<p>The secrets hidden within our self-defeat reveal surprisingly simple and paradoxical answers.  Universal childhood errors of thinking unconsciously lead us to cause our own pain by pursuing mere illusions, such as pure love, perfection, certainty, security, and grandiose power.  The secretly vengeful victim role perpetuates these self-defeating strivings through the unconscious, powerful, and computer-like operations of its satisfying fantasies. We recover when we give up polarized thinking, own all inner parts, accept life's limits and pain, settle for realistic satisfactions, embrace disillusionment, forgive our lengthy folly, and accept reality as balanced and paradoxical.  The secrets are acceptance, balance, compromise, deflation, and forgiveness. Born in Paris, France, Dr. Sayers R. Brenner received his medical training from Tulane University Medical School and the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio.  Since completing his psychiatric training at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in 1974, he has been in private psychiatric practice.  A member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, he has developed special expertise in the application of paradoxical, existential, cognitive, hypnotic, and Eastern philosophical concepts to the process of insight-oriented psychotherapy.  He practices and lives in Sarasota, FL.</p>

Suffering From Illusion: the Secret Victory of Self-Defeat

BRENNER

Paradox Books

<p>Ultimate answers can be deciphered by anyone along any pathway. Enlightenment is free, indeed, but it comes at the cost of all our pain-free and Utopian illusions, a price that few are willing to pay. Life's painful disillusionments force us into the counter-intuitive opportunity of a lifetime: to train ourselves to cultivate, instead, a taste for paradoxical insights. These poetic fusions or integrations of opposites are the closest we can get to an ecstatic harmony with what is. This changes everything! First, it enables us to expose and evade life's intricate "con-game," which makes fools of us all. Moreover, we can even discover the treasure of all treasures: our own paradoxically wise inner self. Amidst our arguing inner congress of part-selves; this humble and wise self, alone, is our precious and gyroscopic crystal of resonance with the paradoxical essence of reality. It can guide us towards an inner, centered, and loving serenity we did not know we were looking for. This is an expanded "unreasonable happiness," or "painful bliss." This book offers a simple seven-step mantra-mnemonic: "B.E. K.I.N.D." (paradoxical Balance, Embracing acceptance, lovingKindness, Insight, Now, Disillusionment, and Deflation). This practical B.E. K.I.N.D. reminder serves as a cypher or tutorial which we can recite to ourselves in any moment and amidst each adversity to train ourselves to better resonate with and enjoy this exquisite cosmic symphony. Enlightenment is simply more fun.</p>

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