Books, notes, and other writings by Jack Haas
Reviews of books by Jack Haas:
"...very strongly recommended reading..." The Midwest Book Review
"Few like Jack Haas go the whole hog. ...eminently readable." Nandakumar Nayar (bookreview.com)
"...the voice crying out in the wilderness, bravely, madly, tenderly, ironically...so densely, so wondrously well." Jonathon Kerslake (editor, Lived Experience)
"The Kerouac of the new millennium." Frank Wolf (extreme adventurer and author of Blind Bay)
"...a glorious illumination of our spiritual birthright." Benjamin Tucker (author of Roadeye)
"Jack Haas delivers a wonderful message." Judine Slaughter (Express Yourself Books)
"...stunning and poetic..." dog-eared-bookreviews.com
"...groundbreaking..." Joann Turner (The Messenger)
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Autobiography/Spirituality/Travel
IN AND OF: memoirs of a mystic journey
by Jack Haas
ISBN 0973100710
Excerpts from the book:
Apocalypse, Revelation and Redemption spiritual travel archetypes soul journey God consciousness : inner self inner peace, immortal self wilderness education west coast anarchy Good God, bad God Co-operative cosmos sacred debauchery remarkable people spiritual wilderness adventure Genius, madman, mystic Spiritual group dynamics The ecstasy of Hell eccentric women Jerry the bear man The writing life psychedelic journey The inglorious Ivanhoe Hotel Queen Charlotte Islands, Haida Gwaii the inner alchemy of writing alchemy of the unconscious God's love the rapture of wonder city insomnia free spirit living free seeing auras the homeless spiritual independence deflating the ego surrender into nobody the astrophysics of apathy magic mushrooms and God The Fall of Adam and Eve Of animals and omens fear of bears and fear of life Real and unreal fear Mother Earth's sadness the spirit of sea kayaking hitchhiking with God mushroom picking dream communications west coast Kumbh Mela Alaskan Zen master the Zen of sea kayaking anima encounter what's in a name? mysterium coniunctionis, the chymical wedding Jesus Christ, fisher of men the rose within wholeness: marriage of east and west advaita vedanta: oneness closing memoir
ROOTS AND WINGS: adventures of a spirit on earth
by Jack Haas
ISBN 0973100745
Excerpts from the book:
opening soul journey fallen angels learning to fly the perils of life on earth writing in Old Delhi: learning namaste charlatans and missing persons: India Mother India incarnate synchronicity and coincidence the laughing saint spiritual shit stories returning home, the shift in life jokes and pranks a living buddha this holographic life St. Francis of Hawaii kundalini and earth energy ruthless baptism by Jesus Christ enlightenment of wonder implausibility, mystery, and gratitude divine revelations in New Zealand twin souls ascension of flesh in Old Jerusalem free spirit prayer and forgiveness: surfing the spirit Goddess Pele and the Big Island of Hawaii free spirit swimming with dolphins Dharamsala: the spirit of healing music Gaia, the Mother Goddess Viking Spirit in Iceland Christ and Iceland bohemian hostel in Galway, Ireland Guinness and the power of prayer Wild side of Donegal: letting loose Alien encounters and the Godself Eccentric evangelist Mother Earth, Lava, and Volcanoes experience Christ and Mother Earth, Hawaii alternative community, ayahuasca journey the Christ within, and redemption highly sensitive people, openness, and the spirit realm human suffering and healing sorrow Issa: Jesus Christ in Tibet the human predicament and God the eternal self, drinking cavacava healing Mother Earth, Gaia being true to yourself alchemy, eternity, and Tao Love: the siblinghood of humanity
OM, BABY! a pilgrimage to the eternal self
by Jack Haas
ISBN 0973467711
Excerpts from the book:
Walt Whitman: opening quote Journey of life: entering the flesh fractal earthly attachment, and spiritual detachment Spiritual transformation Daemon, ego, and transformation Dingle, Ireland Pub life in Ireland Nataraja and the Goddess Ah, Amsterdam electronica, music of unity Psychedelic trip into eternity Om, the vibration of eternity Meeting the Mother Goddess Delhi to Dharamsala: oversoul emanations the great emptiness: om mani padme hum Guru Nanak communication: Sikh devotion Native American mystic elder bathing at the ghats Rishikesh and the holy Ganges Krishna and Christ Sarnath, India, mystical experience Communion with God Kali Temple, Dakshineswar, India Transcendental consciousness Mystical Mt. Arunachala communion with Ramana Maharishi union of spirit and flesh Life as an illusion Cosmic androgyny integrating the shadow Goa and enlightenment Shiva and Shakti Ardhanarisvara Hari-Hara The Matrix life as a dream samadhi Divine intervention squaring the circle Philosopher's stone Highly sensitive person, Mercurius Ascension, etherealization Sophia Christ and Sophia spiritual liberation Sophia, body of the Cosmic Christ Zen of Christ Love and emptiness Tao of being timelessness, identity, eternity The void Tao, wu wei cosmic androgyny
Comparative Religion/Mysticism
THE WAY OF WONDER:
a return to the mystery of ourselves
by Jack Haas
ISBN 0973100702
Excerpts from the book:
prologue the wonder of existence education and indoctrination the art of forgetting organic mysticism oriental spirituality mystic India mystical Christianity biblical exegesis immaculate conception: the virgin mind becoming as children: innocent mind newness and metanoia inner metamorphosis: death and resurrection genius and madness the mystery of God the kingdom of God is within
Poetry/Metaphysics
THE DREAM OF BEING: aphorisms, ideograms, and aislings
by Jack Haas
ISBN 0973100753
Excerpts from the book:
dream quotes the dream of being the wall lost bees light the treasure the secret the self the exile sowing the seeds the messages life futility effort hunter, hunted, game, and catch self knowledge a fool salvation catechism the other side a tool mining doing and not-doing punctuated existence, an asterisk old souls the runner, the flyer the flight, the flown uncaught in the ether messiah the fledgling flying fish destiny and fate gnosis and wisdom knowledge of good and evil, enlightenment perspective and truth ignorance and mind wonder, the sermon ecstasy duality mirrors acceptance the kingdom oneness infinity, sameness, and qualitative mathematics being dreamed, the record divinity, manifestation, incarnation logos: in the beginning was the word the whey, the way, and the wei the depths, of spirit the garden, the wilderness judgment and genesis you and eternity selected prose poems
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selected excerpts and current notes:
Archetypes, emanations, and oversouls Battling negative energy and forces The Tao of Being (modern Taoism) Union of Shiva and Kuan Yin The great silent, aware stillness African Amsterdam: aspects of the cosmic self Kuan Yin and Amsterdam Enlightenment Integrating energies and vibrations Christ in Tibet
unpublished chapters of THE WAY OF WONDER
On apathy - on being, not doing
early unpublished books:
I, for lack of a better term: a soul's soliloquy Anarchy of Spirit: an epistle for ridiculous times
selected excerpts from notebooks:
Buddha nature Bodhisattva Zen Shiva Roshi
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