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Acknowledgements Preface

i

Part I: Becoming Trans-sensory

1. The Big Bang, Emergence of the Senses, and Evolution Cosmic Evolution

3

Biological Evolution

3

Physical Evolution

6

Our “Hidden” Senses

6

Spiritual Evolution

7

Social Evolution

19

Paradoxes of Evolution

22

2. We Are Souls with Unlimited Minds and Energy Knowing, Unlearning, and Failing to Relearn This Truth

34

The Consciousness and Energy of Children

36

What Happens During Childhood, Adolescence, and Early Adulthood?

38

Birth of One’s Social Self—and Death of One’s Spiritual Self

Asperger Syndrome

Nonphysical Aspects of Asperger Syndrome

40 40 49

3. The Dualism of the Human Brain White vs. Black

54

Straight vs. Gay

60

Labels vs. No Labels

67

Science vs. Mysticism

69

Other Areas of Duality

72

The Social Pendulum

74

4. Beyond the Duality of the Sixth Sense The Bi Movement

99

Sexual Tastes

102

Romantic Orientation

103

Platonic Preference

104

Polyamory

106

Gender Benders

111

People Who Identify as Multi-racial

114

People Who Embrace the Teachings of More Than One Religion

115

5. The Limits of Brain Logic Laws of Physics

119

Cause-Effect … and Brain Logic

121

Trans-sensory Truths

125

6. Sensing vs. Perceiving In the Now vs. Thinking

131

Level 1 vs. Level 2 Perception

135

7. Illusion of the Physical World

Non-definability of Things

139

Non-Definability of Feelings

141

Indirectness of the Visible

141

Elusiveness of Everything

143

Emptiness of the Material World

144

Deception of the Senses

145

Everything Is Past or Future

146

Living in a Dream World

147

8. Reality of the Spirit World The Origin of Emotions

153

Earth Love vs. Spiritual Love

155

Seeing the Unseeable

156

9. Limits of Human Experience Only So Much Room for the Five Senses

160

Cause/Effect

160

Choice/Result

161

The Gamble of Choice

163

The Five Ws and the H

180

10. Limits of the Human Senses The Three Senses of Human Differences

183

My “Spanish” Accent

185

Visible vs. Invisible Differences

189

Subtle Differences

190

False Differences

191

11. The Omega Solution: Becoming Trans-sensory What Does It Mean to Be Trans-sensory

195

My Bronx Experience

195

My Broccoli Experience

200

My Flying Roach Experience

200

My Cereal Experience

201

My Scratchy Throat Experience

202

TV Mimicking My Actions

203

My Life Review

203

Practice Makes Perfect

Sensory Perception vs. Trans-sensory Consciousness

205 205

Sensory Perception

206

Trans-sensory Consciousness

256

Trans-sensory Experience

257

Common Objections

258

Out-of-Body Experiences

260

Near-Death Experiences

261

12. Deprivation of the Senses and of Emotions Sensory Deprivation

262

Going Beyond Sensory Deprivation

263

Trans-sensory Deprivation

264

Going Beyond Trans-sensory Deprivation

265

13. The Omega Solution: Being Trans-sensory

Our Mission on Earth

268

Being Trans-sensory

270

Be Always at the Controls

270

Extricating Alien Influences

272

Know Thyself

278

Imagine Yourself as Others

279

Preparation for Being at the Controls

280

Being Understood and Letting Go of Pain

280

Understanding Lack of Control and the Nature of Problems

282

The Limits of Free Will

289

Suicide and Euthanasia

307

Predestination

313

Realizing You Don’t Matter

323

Going Beyond People

325

14. What Does It Mean to Be at the Controls? Step 1: Do I Want Pain or Peace?

329

Step 2: Stop Focusing on Pain

331

Step 3: What Is the Lesson?

345

Step 4: Silence the Radio and Television

347

Step 5: Meditation—Train to Focus

350

Step 6: Focus Requires Energy

352

15. Seeing Literal Things Symbolically —and Vague Things Concretely Sensory Literalness

356

Trans-sensory Symbolism

359

Why Look at Things Symbolically?

360

Conflicting Messages

391

16. Learning: A Trans-sensory Experience Moving Forward

396

Don’t Dare to Go Back

397

The Omega Point

400

17. Toward the Birth of the Self From Microorganisms to Plants and Animals

404

Becoming More Than Higher Animals

407

18. End of the Sensory Game Becoming Partially Trans-human

409

Progressive Deterioration—Until We Change

413

Mesmerized by the Darkness—Don’t Be

415

Part II: Becoming Trans-instinctual

1. Our Human Instincts, the Cerebral Cortex, and the Heart The Evolution and Workings of the Brain

424

Different Types of Intelligence

428

Different Types of Instincts

429

The Brain vs. The Heart

430

2. The Survival Instinct The Face of Postmodern Survival

440

The Politics of Survival

447

The Morphing of Survival

449

Money

454

The “Free” North vs. The Slave South

465

Above Serfdom

469

3. The Sex Instinct Backdrop to Sexual Liberation

473

The Construction of Human Sexuality

481

The Bonobo Way

496

Make Love, Not War

498

4. Romantic Love That Aching Need

509

Love as “Sacrifice”

516

Monogamy

520

Above Possessiveness

525

Unmet Needs

529

From Here to There

535

5. The Evolution of Marriage Marriage for Physical Survival

546

Marriage for Social Survival

546

Marriage as Spiritual Partnership

549

6. Hierarchy The Flipping of Pyramids

557

The Hierarchy of Representation—Politics

563

The Hierarchy of Representation—Media

571 The Pitfalls of Hierarchy

580

Rising Above Hierarchy

583

7. Territoriality Tribal Identity, Community, and Survival

589

The Clique Instinct

592

The Pitfalls of Turf

597

Nations—A Necessary Evil?

599

8. Following the Flock and Its Drivers Sheep Joining Sheep

610

Sheep Following Sheepherders

616

Bucking the Public Good Politicians

Bucking the Public Good

626

CEOs

635

Lording Over Peons

640

Heap of Ants

643

Rising Above the Flock

647

9. Control Domination: At the Job

650

Manipulation through Friendship

653

Success through Networking

655

Rising Above Dominance

655

10. Aggression and Violence

The Trials of Postmodern Society

659

… And Justice for All

662

The Extreme Media

666

Being Irrelevant … and Not Understood

670

Pathologizing Masculinity

673

Embracing a New Masculinity

675

11. Judgement

Subjectivity of Judgement

681

Barrier to Self-Knowledge … and to Truth

683

Self-Righteousness

685

Criticism

695

Generalizing

698

Gossip

699

Judgement—Nipping It in the Bud

701

12. Revenge

Getting Even

707

Justice vs. Revenge

710

Forgiveness—Action vs. Feeling & Thought

713

13. Greed and Gluttony

Greed throughout History

720

Gluttony of the Palate

723

Gluttony of the Ears

728

Gluttony of the Gonads

730

Striking a Balance

734

From Getting to Giving … and Receiving (As a Bonus)

736

14. Extremism

The Pendulum of History

739

The Excesses of Social Change

742

Our Monolithic World

745

15. Ritual & Routine

One vs. The Other

756

Hellish Cycles

758

Our Failure to Break Out of Routine

767

Snapping Out of Our Zombieness

770

Epilogue: The Destruction of the Buffalo, the End of Cheap Oil, and Apocalypse Transition to a Post-Carbon World

773

Why Multi-racialism, Bisexuality, and Polyamory?

780

Coping with Armageddon

804

Our Human Tendencies

815

Humanity’s Biggest Challenge … Ever!

822

References

836

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