{"product_id":"the-false-paradigms-of-today-and-the-timeless-truth-of-tomorrow-essays-on-meaning","title":"The False Paradigms of Today and the Timeless Truth of Tomorrow: Essays on Meaning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Bliss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e The False Paradigms of Today and the Timeless Truth of Tomorrow: Essays on Meaning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 494\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2025-09-10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething's missing in the world today, and maybe it's been gone for centuries. The problem: most of us don't have authentic beliefs or a clear path in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n  \u003cb\u003eWhat do we believe? Whatever they told us to believe.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n  \u003cb\u003eWhat do we do? Whatever other people are doing.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n  \u003cb\u003eHow many lies have we welcomed into our lives without having seriously analyzed them?\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the reason many of us feel empty inside--there's nothing there but convenient mistruths, and at some level, we all know it. We then orient our lives based on these false beliefs, wasting our precious limited time among the living striving for goals that leave us ultimately unsatisfied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe False Paradigms of Today and The Timeless Truth of Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e by John Bliss takes a steak knife to these common delusions with 13 irreverent essays that rip and tear at the foundations of our collective worldview. Little is held sacred to Bliss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003ePart 1: Your Understanding of Reality is More Fabricated Than You Think\u003c\/i\u003e dispel our delusions one at a time, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; our mistaken belief in progress, \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; our misplaced confidence in our own rational prowess, \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; our loss of personal identity from group identification, \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; our misplaced faith in science as a true representation of the world, and \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; our morality: what it is and where exactly it comes from. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter carving away these restrictive untruths, \u003ci\u003ePart 2: An Exploration of Truth Across Historical, Mystical, and Philosophical Dimensions\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a deeper understanding of humanity based on history, mysticism, psychology and philosophy. Some of the topics in Part 2 include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; how our religions became second-rate pathways to God, \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; our reliance on logic and how it warps our decision-making, \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; how idealism can lead to mass murder and tyranny, \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; the overriding importance of history, where we've been, where we are going and why, \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; our immaterial connection to all people living and dead--Jung's collective unconscious, Emerson's Over-Soul, and Varro's Soul of the World, and finally \u003cbr\u003e\t  \u0026gt; the bedrock assumption that we all got wrong. Switch this out, and everything changes. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays are filled with stories from history, including meetings of the apostles Paul and Peter with the Emperor Nero and Simon Magus the magician, the mystical transformation of Emmanuel Swedenborg, the nineteenth century German intellectual revolution, the establishment of three French religions worshipping not God but Reason and Humanity, the abdication of the World Teacher, and the genocide of the Tibetan culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book is ideal for seekers of deeper meaning, arm-chair philosophers and historians, and those disillusioned with the emptiness of contemporary thought.\u003c\/b\u003e Discover why your view of reality may be distorted--and how by changing the one assumption on which your entire world-view is based, everything shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798999968708\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Bliss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53414633505075,"sku":"9798999968708","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9798999968708.jpg?v=1780293252","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/the-false-paradigms-of-today-and-the-timeless-truth-of-tomorrow-essays-on-meaning","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}