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A carefully structured combination of essays and stories - partnering fiction
with nonfiction - based on years of research, and the author's personal
philosophy and experiences, The Psychosomatic Survival Guide
directs the reader toward a clearer, more positive path for living in
today's fragmented, and often mentally negative, modern world.
The Guide traverses a course that thoroughly entertains as it
evolves into a developing tale of characters finding personal
discovery of life, while, at the same time, explaining its own
purpose as a guide. The Psychosomatic Survival Guide is
both an explanation and a celebration of the Human Experience.
It is partially comedic, partially spiritual, entirely fulfilling,
and an essential read for all Human Beings.
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The Back Cover Description:
When someone utters the phrase, "Stop and smell the roses,"
it conjures up a mental image of two possible personality types:
one that has been run ragged by the fast pace of modern society,
and just needs a break or some stress-relief; and one that has
sniffed the roses, but wants to know the deeper meaning of why
one should do this. This guide is intended for those of you, who,
like both the smeller of roses and the runner of rat races, seek
a larger, more beautiful understanding of the magnitude
of existence, among other things.
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From the author:
My initial inspiration for the guide was this timeless speech from William Shakespeare's Macbeth...
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last Syllable of Recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted Fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief Candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor Player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a Tale
Told by an Idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
(Macbeth; Act V, Scene V)
I originally wrote this Guide in 1996 for two different reasons:
one, a "survival guide" was a format that I felt best encapsulated
what I needed to express to others; and two, as an answer to what
I viewed as an ongoing theme of total confusion in the world of
metaphysics and spiritual enlightenment. In the recent past,
numerous authors, filmmakers, and self-entitled New Age gurus
had created an enormous realm of half-truths and almost-answers,
toppling over onto a base of subliminal religious fundamentalism.
This situation created in me a sense of anger and distress, not only
because of the unbridled lack of responsibility by these persons,
but because of the fact that I could personally see through all the
hype and confusion, yet had no channel through which to pass
along my own wisdom. So, I grabbed a pen and paper and didn't
stop until I had what I considered to be a complete work. It has
taken me ten years to publish because I have had to work for a
living, and editing and refining a text of this size requires time and
mental dedication, resources which I have not had in abundance.
However, due to what I have witnessed more recently as an
urgent need for clarity, I have finalized and published my guide.
Now I present to you The Psychosomatic Survival Guide.
I enjoyed writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading, and maybe
get a little light of understanding in the process.
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Sample Pages
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Contents
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page 38
page 45
page 63
page 122
page 212
page 258
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Book Images
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front cover
back cover
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