This edition has been updated with a three-page list of genius technical, social & political, philosophical, and artistic innovations, most of them thought up by the author. Also included are examples of extemporaneous insights, and a brief guide to compounding ideas. Although the entire book is very brief, this makes it easier to sift through the brilliant suggestive phrases and arrive at your own type of work. The approach used in this guide is a more fluid version of advanced techniques I used to invent the paroxysm or double-paradox, categorical deduction technique, aperrature or mobile...

From the Introduction: "One inspired afternoon, I decided to set down a list of the things that seemed most meaningful to me, running from the least to the most advanced concepts. None of this was rocket science. But it did require an eye for the extraordinary. The result was this book..." This text, which is large-print like a children's book, introduces a variety of sometimes surprising phrases which summarize the concept of life's significance, with insight into what gives the concept meaning. The short (32-page) format gives ample room for lazy reading and profound thought. Make notes in...

FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "I have developed a rigorous writing method over the course of the years. I have benefited from such texts as Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones, Annie Dillard's A Writing Life, and Ann LaMott's Bird by Bird --- and even Stephen King's notorious How to Write. In the process of reading these books, I have come to a number of profound conclusions concerning the art of writing --- which mostly serve as practical suggestions for the 'writing seeker'. One of these concerns the importance of the title of a work, and others relate to the specifically existential craft...

This short treatise is a guide to insights on two- and three-valued logic. More importantly, it introduces the associated coherent systeme of Nathan Coppedge, inventor of the coherent categorical deduction, and philosophical paroxysm or double-paradox. The book is designed to yield insights into objective knowledge, non-causal inference, and coherent systems.

This is a manual on aesthetics. The thesis of this book is that Hyper-Cubism exemplifies what is called high art. The text includes two important, mercifully short essays on the subject of art. The ambitious aim of the book is to protract in the mind of the reader an idealistic vision: the vision of a visual arts that is perfectible. It sets out to do this in the best possible way: by direct illustration. The author is a Hyper-Cubist par excellance, one of the members of an emerging avant-garde which aims to replace Cubism with something more complex and codifiable. Here are the secrets of...

Many people undergo a critical process of inquiry during the course of their lives. Whether a person is wise or foolish, brave or timid, pioneering or lazy, people touch on many of the same themes as they undertake development. The goal of this text is NOT to provide abstract tools for reasoning with, but instead, to explain many of the factors that each person eventually experiences in his own mind, in order to make it much easier to tolerate. Thus, the goal of this book, like previous books in the series, is a psychological one. And, it is also a meaningful one.

FROM THE INTRODUCTION This book is less superstitious than you might think. Some people, if not all, have had an experience of making so-called bargains with the devil. Sometimes it occurs unconsciously, and only later seems like a sin. These experiences often involve spiraling disappointment, regret, disillusionment, or a lingering sense of unfairness. Some people even feel a sense of emptiness, as if they have sold their souls. Some people want to know how to feel better about themselves, or how to make bargains that are more 'clean'. This book is meant to serve as a kind of recovery aid...