Adam Allan BSA - Book - Shock The Monkey - more from Daphne!
When you first scan Adam Allan's book - Shock the Monkey - Facing the World's Deadliest Virus - you'd think it was about covid. Or some other, maybe monkey borne infectious disease. You'd think. But you would be wrong.
The "virus" Mr' Allan refers to - is belief. Which he says is responsible for the majority of personal and planetary problems.
Now before you blow him off as just another wannabe airhead guru, take a moment to examine your beliefs. What do you believe? and Why? And more importantly how would your life change - if at all - if you didn't "believe?"
I think you'll find, as I did, it's difficult to to find a fact based answer to those questions.
And Mr. Allan is ALL about facts.
His "sound bite" is: "Where there is no proof - There is no truth." And truth, as Mr. Allan consistently reminds us, is grounded in facts. Repeatable, uncontestable Facts.
"Facts never lie. Never "misspeak." Never "Spin." Facts can't be bribed,corrupted,cajoled, persuaded, or influenced.
Facts tell the Truth. Facts confirm that someone/something is: "True."
Facts don't give a rats ass for your precious "beliefs." They'll flat out tell you how things are. Not how you want them to be."
In Shock The Monkey, Mr. Allan reminds us there are no "facts" in belief. And therefore,because they have no proof, they contain no truth.
For that reason, he labels beliefs "fairytales." Not the Hansel and Gretel kind but what he defines as: "Adult Fairytales."
"An Adult fairytale is born when an adult, someone of a certain age and life experience, presumed to be rational and present, pretends that a fantasy is real.
And, worse yet, proceeds to base their actions, and therefore their life on this fantasy. Like building a house foundation on quicksand. With the same results."
Happily, Shock the Monkey is not, despite it's focus on facts, a dry, boring ,preachy tome.
With intelligence,foresight,logic, and more than a little dose of tongue in cheek humor, Mr. Allan offers a "road map" to what he calls an "Authentic Awareness."
An awareness that creates a Authentic life. One free of belief, ego, desire and society's inherited programming. A life without stress,priorities,deadlines and "to do" lists.
Getting to that life starts with checking out Shock The Monkey.
And, since it's free, why wouldn't you?
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