Overview: We, Western minds, have forgotten who we are, despite having never once stopped being who we are. We’ve lost touch with the impersonal, Daimonic forces that give us direction and the sacrificial nature of our existence.

No longer do we realize that our lives aren’t, have never been, and will never be about ourselves!

Consequently, we have lost our ability to sense the immanent context that couches our lives in meaning and purpose. Our alienation from our own inborn nature and role has led to a tragic schism: a divorce between essence and narrative, being and action.

Verdict: This book is an effort to help heal this aforementioned schism. It’s about re-encountering our natural selves and guiding Daimon, re-tuning into the archetypal dispositions we embody, and re-learning how to navigate the choppy waters of life in a spontaneous and fulfilling manner.

The author himself, Bernardo Kastrup, even admits that the book is the inevitable outcome, in himself, of a simple momentous realization that we, Western minds, and as aforementioned, have forgotten who we are, despite having never once stopped being who we are. We’ve lost touch with the primordial impetus that fuels the inner fire of our vitality, as well as the innate, archetypal dispositions we embody.

That we’ve forgotten the inner chamber in the palace of mind where we stem from, as well as why we came into being and what we’re supposed to do. No longer can we sense the immanent context that couches our lives in purpose, or the ever-present inner compass without which we cannot navigate life adequality.

We’ve just lost our sense of identity and, therefore, that of family and belonging. In the throes of disorientation and emptiness, we’ve even come to deny the very notions of natural identity, inherent purpose, and objective meaning: we’ve come to deny our natural selves, believing instead that the self is an arbitrary construct that we are free to reinvent, tweak, and otherwise force to comply with convenience and escapist strategies.

Having now read this book three times, in different situations, different settings, and with a different mindset each time, I can honestly relate to you that this new book is a dutifully crafted, intriguingly eye-opening new prose that comes with such an emotional impact that you might not even see it coming before it is insightfully coursing through you days later.

About the Author - Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.D. in philosophy and another in computer engineering. He has been a scientist in some of the world’s foremost scientific laboratories. His main interests are metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He lives in The Netherlands.

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