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100 _aJones, Allan
245 0 _aBeyond vision: going blind, inner seeing, and the nature of the self
260 _bMcGill-Queen's University Press,
_c2018
300 _aE book
520 _aHow the fearful descent into blindness can unexpectedly open up into a selfhood that is deeper than body or senses. In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones - Canada's first blind diplomat - vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indian philosophy that changed his life.
856 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780773553798/html
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