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Human behavior is awash in "Triggering"--reactive, instinctual "outlashings, " often amplified by traumatic antecedents. The neurological speed of Triggering is 70 ms. Becoming aware of Triggering takes over 6 1/2x longer: 460 ms. Therein lies a dilemma. How can consciousness address the destructiveness of Triggering's unleashings when consciousness's own process is too slow to "get out ahead of it?"Enter: The Self-Pact. The Self-Pact is a new...

Pathfinding Through Multiple Personality: A Comprehensive Treatment Handbook for Dissociative Identity Disorder presents a panoramic, comprehensible approach to the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder, from pre-diagnosis through (and beyond) final integration, covering, in detail, all stages along the way. The tone of this handbook is meticulously and painstakingly didactic. All the material and lines of approach presented herein are e...

Who's At Home In Your Body (When You're Not)? is comprised of a series of essays based on naturalistic observations on the nature, phenomenology, and functional capacities of unexceptional states of everyday consciousness across a range of domains. The text is rich with observations that carry intimations of transcendent underpinnings for so many apparently mundane flexations of consciousness, the significance of which, in their unnoticed stat...

Anger and Rage Addiction & the Self-Pact: New Lights on an Old Nemesis presents a close look at the dynamics of anger and rage, as viewed through the lens of Addiction Theory-drawing on discriminating, diagnostic criteria derived directly from the world of alcoholism and drug addiction. The insights and, more importantly, the ramifications for treatment of Anger and Rage Addiction that result, are profound. They depart decisively from hackneye...

Behavioral Addictions: A New Solution to Very Old Problems is a pioneering work. It expands the whole arena of how addiction is regarded and the extensive ground addictions can cover. The book honors early self-help pioneers who noticed certain hallmarks of addiction in behaviors far-removed from their prior drug- and alcohol-based addiction histories. What they noticed is now codified as the Five Diagnostic Criteria for diagnosing addiction-a...

The Living Oracle: Wisdom & Divination for Everyday Life -- a contemporary oracle designed to introduce the venerable tradition of oracular consultation to a much wider readership. This work features an original, pristine oracular text, contains helpful, fascinating chapters on consulting methodology and "why oracles work, " as well as a chapter in which the Oracle prognosticates as to its own future as an oracle ["The Oracle Speaks! (...about...

When You Lose What You Can't Live Without: Identity Death and Renewal in the Wake of Calamity is a concise, muscular yet poetic text addressing the sequence of calamity, identity death, life "in the wilderness, " renewal and restoration -- an ordeal that most of us are obliged to encounter over the course of our lives (usually more than once). These stages are presented in the context of a novel theory of calamitous loss, presented as both unb...

Outside Time: My Friendship with Wilbur -- the stirring account of a friendship forged, over the course of many, many winters, on river ice, between a much younger, questing man and an older, atheistic "river wizard." In the fullness of time this unlikely association led, inexorably, to a post-death pact that was, most wonderfully, honored. The narrative is written as both a paean to a special kind of friendship, and a discriminating inquiry i...