The Untethered Soul

I really wanted to love this book, and it is possible that I read it at exactly the wrong time in the year/in my life, but I just felt like I was being told over and over again: you're doing it wrong. Just let go; get behind yourself, go higher–I think I know what Singer means here but repeating it isn't quite the same as showing or demonstrating it. I wanted a bit more “a ha” in the book and less “here we go again.”
As part of a spiritual quest, I can see a lot of value here. But as a practical primer on meditation and letting go–on Buddhism for people who don't want to talk about Buddhism, actually–it is pretty thin on the ground.
What I ended up really appreciating, though, was how he explained the durable self–the soul or spirit or whathaveyou–that is always present and watching what is going on. His explanation there provided an answer to that philosophical question I started having when I was about 9 years old.