Download or read book Varieties of Nothingness written by Dean Rickles and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the many and diverse ways in which nothingness is weaved into the fabric of our existence. It can express the very ground of reality or a cessation of mind: a winking out, as well as being a guide for painting meditative states. It is inescapably linked with the divine in many traditions as a precondition of our existence. It is the Pleroma before consciousness and the gateway to enlightenment. While these essays are indeed wide ranging and eclectic, they share one theme in common: nothingness is not nothing.