The life and philosophy of Douglas Harding. The full film is available as a download. Go to our bookstore and click on the menu - 'Downloadable on Vimeo'.
OmG! I'm an artist and when I was at university, art school, I had a sketch book that I used just for personal drawings, & doodles. I drew one day, while sitting in my living room that exact same sketch, including the shape of my nose and ocular opening, including it in my view of the room and my stripey trousers( as my legs were on the coffee table), as well as the rest of my body. I wondered why no one includes it in their life drawings, nor ever addresses it. I loved that drawing and wish I still had the sketch book. It was stolen one day, from a ceramics classroom that was left unlocked. Until this video I've never seen anyone else do that in a drawing. I've been a seeker all my life. Perhaps I need to find someone teaching this method near me, it may just be what I need to kick me into self realization. One day I want to say "Mind blown" And really mean it! Thank you for posting such a wonderful film.
I'm now 69 and when I saw his book, "On Having No Head" I was 28 at the time, it was handed to me as a paperback. I was drawn to it immediately because, without even reading it, I knew the significance of the concept I was quite sure he was trying to convey by the title, as I had a spiritual awakening at the age of 15, one which I kept hidden from everyone because I understood that it was something that cannot be touched with words, only hinted at. Other mystics have described it, as well, using different words to describe it. Sadhguru describes it as "dissolving into the universe" , Osho states it as, "when you are not, god is". My way of describing it was "when you experience it, life, as you have previously known it, becomes completely and utterly moot point". All of these descriptions will not have much meaning until one experiences it. The mystics ( Osho, and Sadhguru, mainly ) tell us that enlightenment, or 'liberation' comes in stages, and one can have a "glimpse of enlightenment" ( which zen refers to as "satori" ). I've been meditator ever since seeking that experience, hoping to achieve it permanently. There is a dancing light in the center, absolute center ( the third eye ) which is growing, become more elaborate, wonderful, which, as one experiences it's growing intensity, replaces the mind with a stream of no-thought, it's ecstatic, a glorious vision ( that actually isn't a vision at all, for lack of a better word).
My experiences are very similar with the first one happening when I was 10. And then again at 14. And then again during meditation groups at Osho’s Ashram in Poona in 1979. And many times since then. I also did Sadhguru’s Inner Engineering Live course with him in San Francisco two years ago. I find Osho to be the most helpful of all. I have many dozens of his books and many of them are heavily highlighted so that I can quickly refer back to them for the Wisdom they contain. I also write out Osho’s comments on watching, witnessing, on 3X5 cards and take them with me wherever I go for reminders. I also have many photocopies from his books that I take with me when I travel. For me they are PRICELESS!
You might look at Rupert Spira for a no frills direct approach to all of this. Particularly as you have been at it a long time and seem he may help you eliminate some of the superfluous.
I have been gaining a fresh perspective from the Waking Up app Richard Lang presents The Headless Way in the practice section and is also among the Conversations Sam Harris has. It has been a powerful accelerant to my living in the present moment. Just sharing what’s been inspiring/helping/working for me. Also had to order 2 of the Youverse Explorer Models. The second one is a gift for a lifelong fellow explorer. The concept really spoke to my wife and I.
Very beautiful video. I was struck by his words in the closing minutes; ..."The free gift begging to be noticed". The treasure is there for all! Thanks for putting this together.
Douglas Harding is (he still exists) a visionary and mystic who as broxmouth says has found a short cut to realising that we humans are reflecting the entire cosmos inside our central core, the third eye or pineal gland where all sensory inputs meet in a convergence. We are all transparent bubbles of perception composed of sub-atomic,clear transparent energy. Fully enlightened Zen Buddhists say that when the mind is quiet and still with an alert, bare awareness such as when we were first born out of the womb, we are body-less and literally floating within our human fleshy shell. It's when we become 'older' that our parents and others around start to teach us language and tell us that we are such and such and call us by a name that we take on the belief and experience that we are a limited being separate from the totality of our sensory perception rather than conscious awareness. This is what Douglas means by a 'confidence trick' that has been played on us' Having spent over 3 decades in meditation and studying Taoist, Shaman wisdom and Buddhism, and found what Douglas discovered in the last few days, it's incredible that here is a person who had the insight into the true nature of reality from another perspective.
nice theory he made up. just like any religion or cult. that he with his mind , made up, bullshit. no, it's not a "true" nature of reality. there isnt even a "true" "nature" at all. on the contrary, out of body experience is much more reliable and is based on direct evidence.
Douglas Harding's vision resonates perfectly with the Eastern traditions of Buddhism, Zen, Chan etc, Both teach that the entire universe lies within your own awareness; the furthest galaxy is an object that lies entirely within your own Mind. You, quite literally ARE the entire universe. The way of realising this is usually via meditation and koans and so on, but Douglas shows a much simpler, quicker way of achieving the same perspective. Thanks for this illuminating film.
Almost 8 years later, and I’ve came to say thanks for making this quick video of Douglas and his work! I’ll be reading his “on having no head” found from Sam Harris’ book “waking up”.
I got here from Sam Harris' book. At first I was...mostly dismissive. Then mildly interested -- my main interests in this area had always been in Zen. I ignored my misgivings that "headlessness" was nothing more than a "word game," and I started "pretending" I had no head. I was surprised at how effective a meditation such a simple thing was... ....Now, after about a week of taking this quite seriously I've "opened up" quite a bit and...well, this has become a central part of my own life long search for "Who am I" (based, really, on an equivalent exercise: the Bassui Koan of "Who?"). I hope this work will catch fire now, with help from Harris' mention.
***** An update. It worked for me! I decided to read closely The Little Book of Life and Death and discovered Myself. I was absolutely convinced by the points about the multiple levels of magnification in seeing -- down to the quantum level and up to the universe -- and affirmed for myself that "what we are" is only described randomly and arbitrarily when done so in "the usual way." I progressed. I did the tests that followed wholeheartedly. And..."magically," it happened. I saw that Everything is filled with Nothing, and Nothing is filled with Everything, and those facts were the very SIMPLEST and most OBVIOUS things anyone could say! I asked myself repeatedly "Could it really be this simple?!" My "ego" had simply vanished -- because it was plain to me that it was a phantom of a phantom, and had no meaning or validity whatsoever. It also confirmed nicely the things Sam Harris had said about "headlessness," and this issue generally: That one needn't "burrow down," but instead the experience was actually "near the surface." And so it was, and I simply walked into it "unaware," just by reading DEH's words and being ardently determined to be strictly HONEST about them. Again, the main feature (that I chose to concentrate on, after a lifetime of struggle with this) was "Could it REALLY be this simple?!?!" Indeed, there's nothing that we can do that is simpler! The experience lasted several hours, and gradually faded -- with no regrets from me. I see that it's something that needs to be experienced again and again, and "allowed to expand" in a natural way. I was not "frantic" about trying to hold on to it. Needless to say, I'm quietly determined to elicit it again and again, and give it a thorough...and Honest, investigation. Much thanks to you for doing what you can to keep this headless way alive. I now deeply believe these methods are VERY useful, particularly to Westerners who are serious about these ideas, but have not devoted themselves "blindly" to Eastern methods -- due as much to cultural reasons, as any other. The headless way is fully empirical. IMO, not hard work and "grunting" are required, but a very sincere sense of honesty, and a fair willingness to be open to a different idea...
***** I was going to offer a serious response to you, but I see from your other comments that you're not very serious. Too bad. You should be. The work discussed here is something new and useful -- I can only wish I had known a long time ago about this sort of "non-ponderous" approach to...meditation, of a sort. Harding's books are very easy to read, and they offer easy to try techniques. Why not have a look for yourself?
***** There is no "occult" (in terms of supernatural powers and occurrences). Such beliefs are mere superstition. Who has put such ideas into your mind? And why are you trolling this video? If you find the content unrewarding to you, you should look for videos more useful to you.
Thank you, this was amazing. And I agree with you that D.E. was one of our most influential and amazing manifestations to have ever appeared in this reality! The world is a much better place for it!
Thank you Douglas Harding for your amazing insights and thank you Richard for your dedication of sharing this greatest insight, combine all the essence of the great religions without their dogmas. I’m so ever grateful to be one of the people once was blind but now I SEE.
thank you so much to Douglas Harding you have opened the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf. I've been looking for this ME for 53 years and after losing my son in a motorcycle accident 4 months ago my search was more desperate than ever. My search ended me upon this Video and here was I all along.
Thank you Richard for making this video and sharing Douglas' work! I really appreciate it, cause it filled the final gap.. Lately things are falling into pieces literally (all the philosophy i was engaged in for the last ten years has collapsed into the one reality) and this video - especially the last message by Douglas - shows me that there can only be grace for such a gift! Thank you
what a lovely doco and homage to Douglas Harding! thank you, Richard - for taking the time & energy to put something together that helps us get to know Mr. Harding a little bit better.🙂🙋🏾♀️
Dear Richard, your experiments remind me of my childish play with my eyes and nose, distance and awareness. I recognized something that was with me my whole life, the place I am looking from. I have to read your book and also the book The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth from Douglas Harding. I saw your conversation with Angelo Dilullo, and since then, I can't stop listening to you. I am very grateful for this video. I believe I found the final piece of the puzzle after 7 years of searching. Right where I am. Amazing.
Richard, thanks for explaining to us the life of Douglas Harding and why he came upon such an unusual realization. At first it seemed to me to be ridiculously obvious, then it grew on me and changed my whole viewpoint on life. it is an amazingly original philosophy and simply breathtaking. Thank you for all the time you it took you to understand Mr. Harding and put this video together...I am quite amazed!
I' ve been doing on and off the exercises, I forget and then I get on track again, I can not explain with words the feeling inside me when Im in that flow...it is like a sweet knowing and awareness, Thank you so much for doing and sharing this video !!!❤️
Wonderful film about a wonderful man. I am particularly grateful to Douglas Harding for providing a means to by pass the conundrum of "Who am I?" which had entered an intellectual loop with no apparent way out - at least through the mind. His direct pointing cut straight through all that - to the space in which all appears - which in essence is oneness not twoness or any other 'ness' - simply the pure 'being'.
Thanks so much Richard for the work you have done to promote such an illuminating concept from a brilliant man. Truly a voice to the silence. Namaste. I will add, even with my very limited experience it seems apparent that, no ONE can remain the same, once exposed to the idea of being headless.
Thank you, Richard. This is a wonderful introduction to the life and work of remarkable Douglas Harding, and a refreshing immersion many years after my first reading of 'On Having No Head' a long time before youtube!
2 "dislikes"? Wow, what's not to like? The directness and simplicity of the experiments forego all words and letters. Brilliant! Grateful to you for keeping the headless Way alive Richard
Nossa, que vídeo revolucionário... confesso que " não consegui ainda adentrar na essência " dos exercícios.. Muito obrigada aos canal por disponibilizar tamanha preciosidade! Como o Douglas, eu, Eu, também descobrirei Esse que implora Ser descoberto...
Thank you! What a thrill and I know inherently the thrill will continue to expand, I really appreciate having the opportunity to watch this video. Better than winning the lotto! What an awesome contribution.
Beautiful! Bravo! This headless transparence is definitely adding The Hierarchy of Heaven & Earth to its reading queue!Thank you so much Richard for this presentation.
Amazing to see and hear the details of Douglas' journey and his brave quest to share seeing with others. Thank you very much for your work in putting this together, Richard.
That was wonderful, thank you for making this video. Douglas's experiments are very useful and I think it's good to have them in your toolkit as a meditator or if you're on a journey to find out who you are and how to live in a more fulfilling way.
I loved it! Thank you very much Richard! And Douglas! :) I am happy to ... explore that experience and see others that also explore it. It is a very warm and attractive experience to see someone realizing that we are the same one. So beautiful. Life is so beautiful... :) Yeah!
Wow, what a nice film you put together. I really enjoyed it. It surely got me to thinking differently now about myself and things....a real eye-open-upper!! Thank you!
I, too, was brought here from Sam Harris's book. Now I have "On Having No Head" on Kindle... Doing the headless experiment is fascinating and fits nicely with my limited experience of mindlessness. I will look forward to reading his book. Thank you Richard for posting this. Nicely done.
Another way of putting this would be to subtract the person we think we are and it's story from our immediate awareness and to see that we are in fact that open, clear, infinite being. This would remove the need to be face to no-face with anyone.. Try this, it is an incredible (for it's powerful simplicity) Vedantic teaching.
Richard, the headless one is absolutely thrilled that he made this video in the form of you and all of the rest of the forms of "the headless one." If Douglas was here right now, he'd say, "but all I see is a bunch of talking heads in that video. I'm sitting here watching it, so that obviously CANNOT be me over there. I'm clearly right over here looking out from over these arms! However, I must say that the chap in the video is quite brilliant. That's a guy who really knows where his head is."
thanks to you and the volunteers for restoring the original format as he intended it. you are his spiritual son carrying on his tradition. in this new age of non-reading, can you please work on an audio book with your voice. most people do not have the time to read a book anymore, but will have time while sitting in traffic or long road trips to listen to Mr hardings words coming from you.
I learned about Douglas Harding from an interview with John McLaughlin, the greatest guitarist living in the world. If you want to hear McLaughlin doing his greatest guitar player in the world thing, may I suggest that in You Tube you type "Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra". You'll probably need to listen to this musical number around 5 times or more before its complexity and abstraction can be digested by your mind. Once you have digested it, it will thrill you.
My daughter is studying Philosophy/Religion at one of the UK's best Universitys. She doesn't study any of this sort of thing - I don't get why not! They just don't seem interested in any 'non-dual' type stuff. Anyway, thank you so much for sharing Douglas's work with us 🙏
i recommend you take on the big project my friend. I know its alot of work and you may or may not receive any accolades. please create an audio book for the heaven and earth original book. appreciate all that you do richard, please look me up if your ever in my area.
I don't know why you guys down in the comments aren't seeing it. He's saying that we are perspective. There's nothing physical, its just light, thats what we see. Its hard to put into words. Its one intelligence, observing itself through the perspective of everything. Stop seeing yourself as you, start seeing it as an experience. A ride at a theme park. It would take 600 pages to explain this, thats why the image of pointing to yourself will suffice, words take to long to explain such a concept.
Claire blue Thank you, Claire. That's kind of you. There's always something to translate! So if you have time, let me know. And do drop in to one of our free video hangouts if you feel like it. headless.worldsecuresystems.com/english-new/skype
I see your website and watched a lot of your videos. I liked your concept and the job you did in helping spread the idea of Douglas. As a form of retribution I send a full translation in portuguese subtitles for this film, to help spread the message to the portugueses speakers. I hope you like it. Nisargadatta Maharaj’s say we are like a Black Hole, Krishna Vivar. Like so many Masters already said. Hugs from someone without a head, and without body as well.
U're welcome. The whole video, it's on the options menu (the gear symbol), under the subtitles option. I also see that headless.org has various languages. If it is in your interest, one day we can make a portuguese version also ;)
Hello. Thank you very much for doing this. Also, if you would like to translate any of the website, we would love that. Please feel welcome to contact me by email - headexchange@gn.apc.org
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Good one.
OmG! I'm an artist and when I was at university, art school, I had a sketch book that I used just for personal drawings, & doodles. I drew one day, while sitting in my living room that exact same sketch, including the shape of my nose and ocular opening, including it in my view of the room and my stripey trousers( as my legs were on the coffee table), as well as the rest of my body. I wondered why no one includes it in their life drawings, nor ever addresses it. I loved that drawing and wish I still had the sketch book. It was stolen one day, from a ceramics classroom that was left unlocked. Until this video I've never seen anyone else do that in a drawing. I've been a seeker all my life. Perhaps I need to find someone teaching this method near me, it may just be what I need to kick me into self realization. One day I want to say "Mind blown" And really mean it!
Thank you for posting such a wonderful film.
You are the one that has to create that method :)
Maybe!
Hi, I know you from the X.This can't be a coincidence right? 🙌🏻
I'm now 69 and when I saw his book, "On Having No Head" I was 28 at the time, it was handed to me as a paperback. I was drawn to it immediately because, without even reading it, I knew the significance of the concept I was quite sure he was trying to convey by the title, as I had a spiritual awakening at the age of 15, one which I kept hidden from everyone because I understood that it was something that cannot be touched with words, only hinted at. Other mystics have described it, as well, using different words to describe it. Sadhguru describes it as "dissolving into the universe" , Osho states it as, "when you are not, god is". My way of describing it was "when you experience it, life, as you have previously known it, becomes completely and utterly moot point". All of these descriptions will not have much meaning until one experiences it. The mystics ( Osho, and Sadhguru, mainly ) tell us that enlightenment, or 'liberation' comes in stages, and one can have a "glimpse of enlightenment" ( which zen refers to as "satori" ). I've been meditator ever since seeking that experience, hoping to achieve it permanently. There is a dancing light in the center, absolute center ( the third eye ) which is growing, become more elaborate, wonderful, which, as one experiences it's growing intensity, replaces the mind with a stream of no-thought, it's ecstatic, a glorious vision ( that actually isn't a vision at all, for lack of a better word).
Wonderful xx
My experiences are very similar with the first one happening when I was 10. And then again at 14. And then again during meditation groups at Osho’s Ashram in Poona in 1979. And many times since then. I also did Sadhguru’s Inner Engineering Live course with him in San Francisco two years ago. I find Osho to be the most helpful of all. I have many dozens of his books and many of them are heavily highlighted so that I can quickly refer back to them for the Wisdom they contain. I also write out Osho’s comments on watching, witnessing, on 3X5 cards and take them with me wherever I go for reminders. I also have many photocopies from his books that I take with me when I travel. For me they are PRICELESS!
You might look at Rupert Spira for a no frills direct approach to all of this. Particularly as you have been at it a long time and seem he may help you eliminate some of the superfluous.
I have been gaining a fresh perspective from the Waking Up app
Richard Lang presents The Headless Way in the practice section and is also among the Conversations Sam Harris has. It has been a powerful accelerant to my living in the present moment. Just sharing what’s been inspiring/helping/working for me.
Also had to order 2 of the Youverse Explorer Models. The second one is a gift for a lifelong fellow explorer. The concept really spoke to my wife and I.
@@thewayfarer1571 love Rupert so much
Very beautiful video. I was struck by his words in the closing minutes; ..."The free gift begging to be noticed". The treasure is there for all! Thanks for putting this together.
I was struck by that phrase, too. I wrote it down.
Douglas Harding is (he still exists) a visionary and mystic who as broxmouth says has found a short cut to realising that we humans are reflecting the entire cosmos inside our central core, the third eye or pineal gland where all sensory inputs meet in a convergence.
We are all transparent bubbles of perception composed of sub-atomic,clear transparent energy.
Fully enlightened Zen Buddhists say that when the mind is quiet and still with an alert, bare awareness such as when we were first born out of the womb, we are body-less and literally floating within our human fleshy shell.
It's when we become 'older' that our parents and others around start to teach us language and tell us that we are such and such and call us by a name that we take on the belief and experience that we are a limited being separate from the totality of our sensory perception rather than conscious awareness. This is what Douglas means by a 'confidence trick' that has been played on us'
Having spent over 3 decades in meditation and studying Taoist, Shaman wisdom and Buddhism, and found what Douglas discovered in the last few days, it's incredible that here is a person who had the insight into the true nature of reality from another perspective.
nice theory he made up. just like any religion or cult. that he with his mind , made up, bullshit.
no, it's not a "true" nature of reality. there isnt even a "true" "nature" at all.
on the contrary, out of body experience is much more reliable and is based on direct evidence.
This is so well done, Richard! I've watched it a few times over the last three years. Thank you for your dedication to sharing this wisdom.
Thank you! With an artist friend, we have just completed a graphic biography of Douglas. It took 3-4 years. We're now looking for a publisher!
@@headexchangeI heard your talk with Sam Harris very interesting.
This was also enlightening.
Great voice you have too.
@@rodjc123 Thank you :-)
Douglas Harding's vision resonates perfectly with the Eastern traditions of Buddhism, Zen, Chan etc, Both teach that the entire universe lies within your own awareness; the furthest galaxy is an object that lies entirely within your own Mind. You, quite literally ARE the entire universe. The way of realising this is usually via meditation and koans and so on, but Douglas shows a much simpler, quicker way of achieving the same perspective. Thanks for this illuminating film.
+broxmouth Great to read that you enjoyed the film. Warm regards.
Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj also say that you are not in the universe and the universe is in you
Almost 8 years later, and I’ve came to say thanks for making this quick video of Douglas and his work! I’ll be reading his “on having no head” found from Sam Harris’ book “waking up”.
I got here from Sam Harris' book. At first I was...mostly dismissive. Then mildly interested -- my main interests in this area had always been in Zen. I ignored my misgivings that "headlessness" was nothing more than a "word game," and I started "pretending" I had no head. I was surprised at how effective a meditation such a simple thing was...
....Now, after about a week of taking this quite seriously I've "opened up" quite a bit and...well, this has become a central part of my own life long search for "Who am I" (based, really, on an equivalent exercise: the Bassui Koan of "Who?"). I hope this work will catch fire now, with help from Harris' mention.
Great to hear your story! Do drop in to a video hangout if you feel like it and meet others who are enjoying being headless! Info on our website.
***** An update. It worked for me! I decided to read closely The Little Book of Life and Death and discovered Myself. I was absolutely convinced by the points about the multiple levels of magnification in seeing -- down to the quantum level and up to the universe -- and affirmed for myself that "what we are" is only described randomly and arbitrarily when done so in "the usual way." I progressed. I did the tests that followed wholeheartedly. And..."magically," it happened. I saw that Everything is filled with Nothing, and Nothing is filled with Everything, and those facts were the very SIMPLEST and most OBVIOUS things anyone could say! I asked myself repeatedly "Could it really be this simple?!" My "ego" had simply vanished -- because it was plain to me that it was a phantom of a phantom, and had no meaning or validity whatsoever.
It also confirmed nicely the things Sam Harris had said about "headlessness," and this issue generally: That one needn't "burrow down," but instead the experience was actually "near the surface." And so it was, and I simply walked into it "unaware," just by reading DEH's words and being ardently determined to be strictly HONEST about them. Again, the main feature (that I chose to concentrate on, after a lifetime of struggle with this) was "Could it REALLY be this simple?!?!" Indeed, there's nothing that we can do that is simpler!
The experience lasted several hours, and gradually faded -- with no regrets from me. I see that it's something that needs to be experienced again and again, and "allowed to expand" in a natural way. I was not "frantic" about trying to hold on to it. Needless to say, I'm quietly determined to elicit it again and again, and give it a thorough...and Honest, investigation.
Much thanks to you for doing what you can to keep this headless way alive. I now deeply believe these methods are VERY useful, particularly to Westerners who are serious about these ideas, but have not devoted themselves "blindly" to Eastern methods -- due as much to cultural reasons, as any other.
The headless way is fully empirical. IMO, not hard work and "grunting" are required, but a very sincere sense of honesty, and a fair willingness to be open to a different idea...
***** I was going to offer a serious response to you, but I see from your other comments that you're not very serious. Too bad. You should be. The work discussed here is something new and useful -- I can only wish I had known a long time ago about this sort of "non-ponderous" approach to...meditation, of a sort. Harding's books are very easy to read, and they offer easy to try techniques. Why not have a look for yourself?
***** There is no "occult" (in terms of supernatural powers and occurrences). Such beliefs are mere superstition. Who has put such ideas into your mind?
And why are you trolling this video? If you find the content unrewarding to you, you should look for videos more useful to you.
GetMe There1 - Yes, the headless way is empirical. Glad to hear you found your way Home. Warm regards.
Thank you, this was amazing. And I agree with you that D.E. was one of our most influential and amazing manifestations to have ever appeared in this reality! The world is a much better place for it!
Thank you Douglas Harding for your amazing insights and thank you Richard for your dedication of sharing this greatest insight, combine all the essence of the great religions without their dogmas. I’m so ever grateful to be one of the people once was blind but now I SEE.
thank you so much to Douglas Harding you have opened the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf. I've been looking for this ME for 53 years and after losing my son in a motorcycle accident 4 months ago my search was more desperate than ever. My search ended me upon this Video and here was I all along.
Thank you Richard for a truly intimate look at one of the visionaries of our time. Please keep up the work this world needs to know what you teach.
Thank you Richard for making this video and sharing Douglas' work! I really appreciate it, cause it filled the final gap.. Lately things are falling into pieces literally (all the philosophy i was engaged in for the last ten years has collapsed into the one reality) and this video - especially the last message by Douglas - shows me that there can only be grace for such a gift! Thank you
revisiting this again in 2018. I remember when this was first uploaded. I was in the grips of the my ego and needed to find a way out.
Great work on one of the spiritual giants of the last century. Highest genius indeed.
what a lovely doco and homage to Douglas Harding! thank you, Richard - for taking the time & energy to put something together that helps us get to know Mr. Harding a little bit better.🙂🙋🏾♀️
Thank you!
This is truly amazing. Thank you, Richard.
Dear Richard, your experiments remind me of my childish play with my eyes and nose, distance and awareness. I recognized something that was with me my whole life, the place I am looking from. I have to read your book and also the book The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth from Douglas Harding. I saw your conversation with Angelo Dilullo, and since then, I can't stop listening to you. I am very grateful for this video. I believe I found the final piece of the puzzle after 7 years of searching. Right where I am. Amazing.
I'm so glad I found you!
Richard, thanks for explaining to us the life of Douglas Harding and why he came upon such an unusual realization. At first it seemed to me to be ridiculously obvious, then it grew on me and changed my whole viewpoint on life. it is an amazingly original philosophy and simply breathtaking. Thank you for all the time you it took you to understand Mr. Harding and put this video together...I am quite amazed!
This film is a masterful work. Clear, succinct, incredibly informative, amazing. It just flows. Thank you so much, Richard.
I' ve been doing on and off the exercises, I forget and then I get on track again, I can not explain with words the feeling inside me when Im in that flow...it is like a sweet knowing and awareness, Thank you so much for doing and sharing this video !!!❤️
Thank you very much, Douglas. All the best.
Wonderful film about a wonderful man. I am particularly grateful to Douglas Harding for providing a means to by pass the conundrum of "Who am I?" which had entered an intellectual loop with no apparent way out - at least through the mind. His direct pointing cut straight through all that - to the space in which all appears - which in essence is oneness not twoness or any other 'ness' - simply the pure 'being'.
Thanks so much Richard for the work you have done to promote such an illuminating concept from a brilliant man. Truly a voice to the silence. Namaste. I will add, even with my very limited experience it seems apparent that, no ONE can remain the same, once exposed to the idea of being headless.
Beautiful short documentary, thank you for creating this and making it available to us.
Thank you, Richard. This is a wonderful introduction to the life and work of remarkable Douglas Harding, and a refreshing immersion many years after my first reading of 'On Having No Head' a long time before youtube!
2 "dislikes"? Wow, what's not to like? The directness and simplicity of the experiments forego all words and letters. Brilliant! Grateful to you for keeping the headless Way alive Richard
Richard it’s so important that you made this video and documented this all. Thank you!!!
Nossa, que vídeo revolucionário... confesso que " não consegui ainda adentrar na essência " dos exercícios.. Muito obrigada aos canal por disponibilizar tamanha preciosidade! Como o Douglas, eu, Eu, também descobrirei Esse que implora Ser descoberto...
Well done Richard. A tremendous man….
Thank you! What a thrill and I know inherently the thrill will continue to expand, I really appreciate having the opportunity to watch this video. Better than winning the lotto! What an awesome contribution.
A wonderful introduction to both his work and message and the story of his life. Thank you Richard.
Beautiful! Bravo! This headless transparence is definitely adding The Hierarchy of Heaven & Earth to its reading queue!Thank you so much Richard for this presentation.
A very great book!
Thank's Richard keep up the good work.
I caught a glimpse. Thank You.
Amazing to see and hear the details of Douglas' journey and his brave quest to share seeing with others. Thank you very much for your work in putting this together, Richard.
Thank you for this wonderful insight into the life's work the wonderful mystery appearing as a man.
Thank you for the clarification. Look forward to learning more.
thank you Douglas, and thank you Richard
Love to hear Richard's voice.
A abordagem de Douglas Harding justifica plenamente a frase Os olhos são as janelas da alma. E seu ensinamento lembra muito também Allan Watts.
That was wonderful, thank you for making this video. Douglas's experiments are very useful and I think it's good to have them in your toolkit as a meditator or if you're on a journey to find out who you are and how to live in a more fulfilling way.
I loved it! Thank you very much Richard! And Douglas! :) I am happy to ... explore that experience and see others that also explore it. It is a very warm and attractive experience to see someone realizing that we are the same one. So beautiful. Life is so beautiful... :) Yeah!
I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the film. Yes, we are all the same one, this boundless space, this single eye...
That was a very informative n touching video of my life, thanks for the video, the more you know the less you know.,and this is what I know.
Glad you enjoyed it.
amazing work Richard .. w/ love and greatest respect from Georgia,Caucasia
Thank you.
Found you on Waking Up. Thanks for your hard work.
Thank you, Richard. I really enjoyed your presentation. Well done!
Fantastic! I loved watching it. Wish it went on for at least an hour or two! Thanks Richard!
So original point of seeing the matter! Thank you for sharing !
Beautiful! 🙏🏼😊🙏🏼
I first heard of Douglas Harding in 1970s through a enlightend follower of his. Mrs. Reeves who knew him personally.
Thank you Richard that was absolutely fascinating and inspirational.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Loved this.Thanks!
What a great film. I'm going to give this a try.
Amazing…..seeing what has always been there…..seeing me…..
Very well put together and very, very interesting. Thank you.
What an absolutely extraordinary man.
Thank you very much for sharing!
Thank you, Richard.
Great film! Strange I have missed it. I guess I wasn't ready for it until now.
Glad you liked it !
Simply Amazing.
OMG! Seeing! Thank you so much.
Wow, what a nice film you put together. I really enjoyed it. It surely got me to thinking differently now about myself and things....a real eye-open-upper!! Thank you!
It's not nonsense. It's truth. It's who you really are. Be open minded to realize this yourself and you will. It's enlightenment and freedom.
Good job, Richard!
Thank you!
You're welcome !
excellent vid by the way, thanx !!
thank you!
Excelente vídeo Nilson. Ainda não tinha visto. Obrigada por compartilhar. 😊🙏
I, too, was brought here from Sam Harris's book. Now I have "On Having No Head" on Kindle...
Doing the headless experiment is fascinating and fits nicely with my limited experience of mindlessness. I will look forward to reading his book. Thank you Richard for posting this. Nicely done.
Thank you! Wonderful
Well done Richard, beautifully done!
Thanks Richard :)
Inspiring. Very well done with the documentary. Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Another way of putting this would be to subtract the person we think we are and it's story from our immediate awareness and to see that we are in fact that open, clear, infinite being. This would remove the need to be face to no-face with anyone.. Try this, it is an incredible (for it's powerful simplicity) Vedantic teaching.
Richard, the headless one is absolutely thrilled that he made this video in the form of you and all of the rest of the forms of "the headless one." If Douglas was here right now, he'd say, "but all I see is a bunch of talking heads in that video. I'm sitting here watching it, so that obviously CANNOT be me over there. I'm clearly right over here looking out from over these arms! However, I must say that the chap in the video is quite brilliant. That's a guy who really knows where his head is."
Thank you
Wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this
That is the best thing on the internet.
:-) Thank you for responding.
thanks to you and the volunteers for restoring the original format as he intended it.
you are his spiritual son carrying on his tradition.
in this new age of non-reading, can you please work on an audio book with your voice. most people do not have the time to read a book anymore, but will have time while sitting in traffic or long road trips to listen to Mr hardings words coming from you.
I learned about Douglas Harding from an interview with John McLaughlin, the greatest guitarist living in the world. If you want to hear McLaughlin doing his greatest guitar player in the world thing, may I suggest that in You Tube you type "Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra". You'll probably need to listen to this musical number around 5 times or more before its complexity and abstraction can be digested by your mind. Once you have digested it, it will thrill you.
My daughter is studying Philosophy/Religion at one of the UK's best Universitys. She doesn't study any of this sort of thing - I don't get why not! They just don't seem interested in any 'non-dual' type stuff. Anyway, thank you so much for sharing Douglas's work with us 🙏
One day they will study Douglas Harding... :-) Thanks for your feedback.
i recommend you take on the big project my friend. I know its alot of work and you may or may not receive any accolades. please create an audio book for the heaven and earth original book.
appreciate all that you do richard, please look me up if your ever in my area.
I read his book "on having no head" . i had no idea he did so much more .
Thank you. This is so useful. I don't know how to find your bookstore to see the whole film. But I will look.
What a truly great job you have done creating this excellent video!
what a super little portrayal of DH...thanks RIchard
I don't know why you guys down in the comments aren't seeing it. He's saying that we are perspective. There's nothing physical, its just light, thats what we see. Its hard to put into words. Its one intelligence, observing itself through the perspective of everything. Stop seeing yourself as you, start seeing it as an experience. A ride at a theme park. It would take 600 pages to explain this, thats why the image of pointing to yourself will suffice, words take to long to explain such a concept.
Beautiful thank you
Obrigado pela tradução Nilson!!
Bravo!
So many thanks over to you Richard!
Well done! (subd)
merci beaucoup à vous deux
Amazing person! Thanks for your film Richard, beautifully made and engagingly presented. Are all the books in print?
I'm glad you like the film, Claire. Most of the books either on Amazon, or through our website. We are in process of making everything available.
***** I see you´ve already translated the videos to Spanish. If you need help in Barcelona or with Catalan, do let me know. Thanks again.
Claire blue Thank you, Claire. That's kind of you. There's always something to translate! So if you have time, let me know. And do drop in to one of our free video hangouts if you feel like it. headless.worldsecuresystems.com/english-new/skype
Very helpful! Thank you!
I see your website and watched a lot of your videos. I liked your concept and the job you did in helping spread the idea of Douglas. As a form of retribution I send a full translation in portuguese subtitles for this film, to help spread the message to the portugueses speakers. I hope you like it. Nisargadatta Maharaj’s say we are like a Black Hole, Krishna Vivar. Like so many Masters already said.
Hugs from someone without a head, and without body as well.
Thank you. Did you translate the whole video, or just the description? I can see the description, but that's all...
U're welcome. The whole video, it's on the options menu (the gear symbol), under the subtitles option. I also see that headless.org has various languages. If it is in your interest, one day we can make a portuguese version also ;)
Hello. Thank you very much for doing this. Also, if you would like to translate any of the website, we would love that. Please feel welcome to contact me by email - headexchange@gn.apc.org
Read about this in the latest Sam Harris book, Waking Up! Good stuff. I look for my head all the time now! lol
Sam’s book brought me here as well. I have “on having no head” ordered and coming soon.
Wonderful. Thank You.