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On Having No Head
- Written by: Douglas Edison Harding
- Narrated by: Richard Lang
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
'Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down... I forgot my name, my humanness, my thingness, all that could be called me or mine. Past and future dropped away... Lighter than air, clearer than glass, altogether released from myself, I was nowhere around.' Thus Douglas Harding describes his first experience of headlessness, or no self. First published in 1961, this is a classic work which conveys the experience that mystics of all times have tried to put words to.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too poetic
- By Gustavo Faria on 2023-06-30
- On Having No Head
- Written by: Douglas Edison Harding
- Narrated by: Richard Lang
Great story, narrator difficult to listen to
Reviewed: 2021-11-30
Love the work of Douglas Harding and the philosophy he teaches through observing the world as though you are the world. But for the life of me I don't know why they chose to go with this narrator. He has this grating whistle to his voice when he pronounces anything with an "S" sound to it. Still worth a listen given how short it is and how valuable I found the information to be, but Christ, please do a quality check of the narrator before you give it a go. It became difficult for me to listen to in long bursts.
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