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The book describes intellect, emotion and physiology as varying expressions of one system, thought. The result of thought is behaviour and behaviour can either be orderly or disorderly. Disorderly behaviour is considered a psychological problem. People cope with psychological problems through processes of escape, acceptance, avoidance, suppression and distraction, but these actions do not solve the problem.  

The book proposes self-awareness to be the action responsible for solving psychological problems.

Self-awareness is a perception that has the ability to see the operation of thought. The book suggests that the observation of a disordered thought generates an understanding of that disorder. Through understanding disorder the brain is able to dissipate the false beliefs responsible for producing the disordered behaviour, thus, ending the problem.

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This book predominantly represents one continuous movement of enquiry from the point of a human being living in disorder through to the awakening of a sensitive awareness of oneself that brings order to one’s life. The main content of this book can be found in the section referred to as ‘Attention’. In this section we discuss the current ways in which an individual responds to their various psychological problems in an attempt to bring about a change in behaviour. We enquire into the different methods and reveal the common factor responsible for their failure to bring about change. Individual authority and the authority of others is discussed as the established basis from which comes the capacity of control. It is suggested that control, in a psychological regard, is a negligent activity that results in a perceptual inhibition affecting one’s ability to observe and understand. We discuss the observations and reasoning behind this and reveal it to be the factor responsible for preventing a transformation of one’s behaviour. Through understanding the inherent negligence of control there comes a natural flowering of awareness. That awareness creates an under standing of whatever one becomes aware of. When one applies awareness to one’s psychological problem an understanding is created which naturally transforms the operation of that problem and thus frees the mind from that behaviour

The book explores how the knowledge we hold effects what we see

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As a global society we are confronted with the threat posed by nuclear armament; the fact of endless wars; poverty, starvation and over-population in various parts of the world; the suffering of animals in the contemporary means of meat production; an escalating superficiality that inflames consumerism and inspires an increasingly materialistic mindset; the theatricality of politics; the morbid state of mainstream media; cataclysmic deforestation; colossal extinction; negligent pollution of the land, sea and sky; the transition of wealth from the docile many to the rapacious few; incessant corruption in almost every organisation and, if one is sensitive enough to see it, the serious matter of the mental degeneration of man hidden under the bonnet of psychiatric and neurological advance.

All of these catastrophes are the result of a combination of human action and inaction.

This is society.