/ How was the universe created and what is the nature and purpose of this creation? 3/ What is the essential nature of a human being – are we just ephemeral material beings or do we possess some kin...

This is a book of poems based on articles from ‘Freedom From Anxiety and Needless Suffering’ plus an unpublished selection praising and describing (facets of) The Absolute. I have been asked why write poetry after four books of prose? When discussing this with a poet friend of mine he asserted that poetry has the potential to be more powerful than prose, as it is more condensed and thus requires the reader to investigate its meaning more than prose, which tends to put the meaning 'on a pla...

This book is designed to help its readers awaken by becoming 'Aware of Awareness' and then through investigation of each moment of experience come to a valid conclusion of self-identity. That is to discover, and identify with, That which is deeper than the body/mind. It is the author's seventh book on this subject and is based on 40 years of spiritual search, meditations and contemplations. My books are all about, becoming ‘aware of Awareness’ through direct investigation and then continui...

A 'Simple Guide to Awakening' by investigation of one's moment to moment experience,which leads to one becoming 'aware of awareness'. Awakening is becoming fully established in,and identified with, awareness. Here is a review by a buyer of the Kindle edition: Eckhart Tolle and Osho and many other authors, spiritual teachers and gurus are profoundly important, helpful and illuminating but Colin Drake is something else....he's significantly better at explaining spiritual awakening and how to...

This book is a collection of poems each based on a chapter of my book The Happiness That Needs Nothing – Pointers to That Which is Always Here. Designed to help one awaken from the dream of being a separate object in a universe of such. Here are some comments by readers of some of my poems: I love the clarity of your rhyming poems. The Dharma teaching is so direct and uncluttered. Wonderful. -- Colin Yardley Very well put Colin, fun, playful and sincere, I get it at the deepest level and m...

The aim of this book is to act as a stand-alone guide to, and practices for, Awakening and is mostly composed of articles, replies to questions and internet discussions on Awakening since the publication of Freedom From Anxiety and Needless Suffering. The thrust of the book is that the initial awakening which reveals that, in essence, we are Pure Awareness is very simple to obtain. Then this needs to be established by repeated awakenings due to the natural tendency to ‘nod off’ and re-iden...

A collection of true tales relating to our move to Tomewin, from Sydney, and our many encounters with the wonderful(and less wonderful) wildlife in this region. They all occurred here, at home, and include interactions with our cats and goats plus snakes, goannas (giant monitor lizards), a peacock, the amazing birdlife, possums, wallabies, kangaroos, insects(of many types), dogs and leeches.