Volume II explains authentic Paths of Awakening and spiritual emergencies as mainly "descending" processes, not in the sense of involving regression, but in that of undoing pretenses and Seeing through all that is built, created, produced, contrived, conditioned or compounded, into the true condition that the Dzogchen teachings call the Base. "This remarkable manuscript presents the Buddhist Dzogchen insights in reader-friendly English that will instruct and inspire its readers. Its importance cannot be underestimated. Indeed, it is destined to become a classic guide to spiritual development." Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Alan Watts Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University "I can"t pretend to understand all of what Professor Elias Capriles has written in these magnificent four volumes, yet I have the utmost appreciation for the rare combination of impeccable scholarship and lived wisdom that Capriles has shared." Harris L. Friedman, Ph.D., Professor (retired), Professor Emeritus,...