On Having No Head
A first-person account of “headlessness”
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A first-person account of “headlessness”
Douglas Edison Harding recounts an experience he describes as “headlessness” or “no self,” in which his usual sense of personal identity and the passage of time fell away. The book centers on putting this experience into words and connecting it with a broader question: how mystical experience can be described. First published in 1961, it sits at the intersection of Zen and philosophical reflection, with Harding’s own account as its starting point.
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- Readers interested in Zen and philosophical approaches to selfhood.
- Those exploring first-person accounts of mystical experience.
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