Before we human beings agree or decide to enter physically or mentally into anything at all in our lives, we have recourse to the mind. This prepares us and makes us safe, so we believe, for what is to happen next.

However, however, before the two most significant events in our life there can be no question of an agreement or a decision: our birth and our death. We might not have agreed to our birth, had we the chance, and we certainly would not have agreed to our death. We can have no recourse to mind then.

In between these two monumental, some might say miraculous events in our lives, from the moment we wake up from deep sleep each and every day to the moment we return there each and every night, we have recourse only to our mind, our super-consultant.

Is it not a wonder then that we understand absolutely nothing about the mind? Research programmes into mind have been created, treatises written, lectures given and experiments carried out – and yet we remain ignorant about mind.

However, however, the process of maturing and sophisticating has magically been taking place anyway in the evolution of humanity, and a new and deeply penetrating understanding of mind is now being given to mankind in Dr Shankar’s book, Evolution of Mind. Dr Shankar is a living Indian sage who has crossed beyond mind in his journey of self-examination - he speaks from what is.

Read this book and, when it happens, your conditioned mind will either object or take recourse to the mind and its beliefs to what is written on each page. But, on repeated readings, watch - the mind quietens down and gradually and surely understanding emerges. This understanding is a miracle – be in no doubt. It allows man to live life in trust, which is enlightenment, without the need to consult the super-consultant, the mind.