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Review of The Power of Death
There is a saying that the coward dies several times but the brave only once, I disagree and say it’s the other way around, in fact, the brave die every day.
Your story starts with the birth of your idea about yourself. You have to learn to separate yourself from your idea about yourself. The religious personality is the strongest personality. When you believe you don’t really know, most information comes from someone else and if you believe something you won’t be motivated to know. Belief is faking knowing.
This is a powerful read. Gabriel dares to crush our belief systems, even the hero system (a source of human aggression) strip away everything we think we are and then also take away hope. Brave. Your personality is not real, it’s artificial, but it’s the only idea you have about yourself. Sports is the optimal hero system, watching sports is the lazy person's way of becoming a hero, you become a hero by association. What hero system do you adhere to?
I’ve been suicidal three times in my life and the last time I saved my own life I realised that for me to want to live I also had to make peace with wanting to die because if I didn’t want to die, did I really want to live?
I wasn’t as challenged as many readers probably will be reading this book as I was already thinking along the same lines, but this book took me deeper. Life is a journey through grief; I’m learning to grieve creatively, by dying each night and being reborn each day, just like Gabriel prescribes in the book. I recognise myself in passage after passage in this book and I feel fortunate to have read it and I’ve signed up to immortology to deepen my connection to death and, therefore life.
The Power of Death: A Radical Path to Personal Transformation and Spiritual Enlightenment
Your story starts with the birth of your idea about yourself. You have to learn to separate yourself from your idea about yourself. The religious personality is the strongest personality. When you believe you don’t really know, most information comes from someone else and if you believe something you won’t be motivated to know. Belief is faking knowing.
This is a powerful read. Gabriel dares to crush our belief systems, even the hero system (a source of human aggression) strip away everything we think we are and then also take away hope. Brave. Your personality is not real, it’s artificial, but it’s the only idea you have about yourself. Sports is the optimal hero system, watching sports is the lazy person's way of becoming a hero, you become a hero by association. What hero system do you adhere to?
I’ve been suicidal three times in my life and the last time I saved my own life I realised that for me to want to live I also had to make peace with wanting to die because if I didn’t want to die, did I really want to live?
I wasn’t as challenged as many readers probably will be reading this book as I was already thinking along the same lines, but this book took me deeper. Life is a journey through grief; I’m learning to grieve creatively, by dying each night and being reborn each day, just like Gabriel prescribes in the book. I recognise myself in passage after passage in this book and I feel fortunate to have read it and I’ve signed up to immortology to deepen my connection to death and, therefore life.
The Power of Death: A Radical Path to Personal Transformation and Spiritual Enlightenment
