To change how you react to the things that happen, you will have to learn to work with subjective phenomena such as emotions, beliefs, and judgments. To participate in this collaboration you will be invited to shift from the third-person perspective of the reader of text to the first-person perspective of a soul exploring its private experience directly. Actively participating in the thought experiments and trance formational experiences will give you the opportunity to explore subjective phenomena directly so you can understand what causes you to act as you do.
Because this material is designed to be used by individuals with different puzzles to solve, more tools and information is included than any one person will need. A default path through all this material is presented as list of links in the left column and at the bottom of each page. These contents are so voluninous that you may be reluctant to begin what seems like such a long and difficult journey. For this reason [and for another I’ll describe in An Ancient Recommendation], I request that you collaborate actively in this project by choosing the path you take.
A range of navigational options are offered to get you quickly to the material that will have the greatest payoff for you. To allow you to skip around and navigate directly to those sections most relevant to you I have included links and definitions throughout so that each page is relatively free-standing.
The default path contains almost all the pages. At the other extreme, the three pages below provides the fastest path to the action:
- Why a soul like you is so vulnerable to self-sabotage: The Soul Illusion.
- How your particular trap works: The Space Between Stimulus and Response.
- How to extricate yourself: Ancient & Modern Paths to Freedom