The Short Path: Meditation Techniques and States On The Path to Enlightenment

The Short Path: Meditation Techniques and States on the Path to Enlightenment, by C. H. Harvey is a series of lectures on the art of meditation, specifically on how one goes about achieving the so-called Wisdom Eye lauded by Buddhists the world over. Having himself unconsciously attained this other-worldly state as a young man, he has spent more than forty-five years now seeking ways to consciously arrive at the same state. In The Short Path, he covers many of the historic ways Buddhists have gone about seeking a similar path to enlightenment and how his own experiences correspond and can be easily achieved by modern-day meditators. By following his guideline, centered around focusing on the foveal spot, an area of the retina that affords acute vision, he believes many of us can reach a similar transcendence lost over the centuries, mainly through a lack of understanding as to how such a transcendence takes place. Read more