title: The Quest for Authentic Power: Getting Past Manipulation, Control, and Self Limiting Beliefs
author:  G. Ross Lawford 
description: Initially, these titles seem dissimilar, but they actually bear a striking resemblance to each other in tone and approach, at times seeming interchangeable. Intuition's subtitle is telling: the book concerns unlocking one's inner guidance via yoga. Notes Walters (The Promise of Immortality: The True Teaching of the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita), "Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly not by reason, logic or analysis, but by simply knowing from within." One taps intuition, which according to the author is deeper and purer than mere logic, by exploring the ill-defined "superconscious" mental state, which resembles a state between sleep and wakefulness. Purposeful writing encourages patience, persistence, and consistency; initiates should seek "calmness, clarity, and joy. Intuition is always based in a deep sense of calmness and detachment." As a biochemist (Univ. of Toronto), Lawford makes a strange proponent for mysticism, yet here he claims that we seek what he calls "authentic" power, a state in which each person is "in harmony with the deepest values of his or her soul." This liberates us from the conventional power of others. Despite Lawford's very personal, workmanlike approach, it feels as if he were rehashing how to redefine one's environment. Neither Lawford's nor Walters's book has broad appeal, and only very large libraries or those with specialized self-help collections should consider. Instead, try Pema Chodron's When Things Fall Apart, which advocates inner peace via meditation, or Douglas Bloch's helpful and more mainstream Listening to Your Inner Voice, which combines meditation and exercise. <br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Evolve Consciousness
  Truth is Love. Love is Truth. Truth unites. Lies divide. Embrace Truth. Care for Truth.
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  PHILOSOPHY
  Tyrants dish out death to solve their problems
   2018/06/23  Kris Nelson  Moral Law, Society
  Power corrupts. When someone gets to have power over others in some form, this can corrupt them. Maybe they were
  already corrupted to begin with. Maybe they strove to gain power in order to actualize their desire to control others.
  Money, politics and fame all grant power.
  An example of how power is used to control others and violate moral law, is communism. Joseph Stalin gained power
  under a lie to help people. Soon, he showed his true colors in his effort to obtain it, and thereafter.
  When there was a problem that prevented actualizing control over society, for people to do what he wanted, Stalin knew
  what to do:
  “Death is the solution to all problems. No man, no problem.”
  – Joseph Stalin
  A problem for him, was divergence from how he wanted people to act. If s