The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness by Taylor, John Maxwell -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Introduction by Emily Hartwell Taylor Preface: The Heroic Journey Chapter 1: Living from the Miraculous

What Is Self-Mastery? Staying Centered in a World of Change Beyond the Collective Trance Soul-Infused Living in the Information Age Demonstrating the Miraculous Power for Yourself The Egotist Defined Conscience, Consciousness, and Right Behavior Accepting Responsibility for Your Spiritual Power

Chapter 2: Get Out of Your Head, Into Your Body, and Into Your Life

Our Spiritual Power Is Being Hijacked by a High-Tech World Babies Are Yogis: What We Can Learn from Observing Them Visual Evidence of Higher-Power Connection Exercise to Experience the Lightness of Being for Yourself Creating a Dynamic Brain-Body Connection Make Inner Silence a Priority and Control Your Life Energy Creation and Nature Want Us to Win A Brain Researcher’s Enlightenment Experience Brain-Body Dynamics: A Technique Helping the Brain to Decode the Truth Self-Mastery and the Laws of Manifestation

Chapter 3: Findhorn and Miraculous Manifestation Principles

The Adventures of a Mystical Englishman in Scotland Getting Fired as Part of the Divine Plan Creating a Community Based on Spiritual Principles Miraculous Deliveries of Compost … and Blue Jeans! The Sensing and Feeling Technique Miraculous Journeying: Needs Being Met While on the Road Your Author Arrives at Findhorn Miraculously Manifesting a Much-Needed Guitar Learning That Work Is Love in Action Learning from Experience, Findhorn-Style Attunement Places Me in the Right Place at the Perfect Moment

Chapter 4: Life After Findhorn: Manifestation Principles in Action in the USA

Needs Being Met in Last-Minute Perfect Timing Manifestation + Synchronicity = Success The Perseverance Factor Fill Yourself with a Sense of Vision and Mission to Align with Higher Power Once We Commit, the Universe Responds Entr’acte

The Self-Metamorphosing Power of Aquarius The Myth-Busting Mystical Madness of David Icke Dr. Herb Agan on David Icke: “Only the shadow knows.” Changing the World by Changing Its Story The Influence of Hollywood on the Conspiracy Theory Phenomenon A Trojan Horse of Crazy Ideas Brute Ignorance Chemtrails: A Conspiracy We Can See The Twilight of the Material Consciousness Gods Wrestling with Reptilians: David Icke versus Jesse Ventura The Amazing Art of Spiritual Social Self-Defense

Chapter 6: Secrets of Sociological Aikido: How to Deal with Difficult People and Egotists

Expansion in Consciousness Produces Sensitivity to Life Do You Feel “Seen” by Relatives and Sleepwalking People? The Essence Eye and the Personality Eye Seeing Essence and Personality in Your Own Eyes Adapting Aikido to Social Situations Sociological Aikido in Action Sorting Out the Wise Guy An Irresponsible Youth Meets a Cleveland Obi-Wan Kenobi The Power of Looking in the “Third Eye” The Brain Transmits Electromagnetic Vibrations through the Eyes You Have a Right to Protect Your Spiritual Energy

Chapter 7: Cycles of Time and the Earth’s Destiny

Signs of Kali Yuga in the Twenty-First Century: The Down-Turned Tongue Changing the World Through Non-Cooperation with Delusion What the Devil Is the Devil? Brain Research Studies Prove Just How Unconscious We Are The Need for Conscience and Consciousness A Researcher Who Had Balls Jung vs. Freud on Freedom from Neuroses Self-Mastering People Must Live and Speak Their Truth

Chapter 8: Up Your Ego! Cleaning the Lens Through Which Consciousness Sees the World

Let’s Go to the Movies and Learn About the Shadow The “Id” According to Freud Why Is Ego a Four-Letter Word? Getting Some Sanity from Looney Tunes Insights from Jung on the Nature of the Ego Healthy Ego Development in an Age of Narcissism Our Souls Are Actors Playing Imaginary People Jung Kills Siegfried, the Heroic Aryan Archetype A Good Day for a Soul-Connected Ego is a Good Day for the World Exercise for Creating Divine Ego-hood How to Use Affirmations Effectively

Chapter 9: The Great Escape: Transcending the Illusions of Maya (The Cosmic Magician)

Maya Is the Ultimate Conspiracy Mind Over Maya Is the Real “Great Escape” Worlds in Collision Redux Chaos Theory: The Joker in the Deck Jung, UFOs, and Parallel Realities (by Dr. Herb Agan) Mechanical Evolution or Conscious Self-Evolution Ancient Alienism: Reconstructing Our Mythic Past Creation as a Food Chain: We Are What We Eat or Eats Us Shape-Shifting Entities Occupied This Woman’s Body We Stand Between Heaven and Earth The Day the Sun Zigzagged in the Sky Golden Frogs and Talking Dragons Seeing Through the Dreaming Universe

Chapter 10: Creating Universal Harmony Within: The Planets and Your Internal Organs

The Planetary Harmonization Self-Mastery Techniques We Can Help the Brain to Clean Itself Connecting with Key Points in the Brain The Pituitary Gland The Medulla Oblongata The Pineal Gland Tuning Up the Amygdala The Thalamus and the Hypothalamus Holy, Holy, Holy! Three in One in Your Brain Washing Your Brain with Light Washing the Orbital Cortex Washing the Unconscious Injecting Light into the Reptilian Brain Crowns of Light Around the Head Filling the Whole Body with Light Washing with Light: A Quick Method

Chapter 11: The Secret Art of Being and Doing and Loving

Who Is the “Doer”? A Philosophy for “Doing” in an Illusory World Right Behavior and the Authority of Consciousness The Power to Stand Unshaken in Times of Difficulty Connecting with “I Am That I Am” in the Spine Three Divine Powers for You to Use Who’s Afraid of the G.O.D. Word? Teachers Who Get Stuck in Enlightenment Limbo Enjoying Life without Becoming Enslaved by Actions and Desires The Dopamine Connection

Happiness and the Transformation of Negative Emotions Personal Difficulties and Suffering Envisioning a New Model of the Psyche Claiming the Kingdom of the Psyche for the Divinity Within Identity Tripping in the Circles of the Mind Finding Peace and Protection in Omnipresent Redemptive Power Of Memes and Men: Are Your Thoughts Really Your Own? Living from the Center

Epilogue: The Courage to Be Free in the Twenty-First Century About the Authors