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| BUILDING A BETTER HUMAN Purpose Over the past several years author David Lowell has been meeting with licenced medical technician and Gertrud Lola, discussing how members of Western culture can overcome rigid thinking to realize our true potential in life. After conducting years of research, Mr. Lowell and Mrs. Lola are certain that modern reasoning creates unnecessary limitations in human development and these limitations can be easily overcome. The book intends to shed light on these issues and to propose real and empowering solutions people can put into practice in their daily lives. The Problem Depression and disability are approaching epidemic proportions in America and there is no end in sight. The pharmaceutical industry has drugged the problem to death and the people that see counselors seem to be on an endless treadmill making little progress. People are trying to think positive but they are simply surrounded by frustrations. They succumb to addictions, depression, and anxiety in an effort to cope with the situation. They fail in all of their attempts to feel better and there seems to be no way out. Unfortunately the solution to the problem evades most people because what binds you is not “what you are thinking about” but rather “how you think”. What makes loving life impossible for us is the fact that we view a dramatic change from suffering to happiness as being impossible. What people don’t realize is that the concepts of your life and the universe as being rigid and difficult to change have their source in the scientific method, developed in the 17th century. As science has gradually become more rigid in its approach to understanding the universe, so has our culture’s view of the universe also become more rigid. While positive thinking and vision boards could help a person, they will have little effect if a person doubts their credibility. As doubt creeps in he/she will affirm the rigidity of the situation stating, “I knew it wouldn’t work!” As a logic-based culture, we find it difficult to transcend what are identified as “scientific facts” when we meditate. Therefore on the conscious level we need to combat science with science and ancient wisdom to show that fringe science is only fringe because the mainstream is not ready for the truth. Summary The book begins with proving to the reader just how limited modern reasoning is. We explain the evolution of modern reasoning starting with the modern scientific method. We then move on examine the world of ancient cultures to gain insight on how they may have had a very different view of the universe and how it empowered them. We discuss the flawed reasoning proposed by archeologists that all ancient cultures (over thousands of years) were less knowledgeable and wise to the mechanisms of the universe than we, which has its basis in egocentric thinking. In fact, the ancients appear to have had a far greater understanding of the universe and our important role... and it is only the limited scope of our “modern” reasoning that leads us to think otherwise. They understood that their thoughts, feelings, and intentions had a direct impact on the world around them and they created a surrounding landscape to imitate the sky above. While archeologists deny this was the case, claiming the pyramids to have strictly functioned as tombs for dead pharaohs, scientific discoveries are continuing to prove ancient wisdom was quite accurate. In attempting to view the world through the eyes of the ancients, we begin to realize the awe and wonder of the Living Universe. It is this realization that allows us to confidently transcend our rigid thinking and to properly map our path toward happiness on all scales. With the understanding that a change from the valleys of sadness to the peaks of happiness is not impossible, we identify the key elements of living in balance physically, mentally and spiritually. Finally we apply the key elements in meditation exercises to ensure the change spreads beyond the conscious level to all the levels of our being. |
