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Beyond Conventional Wisdom

This book is a collection of groundbreaking essays in the area of metaphysics and Esoteric subjects. The book covers several contemporary topics of extreme interest. Some of the titles are: The Paradox of Life, Fallacies and Deceptions in Occultism, The Fallacy of Predictions, Psychological Resistance to Wholeness, The "Original Sin," The "Adversary and the Redeemer," From Fear to Faith, The Dialectic and the Qabalah, among other influential topics.

These subjects have been of utmost importance in the developing of the author's intellectual and personal growth from a provincial and materialistic state of mind to a spiritual and broader awareness in fields related to the conception of man and the universe. Therefore, the essays are the product of long reflections, meditations, and a life long search for the spiritual meaning of life. Furthermore, the essays attempt to demystify and dispel basic misconceptions accepted as true by common opinion.

They examine and question several fundamental erroneous concepts traditionally believed and accepted as conventional wisdom. In addition to informing and educating the reader about some very innovative issues, they will also help to separate "the grain from the chaff," so to speak, regarding preconceived misconceptions on metaphysical and other related areas of thought. In that sense, this book is definitely thought provoking, as it challenges many customary beliefs.

Table of Contents

PREFACE ………………………………………………… p. i

FOREWORD…………………………………………………… p. ii

I. THE PARADOX OF LIFE....................................................... p. 1

1. Is Life a Dream or a Stage?................................................

2. The Yearning for Going Back Home ……………………

3. The Longing to Reconcile with the Father………………

4. The Placebo Effect on Occultism ……………………….

II. FALLACIES AND DECEPTIONS IN OCCULTISM

1. Fallacies and Occult Deceptions

2. The Hermetic Tradition and Transmission of Secrets

3. The Occult Thinkers of the Renaissance

4. Éliphas Levi and the Occult Revival

III. THE FALLACY OF PREDICTIONS

1. Introduction…………………………………………..

2. Credentials …………………………………………..

3. The Fear of the Unknown……………………….

4. Divination Versus Fortune telling………………….

5. Prediction Versus Validation of Past Events …………..

6. Prediction or Suggestion? ……………………………….

7. The Power of Choice ……………………………………

8. Consciousness Creates Thought-Forms…………………….

9. The Magic of the Present…………………………………..

10. The Fortune Sellers

IV. THE POWER OF THOUGHT……………………..

1. Cognitive-Behavioral Theory……………………….

2. The New Thought Concept …………………………

3. Esoteric Psychology ……….......................................

V. FROM FEAR TO FAITH

1. About Faith......................................................

2. About Fear .............................………………

3. About Worry ………………………………….

4. Worry and Anxiety

5. Exploring Some Irrational Beliefs.......................

6. The Big Trauma...................................................

7. Historical False Beliefs...........................

8. Faith and Fear are Based on Beliefs.......................

9. Dissolving Irrational Fears.....................................

10. Faith and the Bible.................................

VI. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESISTANCE TO WHOLENESS

1. Introduction

2. Psychological Viewpoints

3. The Concepts of Psychological Resistance and Psychological Reversal

4. Dialectical Psychology

VII. GENESIS OF THE “ORIGINAL SIN”.............................

VIII. THE ADVERSARY AND THE REEDEMER.....................................

IX. JESUS’ LAST WORDS ON THE CROSS …………………….

X. THE DIALECTIC AND THE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY.................

1. The Dialectic..........................................................

2. The Dialectic and the Logic..................................

3. The Dialectic and the Seven Hermetic Principles................................

XI. THE DIALECTIC AND THE QABALAH...............................

The Dialectical Qabalah …………………………………………..
The Dialectic and the Tetragrammaton …………………….
The Dialectic and Esoteric Numerology ………………………….

XII. EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY................................................................

NOTES …………………………………………………….

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