Publisher’s note on this book:
This book is a radical leap into
the apex of philosophy, psychology,
and the science of seeing what’s real
for oneself. Written in a dense and
penetrating style that is designed to
induce deep thinking and thoughtful
reflection, the book explains how to
attain lucidity, a type of acute,
profound awareness that serves as
the fundamental base for Gnosis,
individual illumination. It may not be
an easy read the first time through,
but it will be well worth it. The book
is meant to be studied and reflected
upon many times. This book is
impeccable, more of an experience
than just a book with profound
information. It is a potent toolshed of
ideas that will be of interest to
psychologists, philosophers, social
scientists, meditators, contemplatives,
or anyone who wants to know what’s
really going on and how to SEE in a
very clear and luminous way.
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PREFACE
This book is the result of a long and systematic course of research and a line
of questioning in an attempt to understand
and convey essential ideas concerning the real circumstances of life and living
in a less than hospitable world. My goal has
been to clearly articulate the significance of several important facts which
have been generally overlooked by our so-called
“modern” traditions of psychology, philosophy, science, and religion. Although the book
is somewhat terse and to the point,
it is not without a wealth of substantiating detail. More details will be found
within the mind of the reader himself/herself
while thinking through the book. It should be read and re-read several times
over a period of time, not only to refresh the
memory about what it reveals, but also as a reminder and to shed more light on
how the statements in it correlate with the
reader’s own experiences in advancements in thinking capacity, reasoning, and insight.
There are various subtle processes continually operating in the individual mind
not usually detected or understood. As we
become more and more aware of these, many of life’s conflicts and frustrations are revealed in their hidden simplicity and
the solutions to all kinds of problems can be suddenly, obviously known.
The book is purposefully compact and dense, serving as a short but powerful
stroke that can cut the root of a large,
poisonous weed, doing away with the source of the poison itself, instead of
engaging in extensive plucking at the various
parts of the weed itself in hopes of keeping it manageable by continual pruning.
The book is structured in a very linear fashion, building an idea pattern based
on a problem and a solution to it. Within the
analytical part of the book there is a progressive dialectic revealing how
errant reasoning develops slowly into blatant
delusion. The next step in delusional thinking produces motivations that become
the hidden aspects of nearly everyone’s
problems.
The last chapter shows explicitly how to win the victory over the hidden problem
and incorporates the best of both Eastern
and Western esoteric formulas for profound meditative and contemplative
practices.
______The Author
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