TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface .......... 9
PRS and the War of Attrition .......... 12
Introduction .......... 15
Chapter Summaries .......... 21
PART I, Beliefs and Secularity .......... 25
1. A Roll of the Dice .......... 27
2. The Secular Avalanche .......... 37
2.1. NDEs .......... 39
Anita Moorjani .......... 40
Mary Neal .......... 48
Other NDE Cases .......... 48
Omni Vision for the Blind .......... 51
Summary of NDE Findings .......... 58
Prospective NDE Research .......... 60
Criticism of NDE Research .......... 61
2.2. Spontaneous Recollection of Past Lives .......... 63
James 3 .......... 65
Other Past Life Cases .......... 67
2.3. Subconscious Recollection of Past Lives .......... 70
Santorini 1863 B.C. .......... 70
Sadness Clouds the Eyes .......... 71
Evidence Based? .......... 72
2.4. Conscious Access to Nonlocal Existences .......... 73
2.5. Non-Physical Individual Differentiation .......... 76
2.6. A Foundation for Secularity .......... 77
3. Beliefs .......... 83
3.1. Beliefs .......... 83
Adoption and Internalization .......... 87
Capitulation .......... 88
The Flip .......... 91
A Belief in Superiority .......... 92
Belief Sublimation in a Bed of Roses .......... 93
Faith and Trust .......... 94
3.2. Blanket Beliefs .......... 96
3.3. Selective Beliefs .......... 98
3.4. Inspirational Motivation .......... 99
Demeaning the Starting Point .......... 103
3.5. Collective Internalization .......... 105
3.6. Beliefs and Exclusivity .......... 105
4. Beliefs and Surrogacy .......... 107
4.1. Religion, the Mother of Blanket Beliefs .......... 108
4.2. Scientific Beliefs .......... 121
Hyper Extending into Pseudo-Science .......... 122
Provable by Real Science .......... 129
4.3. Philosophical Joe .......... 132
The Bouncy Floor of Self-Evidence .......... 134
The Closing of the American Mind .......... 138
The Context in the 1950’s .......... 143
4.4. Doodling and the Rabbit Hole .......... 145
Pinker’s Rationality .......... 150
Gatekeepers of the Self .......... 160
4.5. Democracy and Self-Combustion .......... 167
Equality .......... 171
Inequality .......... 172
Diversity .......... 176
Evil .......... 177
Politics of the Herd .......... 179
4.6. A Paper-Thin Unidimensionality .......... 181
Battle Lines or Intellectual Subordination? .......... 182
PART II, Dismantling Beliefs .......... 183
5. Deconstructing Beliefs .......... 185
5.1. My Beliefs, My Gods .......... 185
Gods Without a Cause .......... 186
Living in the Divide .......... 192
Fusion of Essentials .......... 193
You Got Nothing, You Are Nothing .......... 199
You Never Left .......... 201
Truths Worth Lying for .......... 205
5.2. The Dance Around Fear .......... 206
5.3. All Roads Lead to Rome .......... 210
5.4. Nothing to Learn .......... 213
5.5. Enormity by Invisibility .......... 216
6. Reality and Duplicity .......... 223
Putrid Disregard .......... 223
Masters of Reality .......... 225
The Colossal Juxtaposition .......... 225
PART III, Baby Steps .......... 231
7. Truth .......... 233
7.1. Truth Formation .......... 236
7.2. Crying, the Perpetuation of Conviction .......... 239
7.3. Truth, Self-Centric .......... 241
7.4. Truth and Credit .......... 242
7.5. Truth Ephemeral .......... 248
7.6. Truth Exposed .......... 251
The Cocoon that Broke the Other Way .......... 252
Fear of Freedom .......... 253
The Unbearable Weight of a Late Invitation .......... 254
The Suspensive Stupefaction of the Naïve .......... 256
7.7. Truth Recognized .......... 258
7.8. Truth and the Homeless Civilization .......... 261
7.9. The Language of Truth Formation .......... 263
Poetry .......... 264
7.10. The Emotional Horizon .......... 265
7.11. Truth and Lope de Vega .......... 267
8. Life, the Personification of Truth .......... 269
8.1. Descent and Surrender .......... 271
State of Decoy .......... 272
An Inadvertent Winding Descent .......... 272
The Open Wound .......... 276
Dungeons of Insanity .......... 281
Loose Emotional Intensity .......... 287
8.2. The Strength of Our Individuality .......... 287
8.3. Love is Everything and Nothing .......... 288
8.4. Love in the Days of the Jaguar .......... 290
8.5. The Purpose of Being .......... 293
8.6. A Tale of Three Purposes .......... 294
9. Present Time .......... 297
9.1. The Echo of the Past .......... 297
9.2. Elusive Togetherness .......... 303
9.3. Intuition and the Blink of an Eye .......... 305
9.4. Arrival to Present Time .......... 309
9.5. Blossoms that Cling to the Vine .......... 316
10. While Today is Still Forever .......... 319
PART IV, Addendum .......... 325
A.1. Unsubstantiated NDE Cases .......... 327
A.2. James 3, a Past Life Remembered .......... 331
A.3. Joe and the Closing of the American Mind .......... 345
Education, Know Thyself .......... 348
Instamatic Philosophy .......... 352
Plowing with a Rake .......... 355
The Backflow .......... 357
Acknowledgments .......... 359
Author Quotes .......... 361
About the Author .......... 369
Related Links .......... 371
Bibliography .......... 373
Index .......... 387