Thaddeus Golas's Blog: The Thaddeus Golas Coffee Break

When my first book was published, I considered it was sufficient to read the first line of Chapter One: "We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other."
Once that idea was installed in the mental computer, I thought, any mind could sort itself out. Perhaps others can give it better extension that I have.
I wrote The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment in language that any reader of English could understand, making it as easy as possible. Now, in writing Love and Pain, I decided to state the case as clearly as I could without regard to a general audience, as though I was writing to a friend, someone like myself.
Over the decades, along with the problem of working out the book's concepts, I stewed over the difficulty of communicating them. There was a wide range of possible applications, and many levels of vocabulary at which the language could be pitched. At first I thought it would be best to write an imaginative work that might catch the attention of people better versed in sciences.
There are great advantages in the information in this book: knowing how our reality works, we can avoid wasting emotions, time and effort in pursuit of false goals. Personally, I found great relief in realizing that I was not obliged to correct anyone's erroneous opinions, since ideas do not do anything. Also, I could stop criticizing myself for failing to dwell in constant bliss. When I encounter pain, it does not mean that I have necessarily been stupid: pain is inevitable in human life, whichever path we take. Neither am I obliged to rescue others from their pain: they will gain greater strength in enduring it and solving their own difficulties. That which offends the sentimental in the short run is often the greatest kindness over a longer time. I try to be kind to strong people because they have endured much to become strong. Power begins with the willingness to endure pain without changing. Everyone wants power. Even the New Age people want the world to bend to their thoughts. If Love and Pain proves to be practical, practicality will make it popular enough.
I know there are enormous industries built on the flight from pain. The cost of medical care multiplies much faster than the rate of inflation, and the children of the middle class inherit little wealth. A better understanding of the role of pain in our lives might diminish such nonsense, but the net quotient of suffering will probably remain the same. I am not offering that sort of deliverance.
What I do offer in Love and Pain is a clear understanding of the real benefits that any person may expect from prolonging consciousness.
Consciousness does not give the power to control energy and matter. It is the power to push them away, to leave this reality and stay away. That is all consciousness does, but it is enough. The rewards are truly much more profound than anything we can enjoy on Earth.