Download or read book The Sacred Art of SELF Deception written by Shadow Easton and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unmasking 'Enlightenment': 'Spiritual Nonsense' Flips Spirituality on Its Head!" Prepare yourself for a journey that's equal parts enlightenment and irreverence; "Spiritual Nonsense - The Sacred Art of Self-Deception". The first book in the BULLSHITTO series. If you're expecting a book filled with solemn discourses on spiritual practices, brace for impact because this is not it. Crafted with wit sharper than a samurai's blade, this book slices through the fluffy nonsense of the spiritual marketplace with unapologetic humor and a dash of sarcasm. Shadow and her co-conspirator in literary crime Lucas, have penned a manifesto for those weary of the spiritual hamster wheel. They start with a premise so simple it's almost ridiculous: "There is only one thing, and YOU are it." From there, the ride only gets wilder. Imagine a book that makes you laugh out loud while simultaneously dismantling your deeply held beliefs-this is that book. "Spiritual Nonsense" is your invitation to a party where the revered gurus, solemn practices, and esoteric jargon are turned on their heads. Expect to laugh until you cry, and then pause mid-giggle to ponder some unexpectedly deep truths. This book does not respect your beliefs; instead, it respects you too much to let you cling to them unexamined. Expect no paths to 'enlightenment', no secrets to unlocking your inner potential through high vibrations or positive thinking. Instead, get ready to challenge every notion you've ever had about spirituality, culture, and the pursuit of truth. Through a mix of provocative stories, insightful commentary, and outright mockery, the authors guide you on a quest not for answers, but for better questions. The authors use common terms like Consciousness, The Absolute, and 'Enlightenment' not as destinations but as signposts on a journey where the only real direction is inward. "Spiritual Nonsense" is for the brave souls who can laugh at the cosmic joke of existence, for those willing to confront the illusions that comfort them, and for the adventurers eager to explore the depths of their own folly in the quest for TRUTH. Prepare to have your beliefs challenged, your preconceptions shattered, and your funny bone tickled. "Spiritual Nonsense - The Sacred Art of Self-Deception" is more than a book; it's a spiritual detox, offering liberation not through solemn wisdom but through the joyful realization that, in the end, we might not know anything at all. So, if you're ready to embark on the least serious spiritual journey of your life, where laughter is the only guru and every page turns your world a little more upside down, welcome to "Spiritual Nonsense." 'Enlightenment' has never been so much fun.
Download or read book The Sacred Art of SELF Deception written by Shadow Easton and published by Katana Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unmasking'Enlightenment': 'Spiritual Nonsense" Flips Spirituality on its Head!" Prepare yourself for a journey that’s equal parts enlightenment and irreverence; “Spiritual Nonsense – The Sacred Art of Self-Deception”. The first book in the BULLSHITTO series. If you’re expecting a book filled with solemn discourses on spiritual practices, brace for impact because this is not it. Crafted with wit sharper than a samurai’s blade, this book slices through the fluffy nonsense of the spiritual marketplace with unapologetic humor and a dash of sarcasm. Shadow and her co-conspirator in literary crime Lucas, have penned a manifesto for those weary of the spiritual hamster wheel. They start with a premise so simple it’s almost ridiculous: “There is only one thing, and YOU are it.” From there, the ride only gets wilder. Imagine a book that makes you laugh out loud while simultaneously dismantling your deeply held beliefs—this is that book. “Spiritual Nonsense” is your invitation to a party where the revered gurus, solemn practices, and esoteric jargon are turned on their heads. Expect to laugh until you cry, and then pause mid-giggle to ponder some unexpectedly deep truths. This book does not respect your beliefs; instead, it respects you too much to let you cling to them unexamined. Expect no paths to enlightenment, no secrets to unlocking your inner potential through high vibrations or positive thinking. Instead, get ready to challenge every notion you’ve ever had about spirituality, culture, and the pursuit of truth. Through a mix of provocative stories, insightful commentary, and outright mockery, the authors guide you on a quest not for answers, but for better questions. The authors use common terms like Consciousness, The Absolute, and Enlightenment not as destinations but as signposts on a journey where the only real direction is inward. “Spiritual Nonsense” is for the brave souls who can laugh at the cosmic joke of existence, for those willing to confront the illusions that comfort them, and for the adventurers eager to explore the depths of their own folly in the quest for TRUTH. Prepare to have your beliefs challenged, your preconceptions shattered, and your funny bone tickled. “Spiritual Nonsense – The Sacred Art of Self-Deception” is more than a book; it’s a spiritual detox, offering liberation not through solemn wisdom but through the joyful realization that, in the end, we might not know anything at all. So, if you’re ready to embark on the least serious spiritual journey of your life, where laughter is the only guru and every page turns your world a little more upside down, welcome to “Spiritual Nonsense.” Enlightenment has never been so much fun.
Download or read book Lies We Live by written by Eduardo Giannetti and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lies We Live By Art and Uses of Self Deception written by Eduardo Giannetti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Self Deception written by William Kronick and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before turning to novel-writing, William Kronick enjoyed a long career as both a documentary and theatrical filmmaker. As writer-director, his highly acclaimed Network Specials ranged from the National Geographic's Alaska! to six Plimpton! entertainments to Mysteries of the Great Pyramid. In the feature arena, he directed the comedy, The 500 Pound Jerk, and the Second Unit on such major productions as King Kong (1976), Flash Gordon and others. His first novel, The Cry of Sirens (2004) was followed by Cooley Wyatt, then N. Y. / L. A. All three explore, in the framework of morality tales, the dynamics of authentic artistic talent, celebrity and commerce in our modern culture. Each one centers on a violent act involving a physical or moral crime committed by the protagonist; both he and the reader must decide what represents appropriate justice. His fourth novel, All Stars Die, tells of two lovers for whom morality is not the issue, but their dark secrets are. The Art of Self-Deception returns to the themes of Mr. Kronick's first three novels.
Download or read book The Art of Self deception written by Giles Auty and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self Deception written by Herbert Fingarette and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-02-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How can one deceive oneself if the very idea of deception implies that the deceiver knows the truth? The resolution of this paradox leads Fingarette to fundamental insights into the mind at work. He questions our basic ideas of self and the unconscious, personal responsibility, and our ethical categories of guilt and innocence. Fingarette applies these ideas to the philosophies of Sartre and Kierkegaard, as well as to Freud's psychoanalytic theories and to contemporary research into neurosurgery.
Download or read book Self Deception written by Jacob Helffenstein and published by Curiosmith. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These piercing statements apply to Christians because the natural mind is always tending toward deceptive self-righteousness. Also in part he is trying to provoke people who think they are Christians but are “trusting in a refuge of lies,” to reconsider. Some topics are: intellectual assent is not holiness; natural gifts and sentiments are not to be confused with true spiritual life; adopting healthy habits is not necessarily spiritual repentance; and zeal for a cause is not necessarily Christian devotedness. The huge participation rate of all mankind in self-deception should give one pause to reconsider these issues.
Download or read book Recovery The Sacred Art written by Rabbi Rami Shapiro and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepen Your Capacity to Live Free from Addiction—and from Self and Selfishness "Twelve Step recovery is much more than a way to escape the clutches of addictive behaviors. Twelve Step recovery is about freeing yourself from playing God, and since almost everyone is addicted to this game, Twelve Step recovery is something from which everyone can benefit." —from the Introduction In this hope-filled approach to spiritual and personal growth, the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are uniquely interpreted to speak to everyone seeking a freer and more God-centered life. This special rendering makes them relevant to those suffering from specific addictions—alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, sex, shopping—as well as the general addictions we wrestle with daily, such as anger, greed, and selfishness. Rami Shapiro describes his personal experience working the Twelve Steps as adapted by Overeaters Anonymous and shares anecdotes from many people working the Steps in a variety of settings. Drawing on the insights and practices of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Islam, he offers supplementary practices from different religious traditions to help you move more deeply into the universal spirituality of the Twelve Step system.
Download or read book The Blood Poets Millennial blues from Apocalypse now to The matrix written by Jake Horsley and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, society questions the connection between violence in entertainment and violence in life. Moralists and censors would reply resoundingly that media violence and social violence are directly linked, but others ask the deeper question: Why do people feel the need to create images of violence, and why do audiences continually watch them? In this thought-provoking and insightful study of American violent cinema, author Jake Horsley attempts to answer these questions by tying together the multiple disciplines of psychology, criminology, censorship, and anthropology. Horsley divides the forty years of his study into two volumes: American Chaos: From Touch of Evil to The Terminator, and Millennial Blues: From Apocalypse Now to The Matrix. These volumes aim to provide both a critical overview of the films themselves and a cultural study of the social and psychological factors relating to the demand for screen violence. By doing so, Horsley raises a new dialogue between scholars and movie buffs to examine the need to portray and the need to watch violent films.
Download or read book Exploring India s Sacred Art written by Stella Kramrisch and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1994-04-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deception written by Ziyad Marar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us think we are about 15 per cent cleverer, nicer, more attractive and better drivers than others think we are. It seems deception begins at home. After all the most convincing liars convince themselves first. Sellers and buyers, parents and children, friends and lovers must conceal from each other the unutterable truth that they don't believe or want the same things. In this book, Ziyad Marar throws a revealing light on the many ways deception is woven into the texture of human life: our wiring leaves us easily suckered by persuasive illusions, while our contradictory desires (for sex and honesty, money and kindness, for cake and losing weight) force us to cook up self-serving stories. We manage flattering impressions with effortless skill, while pretending our sins and self-indulgences are beyond our control.Drawing on insights from philosophy, psychology and literature, Marar explores the implications for living well in the shadow of Kant's humbling thought that "out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".
Download or read book Hide and Seek written by Neel Burton and published by Acheron Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. - Miguel de Unamuno. How and why do we deceive ourselves? How does this impact on us and those around us? And what, if anything, can we do about it? This book is a stand-alone sequel and companion piece to 'The Art of Failure', which explores what it means to be successful, and how, if at all, true success can be achieved.
Download or read book Self Deception s Puzzles and Processes written by Jason Kido Lopez and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary literature on self-deception was born out of Jean-Paul Sartre’s work on bad faith—lying to oneself. As time has progressed, the conception of self-deception has moved further and further away from Sartre’s conception of bad faith. In Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes: A Return to a Sartrean View, Jason Kido Lopez argues that this departure is a mistake and that we should return to thinking about self-deception in a Sartrean fashion, in which we are self-deceived when we intentionally use the strategies and methods of interpersonal deception on ourselves. Since literally tricking ourselves cannot work—we will always see through our own self-deception, after all—self-deception merely consists of the attempt to trick ourselves in this way. Other scholars have rejected this notion of self-deception historically, dismissing it as paradoxical. Lopez argues first that it isn’t paradoxical, and he further suggests that moving away from this notion of self-deception has caused the contemporary literature on the topic to be littered with disparate and conflicting theories. Indeed, there are a great many ways to avoid the allegedly paradoxical Sartrean notion of self-deception, and the resulting plethora of accounts lead to a fragmented picture of self-deception. If, however, the Sartrean view isn’t paradoxical, then there was no need for the host of contradictory theories and most researchers on self-deception have missed what was originally so intriguing about self-deception: that it, like bad faith, is the process of literally trying to trick oneself into believing what is false or unwarranted. Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes will be of great interest to students and scholars of epistemology, philosophy of mind, psychology, and continental philosophy, and to anyone else interested in the problems of self-deception.
Download or read book I Told Me So written by Gregg Ten Elshof and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you ve ever deceived yourself? Then this book is for you. / Think you ve never deceived yourself? Then this book is really for you. / Socrates famously asserted that the unexamined life is not worth living. But Gregg Ten Elshof shows us that we make all sorts of little deals with ourselves every day in order to stave off examination and remain happily self-deceived. Most provocatively, he suggests this is not all bad! While naming its temptations, Ten Elshof also offers a strange celebration of self-deception as a gracious gift. In the tradition of Dallas Willard, I Told Me So is a wonderful example of philosophy serving spiritual discipline. A marvelous, accessible and, above all, wise book. James K. A. Smith / Calvin College / author of The Devil Reads Derrida / In this wise, well-crafted work Ten Elshof helps us to identify, evaluate, and respond to our own self-deceptive strategies, as he probes with occasional self-deprecation and unavoidable humor the bottomless mysteries of the human heart. His reflections on interpersonal self-deception and groupthink are especially helpful. To tell me the truth, I m glad I read this book. You will be too I promise. David Naugle / Dallas Baptist University / author of Reordered Love, Reordered Lives / Ten Elshof s discussions are erudite, biblical, searching, and laced with soul-restoring wisdom. All of this together means that this book is solidly pastoral. What it brings to us is appropriate to individuals, but it especially belongs in the context of small groups and local congregations. Dallas Willard (from the foreword)
Download or read book Fooling Ourselves written by Harry C. Triandis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-deception occurs because we often see the world the way we would like it to be, rather than the way it is. Our brains so long for things the way we want them, we might not even be aware we are fooling ourselves, explains author Harry Triandis, a widely known Professor Emeritus of Psychology. Across cultures and around the world, self-deception is a phenomenon that has subtle and profound effects on everyday life, explains Triandis, also former president of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology. In this work, he not only explains how and why self-deceptions occur in three areas - politics, religion, and terrorism - but also how to recognize and reduce the frequency of fooling ourselves. Insights here include consideration of personal and societal self-deceptions, as well as extensive understanding of how politics, ideologies, and religions can frame reality for each of us in such a way that it is, in our minds, warped so the stage is well-set for self-deception. This text will be of special interest to general readers drawn to politics and religion, as well as scholars of psychology, anthropology, and sociology.
Download or read book Kidding Ourselves written by Joseph T. Hallinan and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings’ astonishing ability to deceive themselves. To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception—of ourselves and the world around us—is much more malleable than we realize. This self-deception influences every major aspect of our personal and social life, including relationships, sex, politics, careers, and health. In Kidding Ourselves, Joseph Hallinan offers a nuts-and-bolts look at how this penchant shapes our everyday lives, from the medicines we take to the decisions we make. It shows, for instance, just how much the power of many modern medicines, particularly anti-depressants and painkillers, is largely in our heads. Placebos in modern-day life extend beyond hospitals, to fake thermostats and “elevator close” buttons that don’t really work…but give the perception that they do. Kidding Ourselves brings together a variety of subjects, linking seemingly unrelated ideas in fascinating and unexpected ways. And ultimately, it shows that deceiving ourselves is not always negative or foolish. As increasing numbers of researchers are discovering, it can be incredibly useful, providing us with the resilience we need to persevere, in the boardroom, bedroom, and beyond. Provocative, accessible, and easily applicable to multiple facets of everyday life, Kidding Ourselves is an extraordinary new exploration of our mind’s flexibility.
