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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface........... 9
Introduction........... 14
Chapter Summaries........... 19
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PART I, Beliefs and Secularity........... 23
1 A Roll of the Dice........... 25
2. The Secular Avalanche........... 35
2.1 NDEs........... 37
Anita Moorjani.......... 38
Mary Neal.......... 46
Other NDE Cases........... 47
Omni Vision for the Blind............ 50
Summary of NDE Findings........... 56
Prospective NDE Research........... 59
Criticism of NDE Research........... 60
2.2 Spontaneous Recollection of Past Lives........... 62
James 3............ 64
Other Past Life Cases........... 66
2.3. Subconscious Recollection of Past Lives........... 69
Santorini 1863 B.C........... 69
Sadness Clouds the Eyes........... 70
Evidence Based?........... 71
2.4 Conscious Access to Nonlocal Existences........... 72
2.5. Non-Physical Individual Differentiation........... 76
2.6. A Foundation for Secularity........... 77
3. Beliefs........... 81
3.1. Beliefs........... 81
Adoption and Internalization........... 85
Capitulation........... 86
The Flip............ 89
A Belief in Superiority........... 90
Belief Sublimation........... 92
Faith and Trust.......... 93
3.2. Blanket Beliefs........... 94
3.3. Selective Beliefs........... 96
3.4. Inspirational Motivation........... 98
Demeaning the Starting Point ..........102
3.5. Collective Internalization........... 104
3.6. Beliefs and Exclusivity........... 104
4. Beliefs and Surrogacy........... 108
4.1. Religion, the Mother of Blanket Beliefs........... 109
4.2. Scientific Beliefs........... 122
Hyper Extending Into Pseudo-Science........... 123
Provable by Real Science........... 131
4.3. Philosophical Joe........... 134
The Bouncy Floor of Self-Evidence........... 135
The Closing of the American Mind............ 139
The Context in the 1950’s........... 145
4.4. Doodling and the Rabbit Hole........... 147
Pinker’s Rationality........... 152
Gatekeepers of the Self.......... 162
4.5. Democracy and Self-Combustion........... 169
Equality........... 173
Inequality........... 174
Politics of the Herd............ 178
4.6. A Paper-Thin Unidimensionality........... 180
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PART II, Dismantling Beliefs........... 182
5. Deconstructing Beliefs........... 184
5.1. My Beliefs, My Gods........... 184
Gods Without a Cause........... 185
Fusion of Essentials........... 191
You Got Nothing, You Are Nothing............ 197
You Never Left ..........199
Truths Worth Lying for.......... 203
5.2. The Dance Around Fear.......... 204
5.3. Two-Way Roads All Lead to Rome........... 208
5.4. Nothing to Learn........... 211
5.5. Enormity by Invisibility........... 214
6. Reality and Duplicity........... 221
Putrid Disregard.. ..........221
Masters of Reality........... 223
The Colossal Juxtaposition........... 223
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PART III, Baby Steps........... 229
7. Truth........... 231
7.1 Truth Formation........... 234
7.2 Crying, the Perpetuation of Conviction........... 237
7.3 Truth, Self-Centric........... 239
7.4 Truth and Credit.......... 240
7.5 Truth Ephemeral ..........246
7.6 Truth Exposed........... 249
The Cocoon that Broke the Other Way........... 250
Fear of Freedom............. 251
The Unbearable Weight of a Late Invitation........... 252
The Suspensive Stupefaction of the Naïve........... 253
7.7. Truth Recognized........... 255
7.8. Truth and the Homeless Civilization........... 259
7.9. The Language of Truth Formation........... 261
Poetry. ..........262
7.10. The Emotional Horizon........... 263
7.11. Truth and Lope de Vega........... 265
8. Life, the Personification of Truth........... 267
8.1 Descent and Surrender.......... 269
State of Decoy........... 270
An Inadvertent Winding Descent ..........270
The Open Wound............ 274
Dungeons of Insanity........... 279
Unattached Emotional Intensity........... 285
8.2. The Strength of Our Individuality........... 286
8.3. Love is Everything and Nothing........... 286
8.4. Love in the Days of the Jaguar.......... 288
8.5 The Purpose of Being........... 291
8.6. A Tale of Three Purposes........... 293
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........... 310
9.5. Blossoms that Cling to the Vine........... 316
10. While Today is Still Forever.......... 320
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PART IV, Addendum............327
A.1. Unsubstantiated NDE Cases........... 329
A.2. James 3, Spontaneous Recollection of Past Lives........... 334
A.3. Joe and the Closing of the American Mind............ 348
Education, Know Thyself.......... 351
Instamatic Philosophy........... 355
Plowing with a Rake........... 358
The Backflow............. 360
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Acknowledgments........... 362
Author Quotes........... 365
Bibliography..........372
Index. ..........383