Beyond the Battlefield: There Was Never a Battle at All

By Michael Harris

A manual for building muscle to not take the bait.

You know the pattern: stress hits, the mind says "fix this," and you're off chasing another solution. Meditation, retreats, insights, frameworks—anything to escape what you're feeling right now.

Michael Harris was a high-performing executive caught in this exact loop for decades. Until grace dismantled not just his seeking, but the seeker itself.

This isn't written from the mountaintop. It's the real-time record of someone being systematically taken apart—and discovering what remains when you stop trying to get somewhere else.

What you get:

Recognition skills most people never develop: how to spot the mind's hooks before you bite
The executive's dilemma solved: how to perform without the underlying contraction
Territory maps for what happens after initial awakening (when seeking continues in disguise)
The end of spiritual consuming

Three phases of not taking the bait:

Part One: Watch sophisticated seeking in action—and learn to recognize your own patterns
Part Two: Navigate the paradox when awakening arrives but something still contracts
Part Three: Witness even the "awakened" identity dissolve through radical transparency

This book doesn't give you another technique to try.
It builds your capacity to not need any technique at all.

Stop chasing peace. Start recognizing what was never disturbed.