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Copyright © 2026 Mitch Horowitz. All rights reserved.  \nNo part of this book may be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner whatsoever, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. No liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained within. Although every precaution has been taken, the author and publisher assume no liability for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.  \nCover art copyright © 2026 John Newsom. All rights reserved.  \nFront cover design by Tom McKeveny  \nInterior design by Meghan Day Healey of Story Horse, LLC.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request eISBN: 978-1-7225-2893-5  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nIntroduction Esoterika  \nOne  Wish Come True?  \nTwo “Good Things Always Arrive Unexpectedly”  \nThree Do You Seek Truth—Or Happiness?  \nFour “The Body Has to See It Can Be Told  \nWhat to Do”  \nFive Identification Is Not the Problem  \nSix  What Is Yours to Give  \nSeven  What Is Power?  \nEight Dignity  \nNine Do You Enjoy Suffering?  \nTen If You Must Fight, Fight to Win  \nEleven “Be, and Not Seem”  \nTwelve Against Forgiveness  \nThirteen  What Is Evil?  \nFourteen Anti-Serenity—  \nFifteen “My Name Is Called Disturbance”  \nSixteen It Is Not Getting Better  \nSeventeen  The Day My Search Changed  \nEpilogue  The Exercise  \nAppendix  101 Rules of Effective Living  \nIndex  \nAbout the Author  \nAbout the Cover  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nINTRODUCTION  \nEsoterika  \nEvery generation believes it lives on a precipice. That is near-universal. Historically, our era differs little from most in its apocalyptic expectancy. But a different and, in my view, more pernicious spectre haunts our age.  \nIt is the nearly global attitude that we are living an unreal existence: blinded by artifice, strangers to ourselves, and acclimated to ersatz reality.  \nOur alienation, broadly gnostic—echoing the late-ancient sects who rejected the material world as the simulation of a false deity—plots our most popular movies, books, television shows, and video games; this media resonates with international audiences across disparate cultures. Simulation theory haunts us. The Matrix is our Beatles.  \nIf there is one thing that everyone can seem to agree on: we are not ourselves. This sensation is correct.  \nThe pangs of doubt we feel toward ourselves and our surroundings are responses to the automaticity of our existence. We traverse life with a menu of, say, twenty responses, and claim selfhood. That is not real existence. Neither we nor others around us are functioning as beings supposedly made in the image of a creator or as the likely older Hermetic dictum goes: as above, so below.  \nIn Western culture, our unease is compounded by loss of civility, technological displacement, and directionless prosperity, which are producing a generation of ennui, rage, and despair. To that, I have no macro solutions. But I do have form","cbCaibkQKo4Pc7bv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibkQKo4Pc7bv","pdf",5253896,202,"English","# Contents\n## Introduction - Esoterika\n## One - Wish Come True?\n## Two - “Good Things Always Arrive Unexpectedly”\n## Three - Do You Seek Truth—Or Happiness?\n## Four - “The Body Has to See It Can Be Told What to Do”\n## Five - Identification Is Not the Problem\n## Six - What Is Yours to Give\n## Seven - What Is Power?\n## Eight - Dignity\n## Nine - Do You Enjoy Suffering?\n## Ten - If You Must Fight, Fight to Win\n## Eleven - “Be, and Not Seem”\n## Twelve - Against Forgiveness\n## Thirteen - What Is Evil?\n## Fourteen - Anti-Serenity\n## Fifteen - “My Name Is Called Disturbance”\n## Sixteen - It Is Not Getting Better\n## Seventeen - The Day My Search Changed\n## Epilogue - The Exercise\n## Appendix - 101 Rules of Effective Living\n## Index\n## About the Author","[{\"question\":\"What does the book mean by “false self”?\",\"answer\":\"The “false self” is described as the product of conformity and habitual automaticity that blocks genuine self-agency and authentic personal expression.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author emphasize “formulas” instead of only knowledge or symbolism?\",\"answer\":\"The author argues that accumulating customary or symbolic knowledge fails to penetrate and transform. 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