How to Be Free

I had a glorious time with this book. As a sceptic and scientific rationalist, I find it hard to connect with self help books on the whole, dealing as they tend to do with vague notions of spirit, aura, and so on. I am suspicious of anyone who portends to have it "all figured out," or belief systems......more

I think the books which exist in and of themselves as objective truth are the best and the most liberating. This is one of the few I know of.......more

This book is a good example of what cs lewis called ‘bulverism.’ Where instead of justifying his extreme positions of radical self acceptance and the source of evil being neuroticism and ‘armouring,’ he continues to expound his theory as if it makes it more true. If these lessons are a guide to beco......more

Reading this book feels like reading the journal someone going through a induced manic episode wrote; and I think there is beauty in that. No it’s not quite a ‘self help book’, but more of a free reigned advice, auto biography, and philosophical exploration. I believe if you look at it through the l......more