World Within: The Inner Life

by Kevin FitzMaurice

This book is about discovering your world within your physical body. Read it to discover what an inner life is and how to enjoy having a productive and purposeful inner life. For example, you will discover what an inner life consists of, how it works, how it fails, how to get working again, and how to keep it working. Read this book to discover how to make your heart, soul, and mind work for you, not against you or each other. Read and discover the first new psychology of the mind to be revealed in decades. World Within presents a model of inner life based upon dialectics. Dialectics can be understood as an internal dialogue between a set of dualities, a pair of opposites, or a yin and yang dichotomy. Dialectics is explained and explored at length to provide awareness and insight into the nature of attention, internal processes, and thinking. Our model for dialectics is called Ping-Pack-Pong (P-P-P). This model covers the middle ground and process of dialectics, as well as the dichotomies themselves that are the two opposites. The P-P-P model is used in order to provide an effective means of analysis and understanding for how internal dialectics work or fail depending upon how they are organized, processed, structured, and used. Many chapters also address various identity issues. The first chapter explores the parts and components that make up your inner life, stressing the importance of having an inner life along with understanding its purpose and function. This chapter also examines the nature of self in relation to your internal conversations and dialogue, as well as your three internal attentions and how they function, relate, and work either together or at cross purposes. The second chapter explains dialectics as the means and mechanism of thought. The third chapter focuses on how inner dialectics are beneficial and how they can work effectively and efficiently. The fourth chapter focuses on how to be aware of, explore, and map your inner dialectics using the Ping-Pack-Pong paradigm. The fifth chapter focuses on the problem and issue of Complex Ping-Pack-Pongs. The sixth chapter focuses on solutions that fail to help the problems of dysfunctional dialectics. The seventh chapter focuses on the problems of “not-ing” (of trying to undo P-P-Ps). The eighth chapter focuses on solutions that work to get dialectics functioning properly and constructively again. The ninth chapter applies some of the book’s understanding of dialectics to the problem of addiction. The tenth and final chapter of the main text provides spiritual solutions to problematic dialectics as well as a spiritual understanding of dialectical processes. The back matter or end matter of the book contains information about the author, recommendations for more of the author’s books according to their intended usage, books listed as references and recommendations for further study, and a link for information on how to read ebooks on various devices.

457 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2016

About the author

Be it as a person's counselor or as a founding member of facilities for the homeless, Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S., NCC, CCMHC, LPC, seeks to make others' lives better by helping others improve how they function. As a volunteer, he supports community services to improve others' living conditions. As a counselor, he "counsels" in the traditional sense: advising, directing, and nudging--or pushing--others into facing and resolving their issues.
Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1300 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs). To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory, rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
After more than twenty years in counseling, Mr. FitzMaurice has worked four years in the substance abuse field, directed two community mental health programs, and spent fourteen years counseling in private practice. In that time, he has refined many principles for and methods of counseling. He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience, so more people can benefit than he can reach in person. Currently, he has more than twenty books written, most of which are available worldwide as e-books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Google, Kobo, and Apple.
The philosophical odyssey of Mr. FitzMaurice began in the late '60s. It has remained a mostly self-taught pursuit, with little formal training or education in philosophy. The odyssey started with Western philosophy and a study of pragmatism and atheism. For example, he read every work of Nietzsche that had been translated into English at that time. From there, he moved to the study of Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism, and a misguided experimentation with psychedelics to achieve states of superconsciousness. He continued into Eastern philosophy, pursuing Taoism and J. Krishnamurti. Next came a study of Christianity that started with seven readings of the Old Testament and nine readings of the New Testament from cover to cover, followed by a formal study of Western psychology. The ongoing influences for FitzMaurice's thinking continue to be Christianity, General Semantics, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and an Eastern combination of J. Krishnamurti, Taoism, and Zen.
Academic Credentials: Master of Science (M.S.) in guidance and counseling, with a specialization in agency counseling, from the University of Nebraska. Associate of applied science in human services - chemical dependency counseling (with honors), from Metropolitan Community College.
National Certifications: National Certified Counselor (NCC); Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC); Family Certification in REBT; Primary Certification in REBT; and Advanced Certification in REBT.
State Licensure: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon; Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa; Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) in Nebraska.
Community Service: One of the original founders of the Francis House, Siena House, and Stephen Center homeless facilities still in operation in Nebraska. Supporter of the following charities: OxFam America, Amnesty International USA, Habitat for Humanity, and Green Peace.