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Happiness and Survival

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Happiness and Survival argues that psychotherapy is essential for both personal happiness and the survival of humanity. Bob Gebelein critiques conventional spirituality, physicalism, and the dismissal of Freudian and Jungian psychology. He explores the concept of dream analysis and the self-steering process as natural, nonauthoritarian tools for self-education. The book reveals how the academic establishment has suppressed key knowledge, including mesmerism and psychological insights, and introduces ideas such as "the mental senses," "psychological age," and changing "human nature" at puberty. Gebelein concludes with his own philosophy and warnings about unseen spiritual dangers.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in psychology, psychotherapy, and alternative approaches to self-development. It is suited for those questioning mainstream academic views and looking for new perspectives on human nature and spirituality.

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The message of Happiness and Survival is simple: for the survival of our species and personal happiness, everybody needs to go to a psychotherapist. Bob Gebelein shares his journey through the lies of the past to a new civilization, where he can view the academic establishment with some perspective.

His solution for human survival is being blocked by an academic establishment that is removing knowledge from our culture. First, Gebelein points out the errors in "spirituality," "physicalism," and the rejection of Freudian/Jungian depth psychology. He then summarises his search for a new civilization and the answers he found.

Dream analysis, with the self-steering process, is a natural, nonauthoritarian method of self-education. Gebelein then shows the series of rejections that he went through and the few successes he had in trying to communicate his discoveries, primarily "the mental senses," the concept of "psychological age," the discovery that the normal person in our culture is psychologically 10 years old, how "human nature" itself can be changed at the psychological age of puberty, and "the self-steering process" of dream analysis.

He then goes on to describe how the academic establishment has actually removed knowledge from our culture through rejecting mesmerism, the spiritual, the study of the mind, and the legacy of Freud and Jung. Lastly, Gebelein defines what should rightfully be called "philosophy," summarises his own philosophy, and attempts to inform the culture of the evil forces lurking in the spiritual realm.

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ISBN: 9780961461188

Publisher: Omdega Press,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Omdega Press,U.S.

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 172

About the Author

Bob Gebelein graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1956, and went on to have a legendary career as a computer programmer and creator of software systems. But the main focus of his adult life has been to create a new civilization, due the threat of nuclear annihilation and other cultural problems. His methods were psychotherapy, withdrawal from the culture, and dream analysis. He succeeded in his quest by discovering how "human nature" itself can be changed, to compassion and altruism, to create a new kind of human being, who will then create a new civilization. His book, Re-Educating Myself, describes his search and the answers that he found. The Mental Environment describes the network of lies from which he extricated himself. Dirty Science exposes the unscientific methods that have blocked our knowledge of the psychic and the spiritual. In Happiness and Survival, he is putting all this together to show how his solution for human survival is being blocked by an academic establishment that is actually removing knowledge from our culture.

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