Zendor: Door to What Is

What if the door to understanding reality begins with the question of who you are?Who am I? Why am I here? What is consciousness? And what happens when our experiences refuse to fit comfortably inside what we've been taught is possible?In Zendor: Door to What IS, Zen Benefiel invites readers into an unconventional autobiographical journey through identity, awakening, mystical experience, science, spirituality, love, and realities that may stretch the boundaries of belief.Beginning with the fundamental human search for identity and purpose, Benefiel recounts a life shaped by adoption, unusual childhood awareness, extraordinary experiences, psychological and institutional challenges, encounters with spiritual traditions, aerospace and professional life, and an enduring effort to reconcile the inner world of consciousness with the outer world of physical reality.At the heart of the journey is what he calls the Cosmic Conundrum: Who am I, and what am I here to do?Rather than offering another belief system, Door to What IS asks readers to question their own. Benefiel explores the territory where ancient wisdom, mysticism, emerging scientific ideas, multidimensional possibilities, extraterrestrial and celestial consciousness, and ordinary human experience collide. His search becomes an attempt to find congruence between spirituality and science-and harmony between our inner and outer worlds.Along the way, an even more provocative question emerges: What happens after awakening?If consciousness is larger than individual identity, insight alone isn't enough. How do we live? How do we love? How do we lead? And how might individual awakening become collaboration rather than another attachment to ego, identity, or ideology? Later in the book, Benefiel turns directly toward this movement from the ONE to the MANY, from ego toward what he playfully calls "Wego."Part memoir, part metaphysical inquiry, and part philosophical adventure, Zendor: Door to What IS isn't asking you to accept an extraordinary story as truth.It's asking whether you're curious enough to explore your own.Don't believe a thing. Question everything. Open the door and discover what IS.