The Empathic Ground explores the experience of nondual consciousness as the basis of human connection, and describes its importance for psychological healing. It looks at the therapeutic relationship from the perspectives of psychoanalytic intersubjectivity theory and Asian nondual philosophy, finding practical meeting points between them that illuminate crucial issues in psychotherapy, such as transference and counter-transference, the nature of subjectivity, and the role of the body. The book also includes a series of exercises developed by the author for realizing nondual consciousness in the clinical setting. Access to this subtle, unified dimension of consciousness develops both our individual human capacities—perception, understanding, love, and physical pleasure—and our relationships with other people. It thus has profound significance for both psychological healing and development, and for the relationship of psychotherapist and client.

“In the larger and ongoing cultural dialogue between East and West, this beautifully written book represents a new and important moment of advance. In it, Blackstone deftly examines subtle nuances in the interface between Western modes of psychotherapy and Asian systems of nondual awareness and practice. By means of a careful and informed examination of major sources, she offers a precise and considered theoretical approach to the specific integration of notions of intersubjectivity and of the nondual awareness into modalities of Western psychotherapy. In ten intelligent and powerful ‘realization processes,’ Blackstone brings forward practical exercises for the specific application of such a theoretical approach to the nondual to the practice of psychotherapy.” — Paul E. Muller-Ortega, author of The Triadic Heart of Såiva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir.

Living Intimately describes the fundamental unity that underlies all life, and how it can be applied to healing and deepening relationships.  It is also a guide for couples wishing to enhance their intimacy with each other.  It describes how we can deepen our connection with ourselves and with other people by attuning to the spiritual essence of our being.

Living Intimately also provides a sequence of attunement exercises for experiencing the unified ground of consciousness in relationships, connecting with other people from the subtle core of the body (the chakras), integrating awareness, love and physical sensation, and seeing, hearing and touching on a more subtle level.

The Enlightenment Process describes the process of enlightenment as the gradual realization of our most subtle dimension of being as unified, all-pervasive consciousness.  It also explains how we uncover our authentic selfhood and embodiment at the same time as we arrive at our spiritual oneness with other people, the world and cosmos.

Elizabeth Lesser (author of Broken Open) writes: "Judith Blackstone's The Enlightenment Process carves a clear path through the confusing nature of human life, cutting away the underbrush of our own misconceptions about and resistance to the practice of awakening. I recommend it to anyone, newcomers to the path of meditation and consciousness, and those who have been studying for years. What a gem of a book, written by one of those rare authors who writes beautifully, from the core of her own experience, and in service of the reader's most noble self."  

Includes exercises from Realization Process. 

This is a new, revised edition of The Enlightenment Process.

This book begins with Judith Blackstone's personal story of self-healing that led to the development of Subtle Self Work and provides information on reading vibrational patterns in the body, meditation, the metaphysics of consciousness and more.