New Horizons
By this point the argument has been made and the practices laid out. This Part follows the questions that remain.
The first is geographic. Recovery looks different in different places, and a great deal of what English-speaking readers take for universal is in fact local and recent. The chapter on recovery around the world looks at how other cultures have understood compulsion and healing, and what a nondual approach might learn from traditions that never adopted the disease model at all.
The next two chapters go inward and downward, into the body. Emotions are not obstacles to clear thinking and the body is not a vehicle the mind is driving. Both are where recovery is actually experienced, and the chapter on the science of healing takes seriously what neuroscience and clinical research have established, including where they complicate the picture this book has drawn.
Then two questions readers reliably ask. What about religion, for those who have one and for those who left one badly. And what about philosophy, for readers who want to know how nonduality relates to the traditions it comes from and to the ones that dispute it. Neither chapter asks you to adopt a metaphysics. Both assume you are capable of holding a serious idea without being converted by it.
The Part closes with advanced practices, which is the only place in this book where I ask for something more than attention. These are practices for readers who have found the earlier material useful and want to go further into it. They are not required, they are not a higher tier of membership, and there is nobody to certify that you have done them. They are simply there if you want them.