Perfect Brilliant Stillness
TL;DR — A first-person account of non-dual awakening, released by its author into the public domain.
⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. Explicitly free / author-released / CC.
Explicitly uncopyrighted: “This book, and the thoughts and concepts expressed here, are not copyrighted. They are not ‘mine.’” — a statement that is itself the book’s argument about selfhood.
Carse describes a sudden and unsought shift in the sense of being a separate self, in the Advaita idiom, without a teaching lineage or a practice to sell.
Filed for the rare pairing: a first-person report of an experience usually described institutionally, given away on the grounds that there is no author to own it.
Where this came from
383 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.