Acknowledgements Preface
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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