Good Vs. Evil . . . Overcoming Degradation Through the Love and Brilliance of God: Book One: Evil . . . and the Destruction of Lives

By Jerry Davis

The truth is we are all just a little bit crazy in some areas of our life to a whole lot of crazy. Being miss-directed is one of the things mankind has in common as the various forms of insanity work the same way in every one of us. We've all been programmed to unknowingly believe in a host of lies and it's our belief in the need to uphold the lies that do us in.

There are laws that pertain to the universe. These laws cannot be broken without creating diverse consequences. With every action there is an opposite reaction of effect. And where do the decisions we make come from? They generally come from our minds. The question then becomes, "Who's controlling the mind?" If your mind is at work and in agreement with you then you would rightly say you are controlling your mind. But if you occasionally find that your mind is working against you then you should consider you are not solely in control.

Jesus referred to Satan as, the father of lies. I intend to show how the workings of evil are constructed through the placement of lies and how these lies in combination are at work to disrupt our lives. I will show how the longest and greatest lie is packaged and how the six major steps that makes up a combined package works powerfully against you. Then I will show how the effects from the lies get all mixed in with the pain you experience and how the end results can be devastating.

This book is about our need for revelation and offers the reader an opportunity to begin a personal journey with life as it truly is. This is a lifelong journey in Spirit and truth and it begins with your full recognition of the need for having God working continuously in your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 27, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452085746

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Good vs. Evil … Overcoming Degradation through the Love and Brilliance of God

Book One: Evil … and the Destruction of Lives

JERRY DAVIS

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THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN FOR YOU IF YOU:

cannot sleep at night and it doesn’t compute as you are very successful;

consider yourself a strong minded person but would like to be stronger;

are not particularly religious but are open to what all the hoopla is about;

are considered a work-a-holic by your peers and you can’t let it go;

are usually alone in the world and have no one you can turn to;

have or have had a drug abuse problem and would like to clean it up;

have everything you could want in life but can find neither peace or joy;

recognize yourself as damaged goods and believe there is no hope;

have a problem with spending more money than you have to spend;

are quite young and don’t fit in with the rebellious nature of your peers;

feel secure as a Christian but would like a deeper understanding of Jesus;

are already successful in living your life but are willing to learn more;

are going through an unusually difficult time and could use a lift;

have been depressed for some time and can’t find your way out;

are good at controlling people and problems in life but could use a rest;

are retired and are looking for a meaningful way to fill in the time;

are a bit of a geek; technically astute, but feel incomplete on the inside;

are incapable of experiencing genuine love but recognize the need;

have been yo-yoing on and off diets your whole life and want to get off;

are inspired by the idea of a journey that will require the rest of your life.

GOOD VS. EVIL … OVERCOMING DEGRADATION THROUGH THE LOVE AND BRILLIANCE OF GOD!

Contents

Dedication

Introduction

To The Reader!

BOOK ONE: Evil … and the Destruction of Lives

CHAPTER 1: The Cunning and Deceit of Evil … Who Controls the Mind?

CHAPTER 2: Your Attachments … the Avoidance of Pain?

CHAPTER 3: Cycles of Action

CHAPTER 4: Your Internal Compulsions

CHAPTER 5: Overcoming Your Body’s Anger, Hurt and Rage

CHAPTER 6: Reprogramming Your Minds with the Truth

A DAILY STUDY GUIDE

A Bibliography of Other Inspired Readings

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the people who were subject to physical and emotional abuse while growing up. I admire the courage you’ve displayed by choosing this book and I applaud your determination to be healed. We all need to believe that we can be healed if we are willing to do the work. This book provides you with the opportunity to live a dramatically improved life as you come to terms with a loving and generous God.

Introduction

The power struggle between good and evil has been a part of our world pretty much since the beginning of man. The first story told in the Bible about man after the creation of the earth is about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This story is about their first encounter with the serpent which we now think of as Satan. The serpent was able to manipulate Eve through his cunning and deceit and convinced her to eat the forbidden apple. She then gave the apple to her husband Adam and convinced him to eat it as well. This very act, as told in the Bible, was man’s first act of defiance with God (our first form of separation) and was the beginning of pain, sorrow and death, as well as our awareness of good and evil.

This theme of good and evil remains a poignant point in the remainder of the stories told throughout the entire text of the Bible. This ongoing conflict between good and evil remains with us as much today as it was in the beginning.

Things truly haven’t changed all that much since Adam and Eve. We continue to make bad decisions and then struggle with the potential pain, sorrow, loss and death that result from the choices we make. We have to constantly struggle with our self to make the right choice; choices that will bring peace, harmony and joy into our life as well as the life of others. We have to struggle constantly because we have a multitude of reasons and excuses for choosing badly as we long to enhance the self. We often make the wrong decision and these decisions are always tied to the wants and desires we hold for the things of this world.

So how do you come to your decisions? What determines your choices? You would think man, being rational and intelligent, would tend to choose correctly and in favor of the long term benefits for himself and others. You would think he would make his choices based on forging a better future. But far too often that’s just not the way it works. If that were true, the dynamics of evil in the world would have been handled and become extinct a long time ago.

Round and round this struggle goes, everyday of our lives. The sane man makes ninety to a hundred good choices in a row and then bingo! Up pops a bad choice which is usually followed by guilt, denial, shame, blame and/or sorrow. Unfortunately, one really bad decision can lead to another bad decision and then others and eventually to significant trouble. A multitude of bad choices will lead to a lot of big time trouble for the sane just as readily as it does for the insane human being.

A big difference between the sane and the insane is the insane person often prides himself on his ability to make decisions that purposely takes advantage of others. His aim is to have it all; leaving everyone else behind, high and dry. He can only really care about himself. He has tremendous pride in his mocked-up belief of himself and will strive to maintain perceptions that support his shrewd and superior intelligence. He mistakenly believes that his value, self-worth, safety and peace of mind are maintained by his being successful in doing others wrong. His only purpose is to be in control and remain top- dog and he does so at everyone else’s expense.

The contest between good and evil is played out in the control of your mind. Who is in control of your mind? The truth is we are all operating at times from a perspective that is a little to completely insane. A loss in our freedom of perception began with the fall of man and continues to this day. Our purpose is to take back that which was taken from us in order to resume our full functioning as children of God in spirit. Book One will help you in your pursuit of completing that purpose.

But first you will have to consider, could there actually be some kind of energy, separate from you, competing with you for the control your mind? Is this something I want to be aware of? Book One is about the working parameters of evil and will show you how this energy operates full scale in an attempt to dominate your mind. If an enemy can control your mind then he can also destroy your sense of self worth.

The truth is that evil works in the minds of men in exactly the same way. If we were to look at nine or ten insane people who display symptoms of insanity in completely varied ways and I’d be able to prove my point. I’d be able to take you back through the first five chapters of this book and show you in a step by step procedure how the individuals were driven to insanity and from the exact same methods. The stories of our lives are varied of course but the methods used to control our mind is exactly the same. Man has been looking at these working mechanics as separate pieces of trouble in our lives but nobody to my knowledge has put the whole package together to be viewed as one working unit in time.

In Book One I’ll be talking about the many lies and manipulations man bought into that begins with Step One of the longest and greatest lie ever told. It has been from our believing in the lies that we were led to the exaggerated false self that we’ve developed as well as the many trappings we’ve gotten ourselves into by way of our attachments and compulsions. We’ve been clinging to the lies for so long that we’ve lost much of our capacity to know the difference between our artfully formed illusion and the truth. I will also be discussing the deadly cycles of action we have fallen prey to that exist for the sole purpose of making our life miserable and complicated.

I intend to give you an overall package of the whole working process of evil and how it works against you in the world so you can begin to defend yourself against its deceit. The first five chapters are devoted to exposing this process. The concepts to be discussed represent the total working package of evil in the world that we all need to become a witness to. The resulting evidence from such a package can be seen everyday on the 6:00 evening news. This is the very stuff that brings on the darkness of doom and gloom in the world and literally destroys lives.

Book Two is dedicated to your discovery of the love, power and freedom that can be yours in exchange for your having the courage to do the work. The work that needs to be done actually comes to us by way of God through His wisdom and inspiration. There is much to be gained in spirit through our study and obedience as we acquire knowledge and truth that comes from God. Your focus, in due time will become comfortable and familiar with the Spirit of God as He is actively working in you. He knows where He wants you to be and is active in giving you the challenges to get there. As you will come to realize, this is not bad because we cannot get into serious trouble when we are following God’s lead.

We all have access to the same heavenly host. When embraced, it has the power to provide us with the opportunities for abundance through righteous living. We have access to a heavenly host that wants to provide us with His love, peace and joy. This access will be provided in us as we learn to turn inward to our spirit. We will be discussing various processes for enhancing our spiritual life throughout this book. The truth is we all have access to a much better life, regardless of how well or how badly we are doing right now.

These ideas I will be discussing will best be represented through a thorough understanding of our relationship with God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ. The majority of my quotations taken from the Bible will be taken directly from the words of Jesus Christ. His purpose was to bring life and truth into the world through His teachings, examples and demonstrations He rendered while serving in the word of God. He was further able to demonstrate the sacrifice of His life as an example for us of His willingness to strictly obey the will of the Father in all things.

My purpose in Book Two is to make us aware that we have always been blessed by God but we have not been available to readily see. My goal for us is that we will one day be able to see the light of truth that comes from God as He is working in our life. I want you to come to know that you are in reality, never alone and never without love. God willing, we are going to be able to begin to send the workings from evil and the destruction that follows scurrying for the exits of our mind.

My intention is that your mind will become totally your own again. My hope is to give you a newly acquired knowledge and strength that will enable you to never be invaded again. I believe that in understanding the whole truth about ourselves as told in Book One, we will be given the knowledge to begin to work our way free. If you do the work in combination with the material presented in Book Two, you will never become vulnerable in becoming a prisoner through the trappings of Satan again.

This is a never ending road you will be entering. God is infinite therefore His wisdom, truth and love is infinite. The more you know, the more you will realize what you don’t know. The more you see, the more you will see what you truly need. The beauty to be gained in the quest for acquiring God’s knowledge will be realized through the personal transformation that will take place in you over time. In pursuing God’s truths, you will begin to see the truth about yourself. It is your full awareness of those truths about you that will begin to set you free.

The work being prescribed is a road that could one day lead to your personal freedom, and in the fullest sense of the word. This is a road that could lead to everything we could ever hope for. Book One is designed to move you into all of the emotional turmoil that has forever entrapped you so you can begin to overcome it. Book Two is designed to move you up and out of the mess you participated in making.

My primary goal in Book Three is to provide the reader with an up-close and personal perspective with God. Book Three is designed to help you continue the journey but from a much higher perspective. There are distinct advantages from loving and trusting in God and you will begin to acquire this understanding over time from various conditions of work you will be need to engage. Book Three will provide you in time with the greatest benefits.

This journey is not about participating in a group effort. This is work that can only be done by you and is between you and God. By working through the reading of all three books, you can expect to acquire wisdom that can only originate from God; develop some really good habits in exchange for the loss of some really bad habits; gain a tremendous advantage from the personal, internal gains you will make; and then don’t be surprised if you discover a few really close friends along the way.

Book One takes us into the mechanics of all the pain we have ever been exposed to but then shows us the door to the way out. Book Two provides the avenue for us to begin to leave the pain and the lies from the pain far behind. We must do the work contained in Books One and Book Two in order to avoid the pitfalls of the journey that can happen to us while making progress in Book Three. You can become somewhat enlightened but if you haven’t done the work contained in Books One and Book Two, you are far more apt to take a fall.

Book Three will take you much further along in your spiritual journey from within the Spirit of God. We will get to a place in our journey that will consist of God taking the lead, totally by way of His Spirit. You will have long begun to lose the need to demonstrate the false self as you will be able to allow God to demonstrate His blessings, love and commands through you as your inner godly self. The full capacity of our inner godly self is our long term goal.

These are the themes that are contained in these three books. We begin by making the reader aware of the evil mechanics that have been in operation in the minds of men for centuries. We describe how exactly these mechanics work perfectly together to destroy the life of a man. Then we provide you with God’s knowledge and allies that are necessary in us for combating the cunning and deceit of this thing we call evil. I refer to the evil that is at work in the things of this world through the minds of men as the workings of Satan. I do this simply because the word Satan is a word we are all familiar with when describing something as evil. This is the enemy that needs to be known and understood by all of us as this enemy is common to each and all.

At this moment in time you may be thinking, Who is Jerry Davis? If I were the one considering reading a book by an unknown author and with a title such as Good vs. Evil, I would want to know something about the author and where his information originates. What are his credentials? What experiences does he have that entitles him to write a book such as this? Let me take the time to tell you a few things about myself so you can begin to get some feeling for how and where this book came.

Beginning at age three or four, I was in trouble with my parents pretty consistently. My parents were school teachers and they were strongly of the opinion their children’s behavior was a reflection of their parenting, therefore of themselves. My sisters and I were supposed to behave by their rules and their whims and if we didn’t we were made to pay the price. The price in my household was a good solid spanking with the belt or open hand that was applied severely to the back of the bottom and legs.

At the time, this form of discipline was not only considered acceptable but was expected by many people. It was ill conceived thinking and unfortunate for me as I found myself in trouble quite often and was getting spankings on a regular basis. I got into trouble for fighting with my sister, not making my bed, getting home late for dinner, not doing what I was told, causing things to be broken through accident or ignorance, and then I was in trouble for getting in trouble in school for fighting and/or misbehaving.

When I was nine years old, the school got into the act of wanting to break my spirit as well! In fourth grade, I was sent to the principal’s office on six different occasions and was given a spanking. I was spanked with a heavy wooden paddle and for things as simple as acting out in the class room, shoving and pushing in the hallways, fighting with another kid and/or just having fun at the wrong time. Spankings in school was used as a tool against me through the eighth grade and my back still suffers today from the severity and the strain of all those spankings.

Many of the spankings in school came as a result of getting into fights. My parents had been spanking me for my displays of disobedience towards their rules for the previous 5 or 6 years. To an abused child, it makes sense to conclude that it is alright to hurt others when they demonstrate their disobedience with regards my rules. In terms of our body pain, we tend to do unto others as others have done unto us.

Needless to say, I didn’t begin life with the best of self images! I didn’t reach out to the world as a child who felt loved and secure and didn’t always have the best attitude and behavior. Since I was treated harshly by those who loved me, it was only natural for me to turn around and treat others harshly as well. I was particularly good at being harsh on myself as my own worse critic by the age of 12 or 13.

By the time I reached high school, I was fully conditioned to take over the abuse of myself through my preference for making bad choices! Evil, in the form of self destruction has a way of perpetuating itself which we will be discussing in much detail in Book One. For now let’s assume people with really bad self images have a propensity for making bad decisions that tend to keep their life a living hell.

By the time I reached high school I had been conditioned to have poor self image along with a tremendous lack of self confidence. Near the middle of my freshmen year, my parents gave up spanking me. At that point, you would logically think my life would have begun to get better. We can wish that the mechanics and dynamics that follow from long term physical and emotional abuse would clear up quickly but that is not how it works. As for me, things only began to get worse.

Near the end of my eighth grade year, my newly acquired friends and I began to get drunk on weekends. Initially, we would steal half pints of alcohol from liquor stores. After getting plastered, we would throw up and think we were really cool. By age 16 we had sources we could purchase alcohol from on a regular basis. Getting drunk and throwing up was a regular weekend event. That is pretty much all we did until age seventeen.

When I was seventeen, marijuana was introduced into my life and that was quickly followed up by uppers and downers, a little acid every now and then and what have you. Getting drunk and mixing alcohol with uppers and downers along with lots of marijuana became a regular daily choice in my life. The effect from all of this self abuse was that my life was beginning to spin out of control and what little confidence and self esteem that remained was quickly disappearing.

Somehow, after making really poor grades in high school, I decided to go to college. Because I fully applied myself to making good grades, I did well. I had to spend excessive hours of time working and studying to make up for my lack of education but I buckled down to the work and managed to do quite well. God had given me the capacity to apply myself and make good grades and it was a huge win in my life. I have since concluded that the will of a man can remain powerful in him, regardless of the problems and anxieties that can haunt him.

After finishing junior college, I went into the army and spent two years in a drug based environment. I was introduced to the availability of doing huge amounts of alcohol, uppers and downers as well as an unbelievable amount of mind-boggling hashish. We would smoke huge chunks of hashish in the biggest pipes we could find. My mind was in total disarray by the time I came out of the army and my sense of well-being had slipped away and was now far beyond my control. Paranoia had actually begun to kick in and I was now running day to day feeling both hateful and terrorized.

In February of 1973, I was discharged from the army. A week after the semester started, I was enrolled full time at San Jose State University. Shortly thereafter my first wife decided she wanted a trial separation. This was another blow to my sense of well-being and I felt truly alone in the world.

I chose to go back to school at the time in order to acquire a degree in Behavioral Science. My interests have always been in knowing the nature of man and what makes people work the way they do. This degree required courses in anthropology, sociology and psychology. It’s amazing to me that with all my internal anxieties, paranoia and drug consumption I was still able to apply myself to my studies and make good grades. The wife and I separated four months later which made matters worse and yet I was still able to make the grades. Logically, this does not compute.

Our will and self determination is more about the internal aspirations of the soul of man rather than about the man that we can see. It will be shown later in the book that it is through our spirit and love that we find our inroads for recovery. Our spirit is the reason we can have hope, in spite of the amount of damage that we have suffered as our souls. When we can return our soul from our spirit, we will prosper. With the proper training and practice our spirit will learn to remain in concert with the Spirit of God. This should be our objective as this is the road to our healing.

My drug problem got worse and my paranoia became out of control as I was terrorizing myself to death in my day-to-day life. I was in a constant emotional painful state in both my body and my mind. I couldn’t get along well with any of my peers because my mind would see them as some kind of threat to me. I measured everything in terms of how to avoid more of my constant emotional pain. Even my sleep was painful as I could not escape the bad dreams.

The beast roared within me day and night. The only way I could tame the beast was to get drunk! The only way I could get free from living in constant fear, turmoil and pain was to get drunk. I felt internally frantic now, 24 hours a day! My fears, wants and needs along with my compulsions and pain had me working towards a constant, ongoing state of self destruction and it was growing more out of control everyday. It was like I was getting crazier by the day. And then my drinking suddenly turned totally outside of my ability to keep it under control.

I reached a point in my drinking where I would become lost and beyond hope of staying sober. The expression, fuck it, would flash through my head upon having a third beer. And in that instant of giving up control I was doomed to get drunk. On nearly every occasion I remember deciding in a flash of a second to give up staying sober while having that third beer. As a result of that quick decision, I would be hopelessly gone. I would drink everything I could get my hands on and until the wee hours of the morning. I did not remember how or when I got home. I would completely black out for the last two or three hours of the night and not be able to recall a thing.

In reality, I recognized I was knocking on death’s door. I would describe myself as having reached the state of mind of what I would describe as a paranoid alcoholic. While sober, I knew it was only a matter of time before death would answer. I made the decision that I was too young to die and that I wanted to live … a good decision for a change.

One day I woke up with one of those tremendous hangovers. I was green from top to bottom with sickness. In spite of my greenness, I went to the college campus to attend a class. As I was sitting outside, green in color and all fogged in, there suddenly appeared before me this lovely, beautiful face. A face that was alive, bright and smiling. I looked through the fog and did everything I could to f-o-c-u-s because this face was female and alive, and was talking to me.

As it turned out, she was there to offer help and she was telling me about a free, lecture that she assured me would be of help. Having a strong sense of survival and having made the decision to live, I wrote down the date. Motivated by that same sense of survival which I believe was produced by way of the Spirit, I attended the lecture. With God working earnestly and yet unknowingly within me, I attended the lecture and was able to laugh at myself through the entire hour. I concluded that there was a need and a benefit to be gained and signed up to take the course that was being offered. The course was about our levels of communications and included our self awareness. In taking the course, I began to slowly but dramatically improve my life.

I was by far one of their worst students to have ever taken this course. I went to class about five hours a day, five days a week and finally graduated in eight months; or about 750 hours later. To illustrate how slow my progress was, I will compare it with my girlfriend’s (now my wife’s) progress as she ended up taking the same course a year later. She went three hours a night, three days a week and graduated easily in three weeks; or 27 hours later.

My life was returned to me after spending a couple of more years getting professional help and I was functioning again under conditions that were considered normal and good. My girlfriend and I were married and became successful in our careers; in raising our children; and in acquiring solid investments. We also had accumulated numerous close friends over the years. Relatively speaking, we were happy and doing quite well.

Approximately fourteen years after completing the work in self improvement, I was again looking earnestly at my life and knew something significant was still missing. The success I was having in living my life did not compute with the night time anxieties I was experiencing. If you were to look at the wife and myself from the outside, you would have thought all things were going really well for both of us and that each of our lives would have been pretty much anxiety free.

So why was I going through these haunting cycles of waking up at two or three in the morning and not going back to sleep? Why was I under the attack of these high levels of anxiety that were running through my mind and lasting until dawn? This would go on sometimes for two or three weeks at a time and it was not pretty to look at or easy to go through. My lack of patience during those times was somewhat intolerable, particularly by the people closest to me. I look back at Jean during the worst of those times with great appreciation for her patience, stamina and love.

With every cycle there was always something in my environment that threatened or at least appeared to be a threat from my mind’s perspective and this was usually with regard to my business dealings. And I don’t mean major threats here. These were usually little threats such as a real estate transaction that had the potential to fall through or a renter that wouldn’t pay rent on time (I was a full time real estate broker for over 30 years). My mind had a way of turning minor challenges into major problems and then run them over and over in my mind as if out of control. My mind had a way of making a mountain out of a molehill.

In the mix of all this churning, my mind would begin to remind me of every other little thing I could worry about that had nothing to do with my initial concerns and the compulsive, fearful thinking would go on and on. I would begin to make my self feel sick from the internal stress I generated and it is was amazing, even to me, how often the anxiety I created was over little to nearly nothing at all.

There had to be a better way! I had tried just about everything available that was known to me in this world to bring peace into my life and felt hopeless regarding the fears that would run uncontrollably through my mind. One day, being fed up with the whole ordeal, I recognized that the only thing I had not tried in order to bring peace to my mind was praying. I decided to give prayer a try …

Having never been personally introduced to the mysteries of God, I didn’t know of His love, His power and His grace. My sisters had gone to church, each for a couple of years but I never did. Having never been exposed to His wisdom and strength, I never had the desire to know Him in order to have Him become a friend in my life. I had always made it on my own and to think of asking an unseen and unknown benefactor for help was definitely beneath me. Only weak minded people did that kind of thing … right?

On the other hand, I was sick and tired of the late night attacks! The witching hour would return to wake me and I could not shake the anxiety it would bring. My solution initially was to pray for five minutes everyday while hiding in the master bedroom closet. This was conditional upon there being nobody at home as I didn’t want to be found out in my new endeavor. Genuine humility and submissiveness was unbeknown to me at the time. For six months this was my big secret. The five minutes a day of prayer work became fifteen minutes a day and as the days went on my confidence began to grow along with the hope of ridding myself of the late night attacks. I began to see a more effective way to live with the attacks.

Later on, Jean introduced me to a pastor at her mother’s church who, like me, played golf and we began a friendship. From that association, I joined his newly started Bible study group and within a short period of time began reading the Bible everyday on my own. I had begun sitting through daily meditations sometime before that and was now committed to doing Bible readings, other book readings, meditations and prayer work nearly everyday. This work became truly significant in my life, my most important work actually, and my life in general changed for the better. My sleeping habits are greatly improved today and I sleep soundly about 98% of the time.

The other improvements I’ve made in my life along with the things God has reveled to me from out of His wisdom and love are my motivation for writing this book. Having come from really tough beginnings, I know how hard life can be. I know how miserable people can be on the inside while managing to look solid and secure on the outside. Suffering at times is a natural part of life but the heavier degree of pain we experience over a prolonged period of time is not natural and even more important it is not necessary. Simply put, an unnatural degree of pain is more about the workings of Satan as he is controlling much of your mind.

If you decide to read this book and do the work involved you will come to love and appreciate scripture. To me the word of God is about the love of God setting you free. This book I’m writing is also about setting you free and will involve looking at some really good scripture given to us through the story told of Jesus Christ. We are going to be looking at many of the teachings, examples and demonstrations given to us by way of Jesus Christ, particularly in Book Two.

Most people are not vaguely aware of the restrictions that impact their lives and how limited they are by the trappings of this world. This is particularly true for those who are highly successful in their careers. When we are flying high in the things of this world, we are generally at the top of our wants with our egos. Of course, the ego knows all, when operating from this state of mind. Those who are less fortunate in their careers stand to understand this idea of restriction and limitation more clearly. We could say that when most people are under significant emotional pain they tend to be a bit more open to receiving at least some advice.

I truly believe we can all hope for a better life if we are willing to do the work that is being prescribed. We all have the same chance for choosing the good life regardless of our current circumstances. Through persistent work, a determined effort to change many of your beliefs and through the knowledge and grace that comes from knowing and loving God, you can expect to radically improve the conditions of your soul as you will get to a much better place.

Let me be perfectly honest with you … If you are an abused child, you will in all probability be required to devote a lot more time in the work you will need to do. That is why this book has been dedicated to you. The higher levels of pain being stored as memory in the cells of your body will tend to hinder the way. Even if you were not abused, there remains a lot of work to do but it will more than likely go a bit more quickly for you. Either way there is a lot of work to do. You can rest assure that I have done all that I can do to help you get through the work and as quickly as possible.

You can expect that it will take years to go through what I call the unwinding process. You have unknowingly formed habits from believing in the lies that pertain to your thinking, reacting and being. Depending on your age, these habits are 15, 35 and 55 years old and older and they are deeply imbedded within the body of the false self. You have been carrying on in these habits in compulsive form without even noticing. You have bought into the longest and greatest lie ever told … lock, stock and barrel.

In Book One you will become totally aware of the longest and greatest lie that continues to support these habits. You will discover that a major part of your thinking and habits are in fact based on the lies. You will come to recognize the necessity to change the many years of your compulsive habits as you move into new forms of believing, reacting and behaving.

You will come to see and understand how, when and where exactly, you are under attack. You will learn that you have been under attack from day one and from a hundred different directions. But even more important, you are going to learn how to successfully avoid these attacks, again and again. You are going to become ever so confident in your ability to make good choices over bad choices. In time, you can expect you will take back the control of your mind about 98% of the time and be at bliss as you will learn to live your life the way it was designed to be.

The success you can expect to have will include being successful in abandoning the worst areas of pain and dread in your life. These areas have been based on little more than the false realities held in your mind that have been sabotaging your existence. Your mind has been divided against you through the workings that are based on the cunning and deceit of evil and you are going to be able to leave it behind.

There is peace, joy and abundance to be gained in the Spirit. There is love, beauty and mercy to be had by one and all. There is wisdom, truth and harmony to be realized. All of this can be gained freely of charge by those who are willing to do the work, in combination with the grace that comes from God.

Scripture states, Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. We have a protector and a comforter in God the Father. We have teachings that promote peace from Jesus Christ and we have the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help guard our hearts and minds. In essence, we have the Trinity of God working to protect us.

You may ask, Do we really need all that? Let me ask you this, does your mind usually give you what you want or does it more often than not give you what you don’t want, i.e., cause you to stress, worry and agitate? Is your mind usually for you or does it sometimes work against you, i.e., causing you to feel inadequate and/or small? Does your mind allow you to be in an active state of compassion and joy or are you sometimes considered difficult to get along with? Do you sometimes worry, stress and become unreasonable without having a good reason? Do you often plot, plan and manipulate others out of habit? If you answered yes to any of these questions you are not alone. This represents only a handful of the many ways your mind can work against you.

From the scripture which stated Do not be anxious about anything, you are given the idea of protectors and comforters. We have God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit of God. Those of you who are already feeling supported in your relationship with God have a big advantage. However, Satan never rests and until you fully understand how he works, he will continue to operate against you. Once you understand how he works, you will not be as apt to cave in to him.

The journey has been mapped out for you. I have been on this journey for many years now and have been focusing to see clearly as I go along in order to record a distinct map along the way. I believe in the advantage of taking this journey and I believe it is a calling that comes directly from God. All of the great material that has been discovered by me along the way comes from God and I give it to those of you who are ready to begin.

In all of my readings, I have never seen a more compete illustration of how evil works in the minds of men. I