Lucid Living is a very small volume. It describes itself as “a book you can read in an hour that will turn your world inside out”.

However, it also contains a wealth of insights into the human condition and beyond that makes it a rare work in a relentlessly materialistic world.

Lucid Living sets out seven insights that Freke says will change your life and your view of the world. They certainly will if “you have ears to hear and eyes to see”. Most will turn away in fear or disbelief.

And yet, this little book does have the capability to change your view of yourself, especially if you have any spiritual ability at all. Freke’s basic message, expressed at its simplest, is :

Life is not what it seems. You are not what you think you are.

And so it isn’t, and neither are you.

The phrase “turn your world inside out” is particularly germane because that is precisely what the beyond-mind experience described here does : matter becomes transparent as if it doesn’t exist, and space comes alive and full of intelligence.

Timothy Freke has written a number of other books with Peter Gandy on Gnostic Christianity, which are also a must-read if direct insight is your central concern.