Publisher's Synopsis
This self-help book challenges the reader to look beyond the norm and let go of biases, beliefs, prejudices, illusions, hate, and excuses that are self-destructive. If a word makes you mad it is because you have cognitive dissonance, which impedes your accurate understanding of reality. This is harmful. My life experiences exemplify how one person can go beyond their self-imposed limitations, which are just our illusions that keep us from living life fully. If you have blind faith in religion then you are trapped in an imaginary jail that enslaves you to your delusions. It is my goal to help you identify those illusions and then encourage you to put them aside and leave through a door that is not even locked. You are free to leave your illusions behind at any time. Delusions are always dangerous, and will likely become more dangerous in the future as the world faces increasingly complex problems. Ultimately, it could threaten life on the most beautiful planet in the known universe. This book puts into simple language ideas that will help all people become heuristic, asking questions always. This encourages people to learn by asking questions and discussing reality to arrive at a more accurate understanding necessary for wisdom. We can discover for ourselves the causes of each problem and become empowered by wisdom to solve them. Today's political environment is an obvious example of how we cannot depend on regimes nor the establishment to do it for us. It is important sometimes to create fairytales to help children follow the right path towards becoming humane grownups. But it is counterproductive to create fairytales for adults because adults need accurate truth for the conversations necessary for wisdom. Wisdom is the key to a better and brighter future. Otherwise, powerful interest groups will run the world by preaching fairytales (the illusion of knowledge) to grownups, and those fairytales invariably create prejudices and hatred which leads to wars, misery, destruction of life and the world's environment.
