Publisher's Synopsis
The Self is fundamentally misunderstood. For millennia, Religions have targeted the Self as man's sinful evil nature, citing Adam's and Eve's disobedience as being the origin of humanity becoming mortal. But, it is this mortality that taught man to value life by overcoming death with every breath of air and every bite of food, and as a result, and over many millennia of time, forming consciousness, morality and Self-making creationism and the assumptions built on it throughout Biblical times and beyond, diabolically contrary to reality. This book attempts to put the pieces of Self together through the perspectives gained from an understanding of our split brain, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, philosophy, linguistics-and especially how language and culture are formed. Tkachuk toggles these findings with his own experience of being born and raised in the Seventh-day Adventist faith and becoming an ordained minister of the faith. But then tragedy struck his life-and it was significant enough to force him to reevaluate the assumptions his life was built on, which ultimately meant leaving the church and the Christian faith. This is his story. Christianity confuses being mortal with being immoral (sinful). It teaches that since man sinned, he became mortal and immoral, and in need of a supernatural rebirth to regain immortality which then solves his immoral sinfulness. Tkachuk was caught in this delusion-and this is his story of untangling himself and forming an authentic Self. Morality doesn't come from being immortal, and real guilt is not from being born. Mortality didn't come from disobedience, and is not experienced as guilt. Death is not the wage of sin-and is not our enemy, but it is an essential function of a biosphere that support systems of life bigger than man. This makes the mortality of man a perspective from man's point of view, for if man's cells (his parts) were not constantly dying, man could not live (as whole). Had Eve not eaten the fruit, we all would have been stuck in a paradise of not being able to take control of our own lives and destinies, but be constantly controlled by the whims of a God-really religion-that tells us that there is a devil behind every tree it wants to control us by. Make no mistake about it ... If Self exists, God cannot. If God exists, Self cannot. The existence of one negates the other, for they are a competing design. This means the more of the one, the less of the other there can be. Do your "Self" a favor-read this book.
