Evolving beyond our emotional programming

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Survival instinct determines our thought, emotion, & behavior:

    our relationships, religion, money, politics, parenting, free will, sex,

    ... and even our science.

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Conscious evolution allows us to transcend it.

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COMING EARLY 2024

READER REVIEWS

ISBN 979-8-8536-2283-8 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-8546-6510-0 (hardcover)

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"The single most important book to read if you want to understand why

and how you feel what you feel.  'Life-changing' is an understatement."

— New York Times bestselling author Michael Levin

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The Animal In The Mirror  is about why we think and behave the way we do.  It is about what our emotions really represent, and how and why they influence our actions so much more than logic and reason.

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It can be extremely empowering to know just how and where our thinking, as individuals and as a species, is guided by our survival instinct rather than our intelligence. Not only real free will but also the path to a better future leads through the gateway of this realization. The extent to which we remain oblivious to it is the extent to which our lives and world will continue to manifest dysfunction, and our progress will remain unnecessarily slow and painful.

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This book is also about how we might strive to transcending our biological programming, and to accelerate our conscious evolution, as individuals and as a global community.

 

Topics covered (and explained) include:

• Religion: why we choose it, what it does for us, what the difference is between religious and spiritual, and why that matters.

• Men & Women: why we choose the partner we choose, and why we act and react the way we do in our relationships.

• Politics: why we choose the side we choose, and why we think the other side is ignorant, wrong, or even evil (when they are not).

• Depression, Substance (Ab)use & Happiness: what depression really is, why we use and abuse substances, and how to see a way beyond it.

• Science: what is and what is not scientific, and how we prevent science from being corrupted by our politics and other biases.

• Animals: the degree to which animals are capable of feeling, and what that means.

• Sexuality: the instinctive nature of our sexual thinking and how it manifests dysfunction in our lives and relationships.

• Parenting & Children: how to parent in a healthy way and how our instinct undermines that tendency.

• Education & Teaching: how to teach towards wisdom and an empowered future, and how our instinct limits our thinking.

• Bigotry & Racism: where they come from, instinctively, why they occur in even good people, and how to get beyond them.

• and more…