The Experience of No-Self: a Contemplative Journey by Bernadette Roberts

The Experience of No-Self is a moving personal account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey, in which she reached one of the highest stages of realization of any religion - the transcendence of ego. It describes a spiritual awakening rarely encountered in contemplative literature, related in terms that are recognizable to anyone who has made some small effort toward spiritual practice. The author relates her unique experience, which actually transcends religion, to the Christian notion of loss-of-self, generally regarded as a transformation of the ego or lower self into the true or higher self as it approaches union with God. Her book is a major contribution to the literature on the contemplative experience.