Of Human Spirit, Mind and Soul

By Daniel Zanou

This book is a response to the mind-body problem the French philosopher René Descartes set out in the seventeenth century: “How mental states are related to the physical states, the immaterial to the material, the invisible to the visible.” It is also about personal development and positive thinking. This is the story of Ben,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Jun 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9781643455716

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Contents

Preface

Part A: The Story of Ben

Chapter 1: Where He Was Born in West Africa

Chapter 2: How the Seed of Hatred Was Planted in His Heart and How He Got Rid of It

Chapter 3: The Composition of His Family and the Daily Struggle in a Polygamous Household

Chapter 4: How He Set the Goal of His Future Life and How He Dropped Out of University

Chapter 5: One Door Closed, a New One Opened Far Better

Chapter 6: How He Arrived at École Navale of Brest in France

Chapter 7: How His Theory of People He Thought to Be the Most Enlightened in the World Crumbled

Chapter 8: How He Kept Defending His Theory Although the Uppercut

Chapter 9: How He Encountered the Master Spirit and How He Learned to Cope with Him

Chapter 10: How He Discovered the Reality of Life Once Back in His Country

Chapter 11: How He Learned about the Purpose of the Existence

Chapter 12: How He Was Invited to Immigrate to the United States of America

Chapter 13: How He Found Opposition in America after Putting What He Had Learned to Work

Chapter 14: How to Distinguish Slavery from Racism, and How the Consequences of Both Are Still Affecting American People

Chapter 15: How People Fail to Listen to Conversations

Chapter 16: Error to Avoid When Using the Law of Attraction

Chapter 17: How to Drop the Anchor and How to Find the Royal Road to Success

Chapter 18: How a Wealthy Man Proves Poor People Are Responsible for Their Poverty

Chapter 19: Riches and Poverty According to the Ancient Texts

Chapter 20: The Definition of Poverty and the Truths about Riches

Chapter 21: How the Environment in America Impacts People’s Lives and How He Chose His Way

Chapter 22: How He Found Love on His Way to Seattle

Chapter 23: What Happened in the Conference Room

Part B: The Conference

Of the Physical Dimension

Of the Spirit, the Soul, and the Mind

Of Mental Illness: Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

Of Prayer and Meditation

Of Emotion and Feeling

The Philosophy of Descartes and the Born-Again Phenomenon

The Conscious, the Subconscious, and the Unconscious

Dreams and Intuition

The Era of the Spirit

Part C: The Series of Answers and Questions

Preface

This book is about theoretical physics. It is a response to an ancient question about the human spirit, his mind, and soul. The book is intended to push the scientists and the scientific community to delve into the question of why. Scientists have gained mastery of the question of how but are still stuck with the question of why because nobody dares to do research on this side. Ancient thinkers and philosophers have tried in the past to peel the question of the human existence, but due to religious authority and the fear to end up at the stake, many have given up. Now is the best moment of our life to rekindle the question about our existence as human beings on this planet.

The book has resurfaced the old question about humans and has attempted to provide an answer to the mind-body problem addressed by the French philosopher René Descartes in the seventeenth century. Here is the question Descartes had tried to answer: How are mental states related to the physical states? The immaterial to the material? The invisible to the visible? The question has lived on through the ages, and many philosophers all over the world have attempted in vain. We provide the answer not because we are smarter than them, but rather, the time has come for the question to be answered. The future of humanity lies in the hands of scientists, and this is the very moment we cry out to them.

All human religions so far have failed to provide adequate answers to who we are. We have difficulty defining the existence and finding its purposes. How can we live the existence if we are unaware of its attributes? How can we live if we don’t know what life is? Religion has the first leading position of humanity, but its brutality and blind governance have given birth to science, which has tried and succeeded somehow to solve many problems of existence. Religion does not teach love and peace. It talks about them. So humans are unable to love and live in peace. All religions talk about love and peace, but none has succeeded yet in living so. By justifying violence and war, religion has become the royal road for humans to express their wickedness. Where religion has failed, science will succeed.

That is why we are urging scientists wherever they are on this planet to dig up the question of the immaterial and the invisible. Because we are creatures of habits, a new way of life will supplant the old one if only people understand clearly. Humans fail to live because they don’t know much about existence. As a wise man used to say, What people know, they give a name; what they don’t know, they kill; thus, we kill lives. Right now, our knowledge of energy has grown so big while our mind is still childish. A firearm in the hand of a child is a danger for the household. We have reached the point of complete destruction. We have become our own enemy failure to know who we really are.

This book is also about Ben, a first-generation immigrant who is experiencing the American dream. His history began in the first book titled The Founding Fathers Agenda, where he revealed his goal to prove the American formula from rags to riches. Here, he relates his story back to his country and the motivation that has led him to leave his motherland for a land of liberty. He has broken through the cocoon that envelopes humanity and has got in touch with the true light that enlightens every man that comes into this world. Before him, the light was given to some men in Europe who made the fortune of the continent. The Europeans took it from Palestine, where the children of Israel had lived. The light was once given to Moses on top of Mount Sinai; he gave it to his brothers, the Levites and the other tribes of Israel, who brought it to Palestine. From Europe, the light spread to America with the Founding Fathers who had secured a land from human tyranny, ignorance, and stupidity for men to live freely and put those secrets to work.

This book, therefore, is bristling with some of those secrets. For any reader who may stumble upon them, let him be aware those secrets are not for him or her to use but rather for his or her children. The author recommends that the readers may find those secrets and understand them and help their children for the era of the Spirit is coming, which is prepared for the next generation. As for the rest and those who are from the same generation of the author, who have lived on this planet governed by human laws and lies, those who have already reached twenty-one years and older, it is recommended that they may not struggle too much in the application of those principles because their minds probably are locked.

The brain, which has been fed up of lies for more than twenty-one years, will be difficult to redeem because neurons have been bound together to make a strong pathway for the signal to travel. Our generation is a product of war, violence, and is full of judgment because our parents were judgmental and fighters. The author encourages, however, those readers to harvest those secrets and principles and put them to work in their children’s life. Life is like a lovely mother who has two kids. She cooks for them a meal; one kid finds the dish delicious and finishes his plate; he will receive more. The other who does not appreciate the dish but is throwing them to fowl will not receive anything more. Life is a choice.

This book is also about society phenomenon. If the readers fall upon some description that resembles their behavior, the author recommends not to get upset but rather take a deep breath and relax. The truth most of the time hurts, but if you swallow and digest it, it will heal you and become part of you. The job of a philosopher within a society is to think for society. His duty is to stress out causes and effects of people’s deeds, not that people may necessarily change, but rather they may be aware of the consequences of their actions. The philosopher uncovers problems and proposes solutions. We live to learn and solve problems. Our planet has become so small that we may still be self-centered. We have reached a point where one must get rid of self and start thinking as a whole. The barriers we have rigged in the past must be torn down. We cannot afford to raise anymore our children the way we have been raised. The universe is unique, life is unique, and humans are not far different as we have been taught. The history of life should normally be a story of love and peace. The readers who may agree with this statement, the author recommends them to check out the seminar of Bob Proctor entitled You Were Born Rich. Here are some very important books you may read as well:

The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Thanks.

Part A

Chapter 1

Where He Was Born

in West Africa

I was born in Togo, a small country embedded in West Africa. Like any human being equipped with a body, a soul, and a spirit, I have a father and a mother. My father has a good strife ethic. He used to get up early and work hard. He finally found the oil but not too much to keep him financially safe for the rest of his life. My father was born in the middle south of the country. My country, like many others on this planet, is divided into two blocks: the south and the north. The south, which was first to get into the contact of European people during the Age of Imperialism, was considered to be civilized and well educated. To be born in the south is reckoned as a privilege. The northern land is seen as a savage ground where people were born to be farmers or hunters. Togolese people from the south who have limbs, two eyes, a good heart, and a sound mind imagine people from the north to be without mind and a good heart. Thus, when European people were engaged in their bloody wars, we know as World War I and II, chief tribes from the south directed them to recruit from the north where people are sturdy, robust, and savage enough to fight and kill. Life was so shaped: God created the Europeans who ruled upon the Ewe (people from the south), who believed the Kabye (people from the north) were made to serve them. Actually, this story is common among human beings everywhere on this planet. I was born in this environment, and we grew up with those ideas and did believe that theory strongly. Don’t be surprised when you are reading my story because if you seriously check where you live, you probably have such things. A man is the king of the animals, and he sits closer to rule upon them. Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, believed that man is a political animal. You see, in both statements, there is something animal related to humans.

I remembered when I was growing up, I had a vision,