The Paradox of Instruction

By Bubba Free John.

An Introduction to the Esoteric Spiritual Teaching of Bubba Free John.

First edition: 2/77.

ISBN: 0-913922-27-7.

LOCCCN: 77-71191.

Introduction: Teacher and Teaching:

The New Work of Bubba Free John (12/28/76) (1/10/77).

1. “Revulsion Toward All Possibility Is the Beginning of Spiritual
Life.”(12/31/76)

2. ‘Principles of the Teaching.’

3. ‘Stages of the Way.’

4. The Great Path of Return vs. The Radical Path of Understanding’:

Introduction: The Traditional Error.

‘The Great Path of Return vs. The Radical Path of Understanding’.

5. “Identification of the Beloved Is the Principle of Spiritual Life.”
(12/8/76)

(72 pp.)

Second revised edition: 7/77.

ISBN: 0-913922-28-5.

LOCCCN: 77-81836.

Introduction: The Western Face of God (VMC, 5/4/77).

Prologue:

‘The Paradox of Instruction.’

‘The Ground and Root of This Instruction.’

‘What Is Truth?‘

1. Awakening from the Dream of Subjectivity (comp from talks and essays,
2/77-4/77.)

2. Principles of the Teaching: ‘The Paradox of Contradictions:

The World Is Not Material, But Psycho-Physical.’

‘Ego Is Not and Entity, But an Activity.’

‘Radical Ignorance Is Truth.’

‘Realization of Truth Is Free of All Subjectivity, All Knowledge, and
All Experience.’

‘A Further Summation of the Teaching.’

‘The Sacrifice of the Heart.’

3. The Great Path of Return vs. The Radical Path of Understanding‘:

Introduction: The Traditional Error.

‘The Great Path of Return vs. The Radical Path of Understanding’.

4. Principles of the Practice: The Paradox of Infinite Expansion:

‘The Four Stages of the Translation of Man into God.’

‘The Essential and Progressive Practices, to be Lived as Sacrifice
to the Spiritual Master, of the Stages in the Way of Ignorance.’

The Seahorse: The Hidden Structure of All Experience.

5. “Identification of the Beloved Is the Principle of Spiritual Life.”
(12/8/76) (2 add. talks: 4/18/77, 5/11/77).

(326 pp.)