"Allan Combs...adroitly presents the grand possibility that
systems/complexity theory, cognitive neuro-science, and the great
mystical traditions can work together to illuminate that most ordinary
yet mysterious power we all possess, which Combs prefers to call
"subjective presence" or more plainly, "consciousness".... Combs centers
his reader in a consciousness that beholds the entire living museum and
artifice of mental structures while also describing the most evolved, if
distant-sounding stages in the evolution of consciousness. If while
reading The Radiance of Being you become a bit giddy, perhaps it will be
because Combs' words and incisive quotes have guided you into, then out
of the labyrinth of the mind and onto that "farther shore" where only
the One Shines, ever-new."--Stuart Sovatsky, California Institute of
Integral Studies, Cybernetics & Human Knowledge, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1999