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This is volume 1 of 7 volumes of titled talks by the late Vernon Howard, true spiritual teacher and dragon-slayer comparable to Anthony de Mello and Jiddu Krishnamurti. The product page is here: http://lifewithvernonhoward.com/Howard drew from what he perceived as being a “common thread” among several different philosophical and spiritual traditions for his insights and teachings. These included: Christian and Eastern mysticism, Gurdjieffian Fourth Way teachings, the Gospels of the New Testament, Jungian psychology, J. Krishnamurti and American Transcendentalism. He taught that there is a way out of suffering, and advocated self-honesty, persistence, the study and application of spiritual principles, and a sincere desire for inner change. He explained that a new and higher inner life is found through releasing the negative conditioned ego, which he described as the “false self”. He asserted that this new life can only be found through awareness, and that the human ego is a barrier to this awareness. Thus, he taught that inner liberation was a ridding process, and that the false self is a fictitious collection of self-images or pictures about who we think we are.Quote:Arriving at Vernon Howards classes there was the sense that one had been tricked. It is something like one thinking, “Oh great I am going to now get a chance to attend the classes of the Teacher who wrote these excellent books.” And then one goes to the class, and to get a better view sits in the front row and there is a lion sitting there in the chair instead of a Spiritual Teacher.Vernon Howard was very sucessful in this cornering of the ego notion. So people in the class did not exhibit self centered behaviour. It was sort of like someone having a hand gun to ones head saying if you dare play even one of your little ego games with me your brains will be on the table. So no one played due to his tremendous ability to convey a sense of seriousness and threat.I remember there was one odd women who had a few followers who came for a visit to the class and she was told to raise her hand before speaking she started to say “I resent….” Vernon just looked at her and raised his hand, it was that “don’t you dare” look. She did not go beyond the word resent. She said only the two words. It reminds me of some kind of power, some kind of siddhi maybe. Vernon Howard was truly amazing at conveying that there is a rattlesnake in front of you and the only way to be safe is to not play a single ego game now.Vernon once said: “God is a NO a thousand miles high.” Vernon said a NO a thousand miles high to the ego notion in every class that he gave. And his don’t you DARE play an ego game with me theme ran throughout his teaching, and that Don’t and that dare where a thousand miles high also.There was one form of self-centered behaviour that one could engage in regarding the Vernon Howard classes. That is to leave them. That was an option available to the cornered ego. Vernon once said: “Everyone who leaves this class raises the level of this class.Volume 2 is here: If the owner sees this, it might be useful to rename that product to Vernon Howard – Titled Talks (Volume 2 of 7) Someone is trying to organize a group buy for the other 5 volumes of titled talks and 25 volumes of dated talks here: .