Love and Pain

Love and Pain
[The Collected Works of Thaddeus Golas Vol.3 - From Seed Center Books]
Love and Pain - A Map of Consciousness. The Collected Works of Thaddeus Golas Vol. 3
A follow-up to The Lazy Mans Guide to Enlightenment or perhaps a final revision to it.

The Guide is still very significant to all those who sense the consciousness with which it was written but Thaddeus goes deeper with this new writing; he wanted leave behind a blueprint of his metaphysics that would withstand the test of time, beyond the euphoria of the '60s.
"I am a destroyer of ideas," he proposed, "and whatever I could not destroy is in Love and Pain."
Love and Pain is a major work, intricate and subtle.
It is an audit of our beliefs, and a wake-up call. It is also revolutionary! In time, it may come to be seen as one of the most important metaphysical books ever written; it is sure, at the very least, to illicit strong reactions from readers.

From the author:
When my first book was published, I considered it was sufficient to read the first line of Chapter One: We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.
Once that idea was installed in the mental computer, I thought, any mind could sort itself out. Perhaps others can give it better extension than I have.

I wrote The Lazy Man s Guide to Enlightenment in language that any reader of English could understand, making it as easy as possible. Now, in writing Love and Pain, I decided to state the case as clearly as I could without regard to a general audience, as though I was writing to a friend, someone like myself.

There are great advantages in the information in this book: knowing how our reality works, we can avoid wasting emotions, time and effort in pursuit of false goals. Personally, I found great relief in realizing that I was not obliged to correct anyone s erroneous opinions, since ideas do not do anything.
Also, I could stop criticizing myself for failing to dwell in constant bliss. When I encounter pain, it does not mean that I have necessarily been stupid: pain is inevitable in human life, whichever path we take.

That which offends the sentimental in the short run is often the greatest kindness over a longer time. I try to be kind to strong people because they have endured much to become strong.

I know there are enormous industries built on the flight from pain. The cost of medical care multiplies much faster than the rate of inflation, and the children of the middle class inherit little wealth. A better understanding of the role of pain in our lives might diminish such nonsense, but the net quotient of suffering will probably remain the same.
I am not offering that sort of deliverance. What I do offer in Love and Pain is a clear understanding of the real benefits that any person may expect from prolonging consciousness.

If Love and Pain proves to be practical, practicality will make it popular enough.

More than that, I have no expectation that the book will produce any beneficial consequence in human existence.
I cannot imagine what a society would be like in which all people acted on such information.