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The Life and Understanding of Franklin Jones
Copyright 1971 By Franklin Jones - All rights reserved

"What is consciousness? This is the basic question posed in The Knee of Listening. What is consciousness? You never discover what it is by wandering in the play of life and the body-mind. You can only discover it by entering into consciousness itself, by contemplating it most profoundly, locating its Quality, Condition, Status, Force. When you have fully entered into Consciousness Itself, then suddenly the Divine Condition of everything becomes obvious"
Energy of Consciousness - 1982

Contents

Author's Preface
Prologue

9. The Death of Narcissus

15. The Last Trip to India and the Reappearance of Christ

1. The "Bright"

8. The Idea of Release from Narcissus

16. The Diary of My Pilgrimage

2. The Listener

9. The Death of Narcissus

17. The Inheritance

3. Hearing

10. The Journals of My Seeking

18. The Way Becomes Conscious

4. The Seeker

11. The Abandonment of Effort in India

19. Understanding as Meditation

5. The Understanding on the Beach

12. The Search for Release from the Mind: Scientology

20. The Wisdom of Understanding

6. The Passage to the Guru

13. The Return to India and the Problem of Spiritual Consciousness

Epilogue: The Man of Understanding

7. The Meeting and the "Work"

14. Shakti in America, New Problems and the Return to India

"I have written this in the form of autobiography because my own life is perhaps the best instruction I can offer. The mere assertion of understanding is not sufficient to create understanding in the hearer. The hearer must be allowed a creative recognition. Otherwise the symbols wherein his life is trapped will not dissolve. Therefore, I have displayed my life as much as I have had patience and perspective to illustrate it. I hope it has been fruitful for you. But know this. I do not stand for spiritual efforts of any kind. Nor on some middle ground between excess and effort. There is no virtue in the endless reaction to life, nor in the exclusive enjoyment of any effect.....in understanding maintain... radical humor and freedom in the face of divine beings as well as the most disgusting elements of ordinary life"
chapter 20 - Knee of Listening
"The seeker is violent. At first he approaches the man of understanding humbly, self-effacing, with great need. But his questions find no ultimate solution. He becomes frustrated and angry, and he leaves. He criticizes the man of understanding. He asserts the forms of his own seeking. He says the man of understanding is a seeker like himself."
Chapter 20 - Knee of Listening

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