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		<title>The 4-Hour Body (Audiobook) by Timothy Ferriss</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Tim Ferriss This guy turns himself into a guinea pig. So many experiments man&#8230; this guy basically tracked everything he did, put in his body, &#8230; <a href="http://www.parasuniversal.com/2012/01/the-4-hour-body-audiobook-by-timothy-ferriss/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Tim Ferriss</p>
<p>This guy turns himself into a guinea pig. So many experiments man&#8230; this guy basically tracked everything he did, put in his body, ate, drank etc. The videos explain best. Contents at the bottom will tell you more.</p>
<p>The 4-Hour Body<br />
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<p>Hacking the Body<br />
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<p>The (Female) 15-Minute Orgasm<br />
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKf_pksqDwk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>The Body as a Start-up<br />
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpSCaT76D_E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><img class="alignright" title="http://images.weread4you.com/product/25904/250x250-25904.jpg" src="http://images.weread4you.com/product/25904/250x250-25904.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" />CONTENTS<br />
- START HERE<br />
Thinner, Bigger, Faster, Stronger? How to Use This Book</p>
<p>- FUNDAMENTALS—FIRST AND FOREMOST<br />
The Minimum Effective Dose: From Microwaves to Fat-Loss<br />
Rules That Change the Rules: Everything Popular Is Wrong</p>
<p>- GROUND ZERO—GETTING STARTED AND SWARAJ<br />
The Harajuku Moment: The Decision to Become a Complete Human<br />
Elusive Bodyfat: Where Are You Really?<br />
From Photos to Fear: Making Failure Impossible</p>
<p>- SUBTRACTING FAT<br />
BASICS<br />
The Slow-Carb Diet I: How to Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days Without Exercise<br />
The Slow-Carb Diet II: The Finer Points and Common Questions<br />
Damage Control: Preventing Fat Gain When You Binge<br />
The Four Horsemen of Fat-Loss: PAGG<br />
ADVANCED<br />
Ice Age: Mastering Temperature to Manipulate Weight<br />
The Glucose Switch: Beautiful Number 100<br />
The Last Mile: Losing the Final 5–10 Pounds</p>
<p>- ADDING MUSCLE<br />
Building the Perfect Posterior (or Losing 100+ Pounds)<br />
Six-Minute Abs: Two Exercises That Actually Work<br />
From Geek to Freak: How to Gain 34 Pounds in 28 Days<br />
Occam’s Protocol I: A Minimalist Approach to Mass<br />
Occam’s Protocol II: The Finer Points</p>
<p>- IMPROVING SEX<br />
The 15-Minute Female Orgasm—Part Un<br />
The 15-Minute Female Orgasm—Part Deux<br />
Sex Machine I: Adventures in Tripling Testosterone<br />
Sex Machine I: Adventures in Tripling Testosterone<br />
Happy Endings and Doubling Sperm Count</p>
<p>- PERFECTING SLEEP<br />
Engineering the Perfect Night’s Sleep<br />
Becoming Uberman: Sleeping Less with Polyphasic Sleep</p>
<p>- REVERSING INJURIES<br />
Reversing “Permanent” Injuries<br />
How to Pay for a Beach Vacation with One Hospital Visit<br />
Pre-Hab: Injury-Proofing the Body</p>
<p>- RUNNING FASTER AND FARTHER<br />
Hacking the NFL Combine I: Preliminaries—Jumping Higher<br />
Hacking the NFL Combine II: Running Faster<br />
Ultraendurance I: Going from 5K to 50K in 12 Weeks—Phase I<br />
Ultraendurance II: Going from 5K to 50K in 12 Weeks—Phase II</p>
<p>- GETTING STRONGER<br />
Effortless Superhuman: Breaking World Records with Barry Ross<br />
Eating the Elephant: How to Add 100 Pounds to Your Bench Press</p>
<p>- FROM SWIMMING TO SWINGING<br />
How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days<br />
The Architecture of Babe Ruth<br />
How to Hold Your Breath Longer Than Houdini</p>
<p>- ON LONGER AND BETTER LIFE<br />
Living Forever: Vaccines, Bleeding, and Other Fun</p>
<p>- CLOSING THOUGHTS<br />
Closing Thoughts: The Trojan Horse</p>
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		<title>The 4-Hour Workweek (Audiobook) by Timothy Ferriss</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss I&#8217;ve already been living most of the life he&#8217;s described and as much as he makes free time look good&#8230; I just like working man! &#8230; <a href="http://www.parasuniversal.com/2012/01/the-4-hour-workweek-audiobook-by-timothy-ferriss/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss</p>
<p><img class="alignright" title="http://images.weread4you.com/product/15277/250x250-15277.jpg" src="http://images.weread4you.com/product/15277/250x250-15277.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" />I&#8217;ve already been living most of the life he&#8217;s described and as much as he makes free time look good&#8230; I just like working man! But for those that need help in any area or want to make the full change this book covers it step by step and so much valuable info. I&#8217;m a lover of good systems, workflow, automation and organisation and this guy hits the point home. Another point that he nails straight on the head is bosses and workers shooting themselves in the leg with &#8216;oh I have so much going on bla di bla&#8217; excuses that they never focus on the main areas. I&#8217;ve personally seen this in nearly every workplace. When the boss is away the workers have more fun and get more done. (I&#8217;m coining that!) So the boss is away doing something important and the workers have to use their brains and resources. When the boss is around &#8216;overseeing&#8217; things the worker subconsciously knows that if they mess up the OVERseer will be there to pick up the pieces. More stress for the boss and worst it can get for the working is a letting off. Plus lawd knows how many of my coworkers have confided in me for help or information in fear of going to the head. This guy makes sense, the boss is attached to his baby so even the smallest things bug them out.</p>
<p>Of course the book goes into much more from working remotely. Checking mails only twice a day while the assistants do the rest. Keeping things short and sweet. The contents tell it all so look below. Warning: As much as the book helps you to join the new rich, some of the ideas even I feel are extreme so use the bits you need, remember the bits you like and chew the rest with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>CONTENTS<br />
Preface to the Expanded and Updated Edition</p>
<p>- First and Foremost<br />
FAQ—Doubters Read This<br />
My Story and Why You Need This Book<br />
Chronology of a Pathology</p>
<p>- Step I: D is for Definition<br />
1 Cautions and Comparisons: How to Burn $1,000,000 a Night<br />
2 Rules That Change the Rules: Everything Popular Is Wrong<br />
3 Dodging Bullets: Fear-Setting and Escaping Paralysis<br />
4 System Reset: Being Unreasonable and Unambiguous</p>
<p>- Step II: E is for Elimination<br />
5 The End of Time Management: Illusions and Italians<br />
6 The Low-Information Diet: Cultivating Selective Ignorance<br />
7 Interrupting Interruption and the Art of Refusal</p>
<p>- Step III: A is for Automation<br />
8 Outsourcing Life: Off-loading the Rest and a Taste of Geoarbitrage<br />
9 Income Autopilot I: Finding the Muse<br />
10 Income Autopilot II: Testing the Muse<br />
11 Income Autopilot III: MBA—Management by Absence</p>
<p>- Step IV: L is for Liberation<br />
12 Disappearing Act: How to Escape the Office<br />
13 Beyond Repair: Killing Your Job<br />
14 Mini-Retirements: Embracing the Mobile Lifestyle<br />
15 Filling the Void: Adding Life After Subtracting Work<br />
16 The Top 13 New Rich Mistakes<br />
The Last Chapter: An E-mail You Need to Read</p>
<p>- Last but Not Least<br />
THE BEST OF THE BLOG<br />
The Art of Letting Bad Things Happen<br />
Things I’ve Loved and Learned in 2008<br />
How to Travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less<br />
The Choice-Minimal Lifestyle: 6 Formulas for More Output and Less Overwhelm<br />
The Not-to-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now<br />
The Margin Manifesto: 11 Tenets for Reaching (or Doubling) Profitability in 3 Months<br />
The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check E-mail Again<br />
Tim Ferriss Processing Rules<br />
Proposal to Work Remotely on a Contract Basis<br />
LIVING THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK: CASE STUDIES,<br />
TIPS, AND HACKS<br />
Zen and the Art of Rock Star Living<br />
Art Lovers Wanted<br />
Photo Finish<br />
Virtual Law<br />
Taking Flight with Ornithreads<br />
Off-the-Job Training<br />
Doctor’s Orders<br />
The 4-Hour Family and Global Education<br />
Financial Musing<br />
Who Says Kids Hold You Back?<br />
Working Remotely<br />
Killing Your BlackBerry<br />
Star Wars, Anyone?</p>
<p>- RESTRICTED READING: THE FEW THAT MATTER<br />
- BONUS MATERIAL<br />
How to Get $250,000 of Advertising for $10,000<br />
How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months<br />
Muse Math: Predicting the Revenue of Any Product<br />
Licensing: From Tae Bo to Teddy Ruxpin<br />
Real Licensing Agreement with Real Dollars<br />
Online Round-the-World (RTW) Trip Planner<br />
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</p>
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		<title>Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne I didn&#8217;t have much faith in psychiatrists&#8230; until now. It&#8217;s amazing how studying people and interactions can reveal so much and categorise the type of interactions and the like. &#8230; <a href="http://www.parasuniversal.com/2011/11/games-people-play-the-psychology-of-human-relationships-by-eric-berne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne<br />
<img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="http://ubo.org.uk/pictures/games.jpg" src="http://ubo.org.uk/pictures/games.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="333" />I didn&#8217;t have much faith in psychiatrists&#8230; until now. It&#8217;s amazing how studying people and interactions can reveal so much and categorise the type of interactions and the like. So lets break it down. First the writer differentiates between procedures, rituals, passtimes and games. Games is the only one in which people use the interaction to get something out of. As in ulterior motives, consciously or unconsciously. Normal interaction e.g. in units &#8211; On a hi bye basis it&#8217;s say 3 units each. Hi &#8211; hi, how you doing &#8211; fine how you doing, same old &#8211; well see you later. Now in this interaction both parties are used to 3 units of transaction daily. So if you go on a holiday and don&#8217;t interact with the person the units build up so next time both sides have to make up for the units by adding stuff like &#8216;not seen you in a while, where did you go, I really needed that holiday, you should go there, etc.</p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="http://avinashkaza.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/good_transactions.gif" src="http://avinashkaza.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/good_transactions.gif" alt="" width="298" height="125" />Now explaining all this jazz. So first everybody has an inner parent, adult and child. So whoever starts the interaction (agent) comes from one of these spaces and then the person replying (respondent) will come back from one of these spaces. Your inner parent is you doing what your parents do, your inner child is what you did as a child and your adult is you in your present moment kinda thing. E.g. of adult &#8211; adult transaction is &#8216;do you know where the keys are&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;they&#8217;re on the desk&#8217;. E.g. of parent &#8211; child transaction is &#8216;you keep losing the keys&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;you always blame me for everything&#8217;. It&#8217;s not always negative but you can tell from the transaction. So far I&#8217;ve only given an example of complementary transactions where parent state is talking to child stage and child state replies to parent state. It gets more complex as parent state can talk to child state and the reply would be from parent state to child or adult or parent state. Hopefully the diagrams gives you a better idea since we&#8217;ve not even got the games yet. So while these interactions are happening on a social level there is a different game happening on a psychological level. E.g. Hubby parent interacts on a social level with Wifey child by telling her &#8216;stay at home&#8217;, and wife plays the &#8216;if it weren&#8217;t for you&#8217; game. On the psychological level his child is really interacting with her as &#8216;I&#8217;m terrified&#8217; and her child replies with the &#8216;protect me&#8217; frame.</p>
<p>Most of the games are broken down into things like Thesis, Roles, Examples, Paradigms, Moves, Advantages and Antithesis. And that is further broken down to more. E.g. of Frigid Woman game:<br />
ANALYSIS<br />
Thesis: Now I&#8217;ve got you, you son of a bitch. Aim: Vindication.<br />
Roles: Proper Wife, Inconsiderate Husband. Dynamics: Penis envy.<br />
Examples: (1) Thank you for the mud pie, you dirty little boy. (2) Provocative, frigid wife. Social Paradigm: Parent-Child.<br />
Parent: &#8220;I give you permission to make me a mud pie (kiss me)-&#8221;<br />
Child: &#8220;I&#8217;d love to.&#8221; Parent: &#8220;Now see how dirty you are.&#8221; Psychological Paradigm: Child-Parent. Child: &#8220;See if you can seduce me.&#8221; Parent: &#8216;I’ll try, if you stop me.&#8221; Child: &#8220;See, it was you who started it&#8221; Moves: (1) Seduction-Response. (2) Rejection-Resignation. (3) Provocation-Response. (4) Rejection-Uproar.<br />
Advantages: (1) Internal Psychological—freedom from guilt for sadistic fantasies. (2) External Psychological— avoids feared exhibition and penetration. (3) Internal Social—&#8221;Uproar.&#8221; (4) External Social—What do you do with dirty little boys (husbands)? (5) Biological—inhibited sex play and belligerent exchanges. (6) Existential—I am pure.</p>
<p>Ok so the games. I&#8217;ll only two examples.<br />
- If it weren&#8217;t for you. Say the wife plays this game. She naturally finds a partner what will be protective and stop her from doing things. The thing is that she needs someone to stop her and at the same time does not want to blame herself for not being able to do stuff so it works. Usually the partner would play &#8216;I&#8217;ve got you now you son of a bitch&#8217;. So say she complains about him not letter her go dancing and he stops playing and lets her go. She will end up trying it out and remember she has a phobia for the dance floor or something like that. And the partner then gets to continue his game of I&#8217;ve got you now&#8230; Note: This is a game couples play a lot.<br />
- Why don&#8217;t you, yes but. This is usually played in social settings where White would bring up a problem and Black would give a why don&#8217;t you solution, White would say yes but this and yes but that. If Black does not play by changing the subject or give a solution that White cannot refute, the game is over. And this to White is unacceptable, White will not try interact with Black again knowing that Black does not play the game White likes.</p>
<p>So there you have it. People like playing certain games and usually they&#8217;re not destructive as long as all parties concerned get what they want or enjoy playing. The roles are not always solid like Alcoholic can shift roles from robber to cop. Oh yeah thats another wicked game. For robbers they either have the joy of the chase and being caught and let go or they are actually doing it for the money etc. I&#8217;ll leave it there.</p>
<p>Contents<br />
- Preface<br />
- Introduction<br />
1 Social Intercourse<br />
2 The Structuring Of Time</p>
<p>- Part I Analysis Of Games<br />
Chapter 1 Structural Analysis<br />
Chapter 2 Transactional Analysis<br />
Chapter 3 Procedures And Rituals<br />
Chapter 4 Pastimes<br />
Chapter 5 Games<br />
1 Definition<br />
2 A Typical Game<br />
3 The Genesis Of Games<br />
4 The Function Of Games<br />
5 The Classification Of Games</p>
<p>- Part II A Thesaurus Of Games<br />
Introduction<br />
1 Notation<br />
2 Colloquialisms<br />
Chapter 6 Life Games<br />
1 Alcoholic<br />
2 Debtor<br />
3 Kick Me<br />
4 Now I&#8217;ve Got You, You Son Of A Bitch<br />
5 See What You Made Me Do<br />
Chapter 7 Marital Game<br />
1 Corner<br />
2 Courtroom<br />
3 Frigid Woman<br />
4 Harried<br />
5 If It Weren&#8217;t For You<br />
6 Look How Hard I&#8217;ve Tried<br />
7 Sweetheart<br />
Chapter 8 Party Games<br />
1 Ain&#8217;t It Awful<br />
2 Blemish<br />
3 Schlemiel<br />
4 Why Don&#8217;t You-Yes But<br />
Chapter 9 Sexual Games<br />
1 Let&#8217;s You And Him Fight<br />
2 Perversion<br />
3 Rapo<br />
4 The Stocking Game<br />
5 Uproar<br />
Chapter 10 Underworld Games<br />
1 Cops And Robbers<br />
2 How Do You Get Out Of Here<br />
3 Let&#8217;s Pull A Fast One On Joey<br />
Chapter 11 Consulting Room Games<br />
1 Greenhouse<br />
2 I&#8217;m Only Trying To Help You<br />
3 Indigence<br />
4 Peasant<br />
5 Psychiatry<br />
6 Stupid<br />
7 Wooden Leg<br />
Chapter 12 Good Games<br />
1 Busman&#8217;s Holiday<br />
2 Cavalier<br />
3 Happy To Help<br />
4 Homely Sage<br />
5 They&#8217;ll Be Glad They Knew Me</p>
<p>- Part III Beyond Games<br />
Chapter 13 The Significance Of Games<br />
Chapter 14 The Players<br />
Chapter 15 A Paradigm<br />
Chapter 15 Autonomy<br />
Chapter 17 The Attainment Of Autonomy<br />
Chapter 18 After Games,What?</p>
<p>- Appendix<br />
The Classification Of Behavior</p>
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		<title>Osho on Religion &#8230; From his book &#8211; Tongue Tip Taste of Tao</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osho on Religion &#8230; From his book &#8211; Tongue Tip Taste of Tao Prem means love, dharmo means religion. Love is a by-product of religion, love is the fragrance of the flower of religion. But to understand religion one has &#8230; <a href="http://www.parasuniversal.com/2011/08/osho-on-religion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Osho on Religion &#8230; From his book &#8211; Tongue Tip Taste of Tao<br />
Prem means love, dharmo means religion. Love is a by-product of religion, love is the fragrance of the flower of religion. But to understand religion one has to understand what religion is not, because religion has become contaminated with so many things which are not religion at all. Hence the fragrance of love is missing. On the contrary, just the opposite has happened; religions have created much hatred in the world. Rather than bringing human beings closer to each other in a loving embrace, they have created conflict, war, violence. Religion has become something ugly, and the reason is: it got mixed up with something which is not religion.</p>
<p>Three things which are not religion but which have become religion have to be understood. The first is: ritual. Ritual is not religion at all; in fact, ritual is a way of covering up your neurotic tendencies. It is neurosis. Giving a beautiful facade to it, giving it a religious garb, does not help. Neurosis remains neurosis; you only change the name. The neurotic mind moves in habits, routines – it is repetitive. It moves in a groove, it goes on doing the same thing again and again and again. Once it becomes religion then many neurotic people are thought to be religious.</p>
<p>That’s why in the East there are not so many mad people as there are in the West, and the reason is that in the West the ritual has disappeared, almost disappeared. So every neurotic has come out naked into the light. In the East the ritual is a protection. If somebody is doing a ritual you respect him: you think something significant is being done. All that he is doing is hiding his anxiety, keeping himself occupied with something. He is afraid of himself. He cannot face himself; he is afraid of coming across himself, he keeps himself occupied. Maybe he goes on turning the beads of his mala or he repeats ’Ram, Ram, Ram&#8230;’, or he does something repetitively every day. His ritual is not different from other, secular, rituals.</p>
<p>Smoking is a ritual – it keeps you occupied. So whenever a person feels nervous he starts smoking to avoid that nervousness. It becomes a beautiful occupation, but it is a religious ritual: taking the smoke in and then throwing it out, and taking it in and throwing it out. k is a mantra, it is a repetitive process. It makes one feel good – nervousness becomes occupied. When people are happy they forget smoking; when they are unhappy they immediately remember it.</p>
<p>So ritual is not religion – that has to be understood – and that is almost ninety percent of religion. And once you drop all rituals you are standing naked in the sunlight, and that is the beginning of the inner journey one has to face. If one is neurotic, then that neurosis has to be faced, one has to become aware of it, because only through becoming aware of it is it going to dissolve. Hiding it, keeping it somewhere in the basement, giving it a beautiful covering, is not going to help; it is not going to change it at all. So the really religious person is non-ritualistic.</p>
<p>The second thing: religion is not belief. To believe is to avoid enquiry. The person who believes, believes out of fear, not out of understanding. There is no need to believe if there is understanding. Understanding needs neither belief nor disbelief. It is the fearful mind: out of fear one wants to cling to some belief system. It gives solace, consolation. It makes one feel as if one knows, and one knows not. It gives you a false notion of knowledge, and deep down remains ignorance and darkness. It hides people’s stupidity. Only stupid people believe&#8230; and disbelieve, which are the same. It doesn’t matter whether you believe or disbelieve – it is stupid.</p>
<p>The intelligent person enquires. He will not believe in god, he will not disbelieve in god. He will not take any standpoint. He will say ’I will enquire, I will remain open. I will not move from an already accepted conclusion because then there is no movement, no possibility of movement. If I have already accepted something as true, the enquiry is finished. It is an abortion; now there is no point in enquiry. One has already taken a conclusion, a priori.’ The intelligent person enquires, he goes into enquiry. Enquiry is arduous but it is beautiful too, because it is only through enquiry and the suffering and the pain and the ecstasies that come out of it that one grows.</p>
<p>And thirdly: religion is not morality. That is another deception. People become do-gooders. That is not true virtue – it is a camouflage. It brings respectability, it gives you a good ego feeling. It makes you feel that you are somebody important, significant – not only in the eyes of the world but even in the eyes of god – that you can stand upright, even encountering god; you can show all the good deeds that you have done. It is egoistic, and religion cannot be egoistic.</p>
<p>Not that a religious person is immoral, but he is not moral; he is amoral. He has no fixed character. His character is liquid, alive, moving moment to moment. He responds to situations not according to a fixed attitude, idea, ideology; he simply responds out of his consciousness. His consciousness is his only character, there is no other character.</p>
<p>If these three things are understood then one can understand what religion is. Religion is sanity – going beyond the neurotic mind. Religion is enquiry – going beyond belief systems and disbelief systems. And religion is consciousness – going beyond the confinements of character.</p>
<p>Character is an armour. It is given by others to you, it is imposed on you by others. It is part of the social politics; the society wants you to be in a certain way because that is how you will be more useful and you can be exploited more easily by the society. The society wants you to be mechanically efficient. That’s what the society calls ’a man of character’ – one who is just a robot, who is predictable. The society is very much afraid of people who are not robots because they are unpredictable; you cannot depend on them. You may send them to the war and they may not kill the enemy. They may say ’Why? This man has not done anything to me – why should I kill him? He must have kids at home. His old mother and his wife will be waiting. I cannot do it.’ And all that nonsense of the country and the fatherland and the motherland, that is just stupidity. A man who is not a robot will always be a rebel. He will function out of his consciousness, but then he will create constant difficulties for the so-called status quo. The society wants you to become a character, not a consciousness.</p>
<p>My whole effort here is to create consciousness not character. And once these three things are fulfilled – that you are no more neurotic, that you have learned how to be out of the neurotic mind, that you have become a watcher, that some meditation has started growing in you, that beliefs have been discarded because they were borrowed, they were not yours, because character is no more relevant and you only depend on consciousness, wherever it leads – then suddenly one of the greatest surprises happens uninvited, unsolicited: love starts happening&#8230; love starts overflowing. That love is god. How long will you be here?</p>
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		<title>Easy Way to Stop Smoking Audio Book by Allen Carr</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easy Way to Stop Smoking Audio Book by Allen Carr It&#8217;s got a lot of excellent arguments and angles on why you should stop but I think you need to be ready. And the booklet that came with the CD &#8230; <a href="http://www.parasuniversal.com/2011/05/stop-smoking-audio-book-by-allen-carr/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Easy Way to Stop Smoking Audio Book by Allen Carr<br />
It&#8217;s got a lot of excellent arguments and angles on why you should stop but I think you need to be ready. And the booklet that came with the CD also has a list of contacts for centers all over the world.</p>
<p>Contents<br />
CD 1<br />
1 &#8211; Introduction read by Allen Carr<br />
2 &#8211; Preface<br />
3 &#8211; Warning<br />
4 &#8211; The Worst Nicotine Addict I have Yet to Meet<br />
5 &#8211; The Easy Method<br />
6 &#8211; Why is it Difficult to Stop?<br />
7 &#8211; The Sinister Trap</p>
<p>CD 2<br />
1 &#8211; Why Do We Carry on Smoking?<br />
2 &#8211; Nicotine Addiction<br />
3 &#8211; Brainwashing and the Sleeping Partner<br />
4 &#8211; Relieving Withdrawal Pangs<br />
5 &#8211; Stress<br />
6 &#8211; Boredom<br />
7 &#8211; Concentration<br />
8 &#8211; Relaxation<br />
9 &#8211; Combination Cigarettes<br />
10 &#8211; What am I Giving Up?<br />
11 &#8211; Sel-imposed Slavery</p>
<p>CD3<br />
1 &#8211; I&#8217;ll Save  a Week<br />
2 &#8211; Health<br />
3 &#8211; Energy<br />
4 &#8211; It Relaxes Me and Gives Me Confidence<br />
5 &#8211; Those Sinister Black Shadows<br />
6 &#8211; The Advantages of Being a Smoker<br />
7 &#8211; The Willpower Method of Stopping<br />
8 &#8211; Beware of Cutting Down<br />
9 &#8211; Just One Cigarette</p>
<p>CD 4<br />
1 &#8211; Casual Smokers, Teenagers, Non-smokers<br />
2 &#8211; The Secret Smoker<br />
3 &#8211; A Social Habit?<br />
4 &#8211; Timing<br />
5 &#8211; Will I Miss the Cigarette?<br />
6 &#8211; Will I Put on Weight?<br />
7 &#8211; Avoid False Incentives<br />
8 &#8211; The Easy Way to Stop<br />
9 &#8211; The Withdrawal Period</p>
<p>CD 5<br />
1 &#8211; Just One Puff<br />
2 &#8211; Will it be Harder for Me?<br />
3 &#8211; The Main Reasons of Failure<br />
4 &#8211; Substitutes<br />
5 &#8211; Should I Avoid Temptation Situations?<br />
6 &#8211; The Moment of Revelation<br />
7 &#8211; The Final Cigarette<br />
8 &#8211; A Final Warning<br />
9 &#8211; Feedback<br />
10 &#8211; Help the Smoker Left on the Sinking Ship<br />
11 &#8211; Advice to Non-smokers<br />
12 &#8211; Finale:Help End This Scandal<br />
13 &#8211; Final Warning</p>
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		<title>Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton Yeah I liked the book coz he swears in it, he&#8217;s not conventional, mixes lots of schools of thoughts and had some great angles and knowledge of his own about things. Can&#8217;t be bothered about &#8230; <a href="http://www.parasuniversal.com/2011/05/radical-honesty-by-brad-blanton/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" src="http://i43.tower.com/images/mm101427365/practicing-radical-honesty-brad-blanton-paperback-cover-art.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="299" />Yeah I liked the book coz he swears in it, he&#8217;s not conventional, mixes lots of schools of thoughts and had some great angles and knowledge of his own about things. Can&#8217;t be bothered about going into detail. I didn&#8217;t like the book coz it sometimes felt like he was having a conversation with himself and rambling and ranting a lot. That&#8217;s it from me&#8230; big up DD for the recommendation.</p>
<p>From Wikipedia.<br />
Radical Honesty is a technique and self-improvement program developed by Dr. Brad Blanton.[1] The program asserts that lying is the primary source of modern human stress and that practitioners will become happier by being more honest, even about painful or taboo subjects. Blanton claims this form of honesty can help all human relationships since it &#8220;creates an intimacy not possible if you are hiding something for the sake of someone&#8217;s feelings.&#8221;[2]</p>
<p>CONTENTS<br />
- Acknowledgments xiii<br />
- Foreword by Marilyn Ferguson xvii<br />
- Preface xxi<br />
- Introduction xxv</p>
<p>Part One: THE BEING<br />
1 Moralism 3<br />
2 The First Truth 14</p>
<p>Part Two: THE MIND<br />
3 The Being Becomes Dominated by the Mind 29<br />
4 Levels of Telling the Truth 45</p>
<p>Part Three: LIBERATION OF THE BEING FROM ITS MIND<br />
5 Being Abnormally Honest 85<br />
6 Taboos against Excitement 101<br />
7 How to Deal with Anger 117<br />
8 Telling the Truth in a Couple 161<br />
9 Psychotherapy: The Journey from Moralism to<br />
Telling the Truth 179</p>
<p>Part Four: THINGS LEARNED FROM THE WAR BETWEEN BEING &amp; MIND<br />
10 About Change 201<br />
11 The Truth Changes 216<br />
12 The Song of the Blue Unicorn 226<br />
13 Freedom 232<br />
14 The Final Lowdown 249</p>
<p>- Footnotes &amp; Quotation Credits 275</p>
<p>Please Note: This book is divided into four parts. This sequence is intentional and it will clarify what the book is about.<br />
I. THE BEING<br />
II. THE MIND<br />
III. LIBERATION OF THE BEING FROM ITS MIND<br />
IV. THINGS LEARNED FROM THE WAR BETWEEN BEING &amp; MIND</p>
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