How long does it take to read Cloud of Unknowing?
Cloud of Unknowing by Ira Progoff takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 250 pages, about 68,750 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It concerns the states of consciousness of those desiring God/Enlightenment which take one to the mindfulness/mindlessness described as the goal in many Eastern traditions. The individual must come to a place of living totally in the moment, without anticipation or personal programs, in order to live a perpetual experience of Union.
Subjects: union, God, Enlightenment, Mysticism, Fiction, general, Mysticisme
