There are two approaches that I explore in the book. One is the philosophical approach and the other is the Practical approach. The philosophical approach is about your identity as the entire universe, and the practical approach is about happiness. 

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The philosophical approach involves nonduality -- the idea that there's only one thing going on and that's who you are you are: the universe looking out through your eyes. So the deepest sense of yourself -- the "I" behind the "Me"—is the universe. 

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The other approach is the Practical approach, which is simply about happiness. And it's a kind of a formula: you relax and you allow everything to be as it is, meaning you temporarily drop any strategy you have to change anything, especially how you feel, and you turn your attention to the knowingness in which all your experience appears (I call that pure awareness).-When you do that, you touch the universal pure allowing—the unconditional love and the happiness that is the basic nature of pure awareness—that which knows all your experience and yet does not disallow any experience. 

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When the individual mind turns around, touches it, and identifies with it, something happens: the usual one-way stream from the outside world through the brain into Universal Consciousness turns into a two-way stream, and the love and joy from Universal Consciousness flows back into the individual mind, causing joy and happiness. 

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So, the two approaches, the philosophical and the practical, are actually both about the same thing: discovering your true nature, which is the subtitle of the book, Awareness Adventures: Discovering Your True Nature, because in both, they involve what you really are: the big "I" behind the little "Me."